Gentry Store Day Ledgers
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Scope and Content Note
Day books from an unidentified general store in Gentry, Arkansas. Although there is no identification on the day ledgers, they are most likely the records of the general store, furniture store, and undertaking establishment of Ray and Roy Carpenter.
Dates
- 1928-1937
Creator
- Gentry Store (Ark.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
The Carpenter brothers, Ray and Roy, took over the retail grocery of their father, I. W. Carpenter, in 1909. They built up the grocery business, added a furniture line, and in 1929 moved into a new building.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (5 volumes in 1 box)
Arrangement of the Papers
Materials are arranged chronologically.
The day books originally had paper clips and pins placed to mark pages or to attach tapes from an adding machine showing totals of the entries from each page or each division. For better preservation of the day books, the adding machine tapes were removed to folder 6, and marked to indicate the volume and page number where they were originally attached. The marks are enclosed in brackets; the first number is the volume number, the second the page number (e.g., [4-36] means volume 4, page 36).
Acquisition Information
The Gentry Store Day Ledgers were donated to Special Collections by Mrs. Paul Serritslev, Yountville, California, through David Haberstich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., in March, 1985.
The ledgers were found by Mrs. Serritslev in the Elberta Hotel, Gentry, shortly before the hotel was demolished in 1982.
Processing Information
Prepared by Nan Lawler, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in August 1987.
- Title
- Gentry Store Day Ledgers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nan Lawler
- Date
- 1987
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu