Two daybooks recording transactions and accounts kept by an unidentified Hartford piano company that sold Steinway & Sons pianos and offered numerous piano services. The company serviced a wide range of clients in the Hartford area and vicinity—including churches, a Women’s Christian Association, wealthy individuals, banks, a hospital for the.....
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.....
![Two account books of a New Hampshire furniture-maker, 1808–1854.]. Isaac Blanchard](/pictures/thumb/6729_1.jpg?v=1620739204)
Two rich manuscript account-books of furniture-maker Isaac Blanchard of Wilton, New Hampshire, extensively documenting his wide-ranging artisanal activities spanning five decades. Born in Wilton, New Hampshire, Isaac Blanchard (1785–1857) was a skilled furniture-maker who provided the village of Wilton and the surrounding areas with a wide variety of finished.....
![Ipswich Massachusetts Livery Owner’s Daybook]. Frederick Mitchell](/pictures/thumb/2918_1.jpg?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.....