Contains 35 paginated ruled leaves with vertical lines for columns. The last two pages are blank.
Front Cover - Outside is a designed cover and has "CASH" stamped on it; Inside has "David H. Brubaker; Lancaster, Pa., R.#3.; 1922" written on it.
Back Cover - Outside is a designed cover; Inside has two columns of numbers that were added.
Book references to work done, wages received and money paid, e.g. stripping tobacco working at gas tank, cleaned stables, shoveled & opened roads with tractor, cleaned asparagus bed & cultivated, etc,; also an account of money earned at varios places, e.g. Vogels, Levy's, and also personal accounting of money received and paid.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 4 loose sheets
o Item 1 - Letter to Ma Chere (sp?) Sweetheart Ethal.
o Item 2 - Magazine article, "Timeliness in Apple Scab Control" from the "American Fruit Grower Magazine", February 1924.
o Item 3 - Paper article "Seed Treatment and Spray Schedules" from the American Argriculturist", 7 April 1923.
o Item 4 - 1 loose sheet with costs associate with various material, e.g., clothes, car fare, plant, etc.
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card, 1920 Manheim census, Find A Grave, memorial 196030584 and Obituary - "Lancaster New Era", Friday 23 February 1990, p. B-3, c. 4.
o David died 22 February 1990, buried at the East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery. He worked at Armstrong and was an antique dealer.
o Wife was Ethel Gantz, married 1929.
o From 1920 census: Son of Milton and Mary Huber Brubaker. Younger sisters: Carrie, Mary and Christina.
o Front cover missing lower right corner (~3/4") and upper left corner (~1/8").
o Front inside cover has "David H. Brubaker; Lancaster, Pa., R. #3.; 1922 written on it.
o Back inside cover has tabulation of hours written on it.
o First 2 pages have been torn out. Pages 35 to 40, 64 to 69 and 71 to 72 are blank,
Object ID
MG0963_F015
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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NOTE: Index is by first name. Also, indexed name may appear on multiple pages.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Copyright
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Contains 317 leaves, ruled, and except for the front leaf and index with vertical accounting lines and paginated. Contains 50 blank pages; (pp. 262-269, pp. 312-325, pp. 486-538 and pp. 550-559).
"Ledger" is stamped on spine.
The following possible newspaper clipping is glued on inside of back cover:
"A New Postoffice."
The Postmaster General had ordered the establishment of a postoffice at Herryville, Lancaster county, and William D. Herr has been appointed postmaster" The date July 26, 1886 is handwritten at the bottom.
Three pieces of paper with notes are glued to pages 10, 23 and 271.
Book references cash, sundries, flour, powder, jacket, pair shoes, salt, boots, hat, cartridge, shot, eggs, cigars, coffee, tobacco, paint, brush, corn, cow, butchering, stockings, spool of thread, oil, raisins, butter, suspenders, etc.
Front and back covers are worn and stained at spots. Spine had begun to separate from the book. Pages have foxing and many have stain spots.
Index tabs A-B, C-D, E-F and O-P are missing.
Pages 8 and 9 are glued together approximately half way at seam and page leaf is torn ~1/2" at seam and pages 130 and 131 are glued together at the inside seam.
The following pages have ~1/3 of their bottoms torn off: pp. 541-542, pp313-314, pp. 541-542.
Pages 253-254 has 3/4 of the outside leaf cut out.
Pages 317 to 322 have been ripped out.
Pages 381 to 390 have a 1-1/2" tare at the top.
Object ID
MG0963_F032
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
NOTE: Index is by first name. Also, indexed name may appear on multiple pages.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Gary Hawbaker's Collection of Business and Personal Record Books
Date Range
1785-1960
Year Range From
1785
Year Range To
1960
Date of Accumulation
1785-1960
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Storage Wall
Side 12
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0963
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
