General stores.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rondeau Boyd Laffitte General Store Merchandise Account Books
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2005-012
Scope and Contents
The Rondeau Boyd Laffitte General Merchandise Account Books are significant to Southern business history researchers because they document purchases of dry goods, foods, and agricultural produce at one of several general stores in Lloyd, Florida during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Dates:
Created: 1890-1913; Other: Majority of material found in 1902-1907
Store account books
Collection — Box 4
Identifier: MSS 1986-005
Scope and Contents
Two account books which record purchases of dry goods, food, seed, wagons, and guano (fertilizer). There are indications from accounts carried forward that earlier and later account books existed. There is no evidence of ownership; because of the locations of the accounts near Metcalfe, Georgia or just over the Leon County, Florida line, there may have been a country store in business at the time.
Includes accounts for L. E. Bradley, T. P. Strickland, Henry Vickers, Springwood Plantation owned by Percy Chubb, Elsoma Plantation owned by C. Merrill Chapin, Norias Hunting Club, Pebble Hill Plantation owned by Elizabeth Ireland Poe, Friendship Church in Metcalfe, Colored School in...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1939; Other: Date acquired: 06/25/1976
