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Van Brunt business records, 1902-1911, Date acquired: 08/07/1969

 

Summary

Extent:
20.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder Number], Van Brunt Business Records, MSS 0-249, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-249

Background

Scope and content:

The Van Brunt records contain 16 journals, ledgers, "cotton seed books," two tenant farmer agreement contracts, a typed letter by Mr. Clifton Paisley to Mr. N. Orwin Rush, dated August 17, 1969, and a seven-page typescript of Mr. Paisley's interview on July 5, 1969, with a daugher of Mr. Van Brunt, Mrs. Jack Gregory, of Quincy, Florida. The business records, besides reflecting the economic conditions of the era and the customary manner of conducting a merchandising and tenant farming business, has considerable genealogical value.

Select materials from the Van Brunt business records have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

Mr. R. F. Van Brunt, Iamonia, Leon County, Florida, owner of the ancestoral Van Brunt plantation located east of "Tall Timbers Plantation," the Beadel place. Mr. Van Brunt also owned a general merchandise store at Iamonia from about 1902 to 1911 when he sold the store and moved to Miccosukee, Leon County, Florida. He operated another general merchandise store there and was postmaster until a rural route was established in 1908-1909.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mr. Clifton Paisley
Processing information:

Processed December 1969. Ledgers rehoused and cleaned 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This 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 & 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:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder Number], Van Brunt Business Records, MSS 0-249, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-249

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