Fitz accounts from 1851 to 1857
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Fitz Jr. (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker, used this account book, circa 1851-1857, to record employee records, purchases of materials, and sales to such commercial firms as Benjamin Pike, W. & L. E. Gurley, and William Wurdemann.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Louise Fitz Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317026.01
label: catalog number
content: 317026.01
label: accession number
content: 229524
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Account Book, Henry Fitz
label: Object Name
content: account book, Henry Fitz
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (covers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.5 cm x 17 cm x 1.4 cm; 16 3/4 in x 6 11/16 in x 9/16 in