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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Edna Z. Emley papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00406
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and various other papers of Edna Z. Emley (nee Osterrout), of Mason, Michigan, and her family. The earliest letters (1836-1851) are to Bernhard Stohlmann of Allen, Hillsdale County, Michigan, a relative of the paternal great-grandmother of Emley's first husband, Clifford Migrants. Most of these letters are written in German and pertain largely to personal matters of Stohlmann and his friends still living in Germany. This correspondence is not...
Dates: 1836 - 1941
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Edna Z. Emley papers

Edwin R. Havens papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00016
Scope and Contents The Edwin Havens papers consist of letters and diaries written by Havens while serving in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War. The letters of 1862 concern the training period of the regiment at Camp Kellogg, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In February of 1863, the regiment was sent to Washington, D.C., and was later involved in campaigns at Gettysburg, Richmond, Petersburg, and the Shenandoah Valley. Havens' letters contain details of important battles, as well as the...
Dates: 1838 - 1926
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Edwin R. Havens papers

Frank Benton papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.438
Scope and Contents The Frank Benton papers include academic correspondence, newspaper clippings which discuss apiculture, Benton's work in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Beekeepers Association and miscellaneous poems and writings, papers from the Association, a Japanese translation of his book The Honey Bee, personal notes, and a cash book for the Carnolian Apiaries (1899-1900). Of note are personal manuscripts by Benton on topics such as the...
Dates: 1879 - 1915
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Frank Benton papers

Frank W. Holder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00021
Scope and Contents The Holder collection is divided into three basic series. The first deals with his work for the Taft Highway Association. This series includes correspondence, records of the association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates records of the Association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates to Holder's position with the Michigan State Highway Department during World War II. This material contains records of bus line surveys as well as gasoline and tire rationing...
Dates: 1925 - 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Frank W. Holder papers

G. W. Peters account book

 Collection
Identifier: c-00369
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a grocery store account book of G. W. Peters of Milford, Oakland County, Michigan. Included in the account book is a diary of the period May 20-July 16, 1891.

Dates: 1890 - 1891
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / G. W. Peters account book

George K. Dike papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00159
Scope and Content The collection contains few professional letters or other records of his work as a surveyor. During this same time period, however, Dike was courting his future second wife, Nancy P. Douglas. Writing to her almost weekly between the years 1885 and 1886, he described life in the surveyor's camp. The letters are also filled with Dike's views on love, marriage, and family relationships. They present an excellent description of late nineteenth century middle class values.This...
Dates: 1865 - 1907
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / George K. Dike papers

George R. Keller papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00397
Scope and Contents

Papers include an account book (1905-1910) of George R. Keller, a blacksmith in Brimley, Michigan. The ledger records such activities as shoeing horses, repairing buggies and sleighs, and hiring an apprentice for weekly wages of one dollar. Also included are invoices from an Illinois manufacturing company (1931-1936) and oil run reports (1937).

Dates: 1905 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1937
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / George R. Keller papers

George Rupp papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00135
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a number of mineral maps of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, three letterpress books of correspondence, an account book of the lands purchased in 1902, two lumber grading booklets, an 1880 land deed, the agreement between Rupp and Olson, some land redemption correspondence (1913 and 1915), and a large photograph of Bessemer, Michigan.

Dates: 1891 - 1916
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / George Rupp papers

Godfrey Hirzel papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00404
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 24day books and 11 ledgers of a general store operated by Godfrey Hirzel. Included are accounts for wholesale suppliers and for the Hirzel farm. Also included are business letters, receipts and receipts for medicine.

Dates: 1892 - 1928
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Godfrey Hirzel papers

Gosh & Rockwell collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00138
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the account books of the Gosh & Rockwell blacksmith shop located in Hickory Corners, Barry County, Michigan. The books record transactions with customers and taxes received.

Dates: 1863 - 1883
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Gosh & Rockwell collection