Inventory of the Irvin Thigpen Ledger, 1885-1889
Collection Number 5262-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Thigpen, Irvin, 1853-1930.
- Title
- Irvin Thigpen Ledger, 1885-1889
- Call Number
- 5262-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 1
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Charles Apfelbaum of Watchung, N.J., in March 2006 (Acc. 100352).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton and Noah Huffman, June and October 2006
- Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, June 2006
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Irvin Thigpen Ledger #5262-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Account books--North Carolina.
- Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Commerce.
- Edgecombe County (N.C.)--History.
- General stores--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Thigpen, Irvin, 1853-1930.
Biographical Note
Irving Thigpen, presumably of Edgecombe County, N.C., possibly kept a general store ledger from 1885 to 1889.
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The collection is a general store ledger, 1885-1889, possibly kept by Irvin Thigpen of Edgecombe County, N.C. The ledger is organized by customers' names and includes dates, items and amounts purchased, and prices. The bulk of the ledger was kept from 1 October 1885 to March 1889, but a short portion of the ledger under the heading Lexington, Ky., was kept from 1 January 1885 to 1 December 1885 and separated from the main run of the ledger. This portion also includes financial information such as stock purchases and sales, debits and credits, expenses, bills, and what might be cash loans. At the end of the ledger are pages apparently used for handwriting practice that include the alphabet, rhymes, and names of a number of cities, such as Raleigh, N.C., Wilmington, N.C., Scotland Neck, N.C., and Norfolk, Va.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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