Grocery Receipt: Forrest Barr

Creator

Ohio History Connection

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Identifier

MSS114_B07F01_012

Creation Date

3-14-1905

Keywords

Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans

Description

Receipt for purchase of onions from Forrest Barr, southwest corner of Broadway and Home Avenue, Dayton

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Primary Item Type

Financial item

Rights

This item is part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar House collection at Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio. The collection contains items from 219 N. Summit St., Dayton, Ohio (later 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar St.), the home Dunbar purchased for his mother, Matilda J. Dunbar, in 1904. Paul Laurence Dunbar lived there until his death in 1906; Matilda lived there until her death in 1934. It is now the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, part of the National Park Service.