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Business records -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Prairie Grove Telephone Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 724
Scope and Content Note

Journals, Reports and Correspondence, 1884-1987

This collection includes correspondence, accounting records, tax reports, stock certificates, deeds, clippings, and other items. For more information on the McCormick and Parks families, see the Myrtle McCormick Parks Family Papers (MC 723).

Dates: 1884-1987
Found in: Special Collections Department / Prairie Grove Telephone Company Records

Joseph Robinson Rutherford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS R993 450 Rutherford
Scope and Content Note MS, PrMS, PR, TS Correspondence, legal documents, military forms, receipts, promissory notes, and other items comprise Joseph Robinson Rutherford's papers. The papers pertain to family concerns; Company "A", Arkansas Home Guard Militia; carming, the sale of Seth Thomas clocks, and other business interests. Upon moving from Tennessee to Benton County, Arkansas in 1851, Joseph Robinson Rutherford began a varied career as farmer, businessman, politician and...
Dates: 1839-1914
Found in: Special Collections Department / Joseph Robinson Rutherford Papers

Samuel Foster and Company Sales Journal

 Collection
Identifier: q MS L58 F81
Scope and Content Note Sales record of the retail merchandizing firm of Samuel Foster & Co. of Port Gibson, Mississippi and Van Buren, Arkansas. Volume 1, for business conducted at Port Gibson December 1, 1836 to June 12, 1837 and at Van Buren August 19, 1837 to December 31, 1839, contains the preface, "Port Gibson December the 1st 1836. Saml Foster & James Foster commenced Merchantdizing in Joint copartnership To which James Foster is to Furnish what Funds that is nescessary To Carry on the...
Dates: 1836-1841
Found in: Special Collections Department / Samuel Foster and Company Sales Journal

Sebastian County Coal Mining Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 424
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain to coal mining activities in the Hartford and Excelsior areas of Sebastian County, Arkansas, between the 1910's and the 1950's. Records in boxes 1-4 contain business records. The business is not identified, but is presumed to be that of the Boyd Excelsior Fuel Company or its descendant. Records in box 1 contain a copy of a report on coal mining activities, various final logs, assays, and other records. Records in box 4 contain payroll records. They are arranged by year and...
Dates: 1911-1974
Found in: Special Collections Department / Sebastian County Coal Mining Records

Shipley Baking Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 954
Scope and Content Note Most of the material was saved by Garvin Shipley, one of the co-founders of Shipley Baking Company and uncle of the donor. Included are the records of the Shipley Baking Company of Fort Smith and Fayetteville, as well as the records of the W. G. Shipley Baking Company of Fayetteville and McAlester, Oklahoma. The collection also includes some material on the Shipley family, Fort Smith, the First Baptist Church of Fort Smith, and some information on the Cotton Holsum Bakeries of...
Dates: 1922-1934
Found in: Special Collections Department / Shipley Baking Company Records

Jess E. Shroll Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2142
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of Jess Shroll’s ledger of his Ponca, Arkansas store and sawmill, with entries dating from 1927-1939. Included in the ledger are entries on sales, purchases, and employee payments, including dealings with the Ozark Stave Company, the Ponca Ore Milling Co., and the Millard Garage. Also included is a notarized affidavit by his son, Robert Shroll, that the ledger’s contents are Jess Shroll’s original entries.

Dates: 1927-1939
Found in: Special Collections Department / Jess E. Shroll Ledger

Thomas L. Spencer and John B. Ogden Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: q MS L58 Sp34
Scope and Content Note

Financial records, April 1, 1884 to August 15, 1885, of the firm of Spencer and Ogden, Van Buren, Arkansas contractors and builders. Material pertains, in part, to the construction of the Van Buren Public School, and to Addison McArthur Bourland, Nicholas F. Cornelius, M. W. Drewrey, T. W. Edmonson, James D. Hawkins, Robert S. Hynes, Henry F. Meyer, John B. Ogden, Jr., William Henry Harrison Shibley, George C. Thayer, John A. Thayer, Jesse Turner, and George R. Wood.

Dates: 1884-1885
Found in: Special Collections Department / Thomas L. Spencer and John B. Ogden Account Book

William Miner Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1556
Scope and Content Note

Materials include William Miner Taylor's business books from his store and cotton gin, Ruth Taylor Fortenberry's account of growing up in Mississippi County, her mother's memories, and other books and articles she collected about Mississippi County, Arkansas.

Dates: 1902-1991
Found in: Special Collections Department / William Miner Taylor Papers

Three Creeks General Store Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MC 180
Abstract

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

Dates: 1853-1854
Found in: Special Collections Department / Three Creeks General Store Ledger

J. C. Tilley Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 994
Scope and Content Note

Bank statements, income tax forms, and a ledger book concerning business transactions of the J.C. Tilley Mercantile Company.

Dates: 1908-1926
Found in: Special Collections Department / J. C. Tilley Mercantile Company Records

Tucker Plantation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 556
Scope and Content Note

Journals, ledgers, cash books, and other business records pertaining to the S.E. Tucker plantation and mercantile operation at Tucker, Jefferson County, Arkansas.

The collection consists of daily journals, account ledgers, cash books, seed books, cotton books, farm labor time books, and post office records arranged in eleven series.

Dates: 1898-1952
Found in: Special Collections Department / Tucker Plantation Records

Tucker Plantation Records Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 696
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of ledgers, cash books, seed books, farm labor books, post office records, gin ticket stub booklets, correspondence, and miscellaneous business records arranged in eight series.

Dates: 1898-1959
Found in: Special Collections Department / Tucker Plantation Records Addendum

Tulip, Arkansas General Store Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1784
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,...
Dates: 1858-1948
Found in: Special Collections Department / Tulip, Arkansas General Store Ledgers

Washington County Historical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1368
Scope and Content Note The historical papers which comprise Series 1 were maintained to support historical and genealogical research at Headquarters House in Fayetteville, where the society has its offices and a historical museum. The original order of the files has been retained as far as possible, with some adjustments to provide easier access to the materials. There is great variation in the type and quantity of materials in these files, reflecting their existence in a continuing research and publishing...
Dates: circa 1833-1995
Found in: Special Collections Department / Washington County Historical Society Collection

W. W. West Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 555
Scope and Content Note The records contain 35 account ledgers recording business transactions and other information. Also included are correspondence, property records, and other papers. Property records include deeds, architectural drawings of the W. W. West Company store, maps of Wabbaseka and West's additions to Wabbaseka, a map of Jefferson County, and a map of the M. H. Johnson Roberts farm. Other records include bank statements, company expense records, cotton pay rates, and a collection of W. W. West...
Dates: 1915-1968
Found in: Special Collections Department / W. W. West Company Records

Whitlow and Lake, Druggists Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS L58.W59
Scope and Content Note

Accounts receivable and sales ledger, January 1, 1883 - July 22, 1886, of Fayetteville, Arkansas pharmaceutical firm.

Dates: 1883-1886
Found in: Special Collections Department / Whitlow and Lake, Druggists Ledger

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