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Shopping Stories Transcription Project
Eighteenth-century store ledgers detail tabular data: recording purchases, account holders, and payments. These transactions are very different from the typical prose of a letter or diary entry, however, they include as much, if not more, significant information to assist in the understanding...
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Shopping Stories Transcription Project - Invoice Book (Imports)
When Robert Townsend Hooe initially opened his store in 1770 in Alexandria, Virginia, with his partner Frederick Stone, they created an Invoice Book to document all the raw material the store exported and the goods they imported to make available for sale in the store. This book continued to...
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Shopping Stories Transcription Project - Invoice Book (Inventories)
When Robert Townsend Hooe initially opened his store in 1770 in Alexandria, Virginia, with his partner Frederick Stone, they created an Invoice Book to document all the raw material the store exported and the goods they imported to make available for sale in the store. This book continued to be...
Start TranscribingShopping Stories Transcription Project - Letters
Eighteenth-century merchants kept ledgers that recorded purchases, account holders, and payments. In contrast, they kept letterbooks as a record of the letters sent to the various stakeholders associated with the business - other merchants, ship captains, customers, etc. Through the use of...
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