Day book belonging to a Charles Town merchant

Name/Title

Day book belonging to a Charles Town merchant

Entry/Object ID

ARC564

Scope and Content

Day book belonging to a Charles Town merchant listing daily sales from February 20, 1905, to June 30, 1905, and includes date, name of purchase, items purchased, list of items; in the left margins are numbers underlined twice, likely indicating page numbers of account book to which the daily information was transferrers for each customer; according to the museum historian,based on names in the ledger, the merchant may have been an Eby whose store was on West Washington Street in the early 20th century.

Acquisition

Accession

00

Source or Donor

Found in collection

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1905

Archive Size/Extent

11 3/4" x 5 1/4"