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Collection Number: 02921-z

Collection Title: Redd and Johnson Account Books, 1845-1872.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 32 items
Abstract The collection includes daybooks and ledgers of Redd and Johnson, a Columbus, Ga., firm selling dry goods, and some accounts for general merchandise, groceries, and tailoring, presumably relating to the same firm.
Creator Redd and Johnson (Columbus, Ga.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Redd and Johnson Account Books, #2921-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Annie Bell Redd of Columbus, Ga., September 1952.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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Redd and Johnson was a Columbus, Ga., firm selling dry goods.

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The collection includes daybooks and ledgers of Redd and Johnson, a Columbus, Ga., firm selling dry goods, and some accounts for general merchandise, groceries, and tailoring, presumably relating to the same firm.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

Original finding aid

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Volume 1: Ledger, 1845-1847

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Volume 2: Daybook, 1850

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Volume 3: Ledger, 1850-1851

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Volume 4: Ledger, 1851-1852

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Volume 5: Cashbook, 1851-1852

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Volume 6: Daybook, 1852-1853

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Volume 7: Ledger, 1852-1853

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Volume 8: Daybook, 1853

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Volume 9: Daybook, 1853

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Volume 10: Daybook, 1854

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Volume 11: Ledger, 1854-1855

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Volume 12: Daybook, 1855

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Volume 13: Ledger, 1855-1856

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Volume 14: Daybook, 1856

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Volume 15: Daybook 1856

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Volume 16: Daybook, 1857

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Volume 17: Daybook, 1857

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Volume 18: Daybook, 1857

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Volume 19: Ledger, 1857-1858

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Volume 20: Daybook, 1858-1859

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Volume 21: Ledger, 1858-1859

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Volume 22: Daybook, 1859

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Volume 23: Dayook, 1859

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Volume 24: Daybook, 1859-1860

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Volume 25: Ledger, 1859-1863

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Volume 26: Daybook, 1860: January-April

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Volume 27: Daybook, 1860: May-October

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Volume 28: Ledger

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Volume 29: Daybook, 1861: January-July

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Volume 30: July 1861-July 1866

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Volume 31: Ledger, 1869-1872

Grocery store.

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Volume 32: Index to ledger, Columbus, Ga., undated

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Oversize volumes (SV-2921/1-24)

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