Includes:
Receipts for groceries, building materials, illuminating and lubricating oils, and wholesale purchases of beers, wines, and
liquors. Repeat business includes general grocers G. Ginnochio & Co. and Gordon & Hazzard; oil importers F.B. Taylor & Co.;
and alcohol wholesalers Vache Freres, P. Sainsevain, Prosper May, and Lips, Craigue & Co; and construction supplies from A.H.
Gilbert & Bro. Several receipts are in Spanish.
Receipt for Charles Deleval’s Third Class Liquor License, issued to sellers with monthly sales under $5,000, January 12, 1877
City Tax Receipt for $4.24, paid by C. Deleval on personal property: a sewing machine, furniture, piano, and stock of wine
and liquor, September 8, 1877
Receipt from Sanders & Co. Practical Coppersmiths for the purchase of a one-hundred gallon still, October 27, 1877
Receipt from C.F. Miller for payment of ten gold dollars for “rent of Store on 5 Street,” April 20, 1878
City Tax Receipt for $61.65, paid by Prosper May on several lots in Horton’s Addition and New San Diego, May 2, 1878