Banks:
Bank of Mississippi Ledgers. 1825-1834.
(MUM00018) 3 boxes.
Bank of Oxford Collection. 1880-1898.
(MUM00019) In addition to the bank’s ledgers, this collection includes a drug store account ledger from 1853. 6 boxes.
First National Bank of Oxford Ledgers. 1910-1963.
(MUM00185) 1 box & 23 ledgers.
Natchez Bank Ledger. 1829 – 1830.
(MUM00017) 1 box.
Southern Bank of Oxford Ledgers. 1876-1888.
(MUM00416) 3 boxes.
Railroads:
Annual Report of Southern Railway Company in Mississippi to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the Year Ended December 31, 1918.
(MUM00010) 1 box.
Falkner Family Papers.
Box 3, Folder 5 contains two completed pages of a receipt ledger of the Southern Express Company in New Albany, MS. No year..
Sunflower & Eastern Railway Company Ledgers. 1905-30.
(MUM00440) 1 box.
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Ledgers. 1920-25.
(MUM00497) 2 ledgers.
Stores/Merchants (see also Plantation/Agriculture):
Butcher’s Ledger. [ Columbus, MS]. 1902-1903.
(MUM00056) 1 box.
P.B. Furr Ledger. 1890s.
(MUM00934) [ Lafayette Springs, MS]. Store ledger.
Daniel Holland Ledger.
(MUM00231) The first portion of the ledger dating from 1837 to 1845 appears to be a store in Natchez, MS. The portion dated 1865 appears to be a Madison County,
MS plantation store with freedmen’s accounts. 1 box.
Holly Springs Ledger. 1837-1904.
(MUM00232) Holly Springs, MS. 1 box.
Owens & Archibald Ledger. 1872-1873.
(MUM00353) Oxford, MS. Dry Goods Store. 1 box.
Store Ledger [Unidentified]. 1924-1925.
(MUM00433) 1 box.
Retail Ledger [Unidentified]. 1881-1882.
(MUM00387) Oxford, MS. 1 box.
Physicians/Pharmacies:
Steven Duncan Physician Ledger. 1804-1809.
(MUM00116) Natchez, MS. 1 box.
Druggist/Mercantile Ledger. 1884-1887
(MUM00113) [George W. Boyett & Dr. T.G. Ivy’s Drug & Dry Goods Store in Abbott, MS]. 1 box.
Metcalf Ledger. 1897.
(MUM00295) Coffeeville, MS. Records for a pharmacist or doctor. 1 box.
Physician Ledger [Unidentified]. 1885-1886.
(MUM00363) 1 box.
Dr. B.B. Sayles Collection. 1908-1913.
(MUM00401) Coffeeville, MS. 1 box.
Plantations/Agriculture:
Cotton Record Books.
(MUM01475) Six ledgers of crop records for The Bend Plantation at Swan Lake, MS dated 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1965.
Charles Dean Collection.
(MUM00103) This Holly Springs, MS collection contains two boxes (#18 and 19) of ledgers:
a plantation expense ledger from 1956-1958; a 1963 plantation store ledger; an undated plantation crop ledger;
a sharecropper ledger from 1906-1917; a store ledger from 1908-1914; and a personal estate valuation ledger for C.N.
Dean circa 1930. Inventory available.
Thomas Henderson & Company Ledgers. 1847-1848.
& 1861-1862. (MUM00227) Natchez, MS. Cotton factor/merchants.
John F. Johnson Collection.
(MUM00244) Box 1 contains bound and loose ledger sheets concerned with agriculture in Mississippi and Alabama from 1849 to 1890. Inventory available.
Locust Grove Plantation Ledger. 1825-1845.
(MUM00275) Records weights of cotton picked each day on a Jefferson County, MS plantation and also contains a list of slaves on the plantation.
Andrew McCrery Ledger.
The first portion of the ledger dates from 1813-14 and includes the accounts for McCrery’s two Adams County, MS plantations, a general store, and a medical practice. The second portion dates from 1865
and tracks the cotton production of freedmen on a plantation.
Robb Farm Journal. 1836-1865.
(MUM01125) [MS]. Photocopies of a ledger with entries recording weight picked by individual slaves each day,
along with other notes on produce, purchases, and activities. 4 folders.
Mrs. A.B. Robinson Plantation Ledger. 1871-1876.
(MUM00392) Albin Place Plantation in Tallahatchie, MS. 1 box.
Seed Cotton Ledger. c.1909.
(MUM00406) 1 box.
Lumber:
Batson & Hatten Lumber Company. (MUM00026) 14 boxes + ledgers.
Andrew Brown and Son/R.F. Learned Lumber Company. (MUM00046) Contains business correspondence and financial records of the Andrew Brown and Son Lumber Company from 1831 through 1869, when it became the R.F. Learned Lumber Company, and thence to about 1958. In addition to lumber, the company also contains records for the Natchez Ice Company, the Natchez Department Store, and the Learned Plantations. Inventory available (117 boxes & 150 ledgers).
L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company. (MUM00100) One of the largest lumber manufacturers in the South, the correspondence and financial records for the Dantlzer company cover the period 1894 to 1948. Inventory available (75 boxes & 336 ledgers).
Fernwood Industries Lumber Company. (MUM00182) 94 boxes + ledgers.
J.J. Newman Lumber Company. (MUM00330) 6 boxes.
H. Weston Lumber Company. (MUM00474) Due to a fire, company records prior to 1913 are sparse, but are fairly complete thereafter until 1933. The collection also includes records for the Weston Sand & Gravel Company; the Louisiana-Mexican Timber & Investment Company; the Hotel Weston; the Logtown Utility Company; the Mississippi South-Western Railroad Company; and the United American Mechanics, Pearl River Council. Inventory available (116 boxes & over 300 ledgers).
County Records :
Lafayette County, MS Ledgers. 1902-1963.
(MUM00256) Includes 1935 Cash Disbursement, Warrant Register; Chancery Court Cost Bills from 1936-1940;
Personal Assessment Rolls from 1880 to 1946; Real Estate Assessments from 1917 to 1951; and more. Inventory available.
Jasper County, MS. (MUM00242) Register of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles. 1925-1927. 1 box.
Miscellaneous:
Account Books. 1852-1872.
(MUM00002) Adams County, MS. Perhaps the records for a lumber company. 1 box.
Avent & Lyes Ledgers. 1866-1879.
(MUM00013) Oxford, MS. Possibly a bank. 1 box.
Business Ledger [Unidentified]. 1897-1900.
(MUM00054) 1 box.
Gravel Company Ledgers. 1926-1929.
(MUM00207) Charleston, MS. 1 box.
Kavanough Collection. 1853-1858.
(MUM00248) [ Aberdeen, MS]. Tavern ledgers. 1 box.
Maddux Family Account Book. 1898-1920.
(MUM00282) [ Panola County, MS]. 1 box.
News Scimtar. C.1910.
(MUM00331) ( Memphis, TN) Subscription Ledger for Oxford, MS.
Natchez Library Institute Accounts. 1842.
(MUM00328) Coexists with an 1870s scrapbook on top of several account pages. 1 box.
Park Hotel Ledgers. 1933-1941.
(MUM00354) Amory, MS. 1 box.
Red Tops Collection.
(MUM00645) Box 5 contains ledgers associated with the Fabulous Red Tops, an R&B dance band from Vicksburg, MS who performed
throughout the Mid-South from the 1950s through the 1970s.
See also Andrew Brown and Son/R.F. Learned Lumber Company as well as H. Weston Lumber Company for non-lumber business records.