Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
-
circa 1900
- Size:
-
1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0292
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous glass photonegatives and lantern slides, originally housed in cardboard plate boxes, some containing newspaper clipping separators with dates as late as 1961. Subjects include a flood in 1911, family photographs and portraits, and buildings, with labels indicating locations such as Chicago, St.Paul, etc. The lantern slides depict art ...
Found In
New England Merchant and Farmer Account Book
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
-
1813-59.
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0039
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of an unidentified merchant and farmer from New England includes entries for items purchased and sold, and a record of persons employed.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Boston General Store.
- Dates:
-
1807-1830
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0038
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of a Boston storekeeper of food and small general household goods.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Hereford, John W.
- Dates:
-
1827
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0066
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letter, September 5, 1827, by Hereford, Meridianville, Madison County, Alabama, to his father in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It describes his family's journey from Virginia to Alabama with stops in several counties of Tennessee looking for places to settle, and visiting relatives.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Salmon, Polly (merchant)
- Dates:
-
1785-1787
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0040
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Manuscript account book documenting payments to other individuals. 21 pp.; remainder blank. Money recorded in English currency.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Leet, Mary
- Dates:
-
1806-1810.
- Size:
-
1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0027
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Personal property inventory of Pelatiah Leet (died 1806), and accounts against his widow, Mary Leet, for board, clothing, and medicine, etc., 1806-1810. Inscribed, "The Widow Mary Leet of Guilford...Account Against Mary Leet ye 2d as Her Gaurdean & Provider, For Board Cloathing Medicines & Necessaries..." (Orig. cat. no. 393,293.) Plus separate pag...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Ryder, Joel
- Dates:
-
1792-1793.
- Size:
-
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0089
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two cyphering books belonging to and/or compiled by Joel Ryder (or Rider) of either New York or New Jersey, containing mathematical tables, square roots, computations, etc. One book bears the date 1792, the other 1793. Both soft-bound in cloth. One contains a number of locks of hair.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Fuller, Henry (merchant)
Wilkinson, Madeleine
- Dates:
-
1856-1862.
- Size:
-
0.1 Cubic feet (1,folder:,2,items.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0028
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two account books, 1856-1862, of Henry Fuller, West Springfield, Massachusetts, for agricultural supplies and equipment, and miscellaneous expenses.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Wilcox, Nathaniel Greene, Colonel
- Dates:
-
ca. 1843-1892; 1921.
- Size:
-
0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0030
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence with Nathaniel Greene Wilcox family; legal documents; newspaper clippings, including the July 3, 1860 issue of THE RUSHVILLE TIMES, illustrated with articles and editorials about the 1860 presidential candidates.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania General Store
- Dates:
-
1863-64.
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0031
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes entries of items sold (including groceries, small household items, and general hardware).