Undertaker and Home Furnishings Dealer Account Book, 1881
1 box, 1 volume
Collection number: MS 171
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Undertaker and Home Furnishings Dealer Account Book
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Undertaker and Home Furnishings Dealer Account Book, 1881
1 box, 1 volume
Collection number: MS 171
Abstract:
Owner of business (identity unknown) who served in the Wrentham, Massachusetts-area as a purveyor of home decorating supplies and furnishings and undertaker. Includes goods for sale and services provided (repairing and upholstering furniture, packing bodies in ice, carrying to tomb, grave digging, etc.); forms of payment (cash, exchange of goods such as soap, eggs, tables, and chairs, and exchange of services); and lists of customers, including City Mills Felting Company, A.H. Morse, J.A. Guild, Joseph Hutchingson, Charles Scott, and Foster Smith.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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