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L.J. Hughes transaction, July 10, 1899.
This image of an L.J. Hughes transaction from July 10, 1899, is cropped from page 294 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902. In this transaction, L.J. Hughes purchased a tobacco product and sold merchandise for credit toward his wife's customer account. The Harrison Brothers sold primarily tobacco products until March 1900 and Mrs. L.J. Hughes was one of only a few women to be a frequent tobacco customer and have a customer account which was also used by her husband. The transaction on this page corresponds to account page 5 in Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904. -
Judson College Miscellaneous, 1912 - 1927
Contains handwritten correspondence, and scheduling/documents from Judson College relating to the graduation and academic achievements of Ruth Elizabeth Pettus. -
Jordan, Marsh & Company Catalog, 1897
Early Huntsville Life and Memorabilia -
Jackson County Historical Site Survey
This section contains reports related to the Jacksonville Historical Site Survey. Relates specifically to photographs taken of different types of maps. Photographs not included. -
Huntsville Fiber & Veneer Works, circa 1940
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902.
This daybook contains the Harrison Brothers' daily store transactions from March 29, 1898, to January 13, 1902. The store was not open on Sundays or holidays. The Harrison Brothers sold exclusively tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, leaf tobacco, and tobacco-related products until 1900. In March 1900, the Harrison Brothers began selling assorted sets of china dishes and continued to sell primarily Queensware and other home furnishing-related products until 1903 when the store began selling hardware. The store moved from its original location on Jefferson St. to #3 Southside Square in 1897. In December 1901, a fire damaged the front of the Harrison Brothers' number 3 Southside Square storefront as well as other buildings along the street.
Each page in the Harrison Brothers daybooks is divided into columns for the date, transaction details, and debit and credit sales. The year is listed in the upper left-hand corner of each page and the month and day are listed in the columns below on the left side of each transaction. Each transaction includes where the customer was from (for example: "Tuscumbia Ala"), the name of the customer (for example: "W.L. Halsey", "Mrs. Lizzie Barclift", or "Goldsmith + Co."), the items that the customer bought and the rate at which they were sold (for example: "1Bx Spot Cash 25#50" and "1/2Doz #0 Lanterns 5.00"), the total cost of the sale, the customer's method of payment (for example: "By Cash", "By Check", "By Mdse.", "By Work", "By Note" or by credit if no payment method is listed), and the customer account number. If the customer worked in a local cotton mill, the name of the mill is listed next to the customer name such as "Dallas" for Dallas Mills and "West Huntsville" or "W.H." for West Huntsville Manufacturing Company. The customer account numbers reference page numbers in the Harrison Brother's Customer Account Ledgers where customer's store accounts are divided into debit and credit columns. This day book references accounts in Customer Account Ledger 1 located in The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections. Many accounts do not list customer account numbers if paid for in full with cash or note. These transactions are written over with two ##s or three Cs. Debit and credit columns also appear in the daybooks on the right side of the page. Transactions are added up in the "D" column and payments are recorded in the "C" column. Employee information, invoices, inventory, assets, and liabilities for the Harrison Brothers store are included at the back of the daybook from pages 738-800.
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 1, 1896-1898.
This daybook contains the Harrison Brothers' daily store transactions from June 4, 1896, to March 29, 1898. The store was not open on Sundays or holidays. The Harrison Brothers sold exclusively tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, leaf tobacco, and tobacco-related products until 1900. The store moved from its original location on Jefferson St. to #3 Southside Square in 1897.
Each page in the Harrison Brothers daybooks is divided into columns for the date, transaction details, and debit and credit sales. The year is listed in the upper left-hand corner of each page and the month and day are listed in the column below on the left side of each transaction. Individual transactions are separated by horizontal lines at the end of each page. Each transaction includes where the customer was from (for example: "Tuscumbia Ala"), the name of the customer (for example: "W.L. Halsey", "Mrs. Lizzie Barclift", or "Goldsmith + Co."), the items that the customer bought and the rate at which they were sold (for example: "1Bx Spot Cash 25#50"), the total cost of the sale, the customer's method of payment (for example: "By Cash", "By Check", "By Mdse.", "By Work", or by credit if no payment method is listed), and the customer account number. The customer account numbers correlate to a page number in the Harrison Brother's Customer Account Ledgers where customer's store accounts are divided into debit and credit columns. This day book references accounts in Customer Account Ledger 1 located in The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections. Debit and credit columns also appear in the daybooks on the right side of the page. Transactions are added up in the "D" column and payments are recorded in the "C" column. Employee information, invoices, inventory, assets, and liabilities for the Harrison Brothers store are included at the back of the daybook from pages 480-500.
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 4, 1889-1893.
