Subject: Hardware stores

Billhead from Neuman & Sprankle, dealers in groceries, provisions, hardware, and mining supplies, located in Silver Plume, Colorado. Dated November 11, 1893. The bill details a sale of goods including one box of candles, one box of caps, one fifty-pound box of powder, and 300 feet of fuse, suggesting a small order possibly for a single prospector. The description notes the difficulty in finding references to miners' candles and states that a box of candles cost $4.75.

Receipt issued on October 2, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama, acknowledging the purchase of a saw file from Wyman, Moses & Co. The receipt is made out to T. G. Sinvins and E. Einstein. Wyman, Moses & Co. was a hardware store in Montgomery, Alabama, owned by an early Jewish American family. Mordecai Lyon Moses worked for the company.