RICHARD CHENERY'S ACCOUNT LEDGER FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF THE CUSTOM HOUSE ON BATTERY STREET IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1856-1857

by Richard Chenery

$1,750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

San Francisco, CA: 1856-57. Leather covered ledger, 34 cm., approx. 45 pp. of entries in a neat hand. Gilt stamped leather spine label marked Journal, and stamped 6 at base of spine. Beginning with his first entry on April 24, 1856, Chenery kept a record of expenses for cobble stone, stone cutting, cartage, mining, a stone dressing machine, and other sundries. He also noted payments to individual laborers, as well as companies, including Conroy & O'Connor; Nelson & Doble; Silas Burrows &

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