General stores

An inventory of items sold at the J. Masten store in Penn Yan, N.Y. in 1830. The business was likely a general store because the inventory contains a wide variety of household and utilitarian wares.

A 19th-century merchant's general store daybook featuring the pattern of commerce in the years 1827-1844 for an entrepreneur who was a carpenter, blacksmith, tradesman also became a judge of elections. Many names of customers in the ledger are family names that are still prominent in the Carbon and Northampton Counties of Pennsylvania.

Letter ledger book owned by Joseph Curtis Platt (1816-1887) written between 1850-1855. Many of the letters are about the Scranton Company general store which he ran. Other letters were addressed to his in-laws and the Scranton family.