I have two old account books from my grandfather's blacksmith business which operated between 1886 and 1928.
I also have a small shirt pocket notebook of my grandfathers and if memory serves it is from around 1900. The neat thing about it is there was a place to record height, weight, and clothing sizes. Nice to know physical stature.
I have an account book from a small gas station operating during the 1920s. Many of the sales are listed as being sold to "tourist".
Also have a World War I Red Cross accounting book which is a little different. Local volunteers were given skeins of yarn and then knitted it into socks, gloves, helmet liners, scarfs, etc. which went to the troops.
The colors of and number of skeins were tracked closely to ensure that no one was keeping yarn for themselves.
Pre-teen girls to old men knitted in addition to those that one would normally think of as the knitters.
Thanks for sharing the photos of sparking pleasant memories. The seed company ad speaks of Garst & Thomas. The Garst family were friends and bought some of my ancestors land near Coon Rapids.
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