Daybooks

Scope and Contents Contains daily entries of debits and credits at a Connecticut general store to be transferred to account books. The manuscript entries, made between July 1801 and April 1802, record purchases of a wide variety of goods, including spices, spoons, kettles, rum, thimbles, meat, knives, ribbon, and stockings. Perhaps most interesting are the many entries for the sale of reams of different kinds and sizes of paper, including (on p. 164) one for 21 reams of printing paper to Steman, Willard &...

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Consists of daily record of work done by this New Jersey blacksmith in the second quarter of the 19th century. He makes or repairs a wide variety of goods including chains, wagon parts, hinges, hoops for barrels, horse shoes, a coffee mill, plows and scythes, and the like. A few items are laid in.

Abstract

Personal and professional papers of Hall Slack, a wheelwright from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the overlapping silver and jewelry trade and watchmaking/watch repairing business in the northeastern United States between 1814 and 1901. Bills, drafts, receipts, advertisements, and trade cards from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island are included. These records also include six bound volumes that are the business records of a number of New York craftsmen who were silversmiths-jewelers-watchmakers. The...

Scope and Contents The records in this collection include a day book, correspondence, orders, invoices, bills, and receipts, both from Riggs & Brother to their clients and from suppliers to Riggs & Brother. The day book dates from 1889-1893. In it were recorded purchases, repair work performed, the names and addresses of customers, and charges. Much repair work was done on watches, but jewelry and pieces of silver were also fixed. Purchases included chains, cuff links, rings, silver spoons,...

Scope and Contents Contains business records that illustrate Williamson's thriving business as a Philadelphia silversmith. Includes both ledgers (1800-1811 and 1810-1813) and daybook (1803-1810), and--on microfilm--memorandum book/order book, ledger/cashbook, and loose documents. Sample entries include: "To 6 Doz. Table spoons...202.14;" "To 6 Foot of Gold Chain...12.00;" "To Plain Coffee pot...83.57;" "To 1 Mustard Spoon...1.26;" "To 10 boxes of Sugar;"...

Content Description

The day book of W.H.O. Walker or Rutland, Vermont, covering the dates of December 1831 through February 1832. Entries record the purchase of various goods, including thread and yarn, various textiles, horse care equipment, tobacco, books of various genres, labor, molasses, sugar, salt, and other various consumables and dry goods.