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Ledgers (account books)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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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.
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