Timberville, Virginia, Automotive Repair Shop Ledger
Scope and Content
This collection contains the accounts ledger of an unidentified automotive repair shop in Timberville, Virginia, during the 1920s. The ledger contains customer names, together with itemized descriptions for parts and labor on automobile repair and maintenance, including fuel charges. Preceding the accounts is an index to customer names M-Z (the cover and index pages A-L are lacking).
Dates
- 1924 - 1926
Language of Materials
The materials in the collection are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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Biographical Note
The 1917 edition of the Virginia Business Directory and Gazetteer lists only one auto shop in Timberville, a business owned by H. E. Brill. Whether the ledger held in this collection belonged to Brill's shop is unknown, and no further information is available at this time.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection includes the accounts ledger for an unidentified automotive repair shop in Timberville, Virginia, containing customer names together with itemized charges for parts and services on repairs and maintenance.
Source of Acquisition
The Timberville, Virginia, Automotive Repair Shop Ledger was purchased by Special Collections in 2008.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Timberville, Virginia, Automotive Repair Shop Ledger by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement and description of the Timberville, Virginia, Automotive Repair Shop Ledger commenced and was completed in April 2008.
- Title
- Timberville, Virginia, Automotive Repair Shop Ledger, 1924-1926
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- John M. Jackson, Archivist
- Date
- 2008 (CC0 1.0)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu