H.J. Bachtel Papers

The collection is housed inside a single legal-length Hollinger box. The box is aged to an undetermined extent. Loose leaf papers and smaller booklets are housed in folders. Some of the folders are known to be acid-free. Plastic bags originally housing the smaller booklets were removed during processing and discarded.

0.5 linear feet.

The collection is composed to numerous account booklets from Union Trust & Savings Bank. Other unlabeled booklets document accounts as well. The account booklets document financial transactions between the 1880s and 1890s. There are other booklets detailing checks issued to various entities and persons. These booklets document activities from the late 1890s to the early 1900s. Other records include newspaper clippings, invoices, receipts, and financial statements.

The records, while extensively documenting financial transactions, do not reveal much in the way of who H.J. Bachtel was and little about his business. That business involved customers renting sheds for ten cents for their horses in the 1880s to early 1900. Feed could be bought for an additional charge of five cents. This information is found only on one document detailing the charges.

Past practices described the contents of this collection individually. Each item received an object ID number and was treated as a distinct artifact. Records have been reunited, but their original order may have been lost.

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The contents of this collection were originally described individually. Their records were deleted in PastPerfect and they are now described collectively in this finding aid and in PastPerfect. This was part of an effort to better intellectually and physically curate the archives.

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