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Collection
Identifier: c-00334
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a farm account book (1841-1851) and bills and receipts (1840-1863) of Jonathon W. Austin, a resident of Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included are two letters (1851, 1854) to Austin, one of which discusses the hard times in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.
Dates:
1840 - 1863
Collection
Identifier: c-00188
Scope and Contents
The Josiah Littlefield papers contain a portion of Littlefield's unpublished autobiography, in which he describes his early life on a farm in Monroe County, Michigan (1850-1865), as well as biographical materials. The collection also contains four ledgers from Littlefield's mill, recording workers' hours and business transactions, property tax receipts, and a map showing Littlefield-owned land in Clare County, Michigan.One ledger may be from a lumber camp (Gilmore Camp 1893-1895)...
Dates:
1879 - 1958
Collection
Identifier: c-00312
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an account book from a general store in Keeseville, New York. The first part of the book was used as a daybook, recording daily sales or goods such as molasses, cloth, tea and nails. The second part of the book was used as a ledger to keep customers' accounts. The merchant accepted work and goods in payment, as well as cash.
Dates:
1837 - 1884
Collection
Identifier: c-00087
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a typewritten transcription of a Kentucky slave dealer's receipt book and a photocopy of the book's first page. The transcription records the information written into the blank spaces on the printed receipts. The photocopy shows the placement of that information and the form of the receipts.The dealer used the book to record sales of slaves in Fayette County, Kentucky over a three-year period (1851-1853). The receipt list the name of the slave sold,...
Dates:
1851 - 1853
Collection
Identifier: c-00357
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an account book of the Ketcham and Smith General Store of Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, for the years 1848 to 1857.
Dates:
1848 - 1857
Collection
Identifier: 00058
Scope and Content
The collection documents through correspondence, diaries, and financial records, the activity of four people over three generations. These papers span the years 1838 to 1917, with most of the material falling in the periods of 1838-1845 and 1881-1917. The 1845-1881 gap is due to the absence of a generation of records.The records of Elijah M. Lansing (1838-1845) relate to the 6th Regiment, 5th Brigade of the Michigan Militia (Washtenaw Guards). The incoming letters include a...
Dates:
1838 - 1917
Collection
Identifier: c-00318
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an account book kept by Lawrence Van Tine, a furniture dealer in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The account book, a daybook, records daily sales of furniture between January 1871 and February 1872. The entries list purchaser, item sold, and price. Van Tine apparently made some furniture to order as well as selling manufactured pieces.
Dates:
1871 - 1872
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.415
Scope and Contents
The collection documents Lewis A. Wileden's military service during World War I, including personal notebooks, military vouchers and orders, and personal reports. Also present is a 1919 copy of the Second Division newspaper, The Indian, a small publication about the accomplishments of the division during the war, a scrapbook of postcards and photographs of Europe, postwar correspondence with the Second Regiment Engineers, wartime newspaper clippings, and...
Dates:
1908 - 1968
Item
Identifier: MSS 249 oversize
Collection
Identifier: c-00524
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a ledger that belonged to Ludwig C. Winters who apparently ran a general store in Ionia, Michigan. It may be connected with the journal in another collection (c.00523); both were found in the home of Ludwig C. Winters by the donor.
Dates:
1919 - 1931
