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General stores -- Texas, East

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

General Store Ledger, Shelby County, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0121
Scope and Contents

Business ledger of an unknown general store likely located in Shelby County, Texas. The ledger lists customers' names, their purchases, the price of those purchases, and also has a customer index in the front.

Dates: 1890-1893

Joel C. and Alice A. Ford Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0355
Scope and Contents

The collection contains five photographs from the 1920s of Caddo Lake General Store, J. C. Crain Grocery & Market, and Johnson Brothers Ranch. Postcard of T & P Hospital in Marshall, Texas. Nacogdoches, Texas Fredonia Hotel, postcard, newspaper clipping and advertisement.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/15/2017; 1920-1961

Johnson General Merchandise Store Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0022
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 79 ledger books documenting store business. There are 34 account books (1912-1949), 22 day books (1915-1942), 9 cash books (1916-1951), 6 commercial accounts books (1931-1947), 3 order books (1929-1940), 3 check receipts books (1933-1944), a cotton purchasing account book (1928-1931), and a daily record of cash receipts book (1929, 1940).

Dates: 1912-1951; Event: Donated 2/25/1980 ; Event: Addendum donated 6/2/1980

Sanford and Son General Store, Caledonia, Texas Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0018
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 33 ledger books, a poetry scrapbook, and a Beaumont High School yearbook, "Spindletop" (1925). The ledger books include daybooks, general ledgers, and farm account books pertaining to the clientele and operations of the general merchandise and grocery store.

Dates: 1920-1935