More Local History

Additional resources, not digitized:

Companies:

  • Thorndike Company records The records of a 19th-century and early 20th-century cotton manufacturer with mills in West Warren and Palmer, Massachusetts. Includes journals, ledgers, cashbooks, inventory, machinery books, and payrolls.
  • James Shearer Daybook During the late 1830s, James Shearer operated a general store near Palmer, Massachusetts, trading in the gamut of dry goods and commodities that made up the country trade in Massachusetts, from dried fish, butter, rum, and brandy, to soap, nails, chalk, cloth, sugar, molasses, spices, coffee, and tea. Although some customers paid their accounts in cash, most appear bartered goods (e.g, with butter) or services (carting).

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