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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.

Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:

Edmund Abbott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0685-sc
Abstract

The papers of a student from Winterport, Maine, studying to become a physician at Maine State College in Orono and the University Medical College of New York.

Dates: 1872-1877

Account Book (1806-1809)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0592
Scope and Contents

Entries record carting and hauling of items such as hay, rum, wood, bricks.

Dates: 1806-1809

Account Book (1829-1855)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1468-sc
Abstract

An account book of an unidentified person, probably from Westbrook, Maine. The volume details purchases made and work done for and by various individuals. The transactions involve metals such as tin plate, clocks, hardware and general labor. The volume also includes entries outlining money borrowed and loaned.

Dates: 1829-1855

Account Book (1844-1852)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0973-sc
Abstract

An account book from a general store in Lovell, Maine.

Dates: 1844-1852

Account Book (1844-1860)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0589
Scope and Contents

Possibly the account book of a sawmill. Entries include information on sawing.

Dates: November 16, 1844-March 8, 1860

Account Book (1851-1853)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0880-sc
Abstract

An account book of a store in Tremont, Maine. Includes loose page listing letters remaining in Seal Cove Post Office, Dec. 29, 1852.

Dates: 1851-1853

Account Book (1861-1865)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0591
Scope and Contents

First entry, August 19, 1861 Samuel Boston.

Dates: 1861-1865

Account Book (1879-1882)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1241-sc
Abstract

Account book used to record cash received and cash expenditures between 1879 and 1882 for an unidentified businessman, possibly from Bucksport, Maine. The volume records a mixture of personal and business expenses with entries for buying fruit, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, items of clothing, etc. Entries also detail travel expenses to communities in Washington County, Maine as well as to Bangor, Maine, and Boston. Some entries seem to be for expenses connected with mining.

Dates: 1879-1882

Account Book (1882-1884)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0926-sc
Abstract

An account book of an unidentified lumber company possibly in the Portland, Maine area.

Dates: 1882-1884

Account Book (1898)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0024
Scope and Contents

Appears to be a listing of subscription accounts for people in different towns in Maine. The first entries are for people in Ashland, Maine.

Dates: 1898 July 29-1898 Dec. 23.

Account Book Dealing with Sale of Animals and Skin

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0004
Dates: circa 1896

Account Book of General Store (1855-1874)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0002

Account Book of General Store (1857-1892)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0003

Account Book (undated)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0590
Scope and Contents

Name list.

Dates: undated

Account Book with Clippings (circa 1878)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0005
Scope and Contents

Account book with clippings relating to Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain pasted over first pages. Includes autograph and photographic portrait.

Dates: circa 1878

Account Book with Recipes (undated)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0823-sc
Abstract

An account book containing handwritten recipes and newspaper clippings glued to the pages. The collector is unidentified.

Dates: undated

Account Books (1907-1930)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1011-sc
Abstract

Two account books covering the years 1907-1917 and 1918-Jan. 1930. Also included are records of road labor during the winter months from 1907-1917 and 1918-1927.

Dates: 1907-January 1930

Rufus Ames Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0018
Scope and Contents

Accounts from a general store. First page: "John Brown credit 6 fish.." 1899. Some of the accounts are for the schooner Uranus.

Dates: 1847-1905

Jonathan Andrews Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1692-sc
Abstract

Account book for blacksmith Jonathan Andrews of Scarborough, Maine.

Dates: 1803-1813

Isaac Austin Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1196-sc
Abstract

A volume used by Isaac Austin to record information about his work, mostly as a farm laborer, and the use of his horses and oxen. Entries in the volume are headed Windsor, Hartland, Bridgewater, and Lowell, Maine. The book was also used from 1874 to 1878 by N.I. Austin to record his time working on roads, shoveling, hauling shingles, threshing, etc.

Dates: 1826-1878

H. W. Averill Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1016-sc
Abstract

An account book from 1895 to 1898 listing workers on the dams on the East Branch of the Penobscot River. Included also in the account book are descriptions of the work needed on the Grand Lake Dam, Webster Dam, and Telos Dam in 1895, 1897 and 1898.

Dates: 1895-1898

Samuel G. Bachelder Account Books and Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0027
Scope and Contents

Account book and diary (1856 Jan. 1-1871) and account book (1858-1881 May 4) of Samuel G. Bachelder, town of residence unknown.

Dates: 1856-1881

C. T. Ball Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0032
Scope and Contents

Account book for a general jobbing business in Bangor, Maine, located at 127 Hammond Street. Includes unidentified photograph.

Dates: October 10, 1898-April, 1922

Eli G. Banker Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0995-sc
Abstract

An account book of a resident of Berwick, Maine.

Dates: 1871-1909

Bath Gas & Electric Company Records (Central Maine Power Company Collection)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0040
Scope and Contents

Financial records of a local electric utility in Maine from 1890 to 1898.

Dates: 1890-1898

John S. Bean Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1169-sc
Abstract

A volume used by John S. Bean of Farmington, Maine, to record his work history, including the days he worked and the wages he earned. The volume was also used by Bernice S. Bean, a member of the Farmington High School class of 1907, as a daily diary in January and February of an unidentified year. Carroll E. Whitney, Fairbanks, Maine, is also written inside the front cover of the volume. Carroll Whitney and the Whitney family are mentioned frequently in Bernice Bean's diary.

Dates: 1882-1909

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0046
Abstract

Contains Civil War correspondence of Frank L. Lemont (Company E, 5th Maine Regiment); letters of Charles Warner (145th New York Volunteers); diaries of John B. Bailey, Ezekiel Ellis, Edwin M. Truell and George Washington Verrill. Also contains record books.

Dates: circa 1860-1864

Blacksmith and Farmer Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0299
Scope and Contents

Account book of an unnamed blacksmith and farmer in Lincolnville, Maine. Some of the names mentioned are Robert Sprague, John Sprague, Joseph R. Gross, and John Henry Mitchell.

Dates: 1830-1851

Blacksmith's Account Book (1869)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0057

Blank Record Books

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1852-sc
Content Description

Collection contains two blank booklets consisting of a National State Bank, Newark, N.J., bank deposit book and a record keeping book for an account at a grocery store. The grocery account book appears to have the name A.W. Jones on the front cover.

Dates: Majority of material found within late 19th century-early 20th century