Unidentified Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor Daybook, 1911

Location of collection:

Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia

800 East Broad Street

Richmond, VA 23219

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Archives Reference Services

Email: archdesk@lva.virginia.gov

Phone: (804) 692-3888

Web: www.lva.virginia.gov

Summary

Creator:

Richmond (Va.) Circuit Court

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

Unidentified Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor Daybook, 1911, records transactions on an almost daily basis from July through September 1911. Information found in each entry includes customer name, item purchased, and amounts owed. In addition to serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the restaurant also functioned as an ice cream parlor selling ice cream, candies, lemonade, cigarettes, and cigars.

Biographical / historical:

This unidentified restaurant and ice cream parlor operated in Richmond, Va., during the early twentieth century.

Acquisition information:

This item came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Richmond under accession number 37367.

Physical location:

State Records Center - Archives Annex, Library of Virginia

Physical description:

1 v.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Consumer goods--Virginia--Richmond.
Ice cream parlors--Virginia--Richmond.
Restaurants--Virginia--Richmond.
Business records--Virginia--Richmond.
Daybooks--Virginia--Richmond.
Local government records--Virginia--Richmond.