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Billhead: Cohen & Fosdick, Cotton Factors, Savannah, Georgia, May 18, 1847
Receipt from Cohen & Fosdick, cotton factors in Savannah, Georgia, dated May 18, 1847. The receipt is for four demijohns. The billhead measures approximately 7 by 5 1/2 inches. Cohen & Fosdick are listed as cotton factors in Harold D. Woodman's *King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925*. A demijohn is an old word for a glass vessel with a large body and small neck, enclosed in wickerwork.
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Arc.MS.56, Box 11, Folder 7