Ledger
Annapolis Valley Macdonald Museum
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| Object Name: | Ledger |
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| Object Type: | Funeral |
| Category: | Documentary artifact Funerary object |
| Material: | paper, ink, adhesive |
| Accession Number: | 2021.21.1 |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1900-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1938-12-31 |
| Description: | A black fabric and red leather ledger book. On the spin In gold letters it reads Minute Book. This book is a ledger used for recording those that were interred by a funeral home beginning in 1900 and going up to 1938.Ledger includes the name of the deceased, the day of funeral, how they were buried and how much the cost was. The book is a total of 149 pages long, 77 of the pages have information on them. |
| Narrative: | Found in a bag with four other funeral ledgers on the bottom right corner of the Volume stacks in the library. It is believed that this ledger came from a funeral home in Digby or surrounding area as the four others that were found with it record burials primarily in that region. |
| History of Use: | It is believed that this ledger came from a funeral home in Digby or surrounding area as the four others that were found with it record burials primarily in that region. |
| Height: | 2 cm |
| Length: | 27.7 cm |
| Width: | 21.5 cm |
| Institution: |
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| Institution City: | Middleton |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |