One volume charting accounts by month from April through March 1912, with entries containing account names, corresponding ledger account number, and monthly debit and credit balances.
Twenty-one invoice books containing entries arranged by month and listing the day, corresponding ledger page, seller, goods purchased, debits (with columns for merchandise, expense, and plant), and credit to account payable.
Seventeen volumes with entries arranged by month of cash received and cash disbursements, listing transaction date, corresponding ledger page, account name, and amounts.
Volumes 35 and 37-38 containing handwritten entries, each with corresponding ledger page, date, account name, and amount. The first page of volume 36 notes the formation of a partnership on January 1, 1915, and lists the property not included in the partnership.
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
Thirty-five volumes containing entries listing jobs completed by the Press with job number, customer and brief description of job and number of copies, and itemized charges. The first eighteen volumes each have alphabetical indexes of customer names at their fronts; subsequent volumes (for jobs 8232-17910, dating from 1916-1949) do not have individual indexes, and instead share one typescript alphabetical index of customer name and corresponding job number.
Note: Volumes 122-125 are disbound and boxed.
