Howard-Hulme-Dittrich Shoe Company

General Ledger, 1921—1926

This partially used ledger book contains the financial entries for the above shoe company that later became Goodhealth Shoe Company in a transfer of assets. The Bank of Carthage was involved in the latter and researchers should refer to the specific record group associated with the Goodhealth Company. The ledger is covered in olive green corduroy fabric and has a leather label with the company embossed in gold.

Information includes assets, liabilities, income, expenses (in alphabetical order & tabbed) and customer accounts (in alphabetical order & in tabels). Most information is for the years 1921—1922 but there are entries for 1923, and 1926. The latter year seems to be when the assets were sold off and those names who bought furniture, equipment and other assets are given in the subject listing below.

Information about specific shoe products purchased by customers is not given. Most entries appear to be clothing or shoe stores in the Midwest and in eastern and southern states. A future volunteer project might consider the indexing of customer names by state especially if a special Carthage shoe industry history project was pursued in the future. Indexing was not done as part of the MHRAB grant project as this ledger was found in collection storage separated from other Bank of Carthage items.

Western Historical Manuscript Collection in Rolla has other Goodhealth Shoe Company records held by the Powers Museum microfilmed in their collection. WHMC declined to microfilm this ledger (since it was not known that a customer listing was included in the financial ledger) when copying other items from the Bank of Carthage collection in 2000—01 before funding for microfilming was cut and the project was severely downsized. Basic Howard-Hulme-Dittrich and Goodhealth information is found in the Powers Museum's Carthage Vertical Files.

Sample listings from "Customer" section of ledger:
All American Shoe Co; Huntington, WV
Anderson-Dulin-Varnell CO; Knoxville, TN
Bannon Brothers Department Store; St Paul, MN
J S Barrie; Carthage, MO
Battreall Shoe; St Joseph, MO
Beasley Shoe; Lynchburg, VA

Subjects:
Carthage, MO
Boot & Shoe Record (industry magazine)
W C Coates
O A Dittrich
Howard-Hulme-Dittrich Shoe Company
Goodhealth Shoe Company
Juvenile Shoe Corporation
Kaut Shoe Company
Leggett & Platt
McDaniel Milling
Adolph McGee
Morrow Kidder Milling
H C Proctor
Ramsay Brothers' Department Store
W J Sewall
Shoe Industry in Carthage, MO
J R Simpson
Smith Brothers Manufacturing
W W Stevens
United Shoe Machinery
H E Williams Products

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