Douglass-Holloway freight receipts

Series of 10 digital images depicting freight receipts signed by E.P. Holloway. Receipts are for freight shipped from various locations to the Douglassville Railroad station for the Douglass-Holloway store located in the 1765 Douglass House and its ancillary structures. The Douglassville Post Office was located in the Douglass building complex by March of 1829, a few years before the death of George Douglass II. A beautifully engraved 1839 promotional broadside for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad [see Image #.....] listed Douglassville as a regularly scheduled stop on the line then opening for passenger travel and freight. The 1880s depot building still exists as of 2015, substantially altered from Frank Furness’s unique design, but still recognizable from his iconic use of complex spatial geometry and dramatic detail such as the surviving brackets supporting the portico roof.