A while back I posted a request for information on studies of store records. I thought I would share my findings with the list and want to thank everyone for their help. Kwedar et al. was especially helpfull with definitions of many of the items sold. The sources are as follows: Adams, William Hampton, and Steven D. Smith. "Historical Perspectives on Black Tenant Farmer Material Culture: The Henry C. Long General Store Ledger at Waverly Plantation, Mississippi." In The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life, ed. Theresa Singleton. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1985, 309-334. Atherton, Lewis E. "The Services of the Frontier Merchant." The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 24 (1937):153-170. -------."The Cataloging and Use of Western Mercantile Records." The Library Quarterly 8 (1938):189-199. -------."The Pioneer Merchant in Mid-America." The University of Missouri Studies 14, no. 2 (1939). --------.The Southern Country Store, 1800-1860. New York: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1949. Bowen, Joanne A Study of Seasonality and Subsistence: Eighteenth Century Suffield, Connecticut. Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1990. Dublin, Thomas. "Women and Outwork in a Nineteenth-Century New England Town: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, 1830-1850." In The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, ed. Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985, 51-69. Fanelli, Doris D. "William Polk's General Store in Saint George's, Delaware." Delaware History 19 (1981): 212-228. Fishback, Price V. "Did Coal Miners "Owe Their Souls to the Company Store"? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s." Journal of Economic History 46 (1986):1011-1029. Kwedar, Melinda F., John A. Patterson, and James R. Allen. Interpreting 1830's Storekeeping in New Salem, Illinois. Springfield, IL: Report Submitted to the Illinois Department of Conservation, 1980. Long, Amos W., Jr. "The General Store." Pennsylvania Folklife 39 (1990):98-116. Norris, James D. "One-Price Policy among Antebellum Country Stores." Business History Review 36 (1962):455-458. -------.Frontier Iron: The Story of the Maramec Iron Works, 1826-1876. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1972. (chapter on the company store). Thanks - James James Wettstaed [log in to unmask] Shared Service Archaeologist, Mark Twain National Forest "all opinions expressed are my own etc."