How about the compiled census information?
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lyn,
>
> Thanks for your response. Do you know that you're the only person who's
> responded who recognized I was asking for a compiled list? EVERY other one
> pointed me to the usual sources for it. The problem is that it could take
> years to get there the hard way. I wonder if there are stats and econ lists
> that might have folks who have done that?
>
> Lyle
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Lyn Lanier wrote:
>
> > Lyle,
> > Sorry to hear your stumpped, my guess would be early on, bartter and
> trading
> > were means of suppling your wants. So many farms were that way. But I
> know
> > my father saying that as a boy, if got a nickle you could buy enought
> candy
> > to last all week. He lived on a farm in George, Seldom did they really
> need
> > money guess it might have worked here the same.
> > I have seen prices to food stuff, and gains but not any compiled list as
> > such, But I look around and see what I can find for you...
> >
> > yours Lyn Lanier
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on a set of sites dating from the Reconstruction Era to the
> >> early electricity period (1865-1940) in tobacco country. The literature
> on
> >> the subject refers to average incomes per year in various places but
> never
> >> mentions the costs of basics, staples and/or farm machinery. Could
> someone
> >> point me in the direction of compiled information that has staple prices
> and
> >> income figures (cost of a loaf of bread, pound of butter, average yearly
> >> income, etc.) for that time period? Also, has anyone compiled farm
> equipment
> >> prices for that time period on a yearly or decade basis?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Lyle Browning, RPA
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Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
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