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Monticello Account Books, 1915-1943

 

Summary

Abstract:
Day books detailing transactions, mostly sales, to and with customers
Extent:
69.40 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Monticello Account Books, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1986-028

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes forty-nine day-books, or ledgers of daily transactions with customers of the Monticello mercantile store: L. R. Rainey Dry Goods Store between the years 1915 and 1943. Information about each transaction, such as date, name of customer and amount paid or received is recorded. Transactions include a wide array of general merchandise sold and bought by the store. Arrangement is chronological.

Biographical / historical:

The day books of the L. R. Rainey Dry Goods Store in Monticello, FL in the early 1900's. As a result of Monticello's agrarian economy, much of the business of the mercantile store involved providing tools, implements, supplies to farms, other agricultural businesses, and buying the goods produced by those same farms. More general goods, such as ladies dresses and housing supplies, were also sold.

Acquisition information:
L. R. Rainey donated this collection to the Southern Business History Center.
Custodial history:

Materials collected by the Florida State University Southern Business History Center from donors, were then processed and accessed at the Library.

Processing information:

Processed September 2008 by Carlos Pearman

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Monticello Account Books, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1986-028

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA