W. & C. Dickerman & Company Records

Résumé du livre

Correspondence, accounts, orders, bills, invoices, cashbooks, daybooks, inventory books, salesbooks, and other business records of the company; together with Civil War correspondence of Abraham N. Gould, U.S. naval officer, Charleston, S.C., and correspondence (1852-1878) relating to horticulture, reflecting Charles Dickerman's interest in plants and trees. Includes records of the Natchez, Miss., mercantile business operated by brothers Charles, Edward, George C., and William Dickerman in the 1830s and 1840s; correspondence and records relating to the company branch in Natchez operated by Edward Dickerman and cousin Jesse E. Pardee; and letters from Thomas J. Finney, operator of a carriage repairing firm in Vicksburg, Miss., supplied by the Dickermans. Correspondents include Leonard Chapin, Charleston, S.C., John C. Denman, Newark, N.J., Timothy Bloomfield Edgar, also of New Jersey and Chadwick Patent Leather Manufacturing Company, Newark, N.J., and R. Marsh Denman & Company, New Orleans, La., and Denman & Company, Rahway, N.J.