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Business records -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Aydlett Brothers Grocery Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1858
Scope and Content Note

Three ledger books for Aydlett Brothers, a Fort Smith, Arkansas-based grocery company. The ledgers contain customer records.

Dates: 1869-1893

William Norton Ayers Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: MS QL58.F77 1
Scope and Content Note

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

Dates: 1866-1868

City Roller Mills Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1418
Scope and Content Note

The ledger contains an alphabetical index of customers and handwritten business transaction from 1876 to 1904.

Dates: 1899-1904

Cravens and Smith Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1417
Scope and Content Note

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.

Dates: 1872-1875

J. J. Cravens Ledgers and Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS L58 C85
Scope and Content Note

Records of a general retail merchant in Alma, Arkansas, including four ledgers, one account book, one daybook, a record of property mortgaged for supplies, and two indexes to the ledgers. The records for the period 1912 to June 13, 1918 are those of the firm of Cravens and Boren, Merchants, in which Cravens was associated with James B. Boren.

Dates: 1912-1922

Electromap Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1856
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes financial, legal, and employment records and correspondence, reviews, advertisements, agreements, and copies of Electromap software.

Dates: 1987-1995

Elms Planting Company Record Books

 Collection
Identifier: MC 793
Scope and Content Note Record Books: Materials include the records of the Elms Planting Company and its various divisions: the Altheimer Gin Company, the Jefferson Gin Company, and the Merchants and Farmers Gin and Supply Company. Records consist of handwritten cotton yield, seed, and gin ledgers. The collection includes an Elms Planting Company accounts receivable book, an Elms Mercantile Company general ledger, and two One Day Books from the Elms Mercantile Company. A positive photocopy of a plat book, showing...
Dates: 1934-1955

Excelsior White Lime Company

 Collection
Identifier: MC 992
Scope and Content Note

Book of business transactions of the Excelsior White Lime Company of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Donated by Wasington County Judge Charles A. Johnson.

Dates: 1907-1910

Fisher and Southall Dry Goods Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1626
Scope and Content Note

The ledger lists customers and details items purchased from January 1861 to June 1862. The ledger includes supplies such as skillets, fabric, and food sold to travelers.

Dates: 1861-1862

Foster Hardware Company Stockholders Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1754
Scope and Contents

Record book containing stockholders meeting minutes for Foster Hardware Company of Little Rock, Arkansas. Participants mentioned include W. C. Foster, Frank B. Gregg, and A. E. Moran. Also included are several related insertions within the minute book, including legal correspondence, a financial statement, and a resolution.

Dates: 1904-1918

J. Funkhouser Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2104
Scope and Content Note

This collection is comprised of three published books and four ledgers dating from 1837 to 1897. The ledgers record financial transactions from the Funkhouser's store and transfers of land in Washington County, Arkansas.

Dates: 1837-1915; Majority of material found within 1837-1897

Verna Cook Garvan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1914
Scope and Content Note The Verna Cook Garvan papers comprise family records that include materials pertaining to Garvan’s parents, Arthur Bacillius and Essie Bordis Cook; her sister, Dorothy Cook Baker; Alonzo Bernard Alexander and Francis Patrick Garvan, her first and second husband, respectively; personal correspondence; legal and financial materials; newspaper clippings; and handwritten notes. Contained also are the business records of A.B. Cook, Wisconsin and Arkansas Lumber, and Malvern Brick and Tile...
Dates: 1913- 2008; Majority of material found within 1950- 1993

Gentry Store Day Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 708
Scope and Content Note

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.

Dates: 1928-1937

Peter Harkins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 573
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of two ledgers, a day-book, two letter-press books, an inventory, and several pages of drawings (plats)and descriptions of property that had been laid in Volume 1.

Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (two ledgers and the day-book) were given to the donor by Myrtle McIlroy in 1971.

