Finding Aid for the Pharmacist Ledger Biomed.0238

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.

UCLA Library Special Collections

Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 1.

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Title: Pharmacist ledger

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0238

Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 ledger)

Date (inclusive): 1851-1862

Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4895268

Scope and Contents

Collection contains holograph ledger of New England pharmacist, with transactions dated from 1851-1862. Completed in one hand, on ruled blue paper, bound in half tan sheep and marbled paper over boards. Contains entries for opium, morphine, coca, canary seeds, bitters, camphor, brandy, spirits of turpentine, juniper, acid drops, cough drops, etc.. A printed receipt, completed in holograph and dated 1865, received from C.B.M. Woodward of Haverhill, N.H., laid in. Town notations in ledger include Canterbury, N.H. and Groton Center, Mass.. Dated entries each consist of customer's name, list of items sold, and price.