Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Simmons Lumber Company Business Records, 1903-1906. Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Shenandoah County.

Historical Information

Simmons Lumber Company was a hardwood manufacturer that produced carriages, wagons, cart bent rims, spokes, and telloes. The company conducted business during the early twentieth century in Edinburg, Virginia.

Scope and Content

Records, 1903-1906, of Simmons Lumber Company include a time book and payroll book, a ledger, and a check register.

Time book and payroll book, 1903-1906, records bi-weekly wages paid by Simmons Lumber Company to its employees. Information found in each entry includes name of employee, hours worked per day, wage rate per day, and total amount of wage.

Ledger, 1904-1906, records chronologically the payments made by Simmons Lumber Company such as freight expenses, wages, operating expenses, and supplies.

Check register, 1906, contains the stubs of checks written by Simmons Lumber Company. Information recorded on stubs include the check number, date check was written, name of person or company to whom the check was written, and amount of check.

Access Terms

• Business records - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Carriages and carts - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Check stubs - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Hardwood industry - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Ledgers (account books) - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Local government records - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Lumber trade - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Payroll records - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.
• Shenandoah County (Va.) - - History - - 20th century.
• Simmons Lumber Company (Shenandoah County, Va.)
• Wagons - - Virginia - - Shenandoah County.