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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Robbins Monteith collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00403
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of an account book (1854-1862) of a general store and a district school attendance roll (1852) for the towns of Cobleskill, Richmondville, and Fulton, New York. Also included is a typewritten carbon copy of historical notes taken by the donor from Allegan County, Michigan, as well as records relating to people, localities and early institutions.

Dates: 1852
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sand Creek Telephone Company and Sand Creek Threshing Company records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00394
Scope and Contents The collection contains joint records including receipts, account records, and hardware and machinery catalogues, of the two companies operating in Sand Creek, Lenawee County, Michigan.Volume One contains business accounts from a granary (1910-1911), and from the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1915-1915). Volume Two contains company meeting minutes of the Sand Creek Threshing Company (1917-1930). Volume Three contains records of the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1912-1920) and the...
Dates: 1910 - 1935
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sarajah Bunn account book

 Collection
Identifier: c-00078
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the account book of Sarajah Bunn, a shoemaker and leather worker. The accounts, listed by customer, cover the years 1793-1840 and all entries were made in pounds, shillings, and pence. Bunn resided in a town called Columbia, but the county or state is not mentioned. At a later date the account book was used as a scrapbook, with articles and poems affixed through page 27.

Dates: 1793 - 1840
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Simeon Francis account books

 Collection
Identifier: c-00347
Scope and Contents

The collection contains of account books of a general store operated by Simeon Francis in the town of Three Oaks, Michigan. Also included is a folder containing miscellaneous financial records relating to wholesale suppliers.

Dates: 1871 - 1875
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stebbins family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00014
Scope and Contents A manuscript copy of Stebbins' book A History of Plymouth Church (of Lansing) written in 1893 is included. Stebbins compiled an autobiography entitled Sketches of My Life, which he was completing at his death in 1901. A copy of the text is included, as well as his diaries, account books and newspaper clippings on railroads.Other materials in the papers are those of his children Arthur C. and Bliss Stebbins and Susan...
Dates: 1741 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Susan E. Hoyt papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00346
Scope and Contents The collection contains nine diaries and three account books documenting farm life by Susan E. Hoyt who resided in McMinnville, Tennessee for many years. The Hoyt family moved from Michigan to Tennesee in the 1870s. Susan moved to Vassal, Michigan in 1925. The collection also contains transcripts of letters by Susan Hoyt and other family members. Correspondents include Susan's mother Clarinda Hoyt, her sister Claribel Hoyt Hart and her husband Lemuel P. Hart, her brother Scott Hoyt, and...
Dates: 1875 - 1932
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Tower Guard records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.45
Scope and Content The records of the Tower Guard consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, memos, agendas, and scrapbooks. The records have been created by the students in the organization and are rather informal and vary in their content. In addition, there are a large number of undated records. The minute book contains a brief history of the Tower Guard and minutes of the meetings from 1933 to 1944. The administrative folder contains the Articles of the Tower Guard and the Preamble. The agendas...
Dates: 1933 - 2012
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

True family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00393
Scope and Contents

The collection contains farm records and personal and household expense records kept by George A. True, Elisha D. True and A. A. True who operated a sheep and dairy farm in Armada, Macomb County, Michigan. Detailed records are given on farm animals, sheep shearing, milk production, and on animal and milk tests. Also included are household and personal expense accounts, a recipe book for cures of animal diseases and miscellaneous clippings and notes.

Dates: 1881 - 1923
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

W. O. Town account book

 Collection
Identifier: c-00424
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an account book from the office of W. O. Town, of Ithaca, Gratiot County, Michigan, containing itemized accounts of sales of building supplies and fuel.

Dates: 1893
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records

 Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates: 1904 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections