Ledgers (account books)
Subject
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Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
A. and R. Cain Tannery and General Store records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0254
Overview
Daybooks and an accounts ledger kept by the owners of a tannery and general store on Tanyard Street, Northport, Alabama
Dates:
1869-1880
Alabama Labor Union Ledgers, 1888-1903
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4340
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two ledgers dated from 1888 to 1903 from the Birmingham-based United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America Local Lodge No. 7. The first ledger is dated from 1888- to 1891 and includes meeting minutes, officer reports, and propositions and resolutions with details of the resulting votes. The second ledger is a list of the local union’s members from 1888- to 1903.
Both ledgers have worn cloth covers and fragile spines. Careful handling is required.
Both ledgers have worn cloth covers and fragile spines. Careful handling is required.
Dates:
1888 - 1903
Allen and Jemison Hardware Company ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3193
Overview
Two business ledgers of the Allen and Jemison Hardware Company of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1929 October - 1962 September
Belser and Harris legal firm financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1796
Abstract
A ledger recording the financial transactions of the central Alabama law firm of James Belser and Nathan Harris
Dates:
1846-1850
Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract
This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Dates:
1886-1982
Bessemer Rolling Mills papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3479
Overview
The accounting/cash book #3 of the Bessemer Rolling Mills.
Dates:
1890
Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract
Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
Dates:
1920-1923
Birmingham Examiner financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract
Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
Dates:
1963-1964
Brewster and Conley sales records
Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Overview
Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1838 - 1846
Broadnax, Cleavland, and McKerrill account ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0213
Overview
Ledger recording purchases by customers at this general store in Eutaw, Green County, Alabama.
Dates:
1866
Iveson L. Brookes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0214
Abstract
A large collection of letters to and from this Baptist clergyman, planter and southern sectionalist, including defenses of the South, Brookes's business transactions, and family matters.
Dates:
1811-1911; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1865
W. L. Bruce and Sons records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0223
Overview
Ledgers and daybooks of this Catherine, Wilcox County, Alabama, country store, reflecting the economic and social conditions of this rural community from 1911 to 1936
Dates:
1911-1936
Coleman and Coleman mercantile records
Collection
Identifier: W-0051
Overview
Two ledgers documenting sales made at the Coleman, Hearst, and Company mercantile, also named Coleman and Coleman, located in Richmond, Alabama, in the 1860s.
Dates:
1861-1862
Coleman and Duke dry goods receipt book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0334
Abstract
A ledger from a dry goods store in Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, containing receipts from various firms and individuals for monies received for accounts, shipping by steamer, etc.
Dates:
1853-1869
Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0014
Overview
A handwritten ledger documenting the collection and distribution of foraged and purchased materials by Confederate officers at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.
Dates:
1862-1864
Dr. Edward Augustus Cook collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0354
Overview
Collection contains materials relating mainly to Dr. Edward Augustus Cook’s medical practice in Kirk’s Grove, Cherokee County, Alabama including account ledgers, daybooks, register of births and deaths, correspondence, and a photograph.
Dates:
1882 - 1920
Dallas County, Alabama, Treasurer records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0391
Overview
One ledger containing the treasurer’s records pertaining to taxes and other fines and fees paid in Dallas County, Alabama from 1868 to 1873.
Dates:
1868-1873
Daughters of the American Revolution. Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0397
Overview
One photocopied and bound ledger, two ledgers and five loose leaf notebooks containing the minutes of the membership and board of the Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1901 to 1988.
Dates:
1901-1988
R. Aaron Dean Account Ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4129
Overview
Account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals
Dates:
1892-1925
J. W. Dennis journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0427
Abstract
The accounts for a drug store in Carlowville, Dallas County, Alabama, 1867-68, including records of customers' purchases and amounts paid and owed.
Dates:
1867-1868
Dillard Family Ledgers
Collection — Box 4313.001: [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 instances...
Dates:
1859 - 1888
Doy L. McCall Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0942
Overview
Typescript copy of an article on General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, subsequently published in the Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1955), pp. 33-77. The collection also contains carbon copies of the author's transcripts of original documents relating to Lafayette's visit.
Dates:
1955
Elliott and Carl Mill time book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0479
Overview
A ledger of the Elliott and Carl Mill which records days and hours worked by employees as well as accounts and orders for lumber.
