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Over the counter and on the shelf; country storekeeping in America, 1620-1920. Cover Image Book Book

Over the counter and on the shelf; country storekeeping in America, 1620-1920. Edited by Marcia Ray.

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  • Physical Description: 140 pages illustrations 29 cm
  • Publisher: Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co. [1961]

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Formatted Contents Note:
Money, Money -- The Dutch Trade In Furs -- Competition -- Indian Money -- No Money At All -- "What Do You Pay In," Says the Merchant -- Money to Burn -- Charcoal, Too -- Pigtail for Ashes -- Charge It, Please -- Women Lend a Hand -- Early Stores and Storekeepers -- The First Real "Stores" -- John Hull, Boston Merchant -- 1650-1682 -- The Country Corbins -- New Jersey in War Time -- 1776 -- The Roland Clapp Store -- 1816 -- An Early Chain -- 1822 -- Added Service -- 1846-1833 -- Way Out West in Iowa -- 1857 -- Just Step Inside -- The Clerk and the Lounger -- Drumming Up Trade -- "The American Grocer" -- The Merchant's Thorn -- The Boat Peddler -- Yankee Tin Peddler -- Any Old Rags Today? -- On The Shelf -- Indian Gifts -- Crakers and Cheese -- A Dish of Tea -- Sugar is Sweet -- Chocolate and Vanilla -- Cleanliness Is Next -- Keeping the Country Clean -- Spotless Town -- Stiff as a Board -- Food From Thought -- "Hands for Work and Hearts to God" -- The Oneida Experiment -- Coffee Break -- There's a Reason -- Puddings and Such -- Thirty Bunches -- Scalloped Oysters and The American Express -- Canning Starts Small -- Mostly Milk -- Turning Point -- Still Expanding -- Pork 'n' Beans -- Sudden Freeze -- From Bulk to Box -- Hmmm, Candy -- Something Extra -- Soap Wrappers -- Premiums Did It -- Something for Nothing -- With or Without Mustard -- A Full Line -- Hardware -- Keep It Light -- A Peck of Flies -- Better Than a Doctor -- Teach Your Horse to Spit -- Dressed to the Nines -- May the Best Man Win -- Supermarkets -- Help Yourself -- Today and Tomorrow.
Subject: General stores > United States.

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