White goods sample book, 1855-ca. 1860.

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White goods sample book, 1855-ca. 1860.

White goods sample book, 1855-ca. 1860.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122555657

Consists of over 2,000 numbered swatches of variously patterned white goods pasted into a very thick volume. Manuscript notes on each page give the name and price of the textiles. Notation on verso of front free end paper reads "15.9.55, White Book No. 8803, In giving orders please give Book as well as pattern Nos." These swatches only occupy the first half of the volume, as those originally in the second half have been removed. Some documents laid in at front suggest that this volume may have been kept by one Samuel R. Shipley while working for Charles W. Churchman in the dry goods business in Philadelphia, PA and before beginning his own firm in January 1858 (Shipley & Hazard).

1 v. (ca. 700 p.) : ill. ; 39 cm.

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