1803-1804
GUSN-181150
This 1803-1804 account book of Thomas Otis, a retailer in Boston, records the sales of articles sold in quantity including fabrics, clothing, housewares, hardware, and sundries. A newspaper clipping of a poem about the 1732 will of a Harvard University employee is pasted on the first page.
retailers
retail stores
chaises (carriages)
springs (elastic objects)
furnishings (artifacts)
interior decoration
cloth
clothing
hardware (components)
commercial buildings
account books
clippings (information artifacts)
Other identifier Account book 43
1 account book (430 pages)
MS002
Account books collection
MS002.043
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Otis, Thomas (Retailer)
account books
clippings (information artifacts)
Draper, Lemuel
Butler, John
Grant, Nathaniel
Grant, John
Giles, Lydia
Rawson, Deborah, Miss
Levi Shepherd & Sons
Wait and Lamb
Hugh Heaton and Co.
Ono Cass & Co.
Rice and Bridge
Hatch and Goodhue
Abbot & Briggs
Prentiss & Bridges
Dow & Bridges
Goodhue & Clarks
S. & S. McConihue
Sundries
Retail trade
Item
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