PUBLIC "-//Thomas Balch Library//TEXT (US::ViLeTBL::viletbl00305::A Guide to Store Passbooks, 1874-1875)//EN" "viltbl00305.xml" A Guide to the Store Passbooks, 1874-1875 Store Passbooks SC 0133 Shane Keenan Thomas Balch Library © 2018 By Thomas Balch Library. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Shane Keenan, 14 March 2019 Description is in English A Guide to Store Passbooks, 1874-1875 A Collection in Thomas Balch Library SC 0133

Thomas Balch Library 2018 Shane Keenan Thomas Balch Library Descriptive Summary Thomas Balch Library Store Passbooks, 1874-1875 SC 0133 Less than 0.33 cubic feet, 2 items. English The collection is composed of two pamphlets used as passbooks (also known as day books). Both are small bound forty page pocket-notebooks. Unknown Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Use Restrictions

No physical characteristics affect use of this material.

Preferred Citation

Store Passbooks (SC 0133), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Alternative Form Available

None

Accruals

2005.0024X

Processing Information

Shane Keenan, 28 August 2018

Biographical Information

The author of these documents is unknown, as is the location of the store that used them. However, Charles French (1846-1928), James Merchant (January 31, 1836-November 3, 1888), Charles Butler (1850-1909), Jonathan Boyd (1831-February 11, 1899), and other Loudoun County residents are frequently listed as customers. The store shares many customers with George W. Janney's (1821-1873) store in Hamilton.

The surnames of other Loudoun County customers include Darr, Fox, French, Lovenberry, Lucas, and Murry. There are also several regular customers from Winchester and other areas surrounding Loudoun County.

 Scope and Content

The collection is composed of two pamphlets used as passbooks (also known as day books). Both are small bound forty page pocket-notebooks. The two passbooks were used from May 1874 to January 1875 and from January to October of 1875 respectively. They record sales chronologically, listing the name of the customer, the items purchased, and the total sum owed, which was later crossed out or marked as paid. All transactions listed in these passbooks were paid for with cash.

Although the exact provenance of these passbooks is unknown, they likely come from a business in Loudoun County as many of the customers listed lived in Loudoun or neighboring counties. The store also shares many customers with George Janney's store in Hamilton.

 Arrangement

Chronological

Adjunct Descriptive Data Bibliography Densmore, Christopher. Understanding and Using Early Nineteenth Century Account Books. The Midwestern Archivist vol V. No. 1 (1980) 77-89. Accessed August 28, 2018.www.jstor.org/stable/41102028.

Federal Census, 1870 and 1880. Ancestry Library Edition,(www.ancestrylibrary.com accessed August 23, 2018)

George W. Janney Collection (M 093, Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.

Loudoun County Cemetery Database. Accessed August 28, 2018.www.leesburgva.gov/government/departments/thomas-balch-library/loudoun-county-cemetery-database.

 Related Material

George W. Janney Collection, 1804-1884 (M 093)

Contents List Box 1 Passbook 1874-1875 Passbook 1875