Consumer goods -- Prices -- 19th century

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."

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.

Content Description The Silver family papers consists of two account books from the Red Lion Inn's store dated 1874-1876 and 1887-1891; a cash book dated 1879-1880 which include several trade cards set in to it, advertising various businesses and goods; and "statements of farm account" detailing expenses around a farm, including labor, funeral expenses, and supplies such as nails and glass. These farm accounts may be related to the estate of Samuel W. Stewart, a relative of Jane E. Stewart who married Henry M....