Rosenstihl Jewelry store records
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Scope and Contents
This collection contains a 350-page ledger recording sales at the Rosenstihl Jewelry Store located in Union Springs, Alabama. Entries are dated between 1888 and 1899 and are listed by customer name. The ledger also includes a store merchandise account and expense account.
Dates
- Creation: 1888-1904
Creator
- Rosenstihl, Henry Joseph (Author, Person)
- Rosenstihl, William (Author, Person)
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Biographical / Historical
Located in Union Springs, Alabama, Rosenstihl's Jewelry Store was owned by father and son William Rosenstihl and Henry Joseph Rosenstihl. William Rosenstihl was born on March 20, 1831, in Baden, Germany. Census records list Rosenstihl as a watchmaker. Rosensthil died on September 4, 1915. After his father's death, Henry Joseph Rosenstihl continued to operate the jewelry store, graduating from the Horology School at the Bradley Institute of Technology and working as a jeweler for seventy years. Joseph Rosenstihl died in 1959.
Source: Rosensthil Family Papers Finding Aid, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ledger recording sales between 1888 and 1904 at the Rosenstihl Jewelry Store in Union Springs, Alabama.
Physical Location
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The University of Alabama
Provenance
Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
General
Title on phase box spine: Rosenstihl Jewelry - Union Springs, Alabama
Processed by
Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013
- Title
- Guide to the Rosenstihl Jewelry store records
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- October 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository