Housebooks.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which are recorded household expenditures such as for food, utilities, and domestic help, maintained in a journal or other book; also includes classed or chronological files of the bills and receipts for household goods and services.
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Various account books, Airth., 1728-1751.
File
Identifier: MS.10899
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: house-books, 1732-1734; meal-book, 1728-1730; day-book, 1732-1733, including the cost of wine, meal, victual, butter, pigfeed, nails and cooperwork; meal distribution book, 1732-1733; wine-book, 1732-1734; and household cash-books, 1735, 1751.
Dates:
1728-1751.