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Business records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Benton, Clinton, and Winslow, Maine, business records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 129
Scope and Content note

Daybooks and ledgers of Cony & Barton Co., Hinds & Stark Co., Hinds & Lunt Co. and William K. Lunt Col., general merchandisers, all of Benton, Maine; and also an unidentified ledger, probably belonging to a Clinton, Maine firm, and a personal account book, 1851-1897, of Hanes L. Crosby of Winslow, Maine. For cost of timber rafting and the price of lumber and timber products, see Vols. 2-3.

Dates: 1803 - 1897

Carol A. Wilson architecture collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4220
Scope and Content note The collection documents the architectural career of Carol A. Wilson. Contents include emails and letters, invoices, architectural drawings and models, field reports, meeting minutes, newspaper and magazine articles, publications, brochures, lecture notes, teaching material and resources, photographs, slides, and digital media. These items reflect the range of Wilson’s work and activities, including administration of her firm, architectural projects, professional partnerships and...
Dates: 1977 - 2021

E.C. Jordan & Co. records and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4276
Scope and Content note This collection includes the personal, professional, and family papers of Edward C. Jordan (ECJ1), his nephew Henry I. Jordan (HIJ), and his grand-nephew Edward C. Jordan (ECJ2), as well as select records of their mutual engineering firm E.C. Jordan & Co. Contents include correspondence, essays, ledgers, records, publications, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, and drawings. Also included are detailed genealogies compiled by HIJ of the related Boody, Frost, Jordan, Leach, Pennell,...
Dates: 1748 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1995

Edna E. Fenderson records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 128
Scope and Content note Journals and ledgers of business firms located in and around Wilton, Maine, including: journal and ledger of Ephraim W. Woodman of Wilton, Maine, ledger also contains accounts and copies of correspondence of Edna E. Fenderson of Wilton, pertaining to western land investments; ledger of Cyrus Fenderson, grain merchant, containing sales accounts and a record of personal investments; journal and ledger of T.C. Churchill & Co., leather merchant; ledger of Cyrus Greenwood & Co., ledger...
Dates: 1840 - 1926

Ellis B. Usher collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 945
Scope and Content note

Deeds, correspondence, and financial records. The majority of this collection are deeds in Usher's name or later ones for his heirs. The correspondence folders are mostly legal documents and some pertaining to the lumber business.

Dates: 1790 - 1877

Great Northern Paper Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2950
Scope and Content note This collection documents the administration and properties of the Great Northern Paper Company in Maine. Consisting of manuscript material (primarily in the form of ledgers and photographs) and drawings (including engineering and architectural) and maps, the collection reflects aspects of the financial and operational activities of the company, as well as its extensive land and facilities management. Manuscript material includes inventories, accounting records, land purchase and sale...
Dates: 1813 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1980

James A. Cole papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 179
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, advertising materials, bills and receipts, shipping invoices, and promissory notes pertaining to business activities; and also several items of correspondence and deeds of Peter G. Cram and family of Baldwin, Maine.

Dates: 1844 - 1921

Joseph Clark Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4238
Scope and Content note

Business and financial correspondence and papers of Joseph Clark. The material relates to his various business ventures and expenditures, including items purchased for trade and for hotel operations, as well as correspondence regarding business and financial dealings.

Dates: 1837 - 1875

Libbey family and W.S. Libbey Company collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2889
Scope and Content note

The Libbey family and W.S. Libbey Co. collection brings together the business records of the W.S. Libbey Co.; the documents of the Libbey family; documents of the history of Lewiston, Maine; the business records of the Libbey family’s land and business management company, the Spring Street Company; and all constituent photographs. Compiled by the family, it was given to MHS in a single donation.

Dates: 1857 - 2013

Longfellow Statue Association papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 123
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, subscription records, certificates of membership, bills, receipts and invoices.

Dates: 1885 - 1888