Name/Title
LedgerEntry/Object ID
2014.099.0003Scope and Content
Business/Financial Ledger for an unknown business in Benicia in 1869. There is no title page which makes it difficult to determine the original owner.
The business handled food and dry goods (food, clothing, stationery supplies, tobacco, alcohol etc.)
Customers are listed in an alphabetical index section at the front of the ledger along with the page numbers where their account balances are maintained.
There are pages torn and cut out before page 299 in random areas (most had writing on them).
It has a brown leather cover with red and black trim. The word "Ledger" is on the spine. It is worn and torn and the spine is loose.
size: 11" x 16"
sample account names: Barring, Kaiser, Johnson, Barry, Hastings, Fish, Jones, Brown & McKay, B.C. Society, KuhlandCollection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection