Steamship purchase ledger from Rosenbaum bank, 1893-94

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prajjwal_steamship

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Steamship purchase ledger from Rosenbaum bank, 1893-94

Timestamp

10/8/2021 16:48:42

URL for full object

https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p16002coll16/id/4463/rec/1

Citation for full object

Rosenbaum Volume 03 1894,Subseries 1.3: M. Rosenbaum and Co. ledgers, 1890-1934 HIAS Pennsylvania Records, SCRC 94, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Filename in shared drive folder

prajjwal_steamship.png

General description of the complete original artifact

This artifact is a ledger book from M. Rosenbaum and Co, a private bank established in 1885 by Morris Rosenbaum, an Austro-Hungarian immigrant. It was common for banks catering primarily to immigrants like M. Rosenbaum and Co to also sell steamship boat tickets to passengers travelling to and from America. The ledger contains descriptions of such ticket purchases, and includes not just details about the passenger, but also the person who purchased the tickets. The purchaser is often a member of the same family who are settled in America and are paying for the cost of bringing their family from Europe to America.

Estimated number of records in data set

1581

Estimated number of fields if this were a database

15

Estimated time to digitize all records in set (hours)

24

Time period when data was created

1894-95

Organization creating data

M. Rosenbaum and Co.

Individual who created data (if known or guessable).

Employees of the Rosenbaum bank

Shortcomings of this taxonomy for data set (if any)

Could use a field for direct or connecting trip, since the general remarks field seem to be primarily used for it.

Notes about the image you chose

The image I have chosen is the last non-empty page of the ledger. Most of the other pages are full and do not leave as much empty spaces.