Financial Documents - Ledgers, 1895-1898, circa 1900, 1903-1909, 1917-1921, 1926-1969

Summary: According to the Prentice-Hall Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business, a ledger is "a book in which the financial transactions of a business are classified by separate accounts .... They are therefore called books of final entry" (p. 356). These ledgers record sales (10 vols.), purchases (1 vol.), cash receipts and disbursements (7 vols.), and orders (3 vols.). Also included are ledgers recording just one account, specifically a commission account (1·vol.), an expense account (1 booklet), and a samples account (4 booklets). The last lists free samples given to potential customers. The general ledger dated 1895-98 is actually the ledger of the Rice Musical String Company, a New York City firm owned by one of NMSCo's founders.