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Norwich (Conn.) Iron Monger's Account BookFinding AidFinding aid prepared by Dex Haven.2009
Administrative InformationAcquired from unknown source, ca.1999. Processed by Dex Haven, September 2009. Preferred CitationCite as: Norwich (Conn.) Iron Monger's Account Book (MS 540 bd). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection is open for research. Return to the Table of Contents Historical NoteStraddling three rivers with easy access to Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, Norwich, Conn., was an important center during the mid-nineteenth century for the shipment of goods manufactured throughout eastern Connecticut. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionDespite covering a limited period of time, primarily 1844 and 1845, the account book of an unidentified iron monger from Norwich (Conn.) provides insight into the activities of a highly active purveyor of domestic metal goods. The unidentified business carried a heavy trade in the sale or repair of iron goods, as well as items manufactured from tin, copper, and zinc, including stoves of several sorts (e.g., cooking, bricking, coal), ovens, pipes, kettles and coffee pots, ice cream freezers, lamps and lamp stands, reflectors, and more. The firm did business with individual clients as well as mercantile firms, corporations such as the Mill Furnace Co., organizations such as the Methodist Society, the city of Norwich and County of New London, and with hotels, the steamboats Worcester and Thorn, and the Norwich and Worcester Rail Road. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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