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This collection consists of a handwritten account for what appears to be a goods business selling in and around Nashville, Tennessee in 1820. Items such as cotton, molasses, sugar, salt, corn, coffee, herring, whiskey, and shot are listed, along with the prices and names of those buying. Several pages have been torn out, including at the beginning and end of the book. Many entries are crossed out or overwritten. Also included are two small pieces of ephemera found between the pages.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This ledger lists transactions for a business in Bristol, Tennessee, for 1879 and 1880. While the entries tend toward pharmacy supplies, it is likely that this business was a combination of general store and pharmacy. Each page in the ledger is headed by a name, and several prominent community members are listed: J.R. Anderson, founder of the city of Bristol; Dr. J. Bunting of the popular Bunting pharmacy; and Dr. C.T. Pepper, who was the purported inspiration for the naming of the popular...

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This handwritten fragment of an account book from Putnam County, Tennessee, is dated from September 1874 to 1879. It lists the sale and payments for a wide range of goods, including foods, powder, sewing supplies, horseshoes and nails, buttons, suspenders, bars of lead, tools, and feed. Of note is several entries for “jeans,” likely referring to general work clothes. The entries are not dated in chronological order.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a small leather-bound notebook from an unnamed resident of early 1870s Lauderdale County, Tennessee. It contains a diverse range of handwritten notes including accounting pages; a section labeled “Scholastick population” which encompasses both a list of white residents and another of African American residents of the county; a contract for making up for missed working time; a list of travel expenses; and a statement deputizing a citizen for the duration of a court...

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This collections contains a small notebook with the records of the estate of J. W. Brown of McMinn County, Tennessee after his death in 1870. The records continue into 1878.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This small account book was most likely kept in or near the northern Pennsylvania town of Oswayo from 1910-1918. It lists payments for work such as shingling, lath, and tiling, and was probably kept by a handyman or small local building business. Most of the people listed in this book are named on the 1910 census as farmers, general laborers, and as “working out.” There is also an accounting entry for the “Eleven Mile Cheese Factory Association” for work September through November of...

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The ledger in this collection is for a carriage business near Franklin and Otego, New York in the 1860s and 1870s. Services listed are for repairs, painting, trimming, and other work on carriages, buggies, and wagons. Customers listed are found on the 1875 New York state census in Franklin and nearby Otego, New York.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This autograph album was published as a blank book interspersed with illustration plates and several colored pages. There are signatures, inscriptions, quotes, and poems, a large paper heart decorated with a braid of dark hair, and a “dedicatory” dated 1861 to Lucy Emily Medlin from her husband of sixteen years, Bryant Medlin. Interspersed with these are observations, notes, and diary-like entires on political events and people. It is unclear if the notes were written by Lucy or...