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Preferred Citation:

Red Oak Daybook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

Processing Information:

Processed by Zachary Jones in July 2007.

Scope and Contents

Daybook of a grocer in the small town of Red Oak, Virginia. This daybook contains a list of daily goods sold, cost amounts, and to whom goods were sold. The daybook contains 292 pages, all of which contain handwritten entries, and measures 15 inches x 7 inches x 1 inch.  This daybook contains page number notations that refer to a second ledger (likely to an account ledger which showed money owed by specific individuals), but the location of this second ledger is currently unknown.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Merchants--Virginia--History--20th century
• Red Oak (Va.)--History-20th century