Baltimore, Maryland merchant ledger
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Col-1030
Content Description
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."
Dates
- Creation: 1804-1808
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Full Extent
1 Volumes ; 8 x 12.5 in.
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- African American consumers
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Sources
- Business records -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Buttons -- Prices
- Coffee -- Prices
- Consumer goods -- Prices -- 19th century
- Consumers, Black
- Consumers, Black -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Consumption (Economics) -- Black people
- Consumption (Economics) -- Enslaved people
- Dry goods -- Prices -- 19th century
- Enslaved persons
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- General stores -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Merchants -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Shoes -- Prices
- Sugar -- Prices
- Textile fabrics -- Prices
- Threads -- Prices
- Tobacco -- Prices
- Author
- Finding aid written by Carley Altenburger.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository