Daybooks
Subject
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
E.B. Benson and Son Daybook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0053
Scope and Contents
This daybook contains 501 numbered pages of daily purchases made at E.B. Benson and Son's business in Pendleton, South Carolina, from January 1, 1859 to July 21, 1859. The items include clothing, materials, household furnishings such as dishes, and simple medications.
Dates:
1859 - 1859
Eugene Trapp Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0227
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of three blacksmith account books/daybooks (1848-1850, 1851-1855 and 1858-1864), accounts and receipts. The account books/daybooks record blacksmithing work that Trapp did for various Fairfield County residents. In addition, the 1858-1864 account books contains copies of correspondence, prayers and poems written in 1879 on unused parts of the pages by Mrs. Lula Trapp of Pleasant Valley, Winnsboro, Fairfield County, SC. The accounts and receipts document purchases of cloth,...
Dates:
1851-1855, 1857-1866, 1879
Gignilliat Family Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0060
Scope and Contents
This collection includes six account books; class notes 1888-1902; Charles Nutting Gignilliat's 1902 Clemson degree (oversize); his Calhoun Literary Society diploma, 1902 (oversize); a cotton Telegraphic Cipher Code, 1878, revised and improved edition, especially adapted to the cotton trade; a bound copy of biographical data submitted by Clemson"s class of 1902 for their 50th reunion in June, 1952; and a lacquered keepsake box with seventy cents in...
Dates:
1800s-1980
Henry George Carrison Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0033
Introduction
Henry George Carrison was a civic leader, businessman, and plantation owner in Camden, South Carolina. Original account books, letter press copies of correspondence, and financial transactions indicate that H.G. Carrison was the owner of large pieces of property and businesses, including the Hermitage Cotton Mills, in Camden.
Dates:
1876 - 1933
John Jenkins farmhand daybook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0190
Scope and Contents
The daybook is "The Rural accountant: a complete and simple system of keeping plantation and farm accounts for the use of the practical planter and farmer," published by Walker, Evans & Cogswell of Charleston, SC, in 1876. It contains general agricultural information such as weights and measures, prices, wage scales and planting guides. There are several individual accounts of sales or transactions and what may be a monthly time roll entered into the daybook. At the back of the book is...
Dates:
1876 - 1877
Leland Engineering Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0352
Abstract
The Leland Engineering Records document various types of engineering projects undertaken by William B. Leland and his firm for architects, contractors, and other clients during the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. A wide variety of building types are represented in the project files including commercial buildings, churches, government buildings, hospitals, residences, and schools. The collection provides a record of the architecture (especially vernacular...
Dates:
1939-2013; 1947 - 2005
Overseer's Daybook (Westwood Plantation)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0230
Scope and Contents
Original daybook and typed transcript. The daybook contains daily accounts of work undertaken (up to 1830, mostly by slaves), weather conditions, expenses, illnesses, holidays, burials and cultivation and planting records. There are also wage records and copies of poetry, song lyrics and other items. The transcript was prepared under the title of "Overseer's Day Book of a Small Plantation 1822-1917" by Lula May McNinch of Columbia, SC, in 1936 as part of W.P.A. Project 65-33-118, which was...
Dates:
1822-1823, 1827-1830, 1870, 1875, 1879-1884, 1910-1918, 1936
Walter Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0243
Abstract
The Walter J. Brown Papers document his career as a reporter, Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion during World War II, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, and owner of Spartan Communications (especially WSPA-Radio and WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, SC). There is also material relating to his personal life, particularly his interest in the Hickory Hill estate of Tom Watson; his involvement in politics, particularly with James F. Byrnes,...
Dates:
1879 - 1995; 1915 - 1992