Historical Information:William A. Clement operated a hotel in Campbell County, Virginia, during the mid-19th century.

Scope and Content:Account book, 1862-1863, records the individual accounts of hotel patrons. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, form of transaction, amount owed, form of payment, and amount paid. Transactions include renting rooms, serving meals, selling drinks, renting stables for horses, and feeding horses. Payments are made by cash and credit. This volume includes an index that lists names of customers in alphabetical order and page numbers of customer's account.

Historical Information: Samuel H. Hudnall was a physician who practiced medicine in Campbell County during the late nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:Dr. Samuel H. Hudnall Journal, 1893-1901, records the accounts of individual patients, including African Americans. The accounts list in chronological order charges and payments for visits to patients, medication, and other medical services such as extracting teeth, treating syphilis, giving vaccinations, and assisting births. Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor (ploughing fields, repairing buggies, hauling items), and barter of items (chickens, mutton, oats.) Journal also records miscellaneous accounts related to Hudnall's farm.

Historical Information: Alfred S. Reid was a lawyer and farmer who resided in Campbell County, Virginia, during the mid-nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:Alfred S. Reid Ledger, 1846-1878, includes Reid's financial transactions related to both his occupations. It records both Reid's own accounts and accounts of individuals with whom Reid conducted business. Each individual account lists date of transaction, items purchased, or services rendered, quantity of items purchased, amount owed and paid, and form of payment.

Historical Information: An Unidentified General Store operated in Campbell County during the late 19th century. As indicated by the accounts, the store served a variety of clientele--including both the white and African American (designated as colored) communities as well as companies and churches.

Scope and Content:Unidentified General Store Ledger, records individual, company and church accounts from July 1883 July to January 1891. Accounts are very itemized and detailed--noting a balance, any interest owed and how paid (by cash or check.) Accounts include different items sold from hats, candy, boots, cinnamon, cartridges, kettles, coal oil, socks, fabrics (calico and cotton), shoes, grain sacks, wash boards, cough syrup, suit clothes, towels, hoes, plow points, staples such as eggs, sugar and bacon, egg crates and even chickens. Sometimes, the items purchased were designated as "merchandise" or "sundries." Intermixed with the individual accounts were headings for cash accounts, merchandise accounts, bills receivable, machine accounts, expense accounts and interest accounts.

Scope and Content:Unidentified Tobacco Business Ledger, records individual and company accounts on random pages from October 1915 to December 1915 noting what was owed and how paid (by cash or check.) The ledger includes the amount paid farmers as well as a section on bank and expense accounts. The volume includes an index.