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- 1955 Seab Lunsford Grocery Receipts
- Small Note Pad from Helme Quality Snuff
- 1956 Correspondence to Mr. S.H. Lunsford; Seab Lunsford
- Newspaper Articles
1955 Seab Lunsford Grocery Receipts
Based on the receipts from 1955, ranging from May to December, the diet primarily consisted of pork chops, canned salmon, coffee, milk, (dry and canned) oatmeal, and cheese. He frequently purchased soda, baby powder, lard, sugar, salt, oleo (margin), and grain.
Other items included starting mash, scratch feed, jar lids, shoe polish, fat back, bon, soda crox, stationary,
| Item | Purchase Price |
|---|---|
| Balance Forward | 17.08 |
| Bon | .31 |
| Coconut | .20 |
| 6 milk | .90 |
| Coffee | .95 |
| Soda | .08 |
| B. powder | .15 |
| 2 oatmeal | .40 |
| clorox | .20 |
| S. dust | .33 |
| 2 e. peas | .36 |
| illegible | .10 |
| 2# sausages | 1.00 |
| 2# p. chops | 1.30 |
| 2 grain | 2.70 |
| Subtotal | 26.06 |
| Tax | .19 |
| Total | 26.25 |
| Mr. Seab Lunsford | 1955 December 22 |
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