Alex Gunn ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0603
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four account ledgers (1909 – 1914) and an invoice ledger (1909 – 1911) of Alex Gunn who owned a store in Thomasville, Alabama. These ledgers show the day-to-day finances of the store, including who bought what items and the price paid. The invoice ledger contains receipts that the store obtained through these three years of the business. These were glued into a ledger that now has very brittle paper.
Dates
- 1909-1914
Creator
- Gunn, Alex (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Conditions Governing Use
None
Biographical / Historical
Alex Gunn was the owner of a general merchandise store in Thomasville, Alabama between 1909 and 1914.
Extent
6.25 Linear Feet (5 ledgers )
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.
Provenance
Gift of James Doris by Harold Corry, June 18, 1987
Processed by
John Scruggs, 1987; updated bt Martha Bace, 2013
Creator
- Gunn, Alex (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Alex Gunn ledgers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- June 1987
- 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