Account books

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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 Day book for the years 1837-1846, kept by a Dover, DE cabinet maker. Research suggests that the ledger may have been kept by Stephen Toppan, one of three cabinet makers listed in directories as working in Dover in 1838.Jobs listed in the daybook include making and repairing various pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, bureaus, cradles, bedframes, bookcases, mirror frames, and coffins. Charges listed also incude varnishing, as well as the sale of smaller items such as...

Scope and Contents From 1772 to about 1807, Daniel Smith used this volume to keep his accounts for making and repairing shoes. Some day labor is also recorded. Beginning in 1803, the accounts are settled by John Smith, and the entries change to agricultural commodities. Some of these latter accounts (on, or facing, leaves 74, 86, 102, and 107) are "setled ... from the begining of the world up to this day." Also includes school district receipts for 1787-1807 (leaf 61); an account of "sundries of articles that...

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Furniture maker's account book from Marlborough, Massachusetts, dated 1826- 1840, possibly kept by Mark or George Fay. Entries include charges for a day's work, painting of designs, and various items of furniture, including desks, trunks, painting, bedsteads, bureaus, tables. Also included are other items such as coffins.

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Two Hammersley & Co. porcelain order books, covering the dates of February 1910 through March 1920 and March 1920 through 1925. Each order contains the name of the purchaser, a partial design drawing of the design ordered, some of which are colored, and a breakdown of cost by element. Customers that are listed are primarily British, induding Harrods Department Store, J. Goode & Co., Whyte & Son Ltd. Dublin, J.A. Nisbet of Edinburgh, and Civil Service Supply.

Scope and Contents Contains accounts of Hazen Richardson, a carpenter and cabinetmaker from Stockbridge, Vermont, with over 65 individuals. Includes such entries as "to trundle Bedstid," "to one Beauro," "to Six Citchin Chairs," "to one Candle Stand." Other than the price, the accounts do not give any information about the furniture, for example the species of wood used. The one exception is a charge for a cherry coffin. Also includes entries for manual labor ("to myself two dys work on the Schoolhouse"), for...

Scope and Contents Contains accounts kept by Jeremiah Fife and William Fife of Pembroke, New Hampshire. Jeremiah's entries fill the first volume and begin the second. They record making coffins, window frames, rakes, chairs, tables, and so on. William's entries complete the second volume. They record his work setting windows, and much unspecified day labor, as well as entries such as “amount paid out for work on Wm. Parker’s house, barn and shed,” “worked 20 days for John Tenant on George Fochs Shop” and...

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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.

Scope and Contents Double-entry accounting ledger for the full year of 1836, with the earliest entries dated January 1 and the latest December 31. Manuscript entries in a neat, even hand, with amounts recorded in two columns labeled "$" and "cts"; amounts in the cents column are sometimes fractional. Creator unknown, but probably an American apprentice or student of bookkeeping: details of the ledger, including the punny names of some debtors (e.g. Abel Ableman, Conrade Compound, and Robert Retail), the...

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Account book of brothers Nathan and Marcus Stoddard of Templeton, MA, containing records of blacksmithing work performed February 1846 through July 1864. Accounts primarily consist of blacksmithing jobs such as horse shoeing, sharpening chisels, repairing chains, and mending items including forks, buggies, and sleighs.