1924 — Florence Evans sales account ledger for cards, dresses, skirts, and samples

1924 — Florence Evans sales account ledger for cards, dresses, skirts, and samples

Year: 1924

Four-page handwritten retail account ledger on ruled bookkeeping paper for Florence Evans, with the first page headed "Delivered to — Florence Evans, 1620 Adams St." The item is written in brown and graphite pencil on vertically oriented ledger sheets printed with red horizontal rules and blue account columns. The first page also bears the notation "Per Peck" at upper left. Entries are dated in late August and September 1924 and record quantities, colors, and prices for merchandise including "pink sampler," red, pink, blue, and pink cards, "shorts," a size 4 garment, "Australia," red, blue, and brown items, pink "Fichues," blue thread, "Quenelles," "Dishes," "samples," "Salens," and additional color-coded stock. Itemized figures appear in the right-hand money columns, with check marks beside several entries and running totals including notations such as "8-29-46," "10131," "17810," "17960," "141," and "17600." The third page is headed "Florence Evans" and continues the account with additional named or labeled entries including "Hazel," "Clarine," "Marjorie," "Jessie Order," multiple lines for "waists," blue and pink-blue garments, "shorts," and "6 skirts," followed by amounts and a