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Offered together are five original invoices and accounts connected with the Varney and Scammon families of the Portland and Deering, Maine area, dated from 1864 to 1918.
The group includes an 1864 Portland bookseller and stationer account addressed to C. B. Varney; a 1901 doctor’s bill to Mr. Scammon from Dr. Harry S. Emery; a 1902 funeral bill from John S. Cushman; and two granite and marble works invoices from George W. Leighton & Co. The doctor’s bill lists three calls for $3.75 and, separately, “1 bottle whiskey” for 50 cents — $4.25 total. The funeral bill itemizes services and totals $106. The Leighton invoices record a marble tablet in 1903 and a granite tablet in 1918.
These original documents offer a varied glimpse of local business, medical care, funeral customs, and cemetery memorial work in Maine. Comes protected in archival sheet protectors and includes a Collectors Page.
