Guide to the Daybook and General Account Ledger Collection , SC 01792

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Administrative Information

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased with the Nell Richardson Tonkin Fund.

Biographical / Historical

The ledger and daybook records the business dealings of a farmer and storeowner with African Americans laborers and craftsmen in Virginia during Reconstruction and the early twentieth century.The ledger includes direct payments between parties, and records the personal property and the owner's related transactions.

Container List

Series I: Administrative Files

Scope and Contents

This series contains one daybook and general account ledger from Augusta County, VA with details on African American laborers and customers noted as "colored." Functions as a daybook and a store ledger including the current and past accounts of the keeper and their customers as early as 1873. Paper bound by half calf and marbled boards.

Mixed Materials Small Collections Oversized Box 14
Daybook and General Account Ledger
1873 - 1888
Scope and Contents
One Daybook and General Account Ledger from Augusta County, VA with details on African American laborers and customers noted as "colored." Functions as a daybook and a store ledger including the current and past accounts of the keeper and their customers as early as 1873. Paper bound by half calf and marbled boards.