Details

Digitizer

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1868/01/01-1870/07/00.

Summary note

Description: Lists of accounts with individual customers.

Notes

• Papers (1861-1884) of Ephraim W. Morse, a San Diego merchant, real estate broker, insurance agent, and city promoter. The financial records series contains business records from Morse's mercantile store in Old Town, San Diego, between 1861 and 1869, and his general entrepreneurial activities in New Town between February 1869 and 1884. Morse kept two types of business records for his Old Town store. He recorded each transaction serially in a "storebook" each day and also kept an "account book" for individuals with running credits and debits. For each transaction in the "storebook," Morse assigned a unique number to each individual based upon the page number assigned in one of the several "account books." The "account books" summarize transactions by person. Missing from the "storebooks" for Old Town are records from November 1, 1863 to December 31, 1865. Missing from the "account books" are records from 1861 to 1864. Morse's activities in New Town, beginning in February 1869, are also represented by "storebooks," February 6, 1869 to June 30, 1879, and "account books", 1869-1884.
• AMDigital Reference: MSS 79.

Original version

Reproduction of: Account Books - "Leger H" 1 Jan 1868-c. Jul 1870.

Location of originals

University of California, San Diego

Copyright note

University of California, San Diego

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on April 12, 2017).

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