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This collection is made of nine receipts for payments made to agent and principal keeper of Mount Pleasant Prison Robert Wiltse for payments made and received by the facility between April 1, 1833, and June 30, 1833. The receipts document payments for pardoned convicts ("expenses" owed to "place of conviction"); cartage of limestone, boxes, locks, sundries, and railroad blocks; "36 sides upper" leather; postage; old copper; casks of winter oil; 25,300 convict rations; and prison personnel (signed by each man, with their positions and pay identified). NB: Mount Pleasant Prison was located at Sing Sing, New York, and decades after these receipts, the institution took the name Sing Sing Prison.

This collection is made of nine receipts for payments made to agent and principal keeper of Mount Pleasant Prison Robert Wiltse for payments made and received by the facility between April 1, 1833, and June 30, 1833. The receipts document payments for pardoned convicts ("expenses" owed to "place of conviction"); cartage of limestone, boxes, locks, sundries, and railroad blocks; "36 sides upper" leather; postage; old copper; casks of winter oil; 25,300 convict rations; and prison personnel (signed by each man, with their positions and pay identified).

NB: Mount Pleasant Prison was located at Sing Sing, New York, and decades after these receipts, the institution took the name Sing Sing Prison.

The Pan-American Exposition photograph album contains 33 photoprints taken by an amateur photographer of the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. Included are a nighttime view of the exposition; city views; candid photographs of children, images of houses, possibly in Ossining, N.Y.; and two images of Sing Sing Prison.

The Pan-American Exposition photograph album (14 x 18 cm) contains 33 photoprints taken by an amateur photographer of the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. Included are a nighttime view of the exposition; a city view featuring streetcars; candid photographs of children and images of houses, possibly in Ossining, N.Y.; and two images of Sing Sing Prison. One loose photo is identified as a church in Ossining, N.Y. Of note is an interior photograph of a bedroom dresser with many portrait photographs, and alarm clock, and hair brush displayed facing the last page of the album, which in turn features a portrait of a man with light colored eyes and a mustache.

The album has a gray cover with the printed title "Photographs" in white ink, and is housed in a pale blue cardboard box.