1 vol.
(Manuscript Manufacturing Business Account Book.) Leigh Zinc Works. Bethlehem, PA, ca Feb 5, 1881 - Nov 8, 1891. 4to, orig sheep; rubbed, front hinge mostly broken. Approx 230pp + 20pp index. Includes 2 ms fold-out sections, illus in text, mtd ms, typed & newsprint pieces. Includes ms business accounts, intermittent business diary, reports, copies of business letters, other related entires recording the operations of the Leigh Zinc Works of South Bethlehem, PA & its related manufacturing & agricultural concerns in Pennsylvania & New Jersey.
Compiled & signed by the company's manager & part-owner, John Price Wetheriel (1843-1906), serving before the 1881 purchase of the above Zinc Works as chief mining engineer of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company.