MSS. Manuscript Collection

Content Description Four WK-Wohnen photographic furniture trade catalogs and price list. The volumes include Speisezimmer or dining rooms, Herrenzimmer or gentlemen's studies, Schlafzimmer or bedrooms, and Klein Mobel Sitz. u. Polstermobel or small furniture, seating, and upholstered furniture. Designers represented in the catalogs include Albrecht & Mammelle, Bock & Feil, Kimpel, Bertram Schrot, Garter &...

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Store book of an unnamed Baltimore, Maryland merchant kept between 1804 and 1808, detailing the sale of goods such as various fabrics, threads, buttons, shoes, tobacco, coffee, sugar. May detail the sale of goods such as tobacco and shoes to people of color or enslaved people. Written on the front cover is the title "store book."

Scope and Contents Double-entry accounting ledger for the full year of 1836, with the earliest entries dated January 1 and the latest December 31. Manuscript entries in a neat, even hand, with amounts recorded in two columns labeled "$" and "cts"; amounts in the cents column are sometimes fractional. Creator unknown, but probably an American apprentice or student of bookkeeping: details of the ledger, including the punny names of some debtors (e.g. Abel Ableman, Conrade Compound, and Robert Retail), the...