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Invoices, bills and receipts from the many wholesale businesses who furnished the merchandise for Shepherd and Patton's store. Most of the businesses were in Richmond, Virginia though a few were in Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York.

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Invoices, bills and receipts from the many wholesale businesses who furnished the merchandise for Shepherd and Patton's store. Most of the businesses were in Richmond, Virginia though a few were in Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York. These years contain threatening letters from wholesalers and others about unpaid bills which suggests that the business was struggling.

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Advertisements for Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root for kidney, liver and bladder cures, Seiner's Asthma Remedy, The Family Library, My Mother's Bible Stories and the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. of Louisville, KY.

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Receipt for Shepherd and Patton for advertisements in the Bulletin Printing Co., Limited of Columbia, Virginia.  Handwritten notes in pencil about creating a newspaper called the Columbia Bulletin, mentioning Mr. Hodgson.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Postcard and letter from Sherwood & Echols about an upcoming mine sale (1884). Letter from C.C. Parrish about his prices and quality of his merchandise (1884). Letter from Lewis Walton of Palmyra, Virginia asking for a job as a salesperson (1884) and H.B. Stegar asking for a job since "Jim has left you" (1888). Letter from Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News congratulating J. A. Shepherd on his assignment as postmaster (1888). Letters from county residents who ask...

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Four notices from "The United States Dealers' Protective Association and Mercantile Agency of New York City" notifying Shepherd and Patton that they will be placed in their "Annual Book" of delinquent merchants if they don't pay Patterson, Renshaw and Co. Four State of Virginia, Fluvanna County summons for "James A. Shepherd and B.M Patton Partners ... to appear before the Justice of the Peace ... at Columbia ... to answer the compaint of The Household Sewing Machine...