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Daily Diary, 1894

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Daily Diary, 1894
  • Title
  • Daily Diary, 1894
  • Creator
  • Chess, Moses
  • Date
  • 1894
  • Identifier
  • 31735072991205
  • Description
  • Chess records his farm work, gardening, the tasks of hired workers, the names of people he visits or who visit him, payments he receives or makes—including wages paid to workers and rent from tenants--and various goods he buys, attending Chartier cemetery office meetings, and business with oil in Corapolis and selling coal. There is a newspaper clipping advertising a horse for sale as well as part of a check in the back.
  • Type
  • text
  • Genre
  • diaries
    account books
  • Subject
  • Farms
    Gardening
    Agricultural workers
    Meetings
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Allegheny County (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Moses Chess Diaries and Papers
  • Series
  • Daily Diaries, 1853-1895
  • Language
  • eng
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Moses Chess Diaries and Papers
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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