[Account book]. 1836-1842.

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[Account book]. 1836-1842.

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Account book kept in Nashua, N.H., with detailed lists of machines and parts made and sold and of machine work done off the shop's premises. Also gives detailed transportation and lodging expenses and rents owed and collected for houses and boarding houses owned by the company. Includes inventories of the machine shop and of Ira Gay's estate, and some personal accounts of Ira and Ziba Gay and Harvey Silver.

118 p. ; 21 cm.

American Textile History Museum Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7632330

American Textile History Museum Library

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Gay, Ziba.

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