This Customer Account Ledger contains the credit account information for Harrison Brothers customer transactions from 1889-1893 The index at the front of the ledger is organized alphabetically by the customer's last name. Each index page is dived into two columns. The left column lists the name of the customer and the right column lists the customer's city of residence and the page number of the customer's account. The page numbers reference pages in the ledger where one or multiple accounts are listed. Each customer account page is divided into a debit "D" and credit "C" column separated by a blue line. The customer's name and the year are written at the top of each column. In the debit column, months and days are listed in the first two columns. The next column references a customer's transactions in a particular daybook listed as "Bal Book #" or "B B #" and the page number in the referenced book is listed in the following column. This ledger references transactions in daybooks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. These daybooks, not included in the collection of account books at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, likely recorded tobacco sales from the Harrison Brothers store on Jefferson Street prior to their move to Southside Square in 1897. In the credit column, the month and day of a customer's payments are listed in the first two columns. The next two columns list the daybook and the page number that the customer's payment is recorded in. The payment amount is listed in the rightmost column of the page. The debit and credit columns are either balanced at the bottom of the page or the Harrison Brothers indicated that the customer account was carried to a new page in the ledger.
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 2, 1889-1896.
This Customer Account Ledger contains the credit account information for Harrison Brothers customer transactions from 1889-1896. The index at the front of the ledger is organized alphabetically by the customer's last name. Each index page is dived into two columns. The left column lists the name of the customer and the right column lists the customer's city of residence and the page number of the customer's account. The page numbers reference pages in the ledger where one or multiple accounts are listed. Each customer account page is divided into a debit "D" and credit "C" column separated by a blue line. The customer's name and city of residence are written at the top of each account. In the debit column, the year is written at the top left and months and days of transactions are listed below in the first two columns. The next column references a customer's transactions in a particular daybook listed as "B B #" and the page number in the referenced book is listed in the following column. This ledger references transactions in daybooks 1 and 2. These daybooks, not included in the collection of account books at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, likely recorded tobacco sales from the Harrison Brothers store on Jefferson Street prior to their move to Southside Square in 1897. In the credit column, the month and day of a customer's payments are listed in the first two columns. The next two columns list the daybook and the page number that the customer's payment is recorded on. The payment amount is listed in the rightmost column of the page. The debit and credit columns are either balanced at the bottom of the page or the Harrison Brothers indicated that the customer account was carried to a new page in the ledger. Many pages in this ledger are empty and customer accounts begin on page 214.
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904.
This Customer Account Ledger contains the credit account information for Harrison Brothers customer transactions from 1898-1904. The index at the front of the ledger is organized alphabetically by the customer's last name. Each index page is dived into two columns. The left column lists the name of the customer and the right column lists the customer's city of residence and the page number of the customer's account. The page numbers reference pages in the ledger where one or multiple accounts are listed. Each customer account page is divided into a debit "D" and credit "C" column separated by a blue line. The customer's name and city of residence are written at the top of each account. In the debit column, the year is written at the top left and months and days of transactions are listed below in the first two columns. The next two columns reference a customer's transactions in a particular daybook listed as "B B #" and the page number that the transaction is listed on. This ledger references transactions in daybooks 1, 2, and 3 located in the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections. In the credit column, the month and day of a customer's payments are listed in the first two columns. The next two columns list the daybook and the page number that the customer's payment is recorded on. The payment amount is listed in the rightmost column of the page. The debit and credit columns are either balanced at the bottom of the page or the Harrison Brothers indicated that the customer account was carried to a new page in the ledger.
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Handwritten letters from R. D. McKinney to S. Schiffman.
In these letters, R. D. McKinney tells S. Schiffman that he will have to take all McKinney's stocks as his landlord has taken all his cotton stock to pay his rent before McKinney could pay S. Schiffman. In the second letter, McKinney asks S. Schiffman to send him two dollars to finish paying off the cotton pickers. The final letter is a request for meat and coffee on credit. -
Handwritten letter from W. E. Rinkley to S. Schiffman.
W. E. Rinkley tells S. Schiffman that he has already paid the man who built a hen house and garden. He also tells Schiffman that he has reached out to Mr. Landers regarding his taxes and asks Schiffman to reach out and see what is happening there as Landers has not replied to Rinkley. -
Handwritten letter allotting 50 acres of land to R. R. Lakin.
The front of this handwritten note is written by Charly M. Taylor, allotting R. R. Lakin 50 acres of land. The back of the note is written by R. R. Lakin agreeing to the terms of the transaction that he will cultivate the land and deliver "one half of said crop to the said Charly Taylor." -
Handwritten calculations.
Written on Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd. letterhead, these pages contain handwritten notes and calculations by W. W. Newman that begin in the 1890s and runs through 1903. -
H. Brandon customer account page, 1898-1901.
This is H. Brandon's customer account page on page 28 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904. Transactions and payments on this ledger page correspond to Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902, and date from January 31, 1898, to February 25, 1901. Henderson Brandon was a Black business owner in Huntsville, Alabama, but "Col." is not written beside his name. -
Goldsmith + Co. transaction, September 12, 1898.
