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Over the counter and on the shelf; country storekeeping in America, 1620-1920 Edited by Marcia Ray
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HF 5429 .J54
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Laurence Ayres, 1889-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- General stores--United States.
- General stores.
- Physical Description:
- 140 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- 4to.
- Place of Publication:
- Rutland, Vermont : C.E. Tuttle Co., [1961].
- Contents:
- Money, Money
- The Dutch Trade In Furs
- Competition
- Indian Money
- No Money At All
- "What Do You Pay In," Says the Merchant
- Money to Burn
- Charcoal, Too
- Pigtail for Ashes
- Charge It, Please
- Women Lend a Hand
- Early Stores and Storekeepers
- The First Real "Stores"
- John Hull, Boston Merchant
- 1650-1682
- The Country Corbins
- New Jersey in War Time
- 1776
- The Roland Clapp Store
- 1816
- An Early Chain
- 1822
- Added Service
- 1846-1833
- Way Out West in Iowa
- 1857
- Just Step Inside
- The Clerk and the Lounger
- Drumming Up Trade
- "The American Grocer"
- The Merchant's Thorn
- The Boat Peddler
- Yankee Tin Peddler
- Any Old Rags Today?
- On The Shelf
- Indian Gifts
- Crakers and Cheese
- A Dish of Tea
- Sugar is Sweet
- Chocolate and Vanilla
- Cleanliness Is Next
- Keeping the Country Clean
- Spotless Town
- Stiff as a Board
- Food From Thought
- "Hands for Work and Hearts to God"
- The Oneida Experiment
- Coffee Break
- There's a Reason
- Puddings and Such
- Thirty Bunches
- Scalloped Oysters and The American Express
- Canning Starts Small
- Mostly Milk
- Turning Point
- Still Expanding
- Pork 'n' Beans
- Sudden Freeze
- From Bulk to Box
- Hmmm, Candy
- Something Extra
- Soap Wrappers
- Premiums Did It
- Something for Nothing
- With or Without Mustard
- A Full Line
- Hardware
- Keep It Light
- A Peck of Flies
- Better Than a Doctor
- Teach Your Horse to Spit
- Dressed to the Nines
- May the Best Man Win
- Supermarkets
- Help Yourself
- Today and Tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Johnson, Laurence Ayres, 1889- Over the counter and on the shelf.
- OCLC:
- 243765
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