Account books

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.

Account book of Jonathan Burnet of Dummerston, Vermont, from 1806 to 1812. Entries include expenses such as the purchase of cider, parsnips, rum, corn, wheat, the boarding of a steer, tobacco, and bricks.

Receipt book used by three generations of the Kendall family of New Castle County, Delaware, beginning in 1768. Transactions recorded include the purchase of a winding sheet, ice, and grave digging for the furneral of Jesse Kendall, medicine, various food and dry goods, and goods imported from Jamaica.

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 their "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.

Account book kept by Leonard Fisk of Berlin, Ohio, from 1851 to 1871. Transactions recorded are mostly farming related in nature, and include labor, various types of produce, four, sugar, and butter, livestock, lumber, and nails.