Dates: 1852-1937

Hawn-Knight Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 756
Scope and Content Note The papers in this collection have been divided into four series. Papers pertaining to Dr. Monroe Knight have been arranged in series one and consist of family correspondence and professional records. Series two contains papers pertaining to Alfred and Daisy Hawn. These papers include personal correspondence between husband, wife, friends, and relatives; poetry and essays written or collected by the Hawns; professional records relating to the operation of the ...
Dates: 1874-1956

Henry and Cunningham Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS H396j 392
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, statements of account, orders, receipts, bills of lading, freight bills, and other business records collected by Zillah Cross Peel and pertaining primarily to the general mercantile company of Van Buren, Arkansas known successively as Henry and Cunningham; Henry and Williams; and D. C. Williams and Co., Agents. Includes miscellaneous other business records. 33 items.

Dates: 1842-1870; undated

Johnson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1629
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Johnson family of Washington County, Arkansas, and to family homes (particularly the Johnson House in Johnson, Ark.) and a family business (the Johnson Mill), as well as to Johnson Baptist Church and to local politics and elections. Materials include photographs, business records, property records, autograph books, correspondence, and clippings.

Dates: circa 1847-2020

Harvey and Bernice Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1956
Scope and Content Note Materials document the personal, professional, and philanthropic activities of Harvey and Bernice Jones, with the bulk of material dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. Personal materials include biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and financial records. Business records include correspondence, financial records, printed material, and the business records of the Jones Truck Lines and its subsidiaries, the Mound City Forwarding Company (a trucking company...
Dates: 1843-2012; Majority of material found within 1933-2017

Lee Wilson and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1289
Scope and Content Note Materials in the collection fall into three basic groups: the Bank of Wilson, Lee Wilson and Company, and Keiser Supply Company. Bank of Wilson records relate to both individual and business accounts. Materials include correspondence and statements, bank statements, cancelled checks and receipts, and cash vouchers. Lee Wilson and Company records pertain to the activities of the company as well as the communities founded by Lee Wilson. They include materials related to labor...
Dates: 1830-1996

Linebarger Brothers Papers Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 946A
Scope and Content Note The collection contains business correspondence from 1919 to ca. 1960. It has been sorted by year and includes agreements, contracts, deeds, easements, permits, plans, letters and notes from employees, and financial statements pertaining primarily to Bella Vista. Some materials pertain to and record the activities of Linebarger brothers' winery business. These include the mothly operation reports between 1935 and 1941, samples of order forms for wine stamps, receipts of payments, and a sheet...
Dates: 1919-1965

Edward Mays Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1175
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains correspondence, account ledgers, time and payroll sheets, sale invoices, a minute book, a report, picture postcards, and photographs. Most of the material relates to Edward Mays' business activities.

Dates: ca 1910-1950s

W.S. McClintock and Sons Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 451
Scope and Content Note The records consist of daily cash journals and individual account journals, as well as miscellaneous business records. Daily cash journals record daily business transactions from 1916 to 1962 and embody volumes 1-7. Individual account journals record the expenses of W. S. McClintock and Sons, as well as the accounts of individual customers from 1908 to 1963. Most of these journals are in alphabetical order by customer and embody volumes 8-14. Volume 10 contains real estate records....
Dates: 1908-1963

William McIlroy Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS qL58.M18
Scope and Content Note

Daily cash journal and miscellaneous financial records book of the firm of William McIlroy and James Hayden Van Hoose, merchants, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the period December 1, 1874, to July 11, 1878.

Dates: 1874-1878

W. W. Meriwether and Sons Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1336
Scope and Content Note

Eleven ledgers of customer and wholesale accounts and the store inventories, ca. 1886-1925.

Dates: ca. 1886-1925

Peters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 917
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain primarily to Arthur Nelson Peters (Jay Hale's grandfather) and his business, the Ball and Peters Railroad and General Contractors Company of Little Rock. The papers consist of three series--family papers, property records, and business records. Series 1, Family Papers, includes Peters family histories, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, correspondence during World War I, military records, poems from the 1850's and 1860's, and...
Dates: 1854-1972