The Winterthur Library

The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: D.T. Sanders and Company

Title: Business records

Dates: 1862-1890

Call No.: Col. 87

Acc. No.: 81x6, 81x9, 81x10, 81x99, 99x141

Quantity: 6 folders

Location: 13 A 5

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

D. (David) T. Sanders and Company was a general store in Greenville, Maine, located on Moosehead Lake. A laundry blank from the 1890s noted that the store sold “dry and fancy goods, boots and shoes, rubbers, groceries, fruit and confectionery, ladies’ and gent’s furnishing,” and was an agent for the Piscataquis Steam Laundry of Foxcroft, Maine. Judging by the orders sent to them, the store served the various logging camps and possibly trappers in the lake area.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection of papers can be divided into two groups: bills for items bought by the store and orders sent to the store from loggers. The bills are for such items as liquor, clothing, fabrics, needles, gun powder, cartridges, crackers, and rubbers. The orders from various camps were for flour, molasses, corn, tobacco, tea, clothing, hardware items, snow shoes, hides, footwear, meat, lanterns, and wicks. There are also signed notes for the store to pay an amount of money to the bearer or person named and to charge the amount to the account of the signer. A laundry ticket for D.T. Sanders & Son from the 1890s is also part of the collection.

ORGANIZATION

The papers are arranged chronologically.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Paul P. Glenn.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

General stores - Maine - Greenville.

Dry-goods - Prices.

Food prices - 19th century.

Hardware - Prices.

Clothing and dress.

Textile fabrics - Prices - 19th century.

Beverages - Prices.

Business records - Maine - Greenville.

Wholesale trade - History - 19th century.

Receipts.

Orders.

Bills (financial).

Retailers.

Loggers.

INDEXES TO THE COLLECTION

Location: 13 A 5

Index to 81x6.1-.10

Bird, Wm. Edgar, & Co. .2

Godfrey, J.C., & Co. .3-.10

(J. C. Godfrey & T. J. Meservey)

Richardson, Charles, & Co. .1

Index to acc. 81x9.1-.108

Adams, C. L. .92

Appleton, R. D. .93

Barton, S. F., & Co. .87

Blood, Geo. .13

Bragg, C. S., Jr. .66

Brosue, Peter .103

Brown – see Lee & Brown

Bussell, Stephen .46

Carter, H. .71

Chapman, J. D. .2

Clemens, William .97

Coburn, A. .16

Cripps, Emma (Mrs.) .90

Cripps, George A. .23

Crocker, Joseph .102

Curran, N. F. .39, 41, .44-48, .50-53, .72, .101

Cusack, John .81

Darling, Stephen .103

Daugherity, Mr. .12

Dier, John .81

Donahue, William .51

Dority, Mr. .9

Dudley, A. W. .78

Estes, Daniel .98

Fahey, John .53

Files, W. T. .94

[Fogg. J.E.] .102

Fogg, Jos. E. .13

Garland, F., & Co. .15

Glass, William .85

Hardy, Manly .14

Higans, Thomas .81

Hildreth - see Shaw & Hildreth

Hodgdon, S. N. .18-19

Kennebeck Land & Lumber Co. .26

Leavitt, Caleb .95

Lee & Brown .15

Lee, James .11

Lee, James, & Co. .6

Libby, Cyrus .54a

Libby, J. R. .18

Libby, John R. .19

Luce, George A. .88

McCallum, James .41

McCray, John .23

McCauslin, Oliver .3

McEacrern, Alex. .17

McLaughlin, Wm. .45

Mansell, C.H. .77, .104

Mansell, J. .25

Merrill, P.S. .9

Mitchell, G. D. .27

Mitchell, S. D. .59, .74-75

Montgomery, John .52

Morin, Jos. .12, .96

Morrill, G. S. .79

Moulton, J. O. .2

Murphy, Mr. .12

Oliver, J. M. .2

Patterson, M. .82

Pettingill, A. .44

Phillips, E. W. .48

Pulleen, J. H. .24

Randell, D. F. .24

Richardson, Charles, & Co. .20

Robinson, Emery .26-27

Robinson, Emery T. .86

Robinson, H. K. .86

Ross & Connor .68

Ross, John .10

Sanborn, L. S. .91, .99

Sanborn, Wm. .83

Sawyer, C. G. .49, .55-65, .67, .70, .79

Scannaman, E. .76

Shaw, M. .89

Shaw and Hildreth .95

Shaw, M. G. .63

Shepard, C. H. .54b

Solomon, Sebatt .88

Strickland, B. W. .80

Staples, Asbury .47

Strickland, (Maj.) .23

Strickland, W.H., & Co. .8, .28

Troy, Nick (Mrs.) .89

Wiggin, Andrew .3

Wilson, E. H. R. .100

Wilson, H. S. .73

Wright, W. E. .10

Young, Oliver .1, .4, .7

Object index to 81x9:

barrel .20

cloth .25

hook .73

lamp .85, .88, .96

lantern .23

nails .2, .84, .98

ox hides/leather .6

paper .10

snowshoes .8, .13, .102

shovel .28, .101

sled .11, .82

tea .42

tobacco .2, .10, .25, .95

Index to acc. 81x99.1-.60

Anderson, Heath & Co. .11, .14-17, .25

Anderson, Sargent & Co. .2-3, .5, .10-11

Atwell, C. W. .8, .12

Bates, Goldthwait & Co. .6

Beal - see Miner, Beal & Co.

Beal - see Parkhurst, Miner & Beal

Boynton – see Huston & Boynton

Bragg, N. H., & Sons .56

Dana, Sabettiz .57

Drew, Josiah .32

Dunning, Chas H. .18, .22, .30

Dunning, R. B., & Co. .50

Fogg, D. L. .23

Fogg & Hoyt .32, .39

Folsom - see Hawley, Folsom & Martin

Forbes, Gustavus .24

Forbes, Richardson & Co. .24

Francis, John .57

Goldthwait - see Bates, Goldthwait & Co.

Hardy(?), M. .60

Hart, Taylor & Co. .58, .59

Hawley, F. A., & Co. .27, .33, .35, .38

Hawley, Folsom & Martin .32

Heath - see Anderson, Heath & Co.

Hersey, Thos. & Co. .47-48, .51-54

Hoyt - see Fogg & Hoyt

Hoyt & Merrill .19-20, .28-29

Huston & Boynton .55

Jewett, Tebbetts & Co. .4

Jordan, R. M. .2

Lavender, Stephen .26

Lavender – see Patterson & Lavender

Martin – see Hawley, Folsom & Martin

Miner – see Parkhurst, Miner & Beal

Miner, Beal & Co. .32

N. E. Lith. & Co. .43-.46

Parkhurst, Miner & Beal .13

Patterson & Lavender .26

Patterson, James .26

Patterson, John .26

Perry, E. N. .9

Plumer, J. C. (M.D.) .47-48, .51-54

Prescott (of Wilson & Prescott) .49

Richardson, Chas B. .24

Richardson - see Forbes, Richardson & Co.

Sanders, D. P. & Co. .6-7, .9-10, .14

Sargent - see Anderson, Sargent & Co.

Shaw, Hildreth & Co. .1-5

Snow & Co. .1

Tebbetts - see Jewett, Tebbetts & Co.

Walker, P.H., & Co. .31

Wellington Bros. & Co. .43-46

Wilson & Prescott .49