Records, 1785-1787.

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Records, 1785-1787.

Bound typescript transcriptions of day books, 1785-1787, recording transactions at unidentified general store in Georgetown, S.C. Entries record residents of the area, and prices of consumables and dry goods purchased, including tea, salt, medicines, and tobacco, as well as many varieties of fabric, clothing, stockings, pewter vessels, rice hooks, chamber pots, gunpowder, "Prussian blue" [paint], turpentine, fiddle strings, etc. Transcribed typescripts completed by employees of Federal Writers Project (S.C.), a program of the W.P.A.; "copied from original M[anu]S[cript] in possession of Georgetown Library Society."

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Works Progress Administration created 1935; name changed to Work Projects Administration, 1939. From the description of [Works Progress Administration photograph collection: South Carolina places] [picture] ; [ca. 193u-194u]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 46460798 ...