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Archival Adventures: Meade & Baker Apothecary Ledger

Archival Adventures: Meade & Baker Apothecary Ledger

It's time for an adventure! This week we’re heading to 1860s Richmond, Virginia, with a mail-order ledger from Meade & Baker, one of the largest drugstores in 19th Century Richmond. The ledger begins one week before the Confederate States of America was formed in February 1861 and details pharmaceutical purchases through the entirety of the American Civil War and well into the Reconstruction period, illustrating the inflation experienced in the Confederacy and former Confederate States. You can learn a bit more before the stream in the finding aid: bit.ly/Ms2009-130

Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and University Archives covering topics including university history, NASA pioneers, architecture, science fiction, cooking, LGBTQ+ history, Black history, urban legends, and more. Recordings of previous streams are available on the Libaries' Youtube page.

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Date:
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Show more dates
Time:
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Audience:
    Advanced       Alumni       Beginners       Faculty/Staff       Graduate Students       Postdoc       Public       Undergraduates  
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    Event > Livestream  

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