Finding Aid for the Neilson Department Store Ledger Collection (MUM00782)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1871-1993

Identifier

MUM00782

LCSH

Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Oxford (Miss.) -- History; Stores, Retail -- Mississippi -- Oxford

General Physical Description Note

64 ledgers

Description

Collection consists of numerous ledgers from this significant Oxford, MS department store dating from the 1870s through the 1990s. Subjects of note include Reconstruction-era consumer culture in North Mississippi, early twentieth century business practices in Mississippi; World War I and II; race relations in Mississippi and consumer culture; the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi; among several others.

Recommended Citation

Neilson Department Store Ledger Collection (MUM00782), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

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