Museum object · Documents and Manuscripts
Accounting ledger for Shearer Cottage
1945-1956
Oak Bluffs, Duke County, Massachusetts, United States, Martha's Vineyard, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
298 page accounting ledger used by the vacation home, Shearer Cottage, to record deposits during the summer season for the years 1945 to 1956. The ledger is bound in an unadorned red and brown leather backing boards. The spine is broken with loose pages.
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Catalog reference: 2012.2.1
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