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A. L. R. Gardner Company Store Records
The records include receipt books (1888-1894 incomplete, 1945-1949), ledgers (1912-1950), capital stock book (1902-1951), company meeting records (1902-1951), and photographs.
Account Book (1879-1882)
Account book used to record cash received and cash expenditures between 1879 and 1882 for an unidentified businessman, possibly from Bucksport, Maine. The volume records a mixture of personal and business expenses with entries for buying fruit, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, items of clothing, etc. Entries also detail travel expenses to communities in Washington County, Maine as well as to Bangor, Maine, and Boston. Some entries seem to be for expenses connected with mining.
American Realty Company Records
Samuel Appleton Daybook
A daybook from the general store of Samuel Appleton in Waterville, Maine. The volume records names of customers, their purchases and the prices paid. Items purchased include crackers, coffee, stockings, flannel, Irish linen, brandy, etc.
Atwoods & Company Records
C. T. Ball Account Book
Account book for a general jobbing business in Bangor, Maine, located at 127 Hammond Street. Includes unidentified photograph.
Bangor Stone Ware Company Records
Invoices, orders, receipts, etc. received by the company or its owner for goods supplied or stoneware ordered. The collection also contains a few invoices, 1872-1877, to C.H. and R.W. Sawyer from various businesses in Bangor. Goods supplied include nails, powder, padlocks, meal, lard, etc.
Black & Brothers Records
Collection contains business records of Black & Brothers, a dry goods business in Ellsworth, Maine.
Blacksmith's Daybook
Daybook of an unidentified blacksmith in Lovell, Maine, listing names of customers, work done and amount paid for each job.
James Gillespie Blaine Letter (May 2, 1881)
Autograph letter signed. Relates to taxation of vessels engaged in foreign trade.
Etienne H. Bourque Daybook
Daybook of the owner of a general jobbing business in Waterville, Maine. The volume records financial transactions with suppliers from September to November, 1923.
Jonathan Brown Account Book
Ledger recording goods sold and work done for various individuals as well as for the town of Freeman, Maine. Goods sold include shoes, handkerchiefs, woolen cloth, etc., as well as hay, rye and other agricultural products. Work done for the town and others includes haying, hauling with a team, appraising land, laying a road, etc. The back of the volume also has a few entries from 1874-1880 for work done by other members of the Brown family.
William Brownell Journal and Daybook
Volume listing sales to individuals in Berwick, Maine primarily of brandy, rum, and gin with some entries also for tobacco, tea, cigars, etc.
A. S. Bubar Daybook
A daybook used by A.S. Bubar to record the names of customers and their purchases at an unidentified business in Orient, Maine, possibly a general store. Items purchased include beans, tea, fish, pork, lard, corn, etc. The volume also gives information about logging in the area, recording costs of cutting, hauling, and driving logs, stumpage totals, etc.
Nelson J. Budway Correspondence
C. E. Thayer Son Business Records
Documents of a general store in Winterport, Maine. Among the letters are some personal ones including one about petitioning in a murder / assault case.
Joseph Campbell Ledger
George D. Chubbuck Daybook
A daybook kept by George D. Chubbock of Portland, Maine. The first page of the volume states "Geo. D. Chubbock commenced business at Kidder, March 1st, 1865." The volume records purchases made by customers presumably at a general store. Goods purchased include tea, cheese, gingham, locks, ribbon, soap, etc.
Charles R. Coombs Account Book
Timothy Copp Ledger
A ledger used by Timothy Copp to record business transactions at one of his businesses, perhaps the sawmill.
D. W. Clark Ice Co. Daybooks
Volumes list daily financial transactions with the company's customers but do not indicate the amount of ice sold to each customer.
David T. Sanders Co. Correspondence
Correspondence to David T. Sanders, proprietor of a general store in Greenville, Maine. Letters were written from Bangor, Portland, Brewer, Skowhegan and Dexter, Maine, as well as from Boston and places in New Hampshire and New Brunswick. Most concern purchases of goods made by Sanders to supply his business. Goods purchased include boilers, sheet iron, oats, hay, flour, pork, etc.
Abner Davis Book No. 1
Daybook kept by Abner Davis in 1830 and 1831 recording purchases presumably at his general store in Stow, Maine. The volume gives names of customers, their purchases and prices paid for both groceries and dry-goods. Items bought include broadcloth, silk, tea, gin, yarn, eggs, etc.
Daybook (1798-1848)
Daybook (1833-1834)
Daybook from an unidentified business in Thomaston, Maine, probably a general store.
Daybook (1843-1847)
Daybook of an unidentified business in Orono, Maine, probably a general store. The entries list daily purchases of customers and the amount paid for each item. Purchases include coffee, tobacco, sugar, hair tonic, currants, etc.
Daybook (1843-1848)
A daybook from an unidentified general store in Baldwin, Maine. Entries from 1843 to 1847 are identified as being from Baldwin; those from 1848 are headed Sebago. The volume records names of customers, their purchases, and prices paid. Goods purchased include tea, molasses, pork, candles, fish, flannel, tobacco, etc.
Daybook (1855-1856)
Volume from an unidentified business, probably a general store, in Houlton, Maine.
Daybook (1866)
Daybook from an unidentified business in North Berwick, Maine, probably a general store. A few pages of the volume have newspaper clippings pasted in and unattached clippings were also received with the volume; most clippings concern recipes or household hints.
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