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Sales journal of unidentified general merchant in Fort Smith, Arkansas for period August 30, 1866 through March, 1868.

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18 volumes containing daily business records of general store operated circa 1884-1925 in Mountain Home, Arkansas by general merchant and cotton buyer Jeremiah Asa Baker in partnership with his brother, William Jayhugh ("Jay") Baker.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains Arkansas historical materials collected by Bob and Patty Besom. Series I, The University of Arkansas News Bureau files, contains a variety of material focused on contemporary University activities. Included are printed, typed, or hand-written press releases, communications from faculty, staff and media, newspaper clippings, research material, and drafts of stories. Series II, Union Saw Mill Material, contains materials pertaining to the Union Saw Mill...

Scope and Content Note The correspondence pertains primarily to family matters in Tulip and elsewhere, religious concerns, business and other travel, the Civil War, emigration to California and Texas, and business matters. The business records pertain mostly to William Paisley's general stores in Dobyville and Guerdon, Arkansas. Most of the family correspondence (series 1 and 2) consists of letters written to and from members of the Butler and Paisley families. Other correspondents include Emma's...

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The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, a diary, genealogy research, and other materials related to the Cazort family of Johnson County, Arkansas, and particularly to Pauline Cazort Berry. Included are materials related to the Cazort Brothers general stores, to the town of Lamar, and to Ozone Mountain and Petit Jean Mountain, where the family vacationed.

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Record book of transactions of the City Grocery, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1906-1908, including inventory of goods and fixtures, 4 May 1908. 1 volume, 270 pages.

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The ledger of J. L. Cravens and Pressley Smith general store in Fayetteville, Arkansas, contains handwritten business transaction entries as well as an alphabetically arranged name index of customers/clients, from 1872 to 1875.

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Day books from an unidentified general store in Gentry, Arkansas. Although there is no identification on the day ledgers, they are most likely the records of the general store, furniture store, and undertaking establishment of Ray and Roy Carpenter.

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Materials include correspondence, account information, contracts, and certificates.

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Sales journal of I. C. O'Neal General Store, a general store in Wabbaseka, Jefferson County, Arkansas.

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Accounts of some 43 customers from J. M. Green, Dealer in Dry Goods and Groceries, 1859-1863.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains fifteen of McCracken’s diaries spanning the years 1908 to 1932. Daily entries detail his activities, especially those related to farming. Entries also detail financial transactions of his store in Success, his involvement with target shooting, and in 1912 his membership on the Success Baseball Club. He also commented on notable events, including presidential elections, major weather occurrences (floods, tornadoes, snowstorms), and unique events such as America’s entry...

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Accounts ledger for a general store that operated in the Three Creeks community of Union County, Arkansas.

Scope and Content Note This collection consists largely of the general store ledgers of Herbert Matthews, a merchant and postmaster at Tulip. Herbert Matthews' father, George Matthews, a Methodist circuit rider, married into the Butler family, a large and prominent family within the Tulip community. Alexander Butler, the family's patriarch, was one of the town's first settlers, arriving there in 1848; Herbert Matthews eventually inherited the original Butler house. This collection also contains a journal (which,...

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Ledger and sales journals recording the commercial transactions of D. C. Williams, general merchant of Pine Bluff and Van Buren, Arkansas. The entries for July, 1842 through October, 1844 pertain to Williams' business in Pine Bluff. Leaving that city in 1845, he settled in Van Buren, and entries for the period November, 1846 through August, 1869 reflect his conduct of business there in partnership, from time to time, with Edward Cunningham, John Henry, and William Whitfield.