Originals privately owned. Also included is a formula and process for ebonizing, ca. 1910. Microfilm roll 917, frames 266-270. Initially Robinson records the purchase and sale of wood, including ash, cedar, cherry, cypress shingles, hemlock, hickory, maple, oak, poplar, walnut, and white pine. He describes an increasing number of orders and commissions of furniture, including Windsor chairs and beds, which are also painted and repaired.
Entries also note discounts, credit notes, and the receipts of oats, corn, and straw.
There is a series of entries for hay weighing. Included are expenses for files, paint, saws, and turpentine, as well as debits for boots, wheat, coffee, sugar, and regular payments for rent and the board of his child. Microfilm roll P25, frames 568-666. Cabinetmaker, Pennsylvania A brief biographical sketch of Sinclair, a Pennsylvania soldier and cabinetmaker, by Harold E. Gillingham, and a letter and notes, 1929. Microfilm roll P 23, frames 689-692.