Dry goods and trimmings day book
Content Description
Account book for an unidentified Soudersburg Village, Pennsylvania dry goods and trimming shop from 1839 to 1855. Goods sold include various types of fabric, including muslin, canvas, velvet, and silks, as well as trims, buttons, and other sewing notions. Recipes for treatments for various medical ailments are written on the inside of the back cover.
Throughout the account book, numerous customers are noted as being people of color, including John M. Brook, Barry (Berry) Maloney, Black Emmanuel Smith, James Allen, Charley Brown, William Sheldon, and George Anderson, an American Civil War veteran recorded as being a Private in the US Colored Troops Infantry.
Dates
- Creation: 1839-1855
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Full Extent
1 Volumes ; 7.75 x 12.25 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.
Subject
- Brook, John M. (Person)
- Maloney, Barry (Berry) (Person)
- Smith, Emmanuel (Person)
- Allen, James (Person)
- Brown, Charley (Person)
- Anderson, George (Person)
- Sheldon, William (Person)
- United States. Colored Troops (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Soudersburg Village (Pa.)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
Topical
- African American consumers -- History -- Sources
- African American veterans -- History -- Sources
- Business records -- Pennsylvania -- Soudersburg Village
- Buttons -- Prices -- 19th century
- Canvas -- Prices -- 19th century
- Consumers, Black -- History -- Sources
- Consumption (Economics) -- Black people -- History -- Sources
- Dry goods -- Prices -- 19th century
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Medicine, Popular
- Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Soudersburg Village
- Muslin -- Prices -- 19th century
- Notions (Merchandise) -- Prices -- 19th century
- Silk -- Prices -- 19th century
- Textile fabrics -- Prices -- 19th century
- Traditional medicine
- Velvet -- Prices -- 19th century
- Author
- Finding aid written by Carley Altenburger.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository