Albany Penitentiary
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Prisons
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Prisons / Business and Operational Records, and Other / Albany Penitentiary Business Records / Albany Business Records / Scrapbooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1835-1891
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: One post bound scrapbook. Handwritten alphabetical index of vendors appears at front with page numbers. News clipping (undated) affixed to a page gives the back story of the discovery of a large chest filled with receipts and release forms by workmen razing an unused building on the property of the Penitentiary. Warshaw procured the contents from J.W. Coyle (Coyle Wrecking and Lumber Corporation). The scrapbooks features a sampling of receipts from local Albany vendors for goods and services provided to the Penitentiary. Most receipts inserted with photo corners with some items missing.