Guide to the Huntsville, Alabama Receipts, 1916-1917 MSS.3700
Huntsville, Alabama
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2013
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-02-01T11:56-0600
- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Huntsville, Alabama Receipts, 1916-1917
- Unit ID:
MSS.3700
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet
- Dates:
1916-1917
- Abstract:
Two receipts from Huntsville, Alabama, for groceries in 1916 and 1917
Biographical/Historical note
A grocer is a bulk seller of food. Beginning as early as the 14th century, a grocer (or "purveyor") was a dealer in comestible dry goods such as spices, peppers, sugar, and (later) cocoa, tea and coffee. These items were bought in bulk, hence the term grocer from the French "grossier" meaning wholesaler, this term derived from Medieval Latin "grossarius" [1] from which we also derive the word gross (meaning a quantity of twelve dozen, or 144).
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Huntsville, Alabama Receipts, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2013
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Anne Bourne (CCIS), 2013
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains two receipts from Huntsville, Alabama, for groceries in 1916 and 1917. The receipts are possibly for the same person, but because the receipt from W.L. Wall Grocery Co. is made out to J.W. Smith (dated 17 February 1916) and the receipt from F.& O. Gudenrath Wholesale Groceries and Produce is made out to John Smith (dated 13 June 1917), it would be impossible to verify.
Source(s)
Agriculture--Alabama (lcsh)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Huntsville (Ala.) (lcsh)
Receipts Box SC0087 Folder 3700.01