Item 6: A Photocopy of a Bridge Fare by the Wilkes Barre Bridge Company to L[ord] Butler, Signed by Jac[o]b Cist and M[atthias] Hollenback, 1816 October 28

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6

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A Photocopy of a Bridge Fare by the Wilkes Barre Bridge Company to L[ord] Butler, Signed by Jac[o]b Cist and M[atthias] Hollenback, 1816 October 28

Dates

Created: 1816 October 28

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photocopy; Fare

Condition Note:

Good.

Measurements:

7 ¼ x 3 ¼ in.

Description:

The item depicts a photocopy of an original bridge fare certificate, issued to Lord Butler by the Wilkes Barre Bridge Company, dated October 28, 1816. The fare is being signed and approved by Jacob Cist, the company treasurer and Matthias Hollenback, the company’s president. The ticket is worth $3.00 in passing by the bridge. The bridge, most likely connected to their completion of Market Street Bridge, was privately commissioned and owned by the Wilkes-Barre Bridge Company, an organization that offered a bridge spanning the Susquehanna River to all for a small toll. The innovation of the bridge was a necessary improvement on travel within the valley, one that would be later recognized as town officials and governing bodies bought out the infrastructure to make it accessible to all. A deeper look at this history of burgeoning technologies can be seen in the Series X: Financial manuscripts and ephemera, 1776 - 1977, with items such as Item 36: Wilkes-Barre Board of Trade Bulletin, 1908-1909; or another original currency of the same in this item in Item 57: Wilkes-Barre Currency, 1816 October 28.