General Store Account Books
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