Account books, 1913-1917

Description

Series contains four account books documenting the business activities of C. L. Cooney Antiques between 1913-1917. The account books also provide a detailed list of the businesses items sold and customers served. Items sold include furniture, such as bureaus, table, and chairs; interior decorations, such as rugs, clocks, lanterns, and mirrors; tableware, such as plates, teapots, and glasses, among other items. Although C. L. Cooney Antiques primarily sold to customers in Massachusetts, the business also sold conducted business with customers throughout New England and, in some cases, across the United States. Customer locations include, but are not limited to, Pasadena and San Francisco, California; Madison and New Haven, Connecticut; Macon, Georgia; Chicago, Evanston, and Saint Charles, Illinois; Eliot and Peaks Island, Maine; Baltimore and Cambridge, Maryland; Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Danvers, Framingham, Gloucester, Lancaster, Lowell, Milton, Nantucket, Newtonville, Petersham, Salem, Sherborn, Sudbury, Swampscott, Webster, and Worcester, Massachusetts; Kansas City and Saint Louis, Missouri; Concord, Dublin, Jackson, and Peterborough, New Hampshire; Long Island, Niagara Falls, and New York, New York; Athens, Cleveland, Ravenna, and Youngstown, Ohio; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence and Newport, Rhode Island; Bennington, Morrisville, and Woodstock, Vermont; and Alexandria, Virginia.

Individual customers include Marian Hathaway (Ladd) Hallowell, wife of businessman and football player John White Hallowell; architect Henry Forbes Bigelow; collector and interior decorator Henry Davis Sleeper; Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow; Ethel Bigelow (Linder) Prouty, wife of wool merchant Dwight Mortimer Prouty; art collector and dealer Grace Nicholson; musician Emil Mollenhauer; politician Grafton Cushing; antiques dealer Faris C. Pitt; Waldo Lincoln, president of the American Antiquarian Society; Lawrence Waters Jenkins, director of the Peabody Museum; Edith (Lawrence) Coolidge, wife of attorney Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Sr.; artist Walter M. Brackett; Allan Forbes, president of State Street Trust Co.; architect Clarence H. Blackall; philanthropist and preservationist Caroline Osgood Emmerton; author, preservationist, and philanthropist Clara Endicott Sears; bookseller Charles E. Godspeed; author Henry Wysham Lanier; Harvard professor Dr. William Henry Schofield; photographer and antiquarian Wallace Nutting; Lewis Earle Row, director of Rhode Island School of Design; photographer Baldwin Coolidge; minister and Union Theological Seminary instructor Dr. William Adams Brown; socialite Josephine B. Crane; architect Henry Charles Dean; politician and historian Henry Cabot Lodge; engraver Franklin Tyler Wood; interior designer Elsie de Wolfe; and merchant and political figure John Wanamaker. Corporate customers include Bigelow, Kennard & Co.; Irving & Casson; The Henry Jewett Players; R. Marston & Co.; George E. Vernon & Co.; T. F. Welch & Co.; Boston Consolidated Gas Co.; Art Institute of Chicago; Shreve, Crump & Low; The Boston Antique Shop; and architectural firm Little and Browne.