Credit ledgers, 1840-1895 [microform].

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Credit ledgers, 1840-1895 [microform].

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Credit ledgers, arranged by state, thereunder by county or city. Handwritten entries, made in the New York office, from field reports. Most volumes have name indexes. Here may be found reports on thousands of firms across the country, many for a considerable span of time. The reports are fullest from the 1850's to the 1870's. The Hagley Museum and Library's copies cover the entire states of Delaware and Maryland; Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties in New Jersey, and Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania. Also available are seven bound volumes of xerox copyflow from the microfilm containing the indexes for Delaware, Maryland and Berks, Lehigh and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania.

Microfilm: 33 reels.Indexes: 0.75 linear ft.

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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