Mexican Household Accounting Diary
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a personal accounting diary kept for a Mexican household from 1858-1863, covering all ordinary household expenditures - most of which are grocery items. Pages covering accounts for the year 1858 are sewn together separately with black thread and tucked loosely into the volume at the front.
The place of publication was determined from a watermark on a single sheet of paper inserted into the volume, which reads "Secretaría de Estado y del Despacho de Justicia e Instrucción Pública." The name can be traced to the mexican Secretariat of Public Education in 1861.
Dates
- Creation: 1858 - 1863
Full Extent
.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
This collection contains a personal accounting diary kept for a Mexican household from 1858-1863, covering all ordinary household expenditures - most of which are grocery items.
- Title
- Mexican Household Accounting Diary
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave. S.
Nashville TN 37212 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
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