An artifact of the operations of a London-based gold mining firm recording payments for a variety of goods and services from 1872 to 1874. Trends can be traced across the receipts; most noticeably a stiff rise in the price of tunnel digging, which from the beginning to end of the.....
![Item #7859 [Manuscript account book of Philadelphia shipsmiths Snyder and Myers.]. Joseph Snyder,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7859_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684260731)
A substantive account book of Joseph Snyder and William Myers compiled during their forty-year long business association with the prominent Philadelphia businessman and shipmaker Anthony Cuthbert, revealing the full scope of their work. While the partners are identified in the 1822 Philadelphia city directory as “shipsmiths,” it is clear from.....
![Item #2918 [Ipswich Massachusetts Livery Owner’s Daybook]. Frederick Mitchell](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2918_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1560463212)
Day book of Frederic Mitchell, an Ipswich, Massachusetts innkeeper, recording the daily rentals from his livery. Recorded herein are daily rents and rates for all manner of horse-drawn transportation. With customers, by and large renting chaises in the warmer months and sleighs in the winter. Beyond chaises and sleighs, Mitchell’s.....