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Gentry Store Day Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 708

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

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.

Creator

Source

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

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444