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2 volumes
This collection includes two daybooks kept by Fernando C. Jacobs of Canaan, Vermont, between 1844 and 1861. These overlapping volumes contain accounts of tanners and cobblers Jacobs & Fletcher, with a record of daily sales of tanning and footwear making, mending, tapping, and binding services. They sold horsehides, calf skins, kipskins, sheepskins, leather, moose hair, leather, straps, buckles, shoes, boots, moccasins, slippers, cows, butter, and meats (such as moose and beef). By the mid-1850s, the accounts show increasing sales of medicines (pills, liniments, etc.), tobacco, cigars, foodstuffs such as flour, mackerel, oysters, rum, and gin. Consumers paid with cash, hay, wheat, cash, corn, turnips, supplies, and labor.