![Diary of the sick on board of the Mammoth. J[onathan]. Rowland Esq. Commander in Portland Harbor](/pictures/thumb/5528_1.jpg?v=1570120703)
An interesting medical manuscript compiled by an anonymous doctor aboard the Baltimore-built privateer Mammoth during the War of 1812, recording illnesses suffered by the crew, the treatments administered, progress of the patients, etc. The schooner Mammoth, commanded by Capt. Jonathan Rowland, served in the War of 1812 from 1814...
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=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...