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Source Description
This account book consists of various deliveries and payments recorded by a milk dealer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The marbled paper front and back covers, as well as the writing on the first and last pages appear to have been written in 1697. The book describes some of the town history of Lancaster, Massachusetts. The rest of the book was recorded between from 1816 to 1821 and describes milk deliveries and payments.
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Document identity
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8623mf34x
label
Cambridge milk dealer account book
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obj
dtoType
manuscript
pageCount
1
Source metadata
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8623mf34x
contentType
manuscript
stage
normalized
title
Cambridge milk dealer account book
description
This account book consists of various deliveries and payments recorded by a milk dealer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The marbled paper front and back covers, as well as the writing on the first and last pages appear to have been written in 1697. The book describes some of the town history of Lancaster, Massachusetts. The rest of the book was recorded between from 1816 to 1821 and describes milk deliveries and payments.
date
["1816–1820"]
year
1816
rights
No Copyright - United States.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
identifierLocal
070_00_01
institution
Cambridge Public Library
collections
Cambridge Milk Dealer Account Book, 1607-1821
subjects
Commerce
Milk
Business enterprises
subjectsGeographic
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Books
Manuscripts
genreSpecific
account books
typeOfResource
Manuscript
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Cambridge
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
extent
1 item ([22] pages) ; 15 x 10 cm
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
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ft848v87w
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00002j71m
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42.3667
schema:longitude
-71.1
notes
Original document was digitized in 2017 as a tiff image.
Title supplied by cataloger.
dcId
8623mf34x
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manuscript
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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