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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 13 records found where LC Subject Heading is Merchants -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
	Edward James Parrish account Atlas Rigsbee's ledger book provides insight into the nature of commerce in late nineteenth-century Durham. These pages reflect what products tobacco dealer Edward James Parrish purchased from the general store in 1880. This account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like eggs, meal, butter, salt, sugar, lard, and chicken, as well as luxury items like cherries and goblets.
	James Cozart account These financial records indicate what products James Cozart, an African American farmer, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like bacon, corn, and meal as well as hardware like plow points.
	William Hogan account These financial records indicate what products William Hogan, an African American farm laborer, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like bacon, corn, and meal as well as coffee, sugar, tobacco, and ham. The account also reveals that Hogan paid for his goods with his labor.
	Spencer E. Watts account These financial records indicate what products Spencer Watts, a merchant, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like oil, eggs, butter, and flour as well as more costly items like chicken, fish, apples, men's clothing, parasols, and shoes.
	Dr. Lee Battle account These financial records indicate what products Lee W. Battle, a physician, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of foods like oil, eggs, butter, lard, and flour, as well as luxury items like coffeee, rice, pepper, mace and cloves. The account indicates that Dr. Battle paid cash for his goods.
	James Rayle account These financial records indicate what products James Rayle, a machinist, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of coffee, lard, oil, sugar, bacon, potatoes and tobacco. The account indicates that James Rayle paid for his goods and rent with his labor.
	Haywood Jenkins account These financial records indicate what products Haywood Jenkins, an African American factory hand, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of foods like meal, fish, lard as well as tobacco and snuff. The account indicates that Haywood Jenkins purchased goods in exchange for his labor.
	Susan Hopkins account These financial records indicate what products Susan Hopkins, a widow and boarding-house proprietor, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of staple foods like oil, eggs, butter, lard, and flour as well as more costly items like chicken and ham. The account indicates that Mrs. Hopkins procured goods with cash and in exchange for boarding Rigsbee's employees.
	Richard Fitzgerald account These pages from the Atlas M. Rigsbee, General Store ledger indicate what products, Richard Fitzgerald purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee General Store in 1880. Fitzgerald, an African American brickmaker, purchased a range of goods including foodstuffs like flour, meal, butter, sugar, and fish as well as lamp chimneys, collars and hats. The ledger indicates that Fitzgerald paid for his goods with bricks from his manufacturing enterprise.
	Jacob Goldstein account These financial records indicate what products Jacob Goldstein, a, jewish immigrant and merchant, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of foodstuffs like bacon, meal, flour and salt.
	Atlas M. Rigsbee account detailing merchandise purchased from January 5, 1880 to Sept 14,1880 These pages document the total amount of merchandise Atlas M. Rigsbee purchased from January 5, 1880 to September 14, 1880. Rigsbee procured agricultural products from North Carolina farmers. He also purchased manufactured products as well as foodstuffs from suppliers in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Ohio. These pages list the names of the firms that supplied merchandise to the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store.
	Nachman and Lehman advertisements Poster promoting products for Nachman and Lehman, a firm that sold clothes, furnishings, hats, shoes, boots, and other goods in Durham, North Carolina. The store was located on Main Street.
	John L. Markham Dry Goods Advertisements Broadside for a general store owned by John L. Markham (formerly owned by J. W. Cheeks), advertising dry goods, notions, groceries, hardware, boots, shoes, hats, caps, clothing, iron, nails, Dixie plows, straw cutters, Geiser separators, Nissen Wagons, Spac's wagons, Ober's fertilizers, sea fowl guano, best Peruvian guano, chemicals for making home fertilizers, school books, and Keep's celebrated patent partly-made shirts. The brick store was located on the corner of Main and Mangum streets in Durham.

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