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Ledger book
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Ledger book
Manuscripts
A store ledger used as a daybook; the volume records specific purchases by Native customers at Gauthier's store, including lists of items purchased, price, and quantity. The beginning of the volume contains an index of accounts, the great majority with Menominee tribal names. The volume is bound in original quarter calf over drab marbled boards, the spine is partially detached and the binding is very warn and fragile but the interior pages are intact and legible.
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Ledger book
Manuscripts
A store ledger used as a daybook; the volume contains a small number of daybook entries, with the majority of the ledger being blank. The volume is bound in full reverse calf with tooled boards, the spine with four raised bands and black morocco labels; the spine and covers are scuffed with some edge wear and the pages are intact and legible.
mssGauthier
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Ledger book
Manuscripts
A repurposed schoolteacher's grade and attendance record book used as a store ledger; an alphabetically arranged ledger recording the total debts of all individuals with numbers in the general ledger. The back of the volume contains draft business letters copied out on the final pages. Original green printed wraps, the spine and covers are damaged, with bits missing; some staining to covers and interior pages, with a small number of pages missing.
mssGauthier
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Joseph Gauthier store ledgers
Manuscripts
A collection of four bound ledgers, with manuscript entries in various hands; the ledgers are associated with Joseph Gauthier's mercantile business, with the entries dating from 1859 to 1871, with a concentration in the years 1860 to 1861. Together they contain hundreds of records for dozens of customers, the great majority of whom were tribal members and are listed by their Menominee names. Among the range of recorded perishable goods are sugar, molasses, flour, cranberries, pork, tobacco, coffee, and tea; the household merchandise includes fabrics, sewing materials, goods for hunting and fishing, and general items such as smoking pipes, looking glasses, blankets, hats, shoes, copper pans, utensils, bowls, and soap. Besides the purchaser and items purchased, the price and quantity are listed for each purchase. The four volumes are all different styles and bindings, which suggests that Gauthier may have used whatever materials were available for his records.
mssGauthier
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Joseph Symson commercial letterbook
Manuscripts
This manuscript volume contains 2,041 office copies of correspondence sent out, mainly, by Symson but also his sons, so the volume is written in several different hands; the letterbook covers just under a decade and includes both business and personal affairs with notes of debts owed and some family correspondence. Shortly after acquiring the letterbook in 1985, the Huntington replaced the contemporary covers which the sale catalogue described as "blind-panelled reverse calf (both covers detached and badly worn);" the original covers were preserved and are housed separately.
mssHM 50670
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Robert Bristow plantation ledger, (bulk 1677-1707)
Manuscripts
An account book and ledger from British merchant Robert Bristow's plantation, house, and stores in Lancaster and Gloucester Counties in Virginia. The ledger was used by Bristow to document inventories of home goods, Bristow's personal library, debts, copies of land patents and other legal documents, and lists of indentured and enslaved laborers; also included in the ledger are lists of his shares in Royal African Company ships. The volume is written in several hands, including Bristow's. The binding is not original but was rebound in full panelled calf from the bindery of restoration bookbinder Bernard Middleton; the volume is signed with Middleton's cypher and has his book label and a brief typed description pasted on the inside front cover.
mssHM 84402