Wessel & Eilers Business Ledger

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-002

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

H.B. Eilers and J. Wessell opened a wholesale grocery and liquor business December 8, 1851 in Wilmington. The business was located at No. 1 and 2 of P.K. Dickinson’s Building on North Water Street. This collection consists of a ledger book for the firm that covers 1853 – 1856. The ledger has an alphabetical index in the front and contains 557 pages of entries.

Dates

Creation: 1853-1856, 1984

Creator

Wessel and Eilers (Wilmington, N.C.) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Copyright Statement

Copyright retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Extent

1 Container (Contains 1 oversize box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Acquisition Information

Method and date of acquisition unknown.

Processing Information

Originally processed by Lana Donaldson Taylor in 1989. In 2015, this manuscript collection was rehoused with current archival standard materials by Christine Hockaday.