[Rarebooks] FS: Handwritten Account Book & Record of Stock Investments, 1874

[Bob Petrilla]

Shriver, C. HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT BOOK AND RECORD OF STOCK INVESTMENTS:
Hanover and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January-December 1874. In notebook
with cover name of Hanauer, Kohn & Co., manufacturers of Men's Clothing,
Third and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. . Original manuscript. 60pp,
including 16pp printed matter re men's clothing styles for Fall 1873, suits
of many different materials at $10 to $15, double-breasted short coats,
fancy business and dress walking coats, overcoats, black cloth long frock
coats, fancy cassimere pants and vests, black beaver and doeskin pants and
vests, etc. binding worn from pocket use. flexible cloth.
Contains hundreds of handwritten entries for 1874, including: Stiteley
grinding flour; carriage and stage driver; tailor making pants and vest;
tobacco; beef; cash for B. Baumgartner; corn for chickens; cash to F.
Austin Shriver; black Germantown & blue; lamp burner; Frank Shriver for
hog; Adam Yingling topping chimneys; loan to Mrs. Stonesifer; fish of Joe
Erb; mending harness; beer; file for crosscut saw; shad; set of upper
teeth; alpaca coat; setting tombstone; funeral of Joseph E. Cremer;
subscription to American; butter of A. Burgoon; cattle show west_ horse &
dinner; Ezra Yingling stove pipe; &c., &c. Lists many other items and
family names, with the price paid opposite each entry.   $75.00

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