A Guide to the Baker Store Collection

Compiled by Zachary Hottel

December 7, 2020

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA

Title: Baker Store Collection

Date Range: 1824-2014

Collection Number: 2020-0002

Extent: 44 boxes

Language: English

Abstract: Business records from Bakers Store, located in the Mt. Olive community.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Researchers must register and agree to all copyright laws and archives policies before using the collection. Please contact the Shenandoah County Library before visiting to use this collection.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Baker Store Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.

Acquisition Information: Series I materials were donated by June Foster in 2001. Series II materials were donated by D. Bean and Hans Bean in 2019.

Processing Information: It is uncertain what state items in Series I were received in. They were processed in 2010 by Ben Taylor and were processed in chronological order. They retain that original processing.

Items in Series II were stored in the store for several years and moved multiple times. The items were sorted in chronological order and do not retain any original order. All original names are retain when possible.

Biographical/Historical Note

Baker store operated on Back Road in the Mt. Olive community from 1860 until 2018. The store sold general merchandise including groceries, clothing, dry goods, and other items. It was also a center for community activity and was reportedly used as a hospital during the Civil War.

Ephraim Baker was the original owner of the store and operated it from 1860 until his death in 1919. His son William H. Baker then operated the store until his death in 1989. During his ownership the store also became an egg supplier for individuals selling eggs into urban areas of Northern Virginia and Washington DC.

Scope and Content

The Baker Store Collection consists of approximately 81 linear feet of material stored in 44 boxes. Primarily the collection consists of ledgers detailing business transaction, but there are a small number of books owned by the store owners, photographs, and loose business documents.

The collection is organized into the following 2 series:

Series I 1860-1919, contains materials dating to the ownership of Ephraim Baker.

Series II 1824-2014, contains materials from the time Baker Store was owned by William H. Baker and by subsequent individuals.

Arrangement

In Series I all items are arranged chronologically by box and within each box.

In Series II, all items are are arranged by type and then chronologically by box. When possible, they are arranged by date within each box.

Series I: 1860-1919

Box 1: 38758101156536

Box 2: 38758101156544

Box 3: 38758101156551

Box 4: 38758101156577

Box 5: 38758101156585

Box 6: 3875810115659

Box 7: 38758101156601

Box 8: 38758101156619

Box 9: 38758101156627

Box 10: 38758101156635

Box 11: 38758101156643

Box 12: 38758101156650

Box 13: 38758101156668

Box 14: 38758101156676

Box 15: 38758101156684

Box 16: 38758101156692

Box 17: 38758101156700

Box 18: 38758101156718

Box 19: 38758101156726

Box 20: 38758101156734

Box 21: 38758101156742

Box 22: 38758101157161

Series II: 1824-2014

Box 23: 38758101567377

Box 24: 38758101567385

Box 25: 38758101567393

Box 26: 38758101567401

Box 27: 38758101567567

Box 28: 38758101567443

Box 29: 38758101567450

Box 30: 38758101567468

Box 31: 38758101567476

Box 32: 38758101567484

Box 33: 38758101567492

Box 34: 38758101567419

Box 35: 38758101567427

Box 36: 3875810567435

Box 37: 38758101567500

Box 38: 38758101567518

Box 39: 38758101567526

Box 40: 38758101567534

Box 41: 38758101567542

Box 42: 38758101567278

Box 43: 38758101471216

Box 44: 3875810156

Inventory

Series I: 1860-1994

Box 1: Stack 4, Shelf 2

1 folder of Baker family genealogy, undated

Ledger document provision purchases, 1887-1890

11 receipts in folder, 1883-1887

Ledger book, 1883-1887

Ledger of Medical Supplies, 1877-1903

Ledger, 1875-1883

Ledger book, 1870-1872

Ledger book, 1860-1861

Box 2: Stack 4, Shelf 2

Ledger documenting promissory notes, 1888 and 1913

Ledger documenting store purchases, 1890-1893

Ephraim Baker Invoice book, 1865-1871

Ephraim Baker Invoice Book, 1865-1868

Bakersburg Store Cash and Produce Ledger, 1875-1881

Ephraim & Henry W. Baker’s Book of Partnership, 1879-1895

Ephraim Baker Mathematic Workbook, 1852-1855

Box 3: Stack 4, Shelf 2

Ledger of items purchased, 1963-1964

“Poultry Book” 1959-1963

Ledger, 1958-1959

Ledger, 1946-1948

Box 4: Stack 4, Shelf 2

“Ledger A,” 1866-1867

“Ledger B,” 1867-1869

“Ledger C,” 1869-1871

Box 5: Stack 4, Shelf 2

“Ledger D,” 1873-1876

“Ledger G,” 1880-1886

Box 6: Stack 4, Shelf 2

“Ledger H,” 1887-1894

“Ledger I,” 194-1915

Box 7: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Baker & Eberly Day Book No. 1,” 1860-1861

