Ledger
Annapolis Valley Macdonald Museum
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| Object Name: | Ledger |
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| Category: | Financial Records |
| Material: | paper, ink, leather |
| Accession Number: | 2021.5.4 |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1958-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1961-12-31 |
| Description: | This financial ledger records all money coming in and going out of George Ritchie Garage and War Surplus sales in Paradise, N.S. It records the Cash, Bank, War Surplus, Car + Garage, Gas + Oil, Canteen, Drawings, Interest + H.L.P. + Exchange + Phone, Office Rent Supplies, Unemployment Stamps, Travelling Expenses, General. These categories records the debit, credit, income and expenses for this business. Ledger is over 100 pages long with each page being number in ink. The pages record earnings and losses for each month along with the accounts various townspeople had at Ritchies Garage and War Surplus. Ledger is black with red strips running along the top and the bottom and in hard covered. Names include Clarence Angeline, Murray Wood, Victor Walker Arnold Wood, Marion Beard, Mary Ellen Gates, Russel Wood, Lawrence Bonang, Roland Baird Gordon Thomas Mary Lou Piggot, Ronald Robar, Paul Bailey, Jack Pearle, Marion Beard(?), Caroline Bishop, Burgess Pineo, Byroon Gillis , Joyce Acker, Victor Walker |
| Narrative: | It was figured out that these belonged to George Ritchies Garage and War Surplus through Gordon Rodgers asking Curtis Angevine. Nowhere in the ledgers does it say that they were from here. Related to 2021.5.1-4 |
| History of Use: | From George Ritchie Garage and War Surplus sales in Paradise, N.S. |
| Height: | 3 cm |
| Length: | 38.3 cm |
| Width: | 32.9 cm |
| Institution: |
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| Institution City: | Middleton |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |