Series 2: Historical Writings

The Historical Writings series contains published and unpublished writings, original unpublished source materials collected by Bartlett, and research notes used in the preparation of his book and of various articles about the history of Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley regions. Some topics included are: the Cornell University lands in Wisconsin (1880-1922), John Deitz of the Cameron Dam (1905-1910 and 1945), the Red River Dam incident during the Civil War (1864-1904), and lumbering in the Chippewa Valley area (1821-1932). The lumbering materials constitute the bulk of this series and are arranged in an alphabetical subject file. Most of the papers are from the Daniel Shaw Lumber Co. but there are also some from the North Western Lumber Co., Porter and Moon, and the Montreal River Logging Co.; D.R. Moon was an officer in the latter three companies. While the majority of these papers concern routine business, there are also several subject files on such topics as the purchase and sale of land, relevant legislation, court cases, lumber dealers, contracts and articles of agreement, and logging camp humor. The documents include ledgers, letterpress copybooks, journals, account books, log mark books, tally books, scale books, and section map books. There is only a small amount of material illustrating the operations of the interlocking directorates that characterized Wisconsin's lumbering industry at this time.

Local History- Writings and miscellany

Box 4 Folder 1: History, Tradition and Adventure in the Chippewa Valley, 1929; 1930
Box 4 Folders 2-3: Manuscripts and Articles, 1921-1926; undated (scattered)
Box 4 Folder 4: Notebook by Bartlett, undated
Box 4 Folders 5-6: Local and State history - general, 1836-1931; undated (scattered)

Box 4 Folder 7: Chippewa-Sioux feud, the 1825 treaty and boundary, 1832-1836, July; before 1921; 1921; 1931
Box 4 Folder 8: Civil War, 1860-1864; 1898-1926; 1948; 1962; undated (scattered)
Box 4 Folder 9: Cornell University's land in Wisconsin, 1880-1922 (scattered)
Box 4 Folder 10: Deitz, John, 1905, April - 1910; 1945
Box 4 Folder 11: Ermatinger, Warren, England, and Johnson Families, 1841; 1852; 1898; 1924-1929; undated (scattered)
Box 20 Folder 1: Patents, 1855-1909 (scattered)

Box 5 Folders 1-2: Bartlett's writings, undated
Box 5 Folder 3: Incomplete manuscript about lumbering, 1930
Box 5 Folder 4: General, 1821-1932; 1944: undated (scattered)

Box 6 Folder 1: Account book, 1850-1875
Box 6 Folder 2: Chippewa rafts book, 1865-1867

Contracts and articles of agreement

Box 6 Folder 3: 1854-1873 (scattered)
Box 6 Folder 4: 1874, January - 1882, November
Box 6 Folder 5: 1883-1891 (scattered)
Box 6 Folder 6: 1892-1898 (1899, January - 1900, December)
Box 6 Folder 7: 1901, January - 1911 (scattered)

Box 7 Folder 1: Correspondence– general, 1868-1899 (scattered)
Box 7 Folder 2: Correspondence– general, 1902
Box 7 Folder 3: Correspondence– general, 1903-1923 (scattered)

Correspondence- lumber companies in which D.R. Moon was involved

Box 7 Folder 4: 1869, July - 1871, October
Box 7 Folder 5: 1883, June - 1887, September
Box 7 Folder 6: 1888, February - 1890, November
Box 7 Folder 7: 1891, January - September
Box 8 Folder 1: 1891, October - December
Box 8 Folder 2: 1892, January - 1896, October
Box 8 Folder 3: 1898, January - 1899, December; 1901; undated