“E. Baker & George Eberly’s Book,” 1881-1882

“E. Baker’s Book,” 1870-1874

“Eberly & Co.’s Book,” 1877-1884

Box 8: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“E. Baker’s Day Book B,” 1866-1867

Day Book C, 1881

Day Book C, 1867-1868

Day Book D, 1881-1882

Box 9: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book D,” 1868-1870

“Day Book E,” 1882-1883

“Day Book S,” 1887-1889

Box 10: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book Q,” 1885-1886

Box 11: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book M,” 1879-1880

“Day Book R,” 1886-1887

Box 12: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book A,” 1875-1879

“Day Book A,” 1866

“Book No. 4,” 1889-1894

“Baker & Eberly’s Sewing Machine Ledger,” 1873

Box 13: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book F,” 1871-1872

Box 14: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book U,” 1891-1893

“Day Book V,” 1893-1894

Box 15: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book No. 1,” 1917-1918

“Day Book No. 2,” 1918-1919

“Day Book 5,” 1894-1897

“Day Book 6,” 1897-1898

“Day Book 7,” 1899-1904

Box 16: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book No. 8,” 1905-1909

“Day Book No. 9,” 1910-1913

“Day Book No. 10,” 1914-1917

“Day Book No. 11,” 1918

Day Book No. 12,” 1918-1919

Box 17: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book No. 16,” 1917-1918

Receipt received by William Baker from M.W. Barbe, 1919

List of envelopes and names, undated

“Day Book X,” 1896-1898

“Book B.B,” 1912-1918

Box 18: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book N,” 1880-1881

“Day Book C.C,” 1918-1920

Box 19: Stack 4, Shelf 3

Baker Store Shipping Book, 1896-1900

Box 20: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Day Book Z,” 1901-1906

Box 21: Stack 4, Shelf 3

“Ledger A,” 1875-1882

Bakersburg VA Ledger, 1878

“Day Book W,” 1894-1896

Articles about Baker Store Closings and Reopening, 1994

Box 22: Stack 4, Shelf 3

Baker Store Day Book Y,” 1898-1901

Series II: 1914-2018

Box 23: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Account Ledger, August 1914-October 1919

Store Book, April 1917-July 1922

Account Ledger, December 1919-September 1921

Box 24: Stack 10, Shelf 4

House Accounts, September 1919-September 1920

Expense Account, September 1920-March 1922

Invoice, 1920

“Book 1 W.H. Baker Toms Brook VA,” September 24 1919-January 27 1920

Expenses, September 1921-December 1922

“Book B” Account Ledger, September 1921-December 1922

Box 25: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Invoice, 1921

Account Book, August 1922 November 1928

1922 Inventory, January 1 1923

“Book C” Account Ledger, January 1 1923-December 1924

Account Ledger, January 1923-July 1938

Box 26: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Shipping Book 6, August 1924-April 1925

“Book D” Account Ledger, January 1925-January 1926

House Account, Shipping Book 10, January 1925-June 1930

Invoice, 1925

“Book 9,” April 1926-December 1926

Shipping Book 10, January 1927-October 1927

Invoice, 1927

Box 27: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Shipping Book 11, October 1927-October 1928

Account of Checks and Deposits, October 1 1927-January 1930

Cash Register Account Book, October 1 1927-January 1943

Invoice Book, January 1928

“Book E” Account Ledger, January 1928-October 1928

Shipping Book 12, October 1928-October 1929

Expenses, 1929-1936

Box 28: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Inventory, January 1930

Purchase Book, January 1930-December 1938

Check Book, February 1930-January 1932

Shipping Book 14, June 1930-October 1931

“Egg Book No. 5,” July 1930-January 1939

Egg Book, September 1930-March 1934

Inventory Book, 1931

Shipping Book 15, October 1931-August 1932

Egg Book, January-July 1932

Box 29: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Egg Book, January 1932-May 1933

Egg Book, July 1932-March 1933

“Invoice started January 18, 1933”

“Egg Book #2,” March 1933-July 1933

Paid Account Book, January 1934-June 1937

Egg Book 1933/Shipping Book 17, June 1933-January 1934

Shipping Book 16, September 1932-June 1933

Egg Book, October 1933-March 1934

Box 30: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Inventory Book, January 6 1934

“Poultry Fist Nat.,” August 1934-August 1935

Egg Book, September 1934-January 1935

W.H. Baker and J.B. Richard Poultry Account, September 1934-September 1938

Egg Book, August 1935-January 1936

“No. 1 Egg Book,” January-May 1936

Egg Book, May-July 1936

“No. 2 Egg Book,” May-August 1936

Egg Book, 1936

Box 31: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Book 2 “Carried Over from Book 1,” 1936

