Box 11
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Series 7. Business Records, ca. 1853-1899
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This series includes day books, ledgers, pocket diaries, and scrapbooks. Accounting entries cover general merchandise, subscriptions, hotel maintenance and repair, etc. Some items also include newspaper clippings about poultry, horticulture, fictional stories, etc. For additional account books, see also Series 9, Oversized, box 14, folder 1 and box 15, folder 5.
Dates:
ca. 1853-1899
Series 8. Miscellany, 1848-1936 and undated
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This series includes printed and manuscript items such as: a scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding the Civil War (ca. 1861-1865); ephemera related to West Virginia (1848-1922); handwritten lecture notes by T.H. Dennis on legal topics (1872-1873); and clippings and handwritten notes regarding the history, appearance, and growing of various flowers (1899-1936 and undated). Many of the handwritten notes and some of the clippings bear handwritten page numbers and the words "used" or "not...
Dates:
1848-1936 and undated
Account book (from St. Lawrence Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, originally described as the White Sulphur Hotel in the published guide; pages for each account holder, with entries for payment for services, paint, shellac, turpentine, window repair, and other maintenance costs, but also includes tobacco and other household items; 1 item), 1855-1859
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Dates:
1855-1859
Accounting items (sheet from Day & Memo Book and Cash Accounts book of J.H. Oley Cary of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; 3 items), 1877-1878
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Dates:
1877-1878
Newspaper clippings (an assortment of newspaper clippings covering topics such as President Theodore Roosevelt going underwater in a submarine, state roads, religion, abolition, land, genealogy, etc.; 42 items), 1883-1932, undated
File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Dates:
1883-1932, undated
Newspaper clippings (photocopies of clippings in folder 3; 5 items), 1883-1932, undated
File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Dates:
1883-1932, undated
Newspaper clippings (a variety of newspaper clippings covering topics such as religion, robins, the West Virginia debt, hidden treasure, wild life, etc.; 26 items), 1881-1925, undated
File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Dates:
1881-1925, undated
Envelopes (includes various envelopes addressed to M.W. Zimmerman; 11 items), 1907-1933
File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Dates:
1907-1933
Newspaper clipping scrapbook (includes Civil War newspaper clippings from Southern newspapers concerning battles, famous generals, and obituaries of Confederate soldiers; all are glued in an old book, Winds of the Northern Hemisphere, Washington City: Smithsonian Institution, 1853; also includes a few pressed leaves and a feather; 1 item), ca. 1861-1865
File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Dates:
ca. 1861-1865