Account books
Subject
Subject Source: Ftamc
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Account book
Collection — Box small col. 49
Identifier: Col-1038
Accounts of building labor and materials collection
Collection — Box small col. 54
Identifier: Col-1092
Content Description
The collection contains nine pages from a builder's account recording the labor, price, and materials needed for various projects, as well as their corresponding dates. These projects appear to be based in Ashford, England, take place bewteen 1837-1840, and are for Mrs. Field's house and William Parnell's Brew House respectively. The accounts for Mrs. Field's house are requested from Ann Taylor and Son, while the accounts for Mr. Parnell's Brewery are requested from Alexander Apsley and...
Dates:
1837-1840
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Albert R. Whittier scrapbook albums
Collection
Identifier: Col-0024
Scope and Contents
Contains purchase records for Whittier's collections of books and antiques. Volume 1 contains bills and receipts from used book dealers (particularly Goodspeed's Book Shop, Charles E. Lauriat Co., N. J. Bartlett & Co., and Maggs Bros.) and antique furniture dealers (particularly Israel Sack, Inc.). Volume 2 consists of mounted photographs--many of which have identifications typed on cards and stapled above--of some of the furniture recorded in vol. 1. Penciled numbers key most of the...
Dates:
1898 - 1945
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Baltimore, Maryland merchant ledger
Collection — Box small col. 47
Identifier: Col-1030
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."
Dates:
1804-1808
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Cabinet maker's day book
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: Col-1025
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...
Dates:
1837-1846
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Clarence and Martha Seal diaries
Collection
Identifier: Col-0118
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...
Dates:
1872-1905
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Daniel Smith account book
Collection — Doc-162
Identifier: Doc-0162
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...
Dates:
1772 - 1848
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Dry goods and trimmings day book
Collection — small col. 48
Identifier: Col-1040
Content Description
Account book for an unidentified Soudersburg Village, Pennsylvania dry goods and trimming shop from 1839 to 1855. Goods sold include various types of fabric, including muslin, canvas, velvet, and silks, as well as trims, buttons, and other sewing notions. Recipes for treatments for various medical ailments are written on the inside of the back cover. Throughout the account book, numerous customers are noted as being people of color, including John M. Brook, Barry (Berry) Maloney,...
Dates:
1839-1855
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Furniture maker's account book
Collection — Box small col. 49
Identifier: Col-1034
Content Description
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.
Dates:
1826-1840
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Hall Slack papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-0014
Abstract
Personal and professional papers of Hall Slack, a wheelwright from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland.
Dates:
1843 - 1893
Found in:
Winterthur Library