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General Store Account Books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-236

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Day book entries include lists of goods purchased, lists of items to purchase, recipes for various medicines, notes and short diary entries. One day book appears to be for a store near L'Anse, Michigan. Also includes a ledger with customer's purchases and day book listed.

Dates

  • 1858-Circa 1880

Language of Material

English

Conditions Governing Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Administrative History

Two daybooks from general stores believed to be located near L'Anse and and on Shelden Avenue in Houghton. The general store on Shelden Avenue may be that of Hodgson Bros. & Hoar, which was located on Shelden Avenue.

Extent

0.46 Cubic Feet (1 folder, 1 oversize box)

Abstract

Account books, 1858-circa 1880, for unidentified general stores in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Day book entries include lists of goods purchased, lists of items to purchase, recipes for various medicines, notes and short diary entries. One day book appears to be for a store near L'Anse, Michigan. Also includes a ledger with customer's purchases and day book listed.

Arrangement

MS-236 is housed in a flat storage box and one folder in a small collections box. This collection is described only at the collection level.

Acquisition

Photocopies of a daybook for a store located near L'Anse were donated to the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections on December 12, 1984 by Lauren Hutson. An addtional donation by Hutson was received by the archives consisting of a grocery daybook for a store believed to have been located on Shelden Avenue in Houghton on June 12, 1992.

Existence and Location of Originals

The daybook from the general store in L'Anse was photocopied from the original, which was in the possesion of Reverend John Henry of L'Anse.

Title
General Store Account Books
Status
Completed
Author
Elizabeth Russell, revised by Rachael Bussert.
Date
3/22/2010
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
Funding provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Repository Details

Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository

Contact:
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton 49931 U.S.A. US