{"value"=>"<p>Series I contains checkbooks, ledgers, receipts, invoices, and order memoranda that document DuVivier & Co.'s income and expenses throughout the company's existence.</p> <p>Checkbooks track DuVivier & Co.'s expenditures from 1906 to 1916 and contain registers, posted checks, and account balances. Some checkbooks also contain deposit slips, invoices, correspondence, and bank statements pasted into the binding. The register provides the date, check number, amount withdrawn, and a memo detailing the transaction while the posted check provides additional information such as the recipient's name. Occasionally there are withdrawal slips or promissory notes for small loans.</p> <p>Ledgers include account books and daybooks. Account books usually contain an index at the beginning of the volume with entries appearing alphabetically by account or customer name, while daybooks list expenses and income chronologically. One early account book originates from Brugiere & DuVivier, the firm's earlier name. The ledgers were used to balance DuVivier & Co.'s revenue and expenses and contain entries for assets like bank accounts, sales, and merchandise; and expenditures such as duties, consignment, loans, and sundry expenses. There is one sundry ledger that relates to small expenditures like telephone bills, office supplies, and advertisements, as well as two ledgers that list sales only.</p> <p>Along with the ledgers, this series holds a financial memoranda book, detailing discounts offered to clients, merchandise placed in collateral, and outstanding checks. Two customer indexes list customer names and addresses with references to account books that do not appear to correlate with those held in this collection. A sales file contains receipts, invoices, and order memoranda documenting customer orders as well as warehouse and manufacturing supplies purchased for the business just prior to its dissolution.</p> <p>Arranged alphabetically by document type, with checkbooks and ledgers arranged chronologically. When available, spine titles of ledgers are noted in quotation marks.</p>"}