Archival Adventures: Meade & Baker Apothecary Ledger
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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
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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- 2:30pm - 4:30pm
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- Advanced Alumni Beginners Faculty/Staff Graduate Students Postdoc Public Undergraduates
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