Business Records
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Medford Cooperative Creamery Co. Records, 1915-1965
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BC
Summary
Records of a Medford, Wisconsin, cooperative incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing butter, powdered dried milk, and other milk products, which merged with Consolidated Badger Cooperative, Shawano, in 1962. The collection includes annual reports to the Secretary of State, annual financial reports, articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, tax records, a few land and legal records, and daybooks recording amounts paid for milk and cream to individual members. There are very few...
Dates:
1915-1965
Nathaniel Caldwell Foster Papers, 1830-1936
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss O
Summary
Fragmentary records of Foster, a native of New York state who came to Wisconsin in 1854 and became a prominent lumberman and logging railroad operator headquartered at Fairchild after 1876. The collection contains political correspondence with representative James A. Frear; miscellaneous business papers including land titles, maps, mortgages, and financial records pertaining to his land and timber investments in Eau Claire and Clark counties; a few records relating to the Fairchild and...
Dates:
1830-1936
North Western Lumber Company Records, 1870-1955
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss A
Summary
Records of North Western Lumber Company, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin company, organized in 1873, which engaged in lumbering in northwestern Wisconsin until the depletion of timber supplies halted operations in about 1920. Correspondence relates primarily to the management and gradual liquidation of the company's assets after 1920. Most of the letters were written by George W. Hipke of Stanley, an officer of the company. Among these are many which pertain to his campaigns for the state...
Dates:
1870-1955
Orrin H. Ingram Papers, 1857-1904
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss R
Summary
Business papers of Ingram, a leading Wisconsin lumberman, relating to operations in the Chippewa Valley, with headquarters at Eau Claire, and the sale of manufactured lumber through subsidiary wholesale companies located along the Mississippi River. Correspondence emphasizes the selling end of the business, consisting of letters of report from branch managers, agents, and salesmen, and between members of the company and pertains to business plans, policies, and practices. A group of letters,...
Dates:
1857-1904
Peterson Grocery Store Records, 1881-1920
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss W
Summary
Records of a Wisconsin grocery store and its predecessor firms, consisting mainly of financial records including invoices of wholesale purchases and daily customer orders. Also included is a small amount of business and personal correspondence, 1888-1920, in Danish and English; wholesaler's price lists and advertisements, 1879-1920; and “poor orders” listing the grocery orders filled for the city's poor, 1897-1909.
Dates:
1881-1920
Phillips Store (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) Financial Ledger, 1879-1881
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 291
Summary
Account ledger book for the Phillips General Store in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1879-1881. The ledger book provides information about customer accounts and transactions.
Dates:
1879-1881
Phoenix Manufacturing Company Records, 1901-1903, 1906-1907
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BM
Summary
Brief records of the Phoenix Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of lumbering machinery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Included is business correspondence, miscellaneous materials, and letterheads of numerous companies from Wisconsin and other states.
Dates:
1901-1903, 1906-1907
Roy E. Mitchell Physician Business Records, 1913-1948
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CG
Summary
Business records of an Eau Claire, Wis. physician providing a fairly complete view of the business operations and workload of a medical doctor. The records consist mainly of patient visit and payment daybooks (1919-1948) with date, head of household, brief notes, and charges. Also included is a financial record book of income received from other than professional services (1919- 1940); physician expense account books (1913-1939); a general ledger (1931-1940); a record book of opium and coca...
Dates:
1913-1948
Union Mortgage Loan Company Records, 1898-1942, 1949
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AR
Summary
Records of the Union Mortgage Loan Company, a financial institution located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that did nearly all of its business in northern Wisconsin, North Dakota, and eastern Montana. The company made loans to farmers in return for first mortgages on the farm property and subsequently sold these mortgages to individual investors. It also bought and sold farm lands, acted as trustee for bond issues of local government units and private companies, and occasionally made loans on...
Dates:
1898-1942, 1949
William J. Starr Papers, 1902-1938
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss N
Summary
Papers of Starr, a lumberman and real estate investor, relating to the timber and land holdings of the Davis and Starr Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; other business investments in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and California; and the management of his estate after his death. Also present are papers of companies with which Starr was closely affiliated: the Weston Heights Stock Farm and the Weston Orchard Company, both in Dunn County, Wis., 1919-1927; the California Forest Protective...
Dates:
1902-1938