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Boston Custom-House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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That the Boston collector of custom in the year 1843 was a proverbial “Jack of all trades” is revealed in a letter-book of the Boston Custom-House in the files of the Baker Library. Detector of criminals and smugglers, benefactor of sailors in distress, counsel for importing merchants, and adviser for foreign consuls — these were all tasks within the range of duties of this custom-house.

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Business History Review , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , May 1934 , pp. 42 - 44
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1934

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