Book 2, 1936

Book 1, 1936

Shipping Book, July 1937-November 1940

Chicken Book, August 1937-August 1938

Book No. 3” Eggs, October 1937-March 1938

Box 32: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Egg Book No. 4, March-July 1938

Egg Book, August 1938-October 1939

Poultry Account, March 1938-March 1942

Purchase Book, January 1939-September 1941

Egg Book, January 1939-April 1939

Egg Book No. 8, April-August 1939

Egg Book, August 1939-January 1940

Egg Book No. 10, January 2 1940-April 1940

Egg Book No. 11, April-July 1940

Egg Book, July-December 1940

Box 33: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Grocery Account, January 1940-January 1941

Expenses, January 1940-December 1943

Egg Book, July 31 1940-December 31 1940

Shipping Book, November 1940-December 1943

Poultry Book, October 1940-January 1943

Egg Book, December 1940-April 1941

Egg Book No. 2, April 1941-July 1941

Purchase Book, October 1941-December 1943

Box 34: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Egg Book, January-October 1941

Egg Book, December 1941-June 1942

Inventory, 1942

Egg Book, July 1942-December 1942

Poultry Book A, August 1942-April 1944

Walnut Book, October 1942-October 1944

Egg Book, December 15 1942-May 10 1943

Box 35: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Poultry Book, January 1943-January 1947

Egg Book, May 1943-October 1943

Egg Book, October 1943-May 1944

Purchase Book, December 1943-October 1946

Invoice, 1943

Egg Book, May 1944-October 1944

Shipping Book, June 1944-December 1945

Egg Book, October 1944-April 1945

Box 36: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Invoice, 1944

Expense Account, 1944-1945

Egg Book, April 1945-October 1945

Egg Book, October 1945-February 1946

Inventory, 1945

Shipping Book, January 1946-December 1948

Egg Book, February 1946-October 1946

Inventory, 1946

Box 37: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Egg Book, October 1946-January 1947

Expenses, 1946-1948

Inventory, 1947

W.H. Baker and J.B. Richard Poultry Account, March 1947-June 1953

Egg Book, October 1947-February 1948

Poultry Book, January 1948-April 1954

Egg Book, January-May 1948

Egg Book, February 1948-June 1949

Box 38: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Purchase Book, January 1949-December 1950

Shipping Book, January 1949-January 1954

Egg Book, July-December 1949

Inventory, 1949

Expenses, 1949-1953

Inventory, 1950

Egg Book, January 1950-March 1951

Egg Book, March 1950-December 1953

Box 39: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Poultry Account, 1950-1952

Purchase Book, January 1951-December 1953

Inventory, 1951-1954

Egg Book, January 1953-May 1955

J.B. Richard and W.H. Baker Poultry Book, January 1953-October 1957

Purchase Book, January 1954-December 1955

Poultry Book, January 1954-November 1956

Sales, January 1954-December 1968

Box 40: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Expenses, 1954-1959

Egg Book, May 23 1955-November 1959

Purchase Bok, January 1956-December 1957

J.B. Richard and W.H. Baker Poultry Account Book B, October 11 1956-August 14 1958

Inventory, 1957-1958

Purchase Book, January 1960-December 1961

Expense Book, January 1960-December 1964

Purchase Book, January-December 1962

Box 41: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Ledger, January 1965-December 1968

Expenses, 1965-1972

Purchase Book, January 1969-December 1972

Egg Book, May to September ????

“Inventory Book No. 1,” Undated

“Book 7” Poultry Accounts, Undated

Inventory, Undated

Egg Book, March-May ????

Box 42: Stack 10, Shelf 4

“The Spectator” Volume VI, 1824

The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowen Hepler, 1860

W.H. Baker The Toms Brook Bank Checkbook, March 18 1931-April 8 1931

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes Revised, 1931

W.H. Baker Massanutten National Bank Account Book, 1931-1935

W.H. Baker Massanutten National Bank Account Book, 1935-1936

Box 43: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Folder 43.1 “Carter, Webster, & Co.” Advertisement, Baltimore Maryland, ca. 1919

Folder 43.2 Correspondence, “John Scholl & Bro. Inc. Butter & Eggs” with W.H. Baker, March 1925

Folder 43.3 Correspondence Concerning Egg Purchases, April 15 1927-February 1 1930

