William G. Fenwick Collection--Account Booklets

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Pierce's Memorandum ... Book

Pierce's Memorandum ... Book

Name/Title

William G. Fenwick Collection--Account Booklets

Entry/Object ID

1995.003.0005

Scope and Content

1 folder ; 9 1/2" x 11 3/4" 5 7/8"h x 3 1/8"w dull yellow paper covered booklet with 22 blue lined sheets of paper inside. The booklet was an advertisement for Baugh & Sons Company in Baltimore that specialized in bones and bone meal and other kinds of fertilizer and soil improvers. The local vendor of the products was George F. Abell in California. I think Dr. Greenwell used this booklet to keep track of patient visits; sometimes he wrote down the treatment provided and whether he received payment. On the top edge of the front cover, he wrote "Med. Relief," so the record may be for a certain group of patients on a government program. Most of the entries are nearly impossible to read. 5 1/2" x 3 1/4" dull gold paper covered booklet of ca. 50 pages, but some have been cut away. It was an advertisement for Dr. Pierce's pleasant pellets that would cure every type of ailment. Many pages in the booklet were devoted to descriptions of ailments and testimonials to the efficacy of the medicine, with small drawings of each writer. The cover had, in black ink, "Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book [a triptych of two workers and a farmer] designed for Farmers, Mechanics AND ALL PEOPLE who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference A present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo, N.Y. and London, Eng. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1900, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington." On the back cover was a drawing of the Association's building in Buffalo and a description of Dr. Pierce's all-healing salve. On the top of twelve early pages was a calendar for 1902. The ten lined pages seem to be an inventory of an unnamed household, perhaps taken for an estate. The next page after the list has been removed, but it did have text; it is too bad its gone.

Collection

William G. Fenwick Collection

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1920 - 1950

Location

Container

William G. Fenwick Collection, Box 1

Shelf

Rack 13, Shelf 3-Front

Rack

Rack 13

Wall

East wall

Room

Archives 2

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

William G. Fenwick Collection, Box 1

Shelf

Rack 13, Shelf 3-Front

Rack

Rack 13

Wall

East wall

Room

Archives 2

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

William G. Fenwick Collection, Box 1

Shelf

Rack 13, Shelf 3-Front

Rack

Rack 13

Wall

East wall

Room

Archives 2

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Cook, Frances

Person or Organization

Cook, Willis

Person or Organization

Goldsborough, James Elmer

Person or Organization

Goldsborough, Nellie

Person or Organization

Gordon, Mamie

Person or Organization

Graves, Mary Helene

Person or Organization

Greenwell, Francis Floyd

Person or Organization

Hayden, Alice

Person or Organization

Knott, Marie

Person or Organization

Redmond, John F.

Person or Organization

Turner, George H.

Person or Organization

Wathen, Philip J.