Dates:
1886 - 1891
Ezell Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract
Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1879-1910
Francis Johnson Keene Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0798
Abstract
Ledger sheets of accounts recording the sale of lumber, flour, corn, and other commodities. The collection also contains poems written by and arithmetic exercises done by Frances Johnson Keene.
Dates:
1843 - 1855
Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Overview
Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings
Dates:
1866-1889
Furniture ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3506
Overview
Unidentified ledger, ca. 1910 that lists a few pages of furniture and their worth
Dates:
circa 1910
George H. Thompson plantation records
Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates:
1855 - 1874
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
Dates:
1886 - 1898
Goodloe W. Malone account book
Collection
Identifier: W-0020
Overview
Ledger documenting the sale of materials such as molasses, coffee, and sugar, as well as the sale of slaves.
Dates:
1834-1839
Green Underwood Record Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1459
Overview
Record book of Green Underwood in Dallas County, Alabama, lists information about cotton purchases and money due and owed to him. He lists how the money he has should be divided upon his death. He adds entries until his death in 1852; someone else made notes and entries until 1895.
Dates:
1843 - 1894
Alex Gunn ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0603
Overview
Account and invoice ledgers of Alex Gunn's Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama store from 1909 to 1914.
Dates:
1909-1914
A. B. Hanson records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Overview
Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.
Dates:
1888-1891
Isaiah Garrett Business Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4231
Overview
A business ledger belonging to Isaiah Garrett (1812-1874)--a lawyer, politician, and plantation owner in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. The ledger contains entries on 326 pages, in which both Mr. Garrett’s legal practice and his plantation are covered.
Dates:
1838 - 1861
J. A. Montgomery business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview
Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates:
1889 - 1898
J. G. Lewis Account Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0856
Abstract
Ledger containing accounts relating to the settlement of Lewis' estate, including accounts of customers at his Forkland, Alabama store. Previously misidentified as Thornhill Commissary ledger.
Dates:
1891 - 1898
Jefferson Brown Ore Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0750
Overview
This collection contains a ledger of the Jefferson Brown Ore Company.
Dates:
unknown
John Horry Dent papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0430
Overview
There are four typescript documents in the folder also: (1) Commodore John Herbert Dent, U.S. Navy, 1782–1823; (2) Charles I. Graves in Egypt (1875–1878); (3) Cape Guardafui by Lt. Col. Graves (the proceedings of the meeting of October 1880); and (4) Report of Lt. Col. Graves, 4th July 1878.The Plantation Book (or Farm Journal v.1) was written by John Horry Dent from January 1840 through December 1842 to record actual expenditures and incomes from his estate and to provide...
Dates:
1840-1891
Samuel Jordan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2312
Overview
One account book for school and store.
Dates:
1910 - 1923
Kennedy Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0802
Overview
Store ledger of a Florence, Alabama firm.
Dates:
Unknown
L. M. Falk and Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0833
Overview
A ledger and cash book.
Dates:
unknown
S. D. Logan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0873
Overview
A handmade book celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of S. D. Logan and his wife Ivey and a Centreville, Alabama, newspaper from 1936
Dates:
1898-1936
James R. Maxwell plantation records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0931
Overview
Account book that documents business on the plantation, including several letters that were laid in between the pages that concerned renters on the property
Dates:
1923-1925
McAdory and Huey family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates:
1863 - 1929
Emmett N. McCall papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0943
Abstract
Financial records and ledgers of McCall's Dixonville Racket Store, a general store in the Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama, area. Also includes correspondence, Mormon church records, mortgage deeds, and cotton acreage allotments.
Dates:
1874-1944
Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger
Collection
Identifier: W-0031
Overview
Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.
Dates:
1861
Morgan and Jolly cash books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1019
Overview
Contains the cash books of the law firm Morgan and Jolly.
Dates:
1860s
Neenah, Wilcox County, Alabama Store Ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1605
Abstract
One ledger from an early 20th century general store in Neenah, Wilcox County, Alabama.
Dates:
1903 - 1906
Northport Furniture Company Accounts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1058
Overview
A record of accounts with individuals and suppliers, often with notes of purchases, 1911-14.
Dates:
1911 - 1914
Order of the Eastern Star, Equity Lodge Number 29, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1810
Abstract
A ledger containing lists of dues collected, minutes of meetings held, and other information related to the Order of the Eastern Star Equity Lodge Number 29, of Elba, Coffee County, Alabama
Dates:
1920 - 1951