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Housebooks

Scope note

Documents in which are recorded household expenditures such as for food, utilities, and domestic help, maintained in a journal or other book; also includes classed or chronological files of the bills and receipts for household goods and services. GAHLM

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300026365

Broader Terms used

journals (accounts)

Equivalent Terms used

housebook

Created

13yrs ago

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