Physical description
a. Book with a mottled blue-grey cover with brown leather spine and extends 5.5 cm to front and back. Corner edges also had the leather, two are missing and the other two are dilapidated. A red stuck on tape near the top of the spine had Ledger printed with some gold edging, most of which is worn off. Inside the front and back covers is a red, blue and white marble pattern. Front and back covers have been reinforced with white tape. 542 page Ledger Book for a general produce merchant. Probably Albert Bush. Alphabetical index at front. Entries in black ink on all pages and date from 1888 to 1920. Loose 4 page foolscap inside front cover listing Rolling Stock and Value. b. A pocket in the back of the book contains 6 pieces of paper relating to business and finance. Items include Discounts and Commission from 1888 to 1899, a note on insurance, a note dated June 2/90 headed Mr A Bush Sandhurst Dr to S A Bush & Co listing monthly amounts of money from Jan 1890 and 1889. Some amounts are with the name G P Reddie.Another one is a Building A/C dated 1889. Another is a balance sheet written on a page with another one written on the back and dated 1893. One written on paper headed Bush's Stores, Main Street, Bairnsdale and printed S.A.Bush & Co. It looks like a list of repayments listed in 8 bills. The other side of the page refers to Bill of Sales for Yeates & Baker and Bill of Sales held by the Bank of New South Wales. There is also a copy of two letters addressed to A Bush, one dated Oct 17.06 from H Hopkins referring to the late Mr Baker's property in Sale. The other is addressed to A Bush Esq and signed Harry Hopkins and also signed by Albert Bush and dated Nov 28 1906 in reference to the sale of a property.
Subjects
- business,
- retail,
- bushs,
- bush collection - ledger book 1888 to 1920,
- abbott & co,
- allcock ?,
- australian producers & traders ltd,
- bush s a,
- bush albert,
- broome sp,
- brealey w h,
- blogg bros,
- b'daledistrict farmers co-op coy ltd,
- bush and hopkins,
- berry henry,
- brockhoff & co,
- bush mrs albert,
- colonial bank,
- corden i s & co,
- crosby h m,
- cannon j e,
- dudgeon and arnell,
- drevermann & coy,
- fry bros,
- felton grimwade & coy,
- fyansford maunfacturing coy,
- gearing jas,
- hawthorn rhodes & coy,
- henebery john,
- harper r & co,
- holford's contract,
- jack a & co,
- kellie wm,
- kitchen & co,
- kronheimer & co,
- miller d,
- lewis & whitty,
- levy bros and coy,
- melbourne chilled butter coy,
- mooney i,
- mitchell & coy,
- mann mrs,
- mceacharn & son,
- macrobertson,
- mckenzie i & co,
- parsons bros & coy ltd,
- peterson & coy,
- phoenix biscuit coy,
- reddie g p estate,
- ross bros,
- gippsland news,
- rosella preserving coy,
- rolfe and coy,
- robur tea coy,
- ross,
- ryan w,
- russo and santamria,
- sniders i ? b,
- swallow and ariell ltd,
- sutherland john,
- service & co jas,
- smallman mrs,
- thomas w c,
- sandhurst & n d trustees coy,
- voght george,
- victoria soap & candle coy,
- vogt k,
- vickers and gardner's contract,
- west z,
- west h m,
- water and kerang roller mill coy,
- yeates and watson,
- yeates and baker,
- yates and c ? arthur,
- yeates jas
