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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0038
Abstract

Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.

Dates: 1890 - 1900

Albany-Decatur, Alabama, Concert Band Checkbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4073
Abstract

Checkbook and cancelled checks for the Albany-Decatur concert band, Arthur F. Dix, treasurer, as well as some hand-written notes referring to pages in an unidentified book or publication dealing with the "Soviet problem."

Dates: 1923

Ben Zellers Grocery Account Book, circa 1900

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This file contains a small cloth-bound account book belonging to Ben Zellers. The inside front and both back covers feature advertisements for Royal Baking Powder. According to the back cover, "The United States Government Report shows the Royal to be the purest and strongest baking powder in [sic] the market." Most of the book's pages are blank.

Dates: circa 1900

Bessemer Rolling Mills papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3479
Abstract

The accounting/cash book #3 of the Bessemer Rolling Mills.

Dates: 1890

Beta Gamma Sigma records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0146
Abstract

This collection contains an account book, receipts, and clippings pertaining to this national scholastic fraternity for commerce and business.

Dates: 1929-1944

Richard Branscomb and Lewis Branscomb papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0205
Abstract

Diary, travel journals, and account book of Richard Edwin Branscomb (1902-1980), Methodist Minister from Guin, Alabama, and Condensed Minute Book for Presiding Elders of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church belonging to Branscomb’s father, Lewis Capers Branscomb (1865-1930).

Dates: 1922-1935

Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0206
Abstract

Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.

Dates: 1851-1856

Andrew Caldcleugh account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0331
Abstract

A book containing miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1778- c. 1811. The identifying label states that this is the account book for a sawmill. Many of the entries relate to lumber sales, but others do not, throwing doubt upon the attribution. The cover is inscribed "A Caldcleugh Mill April 28th 1803."

Dates: 1778 - circa 1811

Truman Capote papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0273
Abstract

Marie Rudisill cookbook galleys, recipes with Capote comments, John Morris account book, James Johnson account book and the manuscript for the Yellow Drum, a play adapted from a Capote novel.

Dates: 1839-1989

Cooper and Binford records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0355
Abstract

Two account books from 1848 and 1849.

Dates: 1848-1849

Creole Social Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Abstract

Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.

Dates: 1878-1902

Dillard Family Ledgers

 Collection — Box 4313.001: [Barcode: 1005697223]
Identifier: MSS-4313
Scope and Contents Two account ledger books belonging to the Dillard family of Lovingston, Virginia, containing business and farming records, laborers and slaves’ specific activities, labor contracts, worker wages, and personal opinions from the Dillards on their workers and slaves between 1859-1888.The entries pertaining to labor contracts describe the terms of involuntary servitude placed upon African American workers in exchange for food, meals, and housing. Included in these entries are...
Dates: 1859 - 1888

J. M. Duncan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0456
Abstract

A collection of correspondence, financial papers, and artifacts belonging to this Blocton, Alabama, resident.

Dates: 1894-1932

Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0495
Abstract

A ledger detailing accounts of a dry goods store in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama between 1922 and 1924.

Dates: 1922-1924

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Abstract

Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.

Dates: 1849-1861

Finances

 Series
Scope and Contents

This series contains financial information such as reports, budgets, banking documents, expenditure invoices and tax information.

Dates: 1928-2002

George W. Jones Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0777
Abstract

Account book probably kept by George Walter Jones. It includes several poems and speeches in the ledger.

Dates: 1880

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Abstract

Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

James Holt carpentry notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0693
Abstract

This collection consists of an account book created by this Montgomery, Alabama, carpenter, with notes and entries relating primarily to the purchase of construction items such as nails, plaster, boards, etc.

Dates: 1848

John Cocke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Abstract

Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.

Dates: 1810-1899

Jonathan Plimpton Green Diaries and Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4283
Abstract

A loose set of travel diaries and account books kept by Dr. Jonathan Plimpton Green describing his journey to and from Valparaiso, Chile, and documenting the medical work he did while living there in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates: 1847 - 1861

Joseph H. Bradford Accounts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0199
Abstract

Business accounts of Coosa County cotton factory owner. Many of the customers were from Talladega, Alabama.

Dates: 1836-1841

Ledger Page, 1913-1914

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

The file contains one sheet (Pages 18 and 19) from a ledger listing amounts with notations for shares, dividends, meetings, rent, and cash. One column is specifically for the months of October-December 1913 and January-March 1914. Page 19 of the ledger is blank.

Dates: 1913-1914

T. C. McCorvey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3787
Abstract

Diplomas, lecture-related materials, scrapbooks, photograph albums, a University Register, and account books

Dates: unknown

New York Commission Merchant's Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4040
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a section of a New York commission agent's journal covering January 1 to June 30, 1829. The last pages of the journal contain sample accounting entries and algebra problems.

Dates: 1829-01 - 1829-06

Pickens County, Alabama, Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0996
Abstract

Unidentified store accounts 1908-13; documents pertaining to county taxes and funding 1935-36, a hotel register, and labor records from Pickens County, Alabama.

Dates: 1908 - 1946

Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll...
Dates: 1797 - 1973

Septimus D. Cabaniss papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract

Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.

Dates: 1820-1937

Daniel C. Smyly papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1300
Abstract

Correspondence, financial papers, and other material pertaining this Dallas County, Alabama, plantation owner and physician, and his family.

Dates: 1843-1871

Tuscaloosa Physician's Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4074
Abstract

Account books ofrom a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician

Dates: 1850-1861

Unidentified Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2308
Abstract

An account book from the 1930s in Eufaula, Alabama

Dates: 1936 - 1938

Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1493
Abstract

This collection contains plantation ledgers, law notes, and personal and business correspondence of Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff between 1882 and 1917. It also includes a scrapbook on Robert Van de Graaff's accelerator made in 1966 by Mrs. Welch's Fourth Grade class at Northington Elementary School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1832 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1917

W. D. LeCray Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0850
Scope and Contents

Day/account book of a business in Goodwater, Coosa County, Alabama.

Dates: 1882 - 1925

Walker family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3548
Abstract

Journal and account book of the Walker family

Dates: 1794-1812

William Crawford Gorgas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Dates: 1869-1920

J. E. Windham ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1565
Abstract

Ledgers of J. E. Windham of Gainesville, Alabama, and photocopies of two volumes of the Gainesville Presbyterian Church records.

Dates: between 1820 and 1900