Image • Detail of Joseph Bailly’s account book in the PoCo Muse Collection.

The fur trade could be a rough-and tumble business. The disorderly nature of the enterprise is evident in the volume of Bailly’s account book held by the Porter County Museum, as well as in other volumes of Bailly’s records in the Indiana State Library. Valparaiso University Professor Randa Duvick will present the results of her study of Joseph Bailly’s existing business records dating from the turn of the nineteenth century.