Box 8 Folder 4: Cost of Logging and Lumbering Operations, 1866-1910; undated (scattered)
Box 8 Folder 5: Del Norte Company, 1902, March - 1903; 1905; 1909; 1929; undated
Box 8 Folder 6: Dole, Ingram, and Kennedy, 1860, June - 1862, December; 1866, June
Box 8 Folder 7: Eau Claire Board of Trade, 1881: undated
Box 8 Folder 8: Eau Claire City Railway Co., 1879, October; 1881; 189?; undated
Box 8 Folder 9: Edson Assessment book, 1882
Box 8 Folder 10: Directories - Lumber Industry, 1905; 1908
Box 17 Folder 1: Flambeau Farm - Journal Daybook, 1878-1879
Box 8 Folder 11: Half Moon Lake Canal Co., 1855-1912 (scattered)
Box 9 Folder 1: Legislative Materials, 1871-1878 (scattered)
Box 9 Folder 2: Legislative Materials, Undated
Box 17 Folder 2: Ledgers, 1857-1861
Box 21 Folder 1: Ledgers, 1860-1862
Box 9 Folder 3: Log Driving, 1860-1911; undated (scattered)

Log Mark Books

Box 9 Folder 4: Undated
Reel 1 Frame 1-60: Undated (MICROFILM COPY)
Box 9 Folder 5: Charles Bailey, undated
Reel 1 Frame 61-88: Charles Bailey, undated (MICROFILM COPY)
Box 9 Folder 6: Stanley Campbell, 1889-1890
Reel 1 Frame 169-197: Stanley Campbell, 1889-1890 (MICROFILM COPY)
Box 9 Folder 7: Fred Smith (Fred A. Schmidt), 1935; undated
Reel 1 Frame 89-168: Fred Smith (Fred A. Schmidt), 1935; undated (MICROFILM COPY)
Box 9 Folder 8: Surveyors book for District 3, 1861-1897
Reel 1 Frame 198-267: Surveyors book for District 3, 1861-1897 (MICROFILM COPY)

Log Tally Books

Box 9 Folder 9: 1910-1911; 1912
Box 10 Folder 1: Undated
Box 10 Folder 2: Basswood, 1910-1911
Box 10 Folder 3: Elm and ash, undated
Box 10 Folder 4: Elm-McDougall, undated
Box 10 Folder 5: Pine, undated
Box 10 Folder 6: Pine and Bass, undated
Box 10 Folder 7: Pine, ash, basswood, and elm - John Curran Camp, 1904-1905
Box 10 Folder 8: Spruce and Pine-Proue Camp, 1912

Box 10 Folder 9: Logging Camp Songs, Myths - Paul Bunyan, humor, 1915-1931; undated (scattered)
Box 10 Folder 10: Logging Camp Supply Book, undated
Box 10 Folder 11: Logs, 1862-1903; undated (scattered)
Reel 1 Frame 268-end: Logs, 1862-1903; undated (scattered) (MICROFILM COPY)
Box 11 Folder 1: Logs Banked Book, 1886-1889
Box 11 Folder 2: Lumber Dealers, 1863-1875 (scattered)
Box 11 Folder 3: Lumber Dealers, 1876-1899 (scattered)
Box 11 Folder 4: Lumber Dealers, 1900, January - 1910, November
Box 11 Folder 5: Lumber Dealers, 1902, February - 1912, April
Box 17 Folder 3: Petit Ledger, 1863-1865
Box 11 Folder 6: Pond and Allen - Accounts, 1859, November - 1860, April
Box 18 Folder 1: Randall Cash Book, 1857-1866
Box 22 Folder 1: Randall - Howard Daybook, 1861-1862
Box 22 Folder 2: S & C Collection Register, 1866-1868
Box 11 Folder 7: Sale of Farm and Timberland, 1860-1899; 1900, January - 1902, December
Box 11 Folder 8: Sale of Farm and Timberland, 1903, January - 1904, December; 1905-1923; undated
Box 12 Folder 1: Sawyer County Taxpayers Fund, 1908, February - 1909, February

Scale Books

Box 12 Folder 2: Henry Bartlett, 1904
Box 12 Folder 3: Bryce Fuller & Co., 1871
Box 12 Folder 4: Hunter & Smith, 1866; 1867
Box 12 Folder 5: McShaffery, 1904; 1905
Box 12 Folder 6: Morseman & Smith, undated
Box 12 Folder 7: Murray's Camp, 1910; 1911

Box 12 Folder 8: Second Flambeau Drive Payroll Ledger, 1905
Box 12 Folder 9: Section Map Books, 1909-1910
Box 12 Folder 10: Section Map Books, Moon, 1914; 1915

