The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 542, Mar. 1895, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers 18 3# Roast 18 ~# Steak ~a pk meal ~5 3# Mincemeat 36 ~ doz. eggs 20 ~ pk apples 45 26 Steak ~2 2# Macaroni ~S ~ ~ Steak ~ ~ ~ ~ cheese ~ 5 3# Lard 2 ~ 27 ~§ hops 20 cts potatoes ~5 28 ~ doz eggs 20 ~ pk. apply ~5 256 flour 60 2§ L=d ~4 2§ coffee 50 26 Starch 15 3# Rice og ~# butter ~z ~ ~ butter 20 Roast ~ 2 cts Steak 27 cts 59 30 ~# butter 20 20 [~5~85] HD Con. look BTW Papers DLC. Corrections of errors of addition or omission appear in brackets. The original is a ledger book of o54 pages about 8~'' x ~4''. BTW's accounts are on pp. 190-98. Weekly totals and sums carried over onto another page have been omitted, and only monthly totals are included. ~ George W. Scott was in charge of the commissary in the 1894-95 school year. In the following year Y. E. McKinney and John M. Flournoy each served part of the year. It is impossible to determine who served first, but the document shows a change occurred on June ~ and another on Sept. ~ 7, ~ 895. 2A nationally advertised powdered laundry soap manufactured in New York beginning about 1880. SO 5I 65 SO ~7 2 I 35 35 74 65 ~ I To Nathan B. Young [Tuskegee, Ala., Mar. 5, 1895] Mr. Young: Hereafter Porter Hall, including the steps, halls and recitation rooms is to be scrubbed every other day, and the chapel twice a week. The unfrosted windows are to be cleaner} every week. The paint is to be carefully wiped off or washed once a week, especiaIly the paint on the doors around the knobs. Mr. Calloway will explain the details of this work to you if you will see him. This same thing applies to the recitation rooms in Armstrong Hall and Slab Hall. Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~3 BTW Papers DLC. 542