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Ledger from Paris, Maine. Includes lumber trade accounts and blacksmith accounts.

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Ledger from an unidentified person or business possibly in Parsonsfield, Maine. The name Parsons appears on the front cover. The journal lists names of customers, materials and goods purchased or work done, and amounts paid. Items listed are primarily foods (potatoes, cider, lamb, apples, etc.). Types of work listed include use of horse and wagon or oxen, cutting wood, fencing, removing rocks, etc.

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Ledger used by an unidentified person from Bloomfield (now Skowhegan), Maine, probably a farmer, to record goods sold and types of payments received for them.

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Ledger from an unidentified business in Ellsworth, Maine, possibly a general store. The name Henry B. Stockbridge is written on the first page.

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Ledger of an unidentified business, probably a general store in Fairfield, Maine. Entries are arranged by name of customer and are for purchases such as coffee, corn, apples, oats, potatoes, etc.

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Ledger from an unidentified general store, possibly in Waterville, Maine.

Abstract Ledger from an unidentified business, possibly a general store in Skowhegan, Maine. Arranged by customer name, the volume records sales of items such as eggs, tobacco, tea, fish, sugar and flour. Also found in the collection is an undated journal listing customers and apparently serving as an intermediate volume between a daybook and a final ledger. A single invoice dated 1859 from Robbins & Fogg is also found in the collection. The billhead lists this company, located in Skowhegan, as...

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Ledger of an unidentified merchant in Hampden, Maine. Entries date from 1858 through 1881 and cover several other Maine communities.

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Ledger of an unidentified business in Calais, Maine, possibly a general store. Arranged by customer name, the volume lists purchases and amounts due. Most entries identify items purchased only as merchandise or sundries.

Abstract A ledger from an unidentified compiler, probably an agent for the United States Internal Revenue Service in Portland, Maine, giving information about tobacco and liquor sales and taxes in the state. Part of the volume records by firm name the amounts of tobacco held, rates and amounts of tax, amounts purchased or exported, and amounts held at warehouses from 1866-1867. An additional section records the number, amount and cost of tobacco stamps purchased by various firms, 1869. Also...

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Ledger used by an unidentified surveyor or engineer presumably in Lewiston, Maine, to record work such as surveying lots, writing descriptions of land, providing plans for a bridge, etc. Customers include the city of Lewiston, the Sandy River Valley Railway, and the Lewiston-Auburn Water Power Co., as well as private individuals.

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A financial ledger of an unidentified business in West Rockport, Maine, that sold clothing, dry-goods, notions and fabrics.

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A ledger, 1876-1891, of an unidentified merchant probably in Wiscasset, Maine. The volume records items sold to customers including lime, coal, cement, hair, etc. Sales were made both to individuals and to various schooners and other vessels. A later entry in the volume records visitors to an open house held August 11, 1937, at 12 High Street, presumably in Wiscasset.

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Ledger of an unidentified business possibly in Portland, Maine. Customers include several wholesale and retail dry goods merchants and clothiers as well as booksellers and stationers, bakers, druggists, etc., most of them in Portland.

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A ledger from an unidentified business listing purchases of such items as meal, salt, oyster shells, cornstarch, etc., to customers located mostly in towns in central and southern Massachusetts.

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Ledger from an unidentified business, possibly from C.J. Longley's general store in Madison, Maine. Lists customer names, goods purchased and prices paid. Purchases include apples, bananas, cigars, sugar, etc.

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Ledger of an unidentified business, probably in Maine, that dealt with various companies involved in shoe manufacturing.

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Ledger of a store in northern Maine.

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A financial ledger, 1839-1840, of a general store presumably in Limington, Maine.

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Ledger from an unidentified general store possibly in Lewiston, Maine, listing names of customers, materials and goods purchased, and amounts paid. Items listed are primarily foods (butter, lard, apples, bread, pork, cranberries, etc.) but also include paper, tobacco, oil and dry-goods.

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Ledger with entries listed by name. First entry is Allan, T. W. Also in the list are entries for T.W. Allan & Sons and other people with the last name of Allan. There are numerical references following the names, but it is unknown to what the numbers refer.

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Ledger with entries listed by name. First entry is Archer, Henry G. Also on first page is entry for Allan, Theophilus W. Names are followed by numerical references, but it is unknown to what they refer.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are ledgers, a cashbook, journals, and a check and deposit register.

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Business and personal papers of Edwin F. Littlefield, a ship captain from Winterport, Maine. Very little biographical information is available about Littlefield, but it appears that he was a ship owner, captain and agent between 1854 and 1897, the year of his death.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are cashbooks, ledgers, and voucher registers.

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Account book of a resident of Bucksport, Maine. Included are records of work done for W.T. Trevor, Armour Company, J.E. Witham and Company, Armour Fertilizer Company, F.M. Mooney, W.R. Moorehead, Dr. Crawford, and Dr. Snow. Included are records for work "paid out on place."

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Records, 1861-1869, of lumber mill operator in Carmel, Maine. Contains accounts including type of wood received as well as board feet produced. Name on back cover, James Garland, may indicate him as the owner/operator of the saw mill. Also includes several tax collector receipts, 1898-1902.

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A ledger recording lumber shipments. Entries record lumber sold by Eastern Mfg. Co., Wm. Engel & Co., and Sterns Lumber Co. There are no entries for Sargent Lbr Co. Entries include date, raft, kind of lumber, by whom sold, purchaser, vessel, and remarks.

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Financial records of a water power and mill company in Machias, Maine during the mid-1800s.