Inventories

Scope and Contents Consists of three diaries kept by Clarence Seal from 1899 to 1900 (acc. 90x99.1-.3), two diaries kept by Martha Seal in 1903 and 1905 (acc. 90x99.4-5.), and a volume with an inventory of possessions in boxes and drawers belonging to the Talley family in 1872, updated to 1892 (acc. 90x99.6). Martha preserved the volume because it recorded two marriages in her family. The diaries provide brief notes about the daily activities of both Clarence and Martha, their courtship, engagement, and...

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...

Content Description Notebook kept by London, England appraiser T.C. Devenish. The majority of the appraisals noted are for household goods and furnishings, such as various textiles, furniture, artwork, books, curtains, carpets, mattresses, pillows, silver, peweter, copper, and ceramics. These apparaisals may have been compiled for use in estate inventories. Of note is the appraisal of the stock in trade of linen draper Francis Vincent, of No. 127 Oxford Street. This appraisal lists various textiles,...