![[Receipt Book of the Birdseye Gold Mining Company].](/pictures/thumb/2822_1.jpg?v=1547072381)
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...
![[Ipswich Massachusetts Livery Owner’s Daybook]. Frederick Mitchell.](/pictures/thumb/2918_1.jpg?v=1505243810)
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...