Grocers -- New York
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Regan Bros. grocery ledger collection
Collection — Box small col. 54
Identifier: Col-1091
Content Description
This collection contains a customer ledger for the Regan Bros., a grocer in New York in the late 1800s. The ledger is 70 pages with a leather binding. The pages include the month, date of order, item ordered, and price of item. The final page of each month’s entry includes a stamp or signature indicating a completed payment. The items include a variety of meats, vegetables, and fruits.
Dates:
1888-1890
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Trade cards and labels collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-0009
Scope and Contents
This artificial and still open collection contains thousands of trade cards and labels that advertise a variety of products, including house furnishings, toys and games, jewelry, horse equipage, gas appliances, foodstuffs, hardware, sewing products, paints, medicines, personal goods, etc. Service oriented businesses, such as commission merchants and insurance companies, also advertised through the collection's cards and labels. There are also stock cards (that is, cards kept in stock by...
Dates:
between approximately 1734 and approximately 1932
Found in:
Winterthur Library