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Account books

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Nathan and Marcus Stoddard account book

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: Col-1023
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1846-1864
Found in: Winterthur Library

Nebraska cattle ranch ledger and receipts

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-1049
Content Description This collection consists of a ledger and receipts that were kept by the owner of a cattle ranch in Nebraska. Based on the cattle brand embossed into the front cover of the ledger, they were possibly kept by either Edward Ormesher of Valentine, Nebraska or Ezra E. Tucker of Hyannis, Nebraska. There is also a very faint inscription on the front cover of the ledger above the cattle brand that reads "Metzger Bros." This may refer to the Metzger ranch in Merriman, Nebraska.The ledger...
Dates: 1903-1925
Found in: Winterthur Library

Northeastern Silversmiths, Watchmakers, Jewelers records

 Collection
Identifier: Col-0020
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1778-1901, 1814-1890
Found in: Winterthur Library

Parsons Family Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-0022
Dates: 1764-1873
Found in: Winterthur Library

Rahm & Baum ledger

 Collection — Fol-21
Identifier: Fol-21
Scope and Contents Records debits and credits accrued by Rahm & Baum in the operation of their store. The firm offered a wide range of products to its customers, including flax, whiskey, salt, window glass, "sundries," potash, decanters, coffee, nails, sets of teaware, shoes, textiles, etc. Other expenses documented include the cost of a carriage from Philadelphia, work at a store in Middletown, and hauling between Middletown and Hummelstown. Many of the entries contain a dollar amount owed and the phrase...
Dates: 1791 - 1796
Found in: Winterthur Library

Samuel Williamson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Col-0017
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;"...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1787-ca.1815, 1800-1813 ( dates)
Found in: Winterthur Library

Silver family papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-1037
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....
Dates: 1874-1891
Found in: Winterthur Library

William Appleton and Company ledger

 Collection — Box small col. 47
Identifier: Col-1029
Content Description

Ledger of Boston shipping merchants William Appleton and Company detailing transactions that took place between 1836 and 1842. Accounts include tea speculation, shipments of goods to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Liverpool Packet Co. shipments to Havana, Cuba. Following the ledger entries, the ledger was used for children's drawings of American Civil War battle maps, as well as used as a scrapbook containing various maps of the United States and material related to American territories.

Dates: 1836-1842
Found in: Winterthur Library

Zephaniah Buffington account book

 Collection — small col. 48
Identifier: Col-1039
Content Description

The account book contains Zephaniah Buffington's financial transactions beginning May 5th, 1797. Also noted are purchases, such as oxen, "sole leather," gold pieces, and six silver "great spoons,"as well as the sale of land and other property.

Dates: 1797-1801
Found in: Winterthur Library

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