Northern Cold Storage and Warehouse Company records
Scope and Contents
The collection contains promotional material, newspaper advertisements, a news article, a financial report, storage receipts, a check and order, business letters, employment cards for Presidents and president’s death notices.
Dates
- 1907-1968
Creator
- Northern Cold Storage and Warehouse Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Northern Cold Storage and Warehouse Company was started in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1907 by William H. Cole, D.B. MacDonald, Joseph Sellwood, and Alex MacDougall. It specialized in storing dairy products and poultry products. It also had common storage facilities and handled merchandise warehousing. The business was sold to Kodiak, Inc. of St. Paul in 1965. The warehouse building, located on the Duluth waterfront at 7th Avenue West and Railroad Street, was razed in 1968.
Extent
0.50 Linear Inches
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains promotional material, newspaper advertisements, a news article, a financial report, storage receipts, a check and order, business letters, employment cards for Presidents and president’s death notices.
Physical Location
This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.
General
This collection is part of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections, which are housed in the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives at the Kathryn A. Martin Library, and are on permanent loan from the St. Louis County Historical Society.
- Advertisements Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Business Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Businesses Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Duluth (Minn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Financial statements Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Food Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Food industry and trade Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Letters Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newspaper clippings Subject Source: Local sources
- Northern Cold Storage and Warehouse Company
- Waterfront Subject Source: Local sources
- Wholesale trade Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Northern Cold Storage and Warehouse Company records
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: B. Bruemmer.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Collecting Area Details
Contact The University of Minnesota Duluth Archives and Special Collections Collecting Area
Kathryn A. Martin Library
University of Minnesota Duluth
416 Library Drive
Duluth MN 55812-3001
(218) 726-8526
libarchives@d.umn.edu