Folder 43.4 Documents from “Shipping Book 10,” 1927

Folder 43.5 Letter from Wheeling Metal & Manufacturing Company, July 6 1928

Folder 43.6 Documents from front of “Expenses,” 1929-1936

Folder 43.7 Virginia Seed Service Publications, 1930

Folder 43.8 Correspondence from Shipping Book 14, 1931-1932

Folder 43.9 Documents from Egg Book, January 1932-May 1933

Folder 43.10 Documents from Egg Book, July 1932

Folder 43.11 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 1 of 12

Folder 43.12 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 2 of 12

Folder 43.13 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 3 of 12

Folder 43.14 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 4 of 12

Folder 43.15 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 5 of 12

Folder 43.16 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 6 of 12

Folder 43.17 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 7 of 12

Folder 43.18 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 8 of 12

Folder 43.19 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 9 of 12

Folder 43.20 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 10 of 12

Folder 43.21 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 11 of 12

Folder 43.22 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, June 21 1937-May 25 1938 12 of 12

Box 44: Stack 10, Shelf 4

Folder 44.1 “Baker’s Clearance Sale” Auction Broadside, February 3 1938

Folder 44.2 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Checks, W,H. Baker General Merchandise, 1938

Folder 44.3 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 1 of 12

Folder 44.4 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 2 of 12

Folder 44.5 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 3 of 12

Folder 44.6 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 4 of 12

Folder 44.7 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 5 of 12

Folder 44.8 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 6 of 12

Folder 44.9 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 7 of 12

Folder 44.10 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 8 of 12

Folder 44.11 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 9 of 12

Folder 44.12 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 10 of 12

Folder 44.13 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 11 of 12

Folder 44.14 Massanutten Bank of Strasburg Check Stubs, W.H. Baker General Merchandise, May 25 1938-June 15 1939 12 of 12

Folder 44.15 “Candy Days” W.H. Baker Advertisement Broadside, December 15 and 16 1938

Folder 44.16 National Wildlife Foundation Documents, 1939

Folder 44.17 Financial Documents from “Expenses” Book, January 1940-December 1943

Folder 44.18 W.H. Baker Federal Income Tax Return, 1940

Folder 44.19 1939 Chevrolet Truck Maintenance Documents, 1940-1942

Folder 44.20 Individual Income Tax Return, 1944 and 1945

Folder 44.21 Items from Expense Account Book, 1944-1945

Folder 44.22 Good Bought and Sold, January-December 1946

Folder 44.23 Documents from Inventory Ledger, 1946

Folder 44.24 Tax Documents, 1946-1951

Folder 44.25 Bought and Sold Lists, January-December 1947

Folder 44.26 Reports, 1954

Folder 44.27 Documents from “Sales” Book, January 1954-December 1968

Folder 44.28 Financial Statements, 1959 and 1964

Folder 44.29 The Wetsel See Co., Inc. Seed Catalog, 1960

Folder 44.30 Paid Bills, 1960-1964

Folder 44.31 “In the Shenandoah Valley…” Washington Post, July 3 1975

Folder 44.32 Mt.Olive Church Document, February 1 1981

Folder 44.33 Firearms Dealer License, Baker’s Store Inc., April 1 1988

Folder 44.34 Robert Spiker Jr. Receipt, May 6 1993

Folder 44.35 “The Eggman’s Final Rounds,” Charles Dykes, Washington Post Metro, June 25 1999

Folder 44.6 “Baker’ Store Still Serves Its Neighbors after 143 Years,” Bryce Mountain Courier, May 2003

Folder 44.37 “Baker’s Store Changes Hands Saturday,” Northern Virginia Daily, 2005

Folder 44.38 Guy Keller and W.H. Baker at Bakers Store in 1927, “Old Picture,” Free Press October 18 2012

Folder 44.39 “Baker’s Store to Celebrate 152 Year History,” Northern Virginia Daily Business, October 4 2020

Folder 44.40 Billy M. Hitt Obituary, Northern Virginia Daily, April 6 2013

Folder 44.41 Baker’s Sore New Owner, Mountain Courier, March 2018

Folder 44.42 Charles “Henry” Dyke Funeral Service Pamphlet, August 18 2018

Folder 44.43 Strasburg Virginia Drawings by Alan Upton, Undated

Folder 44.44 Gore’s Meats, Undated

Folder 44.45 Interior Photographs, Bakers Store, Undated

Folder 44.46 W.H. Baker Tags, Undated

Folder 44.47 Egg Record, Undated

Folder 44.48 Bakers Store Advertisement, Undated

Folder 44.49 W.H. Baker Letterhead, Undated

Folder 44.50 Rainbow Poultry Farm Stationary, Undated

Folder 44.51 W.H. Baker Broadside, Undated

Folder 44.52 W.H. Baker Wolverine Shell Horsehides Shoes Advertisement, Undated

Folder 44.53 “Ghost in the Art Group Gallery” Pamphlet, Undated

Folder 44.54 Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Advertisement Cards, Undated

Folder 44.55 Tomato Can Labels, Undated

Folder 44.56 W.H. Baker Esso Christmas Cards, Undated

Folder 44.57 W.H. Baker Holiday Special Broadside, Undated

Folder 44.58 W.H. Baker “Happy Xmas” Broadside, Undated