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financial ledger
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- Dates
- 1901
- 1908
- circa 1901 - 1908
- Collection
- Parks Canada Agency Pharmacy Collection
- Category
- Archival Items
- Financial Records
- Classification
- Pharmacy, General
- Financial Record Keeping
- Accession Number
- 014002225
- Description
- Hardbound rectangular financial ledger with transaction histories for 542 pharmacy accounts hand written on both sides of paper pages in ink; dark brown leather on exterior of cardboard covers and spine; covers have a grey metal frame around perimeter of front, back and spine attached inside to the…
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- Accession Number
- 014002225
- Collection
- Parks Canada Agency Pharmacy Collection
- Category
- Archival Items
- Financial Records
- Classification
- Pharmacy, General
- Financial Record Keeping
- MeSH Heading
- Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Books
- Records
- Archival
- Pharmacy
- Description
- Hardbound rectangular financial ledger with transaction histories for 542 pharmacy accounts hand written on both sides of paper pages in ink; dark brown leather on exterior of cardboard covers and spine; covers have a grey metal frame around perimeter of front, back and spine attached inside to the spine with metal hinges; box spine has a metal frame and a key hole on the front centre; paper dividers separate sections of the ledger and have leather covered tabs with letters stamped on the front and back in gold ink; very heavy thick ledger with lined pages with thirteen accounting column headings; key missing; 474 pages (double sided).
- Number Of Parts
- 1
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Parks Canada Agency, via Gail Cariou of the Curatorial and Collections Branch.
- Maker
- The Copeland-Chatterson Co., Limited
- Site Made (City)
- Toronto
- Site Made (State)
- Ontario
- Site Made (Country)
- Canada
- Dates
- 1901
- 1908
- circa 1901 - 1908
- Date Remarks
- Start date is latest patent date recorded on the ledger; end date is the latest hand written entry
- Material
- paper: cream, tan
- leather: dark brown
- metal: grey
- ink: blue, black, gold, pink
- Inscriptions
- Stamped on front cover in gold ink: “CURRENT LEDGER // No. 1 // R. D. STILES”; stamped on the spine in gold ink: “CURRENT LEDGER // No. 1 // R. D. STILES // PATENTED 1901”; printed inside front and back cover in blue ink: “C-C // PERPETUAL // LEDGER // Patented Feb. 6, 1896. // ‘May 1, 1898. // Other Patents Pending, and in United States, Great // Britain and other Foreign Countries.”; printed on piece of paper affixed to the front of the first page in black ink: “INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPERATING THE // C-C // Retail Monthly Account System.” // “THE COPELAND – CHATTERSON CO., LIMITED, // DEVISERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS, // MONTREAL TORONTO.”; printed on the back of first page and front of last page in blue ink: “How to Open Accounts in Perpetual Ledger; // THE COPELAND-CHATTERSON CO., LIMITED. // Devisers and Manufacturers of Business Systems. // GENERAL OFFICES AND WORKS, // TORONTO. // HOPE BUILDING, // OTTAWA. // MERCHANTS BANK BUILDING, // MONTREAL.”; printed at the top of each account page in blue ink: “SHEET NO. ACCOUNT NO. // NAME // ADDRESS”; printed at the top of each account table in blue ink: “THE C-C PERPETUAL LEDGER. PATENTED 1896 AND 1900. THE COPELAND-CHATTERSON Co., LIMITED, SOLE MAKERS, TORONTO."; column headings: "DATE // DESCRIPTION // FOLIO // DEBITS // CK // CREDIT // BALANCE”
- Permanent Location
- Storage Room 2005
- 2005-3
- Length
- 31.5 cm
- Width
- 23.6 cm
- Depth
- 8.5 cm
- Unit Of Measure
- centimeters
- Dimension Notes
- Dimensions when the ledger is closed
- Condition Remarks
- Minor soiling to covers, spine, and pages; minor rusting of metal pieces, especially around key hole on front of spine; minor tears and loss to edges of leather tabs and edges of several pages
- Copy Type
- original
- Reference Types
- Website
- Artifact (book)
- Reference Comments
- “Pictou Parade.” Haggis: The McCulloch Heritage Centre. 2016. Accessed 15 May 2019.
- Pharmacy ledger, 014.002.224
- Research Facts
- The ledger contains hand written records of account transactions from 1902 to 1908 for the pharmacy operated by R. D. Stiles. R. D. Stiles was a druggist and apothecary and was a colleague of J. D. B Fraser. He operated several of J. D. B. Fraser's drugstore branches.
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