Obed P. Baker daybook, 1857
1 volume
Obed P. Baker of South Dennis, Massachusetts, kept 28 pages of daybook entries to record his customers' accounts during June and July of 1857. He sold fabrics, clothing, food, household goods, and other items. Baker wrote the accounts in blank pages at the end of Charles Northend's The Common School Book-Keeping, printed by Brown, Taggard & Chase (Boston) in 1856.
Obed P. Baker of South Dennis, Massachusetts, kept 28 pages of daybook entries to record customers' accounts during June and July of 1857. He sold fabrics, clothing, food, household goods, and other items. Examples of goods include whale bone and a set of coffee cups.
Baker wrote the accounts in blank pages at the end of Charles Northend's The Common School Book-Keeping, printed by Brown, Taggard and Chase (Boston) in 1856. The cover bears a printed illustration of a man standing at a writing desk filling out a daybook with a quill pen; various writing accouterments and books sit at a nearby desk.