U-OH-MON-ArtL-1902-05-01 J. H. Harris purchased #19 tire

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Harris-Lambert Family Archives

Name/Title

U-OH-MON-ArtL-1902-05-01 J. H. Harris purchased #19 tire

Entry/Object ID

2021.3.1

Scope and Content

Library of Congress, "Business Journals and Ledgers, 1901-1902," images, LOC.gov (https://www.loc.gov/item/wright002615/ : downloaded 20 December 2020), entry for J. H. Harris' purchase of a #19 tire for $3.00, digital ID http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mwright.04001; citing Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers, 1809-1979, p. 284.

Context

According to Paul Joseph Harris, his father, Joseph Hastings Harris, did business with the Wright Cycle Company while he was attending Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. After extensive research by Paul Joseph Harris Jr. an entry was discovered on page 284 of a sales ledger for the shop showing the purchase of a #19 tire for $3.00 by J. H. Harris.