A Guide to the Business Records of Pitts, Hankin & Trundle/ J.L. Pitts & Company, 1890-1924
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The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 10985
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Preferred Citation
Business Records of Pitts, Hankin & Trundle/ J.L. Pitts & Company, 1890-1924, Accession # 10985, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These records were given to the Library by Mrs. John Randolph Phillips of Scottsville, Virginia, on October 23, 1990.
Biographical/Historical Information
Pitts, Hankin & Trundle/ J.L. Pitts & Company were general contractors in Barber, Virginia specializing in highway construction.
Scope and Content Information
This collection consists of business records of the firms of J.L. Pitts, Jr. & Brothers, Barber , Virginia (main office in Scottsville, Virginia), General Contractors specializing in highway construction, and Pitts, Hankin, and Trundle, Railroad Contractors of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. These papers contain ca. 600 accounts and receipts (2 Hollinger boxes) and thirteen bound volumes, including the following types of volumes: letterbook, daybook, ledger, journal, payroll records, time book, and shipment records.
Contents List
- Payroll Records & Account Book (in a Letter Press Copy Book) 1903-1904Bound volume
Mentions the Lee District Sewer Contract, Big Sandy Railway Company, Langhorne, Johnson & Col, Johnson, Briggs & Pitts, Green Wells, and the "Italian Payroll"
- Time Book 1905-1906Bound volume
- Letter Press Copy Book, with index, of business correspondence and some accounts [ca. 1905-1908]Bound volume
- Daybook, Prestonburg, Kentucky, Big Sandy Contract 1903-1904Bound volume
- Journal 1905-1909Bound volume
- Personal Ledger #4, with index, East Point, Kentucky 1902-1903Bound volume
- Journal, with index 1890-1891Bound volume
- Ledger, with index, Railroad Contractor, Scottsville 1905-1906Bound volume
- Ledger 1917-1921Bound volume
- Ledger of Inspections and Shipments, with index 1917-1918Bound volume
- Tie and Lumber Company Record of Shipments of Railroad Ties 1917Bound volume
- Tie and Lumber Company Record of Shipments of Railroad Ties 1917-1918Bound volume
- Tie and Lumber Company Record of Shipments of Railroad Ties 1918-1921Bound volume
Partial volume