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A ledger of a general store in Brunswick, Maine. The volume is arranged by customer name and records purchases of goods such as corn, molasses, salt, sugar, raisins, etc.

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Collection includes a daybook, 1854-1856, and three ledgers, 1851-1878, detailing customers and goods sold to them. A fifth volume, 1861-1897, records amount paid for labor done for taking care of and supplying vessels, hauling timber, selling wood, etc.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine.

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A journal, 1867-1870, and a ledger, 1867-1869, from an unidentified business, probably a lumber mill in Kendall's Mills, a locality in Fairfield, Maine.

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A financial ledger of Stephen H. Rice dating from 1858-1878. Although the location and nature of the business are not recorded, it appears to have been a general store located somewhere in Somerset County, Maine.

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Business records of Edmund T. Ring and scrapbooks documenting the career of his son, Edgar E. Ring, both of Orono, Maine. Edmund appears to have operated a grocery store there and also operated a sawmill under the firm name E.T. Ring and Son.

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Lists names of customers with purchases and their costs. Items purchased include soap, lobster, raisins, coffee, thread, needles, etc.

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Records of the Board of Trustees of the Robert W. Traip Academy including minutes of meetings, deeds and other legal documents, ledgers of financial accounts, and subject files concerning building projects at the school. Of particular interest is a photograph album containing pictures of construction of the original building in 1904.

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Ledgers recording work done for customers from 1879 to 1884, primarily shoeing horses.

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Ledgers recording sales to and work done for customers at a gasoline service station in York, Maine.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are account books, cashbooks, journals, and ledgers covering the years 1892 to 1959.

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A sales ledger from an unidentified business, probably a shoe store. Entries record merchandise purchased from firms all over the United States.

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An account book with financial information during the travels of a ship to ports in Europe and the U.S.

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Account book of a general store owned by Jerome Wellington Sawtelle in Old Town, Maine.

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Ledger for the fishing schooner Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah with entries from 1865 to 1871. Not a traditional logbook, this ledger contains records of the sale of the catch as well as the purchases necessary for fishing - bait, bushel baskets. a dory, barrels, nails, hooks, and rope. Payments for the repair of fishing nets are noted, as well as purchases of supplies for the fishing trips - apples, molasses, tobacco, tea, and matches, etc. There is an 1868 revenue stamp attached to one page.

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Financial records of the Searsport National Bank from 1898 to 1921.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are a cashbook from Dec. 1902-Sept. 1911, a journal from Feb. 1905 to Oct. 1911, and 2 ledgers covering the years 1905 to 1911.

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A ledger of a lumber company in Maine listing trial balances beginning Dec. 1, 1913.

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Records related to operations of the Sherman Lumber Company, founded in 1894 and located in Sherman Station, Maine. The records are arranged according to the following functions: administrative and organizational, financial, production, sales, and labor.

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Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine. Included are cashbooks, journals, and ledgers from 1888 to 1911 and a ledger containing invoices to the company for the years 1887 to 1888.

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Records of Thomas W. Smith, principal partner in various firms selling dry-goods, groceries, and hardware between Augusta, Maine and Boston. Arranged in two series: Business Records and Augusta Bank Records.

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An inventory of the estate of Joseph Sprague of Thomaston, Maine who died in 1826.

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The Stetson family papers consist primarily of the business and personal papers of George Stetson, his sons Edward and Isaiah Kidder, and Isaiah's son Irving G. Stetson. They reflect the involvement of the Stetsons in the lumbering, slate mining, ice harvesting, and banking businesses in Bangor, Maine, the northern woods of Maine, and in New Brunswick.

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A ledger of a coal company located in Bangor, Maine. The volume contains financial information about the company such as costs for labor, insurance, furniture and fixtures, etc., as well as a record of customers.

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Log scaling book for the Stillwater Canal Corp. Shows how much lumber and for whom it was scaled. Also shows some log brands. This possibly reflects the boom operation in the Stillwater River opposite the present University of Maine.

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Financial records of a general store in Dennysville, Maine, owned by Theophilus W. Allan and his sons. Volumes include two daybooks, dated 1869 and 1894-1895, as well as two ledgers dated 1889-1902 and 1901-1912. The store sold groceries, dry-goods, hardware, etc.

Abstract Records of a general store in Sebec, Maine, owned by Thoedore Wyman and his son, Theodore H. Wyman. Included are three ledgers dating from the 1830s to 1883. The earliest ledger appears to record transactions of a business called Jewett & Wyman. The ledgers include names of customers but do not record specific purchases made by each customer. Also found in the collection is a daybook dating from 1871-1873 which details the purchase of items such as lard, sugar, molasses, oil, etc. A...

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A ledger used by Taber to record purchases made at his general store in Unity, Maine. Taber also used the volume to record work he did for others, including fencing, haying, repairs, etc. His work as executor for various decedents' estates is also documented in the volume.