Grocery trade
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Addison W. Bell collection
Collection
Identifier: L015
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is from the period 1889-1900, and consists of account books, receipts, invoices, and other business papers relating to Addison W. Bell’s Terre Haute store. Also included is an account book (1868-1894) of Bell’s Parke County store; an account book (1884-1890) of his son-in-law, Albert McMullin (d.1897), a Vigo County farmer; family financial papers and a small number of letters of Bell’s daughter, Lona McMullin, and her children in Terre Haute (1900-1965); and a...
Dates:
1807-1965
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Addison W. Bell collection
Conley and Son general store account books
Collection
Identifier: V321
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 366 account books, daybooks and ledgers of the Conley and Son general store of Rosedale, Indiana with entries ranging from 1893 to 1975. The bulk of the collection consists of over 300 order books used by the store staff. Also included are a cash book, a receipt book, want books, incidental expense books, Rosedale National Bank Check books and record book, an old accounts book, bill ledgers, daybooks for receipts and expenditures, and goods sold ledgers. The receipts...
Dates:
1893-1975
Deubener family collection
Collection — Folder S0358
Identifier: S0358
Scope and Contents
This collection includes family papers and business records from the Deubener family and Deubener's Shopping Bag, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota and Indiana ranging from 1887 to 1967 regarding family life, the estate of Henry J. Deubener, and the Deubener's invention of the shopping bag.
Dates:
1887-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Deubener family collection
Edward J. Schlichte account books
Collection — Volume V272
Identifier: V272
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 8 account books used by Edward J. Schlichte from 1909 to 1925 to record inventory for his grocery and dry goods business in Connersville, Indiana.
Dates:
1909-1923
Francois Riday Busseron account ledger
Collection — Folder S2489
Identifier: S2489
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 parts of a handwritten ledger from François Riday Busseron in Indiana, in June 1784, regarding 2 basic yard goods receipts. Included are English translations created in 1997.
Dates:
1784 June
Frank K. Sawyer Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder S2703
Identifier: S2703
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of approximately 415 items collected by Frank K. Sawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1854 to 1905, including correspondence, advertisements, flyers, brochures, bills, accounts, receipts, financial statements, invoices, and notes. Some receipts are handwritten on scraps of paper, while others are making use of printed business forms which display distinctive letterheads. Most of these receipts are mounted to the pages of a scrapbook and are often...
Dates:
1854-1905
George W. Julian collection
Collection
Identifier: L081
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the correspondence is that of George W. Julian and his wife, Laura Giddings Julian, and with his children, Grace and Paul, while he was serving in Congress, working as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and on speaking tours. In his letters with Laura, he discusses questions before Congress. Additional correspondence includes letters to Laura from her father, Joshua R. Giddings, written while he was serving in Congress or as U.S. consul general to Canada in Montreal (1861-1864);...
Dates:
1789-1940, bulk 1789-1902
Hamilton County collection
Collection — Folder S1668
Identifier: S1668
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three circa 1880-1889 trading cards from Westfield, Indiana businesses, including one from T.T. Bray, dealer in staples and fancy groceries, advertising Alden Fruit Vinegar; one from D.J. Mendenhall, druggist, advertising Stearns’ “Amorita” perfume; and another presented by D.J. Mendenhall and Company with an advertisement for Dr. D. Jayne’s Tonic Vermifuge. The collection also includes a dog tax tag from 1946 and a 1973 Hamilton County sesquicentennial medal.
Dates:
circa 1880-1973
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hamilton County collection
Hancock County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1669
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items related to Hancock County, Indiana, including teacher's reports from the nine schools in Buck Creek Township, signed and dated from February to March 1869; photocopies of a record book keep by the trustee of Brandywine Township, with entries regarding payments made for stock killed by dogs from 1866 to 1870 and entries about township roads ranging from 1869 to 1873; a photocopy of a May 1, 1946 letter sent to the Greenfield Public Library by Charles L....
Dates:
1866-1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hancock County collection
Harry D. Hartley collection
Collection
Identifier: L273
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Harry D. Hartley’s correspondence and papers regarding his family’s property (1925–1940), particularly property in Kokomo, Howard County, Indianak, which was leased for an A and P grocery store in 1930. Also included is correspondence pertaining to his proposed book on the contributions of Hoosiers to the development of the United States and western civilization (1939–1951), and letters relating to an Indianapolis talk given by Arthur E. Morgan on his investigations into...
Dates:
1925-1951
