People: Baker, Michael V. - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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Extent:: 9.8 linear feet (22 boxes, 13 volumes)
Abstract:: The Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee records relate to an effort in Philadelphia in 1862 to encourage Union enlistments through the payments of bounties and premiums. The records include the administrative papers of the committee, as well as the enlistment and bounty records of the men who qualified for bounties under the system. Administrative papers include resolutions, committee reports, minutes, and assorted financial papers. The bulk of the collection is volunteer enlistment forms, enlistment affidavits, bounty certificates, muster forms, muster rolls, and lists and statements of bounties and premiums paid.

Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.3 linear foot (3 boxes) and 1 oversize box
Abstract:: The Alfred G. Baker papers comprise personal correspondence and business records of nineteenth-century Philadelphia businessmen Michael V. Baker and his son Alfred G. Baker, who became a prominent citizen and patron of the arts.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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