Scope and Contents This series comprises five scrapbooks compiled by Harry Teich, Jr. from the diverse personal and business papers of the Teich Family and Teich's General Store. These scrapbooks are meant to contain a representative cross-section of the variety and scope of business dealing of the Teich Family business organized more or less in chronological order.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook one contains a representative collection of invoices, correspondence with wholesalers, and miscellaneous account documents of Heinrich [Henry] Teich and son Louis Teich covering the second half of the 19th century. Interesting documents within include early handwritten accounts and letters, as well as miscellaneous items like several of Henry Teich's Internal Revenue Licences. The retailer correspondence within conveys a clear sense of the comprehensive scope of goods offered by the...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook two comprises almost exclusively a selection of wholesaler invoices issued to Louis Teich for roughly fifteen years around the turn of the 20th century. These invoices convey a comprehensive look at the types of goods and products offered by Teich's General Store at the beginning of the 20th century and the process by which the Store maintained and adjusted its stock of goods.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook three contains a selection of papers of Louis Teich as owner and operator of Teich's General Store and the Leeds Post Office for the earliest decade of the twentieth century. Of note are invoices of the Catskill Electric Railway Company for books of tickets sold by the General Store - specifically "School Tickets" for students who used the trolley to get from Leeds to Catskill during the winter months. Also within are miscellaneous invoices of local, regional, and national...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook four contains wholesaler invoices and receipts for the years 1914-1929 during the period when Louis Teich and Harry Teich were active in the operation of the store. Included within are invoices similar to those in earlier scrapbooks which convey a sense of the scope of goods offered by the General Store. Also within is a selection of letterhead of the general store, as well as some correspondence with the United States Postal Service regarding operation of the Post Office in Leeds.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook five contains a selection of business invoices and correspondence meant to be representative of the last fifty years of the General Store's operation primarily under the management of Harry Teich, son of Louis Teich. Of particular note are several inventories written by hand of contents of the store between 1930 and 1955, as well as a hand-drawn floor plan of the general store as it appeared in the 1950s. The second half of the scrapbook also contains occasional photographs and news...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises mainly invoices of various suppliers with whom Teich's General Store conducted business. These materials are organized by vendor coompany, and repesent an interesting cross-section of various mercantile and food vendors at both the regional and national level who supplied this moderately sized general store. Also included in the collection is a selection of the day books and ledgers of the General Store frm the 1870s through the 1950s as well as the charge account books...