Lumber industry
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
American Land and Timber Company records
The collection contains articles of incorporation, May 1911; minutes of the Board of Directors; an account ledger, 1911-1929; two cashbooks, 1911-1929; a tract book describing the land owned, its location, and the amount and quality of timber; and two maps of the area. Also included are stock certificates, 1919-1920.
Clyde Iron Works records
The collection contains records of Clyde Iron Company (1889), Northwestern Supply Company (1899), Northwestern Manufacturing Company (1899), Clyde Iron Works, Cleveland Duluth Company, Inc. (1920), Willamette Clyde Company (Oregon, 1923), Cleveland Duluth Holding Company of Minnesota (1926) and Clyde Iron Works Sales Company (renamed Clyde Sales Company) the sole distributor for Clyde Iron Works. There are no records of the Clyde Equipment Company.
John Fritzen papers
The collection contains handwritten notes on logging and the lumber business, a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts and biographical materials.
Walter Joss Green papers
The collection contains letters from Mitchell and McClure Lumber to Walter Green including a contract as the captain of the tug Ada Barrett for the 1898 sailing season and two letters of reference; other letters concerning Green's work in the harbor; a memorial card for Walter Joss who is presumably Green's maternal grandfather; and citizenship papers.
Heimbach Family papers
The collection consists of three photographs and one business ledger. The photographs are a portrait of William P. Heimbach, one image of Duluth and Superior lumbermen at an outing at Namekan Lake Sept 5-7, 1919, the Virginia & Rainy Lake Co., and employees of the Endion Lumber Co, about 1920. The one volume ledger is from the Heimbach Lumber Company cover March through July, 1883.
Emery A. Houghton photographs
The collection consists of 36 photographs, 28 of them in an album. Subjects of the photographs include: views of Duluth, Central High School, view of West End, Duluth Imperial Mill Co., snow scenes, logging camp and lumbering scenes, buildings, Whaleback ships, Incline Railroad at 6th Avenue West, grain elevators, Park Point bathers chute, train wreck and lake vessels.
Lumber Company records
The collection contains receipts, letters, insurance documents, daily statements and miscellaneous items removed from the newspaper clippings files about logging to establish a small collection of items related to logging companies.
Mattson, Charles G. and Grace W. family papers
The collection consists of photographs of a logger's homestead (1910-1911). The photographs are divided into subjects: women and children, recreation, equipment (log hauler), workers, and camp.
McAlpine Logging Company journals
The collection contains account journals, cashbooks, and employee ledgers from the McAlpine Logging Company and the Lutsen Lumber Company.
Merrill & Ring papers
The collection consists of photocopied documents for the Minnesota Historical Society collections. Included are briefs and other documents related to court cases and company resources, genealogical materials, and letters.
Raymond T. Murphy reminiscence
Consists of a photocopy of a typed reminiscence by Raymond T. Murphy, which includes stories of his family's life and their experiences in northern Minnesota lumber camps in the early part of the twentieth century.
William F. Roleff photographs
The collection consists of photographs of logging camps and scenes in northeastern Minnesota.
Scott-Graff Lumber Company records
The collection contains corporate and financial records and minutes; job site and construction records; publicity records; and oversized photos and blueprints.
N.B. Shank Company logging camp photographs
The collection consists of photographs of the N. B. Shank Company logging camp.
Lawrence J. Sommer logging camps research files
The collection consists of Lawrence Sommer's research files on logging camps.
Split Rock Lumber Company records
The collection contains the company’s sixth annual financial statement, for the year 1906. The statement includes a message to stockholders.
Felix Tarnowski lumber receipts
The collection consists of nine pages of receipts for materials bought for Mr. Tarnowski’s business and are dated between 1909 and 1919.
Timber contract bill scrapbook
The collection consists of newsclippings from Ely, Duluth, Grand Rapids, Cook, Aitkin, Deer River papers and the Carlton County Vidette.
W. T. Bailey Lumber Company records
The collection contains correspondence, contracts, land deeds and abstracts, legal and financial records, income and property tax records, and financial ledgers.