Collection consists of six account books dating from the 1830s to the 1860s, including ledgers and daybooks, used and kept primarily by Enoch Curtis for his leather tanning business. There are also some loose accounts and notes on small sheets of paper. The ledgers use a single-entry bookkeeping method in £sd. They are organized by individual merchant account, with records of debits (purchases or expenditures made) and credits (payments or goods received). Parallel underlining and Xs indicate when an account has balanced. The collection also includes some records related to Stella Curtis from the 1890s, including one letter and two sheets of math problems marked Clarenceville Model School.
Consists of a manuscript ledger for years including 1841 to 1847 in half leather binding. Index of individual accounts in found written on front pastedown.
Consists primarily of financial ledger in half leather binding with marbled paper boards. The first 211 numbered pages from the beginning contain business accounts using single-entry bookkeeping method. Volume also includes daybook for the years 1846-1852, found on pages [1]-[10] (volume was flipped for additional use as a daybook; pages numbers are as counted from end of volume). Pages [21-23] from end of volume contain two leaves of lists of money received and money paid out, dated September 21, 1859.
Consists of manuscript notebook in limp, hand-cut and sewn leather binding (front cover only). Records in chronological order primarily business expenditures (hides and skins for tanning) covering the years 1852-1856. One entry (in pencil) is dated 1881.
File consists of manuscript accounting notes, receipts, requests for payment, and other loose notes previously laid in between pages 168 and 169 of Ledger, 1840s (file 3).