Section Map Books- Showing timber land cut over

Box 12 Folders 11-12: Undated
Box 13 Folders 1-2: Undated
Box 13 Folder 3: Cosgrove, P.J., 1882, June
Box 13 Folder 4: Ellis, A.C., undated
Box 13 Folder 5: Moon, S.G., 1911-1913
Box 13 Folder 6: Moon, S.G., 1914-1916

Sectional Field Books

Box 13 Folder 7: Undated
Box 13 Folder 8: Mann, Geo., undated
Box 13 Folder 9: Sargent, Mr., 1910
Box 13 Folder 10: Scammon, Dan, 1887

Daniel Shaw Lumbering Co.

Box 14 Folder 1: General, 1857-1911; undated (scattered)
Box 14 Folder 2: Account Book - miscellany, 1869-1870

Correspondence

Box 14 Folder 3: 1862-1865; 1867, September - 1873, November
Box 14 Folder 4: 1874, January - 1877, November
Box 14 Folder 5: 1878, January - 1891, November (scattered)
Box 14 Folder 6: 1892, January - 1899, December (scattered)
Box 14 Folder 7: 1900, January - 1901, December
Box 15 Folder 1: 1902
Box 15 Folder 2: 1903
Box 15 Folder 3: 1904, January - 1905, December
Box 15 Folder 4: 1906
Box 15 Folder 5: 1907, January - 1912, April; 1916; undated

Box 15 Folder 6: E.M. Ferguson vs. Daniel Shaw Lumber Co.- 1899, February - 1900, February
Box 15 Folder 7: E.M. Ferguson vs. Daniel Shaw Lumber Co.- Testimonials for Eugene Shaw, 1899, December - 1900, January
Box 23 Folder 1: Journal, 1860-1864
Box 19 Folder 1: Ledgers, 1870
Box 18 Folder 2: Ledgers, 1875-1879
Box 15A Folder 1: Legation - miscellaneous- 1900; undated
Box 15A Folder 2: Legation - miscellaneous- Undated
Box 15A Folder 3: Log Book, 1865
Box 15A Folder 4: Log Tally Books- Anderson, 1878-1879
Box 16 Folder 1: Log Tally Books- Hemlock, undated
Box 18 Folder 3: Merchandise Ledger, 1870

Merchandise sales books

Box 24 Folder 1: 1872
Box 24 Folder 2: 1873
Box 25 Folder 1: 1874
Box 26 Folder 1: 1876
Box 26 Folder 2: 1880
Box 27 Folder 1: 1881

Box 27 Folder 2: Payroll, 1890-1892
Box 27 Folder 3: Payroll, 1899-1901

Scale books

Box 16 Folder 2: Bullen, C.A., undated
Box 16 Folder 3: Camp 2, 1886
Box 16 Folder 4: Shaw, Daniel, 1868-1869
Box 16 Folder 5: “Shaw hemlock” - Edminster, A.J., 1903-1904

Box 16 Folder 6: Shaw, Daniel - personal correspondence, 1857; 1866; 1868-1869

Shaw, Eugene- Letterpress books

Box 19 Folder 2: 1883-1884
Box 28 Folder 1: 1890-1892
Box 28 Folder 2: 1892-1894
Box 29 Folder 1: 1894-1896
Box 29 Folder 2: 1897
Box 18 Folder 4: Unbound, 1897, September - November
Box 30 Folder 1: 1897-1989
Box 30 Folder 2: 1907-1910

Box 16 Folder 7: Shaw, Eugene- Notebooks, 1892; 1894
Box 16 Folder 8: Shaw, George- Correspondence, 1890; undated
Box 19 Folder 3: Shaw, George- Letterpress book, 1877
Box 16 Folder 9: Shaw, M.G. lands - estimate and evaluations of lumber and land, 1882; 1887
Box 16 Folder 10: Stockholders and directors meetings; articles of association, 1874-1898 (scattered)

Box 16 Folder 11: Survey Book - North Western Lumber Co., 1858, July
Box 16 Folder 12: Trespassing, 1866-1911 (scattered)