In Carrier Library’s Special Collections department, Andrea Hillebrenner began processing the records of the Houck Tannery of Harrisonburg. The collection documents 
the daily purchases and sales of the tannery, which was one of the largest in the Shenandoah Valley. Founded in 1871 as the Harrisonburg Steam Tannery, its name was changed to the Houck Tannery when it was purchased in 1878 by J.P. Houck. The records include an account ledger, receipts, payment notes, bark tonnage calculations, check stubs, and railroad freight forms.Andrea Hillebrenner processed the daily records of the Houck Tannery of Harrisonburg for Carrier Library’s Special Collections as part of a summer internship.
Katherine Carr and Erica Morrison worked on the long-term project of cleaning, sorting, organizing, and developing a finding aid for a large collection of unprocessed late nineteenth-century business documents associated with the Houck Tannery in Harrisonburg, Virginia.