This image of a Goldsmith + Co. transaction from September 8, 1898, is cropped from page 96 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902. The transaction on this page corresponds to page 24 in Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904. In this transaction, Goldsmith + Co. purchased tobacco products. Goldsmith + Co. was a grocery company in Huntsville, Alabama, and were frequent customers at Harrison Brothers. -
Goldsmith + Co. customer account page, 1898-1901.
This is a Goldsmith + Co. customer account page on page 24 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904. Transactions and payments on this ledger page correspond to Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902, and date from March 26, 1898, to August 7, 1901. -
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Establishment of Hutchens & Murdock.
Written on Hutchens & Erwin letterhead, this notice announces the partnership of William Thomas Hutchens and Andrew J. Murdock in the forming of Hutchens & Murdock to "carry on the business of plumbing, gas, and steam pipe fitting." Hutchens previously partnered with Dr. Erwin in his plumbing business. -
Dolls' Dressmaker Magazine (5), 1891
Early Huntsville Life and Memorabilia -
Dekalb County, Alabama Map and Aerial Photograph Identification
This section contains documents and maps related to a historical survey. -
Deed of land.
This deed outlines the purchase of land for $144.00 by William Thomas Hutchens and Andrew J. Murdock in 1897. -
Dallas Mills, Notes, Paper, Advertisements, nd Newsletter [mostly undated], 1900
Business, Tours and Industry - Folder 4 is oversized, see separation sheet. -
Dallas Manufacturing Company minute book, 1890-1907.
This minute book documents the activities of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Manufacturing Company in Huntsville, Alabama. The book includes meeting minutes, company correspondence, list of contracts with suppliers, information about company stock and production, lists of subscribers, and statements of profits and operating expenses.
Notably, the minute book also includes a February 1893 letter from Oscar Goldsmith noting that "The Huntsville Land Company have built 50 double Houses for the Employees of Dallas M'f'g. Company. And as per request of Mr. Dallas will build 25 more houses for the same purpose." Goldsmith's letter is accompanied by a plat map that indicates the location of the houses. Streets shown include Pettigrew Avenue, Mellette Avenue, Halsey Avenue, Rison Avenue, Stevens Avenue, Humes Avenue, O'Shaughnessy Avenue, McCullough Avenue, Dallas Avenue, and cross streets. -
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D.S. Brandon transaction, September 5, 1898.
This image of a D.S. Brandon transaction from September 5, 1898, is cropped from page 89 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company daybook 2, 1898-1902. In this transaction, D.S. Brandon purchased a tobacco product. The transaction on this page corresponds to H. Brandon's customer account on page 28 of Harrison Brothers Hardware Company customer account ledger 1, 1897-1904. Henderson and his son Daniel S. Brandon were Black business owners in Huntsville, Alabama. -
Crowd gathered at the capitol building in Denver, Colorado.
A handwritten inscription on the back of the photo notes, "The day 'our soldiers' came home, in front of capital. Sept. '99." -
Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Ware-House Co.
This contract outlines the purchase and installation of automatic sprinklers for the sum of $1,674.00. The contract outlines the agreement of how the Huntsville Ware-House Co. will pay after the installation and the promises made by Hutchens & Murdock of products and techniques used. These scans include the handwritten notes on the backs of each page. -
Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Gas Light Company.
This agreement outlines the debt of Hutchens & Murdock of twelve hundred and fifty dollars. The agreement outlines the promise to pay $250.00 every six months until the debt is payed off. The agreement also includes the inventory of Hutchens & Murdocks's personal property at two locations that would be held in mortgage until the debt is paid in full. Following the agreement, handwritten lists detail the personal inventory of two locations: the plumbing shop of Hutchens & Murdock "opposite Easley's Hotel and their plubming shop on W. Clinton Street. The final page shows three of the five promisory notes for the debt to be paid in increments of $250.00. -
Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Gas Light Company.
This agreement outlines the debt of Hutchens & Murdock for personal property as described in Schedule A of the document for $1,750.00. Hutchens & Murdock agrees to pay $500.00 in cash and the rest of the debt in "five equal half yearly installments, with interest." Following the written agreement there are pages of inventory of the personal property sold to Hutchens & Murdock. -
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Boggs & Buhl, Catalog, 1893
Early Huntsville Life and Memorabilia -
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Bills and receipts of family life, 1890s (1 of 2).
This folder contains a mixture of Cabaniss household bills, primarily grocery bills, and documents from Fannie Cabaniss' career as Madison County Register in Chancery. -
Barrs' Fashion Catalog, 1895
Early Huntsville Life and Memorabilia