The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: [unknown]

Title: Account book

Dates: 1847-1865

Call No.: Doc. 848

Acc. No.: 77x499

Quantity: 1 volume

Location: 31 G

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Kept by an unknown person in Nashua, New Hampshire.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Consists of accounts related to the construction, furnishing, and repair of four buildings in Nashua, New Hampshire: the Pearl Street House (a hotel), a house on Olive St., a new house on Main St., and I. Spalding's house. An additional account notes amounts paid to the proprietors of the Pearl Street House. Types of materials mentioned include planks, boards, blinds, joists, doors, chimneys, stones, and window frames. A list of furnishings purchased for the Pearl Street House features such items as window shades, chandeliers, lamps, feather dusters, spoons and forks, and engravings. Cost for the I. Spalding house includes cooking apparatus, plumbing, and heating fixtures, in addition to roofing, windows, doors, and the usual building supplies. Also included is a menu for the Pearl Street House dated Sunday, Dec. 24, 1865.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Ken Leach.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Hotels - New Hampshire - Nashua.

Accounts current.

House construction - New Hampshire - Nashua.

Building materials.

Carpentry.

Building - Estimates.

Hotels - Furniture, equipment, etc.

Lumber.

Masonry.

House furnishings.

Kitchen utensils.

Menus.

Account books.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 31 G

Index to Doc. 848 (acc. 77x499.1-.3)

Atwood & Perley, p.69.

Atwood, William S., p.70.

Ball (of Jones, Ball & Co.), p.70.

Bigelow, Brothers & Kennard, p.70

Bond & Parker, p.51

Bufford, J. H. & Co., p.67

Clark, W. D. , p. 67

Clay, Henry, p.69

Collamore, John, Jr. & Co. p. 70

Conant, J. E., p.69

Crocker, J. D., p.67

Dodge & Noyes, p.66

Doe, Hazelton & Co., p.69

Fowle (of Parker, Fowle & Sons), p.69

Greene, N. P., p.70

Hazelton (of Doe, Hazelton & Co.), p.69

Harrington, Francis D., p.69

Harris, William D., p. 68,70

Herrick, (sc), (bill)

Holt & Jones, p.70

Jones, Ball & Co., p. 70

Jones (of Holt & Jones), p.70

Kennard (of Bigelow, Brothers & Kennard), p.70

Myers, L., p.71

Parker, Fowle & Sons, p.69

Parker (of Bond & Parker), p.51

Pearce, William, p.68

Pearl Street House, p.1-71

Perley (of Atwood & Perley), p.69

Pierce, Frank, p.69

Pinkham, Thomas H., p.67

Ridgway, Charles T., p.70

Shaw, William F., p.69

Spalding, R. H., p.69

Stevens, J. F., p.67

Sumner, W. R. & A. H., p.69

Sumners & Co., p.69

Tupper, Freeman, p.70

Waterman, Nathaniel, p.70

Williamson, E. V., p.70