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- catalog abstract "Eleven pocket-sized notebooks document John W. Peirce's business and personal finances between 1856 and 1877. Most of the books concern Peirce's business, including orders with his customers. The 1870 and 1870-1872 account books include very detailed records of Peirce's family expenses for those years, including accounts kept for his wife and children. A single notebook contains Peirce's employee records for 1859 to 1863, listing the employees, the number of casks and staves they produced, and their wages and hours worked.".
- catalog contributor b12319692.
- catalog coverage "New Bedford (Mass.)".
- catalog date "1856".
- catalog description "Collection finding aid available in repository.".
- catalog description "Eleven pocket-sized notebooks document John W. Peirce's business and personal finances between 1856 and 1877. Most of the books concern Peirce's business, including orders with his customers. The 1870 and 1870-1872 account books include very detailed records of Peirce's family expenses for those years, including accounts kept for his wife and children. A single notebook contains Peirce's employee records for 1859 to 1863, listing the employees, the number of casks and staves they produced, and their wages and hours worked.".
- catalog description "John W. Peirce Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.".
- catalog description "New Bedford, Massachusetts, manufacturer and supplier of oil and water casks used by the port's international whaling fleet. Peirce's small company produced both completed barrels and shooks, an unassembled set of barrel staves, heads, and iron hoops that a ship's cooper could assemble when needed. By 1859, he employed approximately seven men, and supplied many New Bedford whaling vessels with casks and tanks.".
- catalog extent ".25 (1".
- catalog issued "1856".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog spatial "New Bedford (Mass.)".
- catalog subject "Barrels.".
- catalog subject "Coopers and cooperage Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Peirce, John W.".
- catalog subject "Peirce, Lorenzo.".
- catalog subject "Staves and stave trade Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Whale oil.".
- catalog subject "Whaling Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Whaling ships.".
- catalog subject "Whaling trade Massachusetts.".
- catalog title "Account books, 1856-1877 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Account books. aat".
- catalog type "collection".