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Catalog Number |
S1604 |
Title |
Lewis A. Bruce Daybook, 1849-1855 |
Scope & Content |
Ledger of Lewis A. Bruce (1817-1901), house, sign and ship painter with entries starting January 1, 1849 and continuing through April 1855. Along with the customer's name and the work he is doing, the ledger tracks the prices charged for the work and materials. Entries include painting carriages including wagons, carts and sleds as well as furniture including glass cases, lights, meat chests, boards, awnings, cloth and tins. He also lists graining doors, varnishing wagons, painting chairs, varnishing trunks, painting scales, painting chambers and stairs, painting awning posts, painting iron fences, varnishing safes, painting tin pails, painting the burying ground fence, priming shutters, painting fan blinds, painting fire blinds, fixing paint in orchestra, etc. Bruce also includes in his business activities such things as marbling mantle pieces, enameling ship cabins, wallpapering rooms, finishing boards, boiling oil, white washing rooms, glazing and cutting glass for lanterns, windows, sashes, etc. The ledger also includes entries for materials used in his work such as quarts and gallons of paint in various colors, quarts and gallon of varnish, straw paint, oil, rolls of wallpaper, sheets of sand paper, colors for graining, red lead, glue, glazier diamonds, putty, paint and varnish brushes, etc. Customers include numerous Portsmouth residents and businesses, ship owners and public buildings. There are also occasional customers across the river in Kittery, Maine. Some of ships he paintings are the schooner Cocheco, schooner Mary M. Wood, schooner Sacramento, etc. Houses he paints are the Beck house, the Chase house, the Long house, Curtis house, Dodge house, Hampton house, Ladd house, 2 Parker Street, 10 Court Street, Tyler Jarvis house, and the Upham house. He also paints public buildings and businesses, etc. such as the Carter's Saloon, Church Hill Store, Congress Hall, Portsmouth Academy, Rockingham Bank, as well as the meeting house, school house, the Spring Market, Staver's Store, Townsend School, Tucker's Store, etc., as well as farms and barns. Bruce paints chairs and provides glass for Portsmouth furniture makers such as Samuel Dockum, Edmund Brown and Charles Colcord. He does work for carpenters such as Daniel Marden, Thomas Martin and Daniel Philbrick as well as ship carpenters such as John Mugridge, William Tucker and John Hodgdon. Numerous merchants are listed for various projects often glazing glass and fixing display pieces. Note that the People Field and Search Terms include names and locations in the first 20 pages of the volume. Additional entries are in process. |
Collection |
Single Items / Small Collections |
Object Name |
Book, Account |
Date |
1849-1855, 1863 |
People |
Bruce, Lewis A., 1817-1901 Akerman, Daniel F. Badger, Samuel Augustus, 1822-1907 Barker, Jonathan, 1792-1866 Bartlett, James Pierrepont, 1820-1896 Bartlett, Nathan, 1792-1865 Berry, Joseph Blaisdell, William Boardman, Richard, 1814-1850 Brewster, Charles Warren, 1802-1868 Brown, Edmund Moody, 1805-1883 Amazeen, Thomas Carr, Jeremiah Chaplin, 1819-1902 Carr, James Merrill, 1809-1885 Clark, Abraham, c1650-1694 Coffin, Thomas Sheafe, 1803-1879 Colcord, Charles J., 1814-1872 Cotton, Leonard, 1800-1872 Coues, Samuel Elliott, 1797-1867 Dockum, Samuel M., 1792-1872 Dodge, Samuel Fernald, William Foster, John Welsh, 1789-1852 Green, Willam, dfl 1845 Hatch, Albert Ruyter, 1817-1882 Harvey, John S., 1802-1878 Haven, George Wallis, 1808-1895 Hill, James Hodgdon, John Jenness, Peter Jenness, Richard Johnson, Joshua Jones, Andrew Hall, 1807-1888 Jones, William P. Kittredge, Rufus Laighton, Edward John, 1814-1880 Laighton, William Marden, Daniel, 1807-1859 Martin, Thomas Mugridge, John Neil, Thomas Nowell, James, 1812-1858 Penhallow, Oliver Wendell, 1796-1873 Penhallow, Thomas Wibird, 1783-1876 Perkins, James, 1792-1855 Rand, Alexander L., 1816-1893 Rand, John Gilman, 1809-1882 Rice, Robert, 1780-1853 Rogers, Cyrus, 1794-1858 Salter, Charles Henry, 1814-1884 Shapley, Samuel Toppan, Christopher Stephen, 1800-1861 Tarlton, James Neal, 1811-1878 Traip, Robert W., 1800-1864 Tucker, William Dixson, Nicholas Dunyon, Augustine Guarsong, 1815-1889 Durgin, Augustus Fernald, Henry Fernald, Parker Jones, Nathan Knights, William Marston, George Philbrick, Daniel Raitt, Daniel Reed, Moses B., c1809-1863 Shores, Sarah A. R. Stafford, 1796-1874 Sprague, L. H. Tilton, Joseph B. Trickey, Olive M. Tuckman, James Perkins Walker, H. N. Walker, Winthrop Wilson, George |
Search Terms |
Mary M. Wood (Schooner) Eutotas (Ship) Carter & Frisbee Haven, George W. House (Islington Street) Chase House (Court Street) Portsmouth Academy Harriet Lawrence (Schooner) School Street Russell Street Green Street Court Street Beck House (Cabot Street) Congress Block (Congress Street) Spring Market Brown & Treadwell Furniture Jarvis House James Nowell Store Benjamin Cheever Store Fanny Elisher (Boat) William Jones & Son Store Vanburin (Schooner) Nutter & Fernald Tyler House |
Subjects |
Portsmouth (N.H.) Painter Painting Construction Construction workers Ship construction Ship owners Ship repair Stores & shops Merchants Shipbuilding Cabinetmakers Furniture Furniture industry Furniture makers Glaziers Wallpapers Sail making Signs(advertisments) |