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Broadside - Price Current From Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co., Successors of Odom, Clements & Co., Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants. 87 Smiths Wharf, Baltimore, Maryland, Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co., January 16, 1869, Single Sheet Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co. was a Baltimore based company whose business was primarily in the southern United States. They were cotton factors, businessmen who contracted with cotton plantations to sell their cotton for them. Like most cotton factors, Wiesenfeld Stern required a plantation to consign all its cotton to the company. In addition, Wiesenfeld Stern loaned plantations the money needed in planting and growing seasons, and they used the leverage that gave them to require the plantation owners to buy virtually everything they needed from the company. The price list offered here lists items sold--everything from beeswax to flour to staves to shingles. The broadside was folded and mailed to James Sears (probably a cotton farmer) in Gatesville, North Carolina.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 23, Folder 11