Thayer Family Industries Ledger
The Thayer family operated a small manufacturing complex on the Deerfield River in Charlemont, Massachusetts. Businesses included a sawmill, a foundry, a shop for the manufacture of axes and edged tools, and a tannery. Ledger documents their businesses and reflects the exchange economy of rural Massachusetts.
Subjects
- Axe industry--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Barter--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Charlemont (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Charlemont (Mass.)--Rural conditions--19th century
- Foundries--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Kingsley, Edmond
- Manufacturing industries--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Sawmills--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Tanneries--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
- Thayer family
- Thayer, Alonzo, 1817-
- Thayer, Ruel, 1785-
- Thayer, Ruel, 1824-
- Tinsmiths--Massachusetts--Charlemont--History--19th century
Types of material
- Account books