Box 1

Content Description

Ledger of Boston shipping merchants William Appleton and Company detailing transactions that took place between 1836 and 1842. Accounts include tea speculation, shipments of goods to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Liverpool Packet Co. shipments to Havana, Cuba. Following the ledger entries, the ledger was used for children's drawings of American Civil War battle maps, as well as used as a scrapbook containing various maps of the United States and material related to American territories.

Content Description

Ledger of an unknown Lebanon County, Pennsylvania merchant, dated 1791-1794. The ledger details the sale of various goods such as silks and other fabrics, ribbons and threads, rum and spirits, tea, buckwheat, and other consumables, pewter plates, and other various dry good. Several customers were listed as having there "boy" with them, which may be in reference to a Black servant or enslaved person.

Throughout the ledger, various accounts are marked by small slips of paper.

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 &...

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."