Evanson General Store - Daybook, 1901-1905

Archive

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Door County Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Evanson General Store - Daybook, 1901-1905

Entry/Object ID

1999.10.04

Scope and Content

Evanson General Store - Daybook, 1901-1905. This book contains the daily business transactions for the first general merchandise store in Ellison Bay. Pages 3 through 369 contain the daybook records including the date; individual customer names, their purchases for the day along with the prices; also payments on their accounts. Pages 370 through 486 contain the monthly journal; Pages 487 through 489 have the personal accounts of the customers and pages 490 through 492 has the store expense accounts. Physical Characteristics: 1 beige, fabric covered ledger, 8" X 12" x 2" thick, 500 pages, handwritten entries in ink.

Collection

Door County Archives

Cataloged By

Sally Treichel

Acquisition

Accession

1999.10-dup

Source or Donor

Door County Maritime Museum

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Daybook

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Record, Bookkeeping

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Financial Records

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Business, General Merchandise, Ellison Bay, Evanson Store

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 book

Primary Language

English

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1901 - 1905 Early Create Date: 1901 Date(s): 1901 - 1905 Date(s) Assembled: 1901-1905 Level of Description: Item

Condition

Overall Condition

Poor

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: Received 4/29/1999 from the Door County Maritime Museum, as better suited for the collection of the Door County Archives.

General Notes

Note

Notes: The pages have pulled away from the binding and many of the pages are loose with frayed edges. The cover is stained and warped and appears to have suffered some water or humidity damage. The writing on the cover, identifying the ledger is almost unreadable. Although the cover, binding and edges are in very poor condition, the actual page entries are very legible. EXTREME CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN THE HANDLING OF THIS MATERIAL. Status: OK

Created By

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Create Date

May 30, 2000

Updated By

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Update Date

June 4, 2026