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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Anderson Brothers Ledger, #3029-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from John L. Sanders of Four Oaks, N.C., May 1954.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Account books.
• Anderson Brothers (Firm)
• Barter--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Davie County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• General stores--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Rowan County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.

Anderson Brothers was a general merchandise firm in Rowan or Davie County, N.C. C. Anderson and A. A. Anderson were involved in the operation of the store and possibly the ownership of the firm. Supplies for the business came chiefly from Salisbury, N.C., but also apparently from Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia, Pa.

The collection contains a ledger of accounts of Anderson Brothers with customers, including men and women, and blacks and whites, some of whom bartered goods or labor, and with suppliers. Some items mentioned include tobacco, butter, cloth, cash, shoes, leather, corn, bacon, oats, wheat, shingles, eggs, cotton, coffins, furniture, fruit and berries, field labor, and factory labor.