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Business records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1
Scope and Contents The Liberty C. Abbott family papers contain the records of the Abbott family, including a large amount of correspondence, much of it with family and friends but there are political and business letters also. In addition, there are records of Liberty Abbott’s business activities, including Clifton Plantation, Abbott and Howard, Holmes County, as well as Thompson and McClure of Schlater, Leflore County. There are also some legal documents, diaries, memorabilia, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1859 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1926

Burnside Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-277
Scope and Contents

Materials of the Burnside family of Lake Burnside, Neshoba County, Mississippi, including: memorandum book, 1886 and undated; family business papers, 1839-1904; letters, 1861-1918, including letter to A.W. Burnside from unnamed brother, Harper's Ferry, Virginia, June 12, 1861; publications, including Confederate Annals (June 1883), Neshoba County Democrat (May 23, 1895) article on double primary, and Southern Cultivator (April 1896); photograph, 1918; and genealogy, undated. Photocopies.

Dates: 1839 - 1918

Eugene Butler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-389
Scope and Contents The Eugene Butler papers contain the personal and business correspondence of Progressive Farmer editor-in-chief Eugene Butler. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to his father, Dr. Tait Butler, particularly in regard to a memorial plaque for the Tennessee Agricultural Hall of Fame. The largest proportion of the collection materials is concerned with Eugene Butler’s position as editor and senior executive of the Progressive Farmer Company....
Dates: 1883 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1980

Gardner (James H.) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
Scope and Content Note

The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.

Dates: 1846 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890

Tom Henderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-433
Scope and Contents

Cancelled checks, envelopes, account sheet, and receipt from Reichman-Crosby Company, concerning W. J. Bell of Pelahatchie, Mississippi.

Dates: 1900 - 1903

Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.-537
Scope and Contents The Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers contain the papers of the members of five Mississippi families related by marriage. Much of the material concerns three families: the Perkins, Hightower and Montgomery families. The papers include family correspondence, a small number of business and legal documents, and a variety of other documents that record predominantly the lives of the female members of the families. The collection includes a number of...
Dates: 1848 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1960

Houston jewelry firm business records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-443
Scope and Contents

Business records of a Houston, Mississippi, jewelry business.

Dates: 1860 - 1861

McReynolds family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-54
Scope and Contents

Papers of McReynolds family of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, include statements of accounts, tax receipts, exemptions, pieces relating to tanning business, loyalty oath, military pass, teacher's agreement, report card. Photocopies.

Dates: 1859 - 1916

George A. Smythe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates: 1836 - 1943

Southern Livestock Journal Company Stockholders Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-311
Scope and Contents

Minutes, January 27, 1883-December 31, 1886, of the Starkville, Mississippi, company. See also microfilm (Mississippiana).

Dates: 1883 - 1886