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Bell Shares Certificate, Third Moravian Church Sunday School, Harrowgate, Philadelphia, Pa., ca. 1870s

Bell Shares Certificate, Third Moravian Church Sunday School, Harrowgate, Philadelphia, Pa., ca. 1870s
The Sunday school of the Third Moravian Church of Philadelphia used share certificates like this to raise funds for the purchase of a church bell. The sale of all 2,500 shares at 10 cents each would have raised $250, and perhaps that would have covered the cost of a bell in the 1870s, which is when these certificates were issued.

For another nineteenth-century fundraising strategy that involved buying bricks rather than shares, see The Owner of This Card Has Purchased One Brick in the People's Church, Boston, Mass., ca. 1880 (below).

Third Moravian Church Sunday School, Harrowgate, Philadelphia.

2,500 shares. 10 cents each.

This is to certify that John Diehne is entitled to one shares in the bell of the Third Moravian Church at Harrogate, Philadelphia.

Chas. Thieley, president.

J. Lietz, secretary,

Senseman & Son, Printers, 416 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia.

The Owner of This Card Has Purchased One Brick in the People's Church, Boston, Mass., ca. 1880

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 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
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Your beautiful capture is greatly admired

Historical & Architectural Gems
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 PopKulture
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Wonderful card, and an interesting bit of history.
6 years ago.

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