Tailoring--United States--History
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Daybook of an Unknown Tailor (Mobile, Alabama)
Daybook of an unknown tailor from Mobile, Alabama. 376 pages. The book also contains time records of employees.
Vida Inglewood Letter
Letter to niece Lena about family and health, talking about raising chickens and the price of feed, an illness that results in cramps and severe pain every 16-18 day, asking for genealogical information to write a family tree, and various sewing and crocheting projects.
George See, Jr., Ledger
Ledgers of George See, Jr., tailor and shoemaker, of Moorefield, Hardy County, Va. 1819-1872. With separate index, containing also a few accounts, 1829.
Note: The book contains also the measurements of many customers.
William Pringle papers
Letters, 1783-1800, written by William Pringle to his brother John Pringle, a tailor in Georgetown [District of Columbia]. William Pringle carried a seed business in America with his brother acting as agent. Other subjects discussed in letters include the new city of Washington; the war between France and England; politics and the economy in America and England; and the sending of William Pringle's son to America to apprentice as a tailor.