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Large-format, leather-bound general store ledger kept by J. J. Shapleigh of East Rochester, New Hampshire, covering the years 1904–1905. The ledger documents customer accounts, purchases, credits, and payments in meticulous handwritten entries, providing a vivid snapshot of everyday commercial life in early 20th-century rural New England. Of particular interest is the ledger’s direct association with the Shapleigh family, best known through Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842–1906), the noted American landscape painter of the White Mountains. J. J. Shapleigh, the ledger’s owner, was a close family member and local businessman, placing this volume firmly within the domestic and commercial environment of a household connected to a major 19th-century American artist. While the ledger is a business record rather than an art-related document, it offers rare contextual insight into the economic world surrounding the Shapleigh family during the final years of Frank Shapleigh’s life.