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Business records -- Texas, East

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Angelina and Neches River Railroad Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0020
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, operating and statistical reports, shipping rates, and other records of one of the oldest short line railroads in Texas.

Dates: 1914-1929

Baker Printing Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0045
Scope and Contents The collection consists of job work records and printing samples, mostly yearbooks and programs of various East Texas religious, civic, and cultural organizations. Some particularly interesting items include: The collection includes two phone directories for Nacogdoches in 1919 and 1920. These directories can be used to determine which individuals and businesses used telephones in Nacogdoches and also how far telephone services reached out into the rural...
Dates: 1925-1986

Bennett Blake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0006
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963

Blount Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0008
Scope and Contents

Abstracts of title and correspondence of the Nacogdoches family and materials relating to the Nacogdoches Oil Mill Company.

Dates: 1792-1967; Event: Donated in 1977

Bondies, Rohte and Co. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0096
Scope and Contents

This ledger book has accounts of customers and shows the prices of vinegar, boots, shirts, cloth, coffee, hats, buttons, whiskey, tobacco, flour, tin buckets, and other items.

Dates: 1851-1853

Bone Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0162
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the collected letters of the descendants of Robert Donnell Bone and Griselda Minerva Burk Bone, who lived in Douglass and later in Mt. Selman, Texas. Most of the letters in the collection are from the children of Robert and Minerva, Winstead Paine Bone, Nevie Lee Bone McKee, James Robert Bone, and John Newton Bone; to their parents and to each other. There are some letters from other family members and from friends, as well as a few business related...
Dates: 1879-1911, 1941; Event: Donated in 1993

Brown and Dixon Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0070
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of cash books and ledgers of the Brown & Dixon company.

Dates: -

Charles A. Manning Business Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: B-0124
Scope and Contents

Ledger lists customers' names, purchases and cost of those purchases. There is customer index at beginning of ledger.

Dates: 1916-1935

Chronister Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of some of the business records for the Chronister Lumber Company.

Dates: 1898-1945; Event: Donated in 1955

Clark & Hyde Mercantile Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0097
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three items. Two day log books for the store, which detail transactions from October 1872 to January 1874. The third item is a note book with notes on a few legal cases dating from 1871.

Dates: 1871-1874

Crim Family Funeral Home, Henderson, Texas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0009
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the daybooks, also called yearbooks, of the four different Funeral Homes mentioned above. Included in the books were notations of ambulance trips made to transport sick people from home to the hospital and back, of funeral and memorial services held, and of other business related activities.

Dates: 1938-1962

Dr. Fred Williams Cariker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0081
Dates: 1926, 1937

Dr. W. A. Ramsey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0082
Scope and Contents

There are three ledgers 1914-1917, 1918-1920, and 1921-1927 from Dr. W. A. Ramsey's office.

Dates: 1914-1927

Edwards Brothers Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0004
Arrangement This collection consists of four series arranged across 12 boxes. Series 1: Audits and Correspondence (Boxes 1-2)     Audits (1947-1952, 1954). Chronological.     Correspondence (1937-1960). Alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically. Series 2: Financial Records, 1928-1961 (Boxes 3-10)     Sub-series 1 - Daily Operations. Alphabetical or chronological depending on the...
Dates: 1928-1967; Event: Donated in 1987

Francis Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0049
Scope and Contents

Original letters; autobiographical, religious and creative writing manuscripts; business and legal documents of Francis Wilson and other Wilson family members.

Dates: 1839-1935

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

Kelly Plow Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0010
Scope and Contents

The collection includes accident and insurance reports, blueprints, catalogs (price lists and parts lists), correspondence, farm equipment and machinery literature, photographs, statements, ledgers and other records of this Longview manufacturer and seller of plows and farm equipment

Dates: 1884-1965

L. T. Barret Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0274
Scope and Contents The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents. ...
Dates: 1839-1966

Legg General Store Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0130
Scope and Contents

The Legg General Store collection contains books of accounts received as well as receipt books. There is also included a letter sent from Andy’s nephew, Lalonde Legg who was stationed overseas during World War I, to Andy in 1918. Included are land and warranty deeds, as well as oil, gas, and mineral leases.

Dates: 1884-1932

Lutcher-Moore Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0008
Scope and Contents

This collection is made up of correspondence and the business records of the Lutcher-Moore Lumber Company.

Dates: 1842-1969; Event: Donated in 1972