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110 2  Allen Smith Company. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79075634
245 10 Allen & Smith Company account book. |f1860-1871.
300    1 |fv. |c31 x 19 cm(360 |fpages)
520 2  This account book charts the rising fortunes of the Nevada City, California mining firm of Allen & Smith, formed by Henry Smith and Thomas Allen in April 1860. |bThe ledger documents the company's founding, the discovery of gold in May 1861, and the firm's expansion with the opening of a store in late 1862. It provides a wealth of details about the store in particular, including dates, prices, names of vendors and buyers, and specifics on a wide variety of goods and services. Daily statements of “cash on hand” report the firm's sales.
520 2  Some blank pages are used to record a variety of plans, recipes, and cures (To Build a Shed, To Cure Fresh beef, To Make Sausage, to Cure Warts on Cows, etc.); there is also an essay on the rights women should enjoy (p. 250), and a discussion of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (p. 269). |bThe volume concludes with the texts of a number of quit claim deeds, contracts, and indentures relating to the gold mines and their transfers. A broadside, entitled "Locating and Describing Mining Claims," from the Mining Scientific Press is mounted on the front of the ledger; mounted on the back is a broadside issued by E. M. Preston, Nevada City agent for the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., detailing the services and capital of the company.
541     |cPurchase, |d2015. |eAM 2016-19.
650  0 Gold miners |zCalifornia |xHistory |y19th century |vSources.
650  0 Gold mines and mining |zCalifornia |zNevada City Region |xHistory |y19th century |vSources.
651  0 California |xGold discoveries |vSources.
655  7 Account books.
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