Aaron Claflin was a merchant in Milford, Massachusetts, who sold shoes, boots, and straw hats in the mid-nineteenth century. His account book records payments to men and women for sewing straw, wiring and pressing bonnets, and sewing, trimming, and coloring straw.

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