Providence and Worcester R.R. Account Book
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Providence and Worcester Railroad Company
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1851-1899
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0154
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This log book of the Providence, Rhode Island repair shop records the annual summaries of repair costs by various divisions of the Railroad for 1851-1854, as submitted by John B. Winslow, Master Mechanic. It also includes entries recording miscellaneous repairs (mostly minor) and overhauls to locomotives for 1880-1899.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Leet, Mary
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1806-1810
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1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0027
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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...
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Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1872-1874
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0291
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This 433-page ledger is leather-bound (deteriorating); each page is filled with hand-written entries recording sales of merchandise and payment receipts by customer name. This is apparently the daily account journal of a general hardware store (name, location, and recorder's name unknown). Sales amounts are recorded in the right column; receipts (b...
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Catlin, Putman (treasurer of Milford & Owego Turnpike)
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1817-1824.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0153
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes detailed financial records, receipts from individual gate-keepers, payments to them and other employees, receipts of capital subscription from company stockholders.
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Hagan, Henry
Hagan Brothers Carriage and Wagonmakers (Frederick, Md.).
Carmen D. Valentino, American Historical Manuscripts.
Hagan, Charles
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1882-1903
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2.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 21 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1154
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
In 1882, brothers Charles and Henry Hagan established a carriage, coach, and wagon business in Frederick, Maryland. This collection represents approximately two decades of business transactions through 21 volumes of daybooks and ledgers.
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Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1856-1889
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4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0399
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.
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Deming, Lucretia
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1883 January 1-1887 April 27
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0.1 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0173
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This is a single household account book for the period from January 1, 1883 through April 27, 1887, maintained by Lucretia Deming until two days before her death. The final entry is $120.05 for the payment of Litchfield property taxes. The accounts record daily expenditures in substantial detail, i.e oysters, candy, bread, oil, Century Magazine, e...
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Bedman, John
Bedman, James
Bedman, William
Bedman, Joseph
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1859 - 1984
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8.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.BED
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Archives of American Gardens
The Bedman Brothers Company Records collection focuses primarily on the business and financial transactions of Bedman Brothers seed company of Rahway, New Jersey, and includes accounting ledgers, purchase orders, price lists, miscellaneous business and family correspondence, and various brochures, pamphlets and leaflets related to horticultural topics. Other holdings in the collection include World War II ration stamps and two scrapbooks, one of which contains many late nineteenth and early twentieth century chromo-lithographed trade cards (primarily from the sewing, clothing, and floral industries). The other scrapbook holds news clippings from the Civil War period. Seperated materials include seed gathering equipment used by field workers.
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Gist, Joshua (merchant)
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1769-1822.
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0.15 Cubic feet (2 folders
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0044
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of Joshua Gist, Westminster, Maryland, and others,including general account for the purchase and transportation of agricultural products, lists of muster rolls for the Militia of Maryland, 1794-1798. Also, miscellaneous notes of financial obligations, 1769-1800; and a letter, 1798, concerning payment for construction of fortifications ...
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Aimar, George W.
Aimar, Harold
Aimar, G.W., Drug Company
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1864-1972
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350 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0810
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The day-to-day business records of a Charleston, South Carolina pharmacy, including day books, ledger books, cash books, prescription books, invoices, letterpress copybooks, and formula books.