Guide to the Jacob Ackerly Letter MSS.2118
Ackerly, Jacob
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Finding aid prepared by Jamie Burke
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
September 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
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Jacob Ackerly Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2118
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 linear foot (1 Letter)
- Dates:
1839 April 26
- Abstract:
Letter from clerk discussing his travels and the city climate, population, agriculture, and business, including Cincinnati's trade of pork, flour, and whiskey. Letter compares it to labor and goods of the South.
- creator
Ackerly, Jacob
Biographical/Historical note
Jacob Ackerly was working as a clerk aboard a steamer for $80 a month, allowing him to travel the country.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Jacob Ackerly Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Scope and Contents note
A letter to his brother, Samuel, in Wallace, Nova Scotia, written from Cincinnati, Ohio. Discusses the places he has visited including Pittsburgh. He describes city climate, population, agriculture, and business in Cincinnati, including trade of pork, flour and whiskey. He compares it to the labor and goods of the South, including cotton, tobacco, and the "Negro" workers. He also discusses personal family issues.
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Processed by
Jamie Burke, 2008
Jacob Ackerly Letter Box SC0008 Folder 2118
Letter from Jacob Ackerly, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Samuel Baltz, Wallace, Nova Scotia, April 26, 1839 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32175