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Tailors.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Abbott family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927118]
Identifier: 4361
Scope and content

Account books, 1829-1836; pay book, 1834-1841; and cash book, 1839-1844. Also, records of services or materials rendered, accounts due, and payments of Jonathan E. Abbott; correspondence, receipts, summonses, indenture, quit claim, and fire insurance policy for Harvey Abbott; and penmanship practice book.

Dates: 1829-1879.

Emil A. Kohm accounts

 Collection
Identifier: 2065
Abstract

Customers' accounts, cashbooks, and wage records (6 vols.); also, letters and accounts concerning the tailoring business, the settlement of the Kohm estate, and other matters.

Dates: 1908-1945.

Richard Hails and Jane Dawson letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 6 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240537]
Identifier: 865
Scope and content Letters to relatives in England describing conditions of his emigration to America, the emigrant agents in Liverpool, the passage across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, his work as a tailor in Boston and in Manchester, New Hampshire, the wages earned by himself and his wife, and urging his brother, a potter, to emigrate by describing the location of pottery works in New England and commenting on the ease with which another trade might be learned. The Dawson letter from Shullsburg,...
Dates: 1848-1849.