Consumer bundles before 1914

 
 

For a guide to early household budget studies from around the world, see Faith M. Williams and Carle C. Zimmerman, Studies of Family Living in the United States and other Countries, Washington 1935, USDA Miscellaneous Publications No. 223

Baskets, Europe 1500-1832

Beiijing 1745-1754

Beiijing and London c1750

Canton 1757

Kyoto 1745-1754

Florence worker budgets 1289-1377

Lima, Peru, 1837, 1869, and 1957

North Europe (Strasbourg) 1745-1754

Peru 18th century

Sichuan 1905

Thailand, Asia 1930-35

 

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