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
- Creation: 1924 - 1926
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Timberville, Virginia Automotive Repair Shop Ledger must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Information
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.
Full Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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.
Acquisition Information
The Timberville, Virginia Automotive Repair Shop Ledger was purchased by Special Collections in 2008.
General Physical Description note
1 container; 0.1 cu. ft.
Processing Information
The processing and description of the Timberville Virginia Automotive Repair Shop Ledger commenced and was completed in April 2008.
- Title
- A Guide to the Timberville, Virginia Automotive Repair Shop Ledger, 1924-1926
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- John M. Jackson
- Date
- © 2008 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu