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1846-1852
GUSN-194050
Lists a wholesaler's payments to workers doing piecework in boot and shoe making, with females well represented. Some accounts list purchased supplies (307ff, 349). Almost completely reused for newspaper clippings (starting with the Civil War period) of Mary Jane Mansfield. Longhand copy of lengthy "Ballad of the White Hills" (Willey House, NH) by Dr. T.W. Parsons of Boston appears on end pages.
account books
Other identifier Account book 32
1 account book (552 pages)
MS002
Account books collection
MS002.032
account books
Lovejoy, Ebenezer (leather dealer)
F.S. Newhall & Co.
Horton Hall & Co.
Pratt Bucklin & Co.
leather
labor
ballad (folk)
shoe industry
Item
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