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Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records, 1910-1938
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company
- Title
- Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records
- Dates
- 1910-193819101938
- Quantity
- 3 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- Collection 0869, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- The Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records consist of financial ledgers, daybooks, and other business records of the various Livingston based Lehrkind operations, including firms that were absorbed by the company such as the Park Bottling Works and the Livingston Ice Company.
- Repository
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Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
- Access Restrictions
-
This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Julius Lehrkind was a German immigrant who came to America in 1860. He opened a brewery in Davenport, Iowa, with his brother, Fred. There he married Emelie Lambach and had six children. Fred married Emelie's sister, Bertha, and had four children. Fred and Bertha died young, so Julius and Emelie took charge of their children. Emelie died in 1897. Julius married Emelie's niece, Lina Lambach, in 1899 and they had a son. Julius died in 1922. Julius sold his brewery in Iowa and moved to Bozeman in March 1895, bringing his extended family and a crew of experienced brewers with him. He bought the Spieth and Krug Brewery that same year, moved it to the north end of town, and renamed it the Bozeman Brewery. During Prohibition, the Lehrkinds ran the Lehrkind Coal and Pure Ice Company out of the building and had branch operations in Livingston, Montana to which most of the records in this collection pertain.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Primarily financial records of the various Livingston based Lehrkind operations, including firms that were absorbed by the company such as the Park Bottling Works and the Livingston Ice Company.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Financial ledgers, daybooks, and other business records pertaining to the Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company were donated to Montana State University by Chan Libby of Livingston Montana on June 10, 1970. This collection was subsequently reported to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections and assigned entry number 79-676.
Processing Note
This collection was processed 2015 June 5
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Subordinate Component # 1Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Livingston Ice Company
(2 ledgers)
|
||
Daybook |
1908; 1910 | |
Account Book
(very few entries)
|
1910 | |
Order books
1928 (2 books); 1929 (3 books); 1930 (2 books); 1931 (5 books)
|
1919; 1923; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931 |
Subordinate Component # 2Return to Top
Container(s): Box 2
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Order books
1922 (2 books); 1934 (3 books); 1935 (2 books); 1936 (2 books); 1937 (2
books); 1938 (4 books)
|
1932; 1922; 1934; 1935; 1935-1936; 1934-1937; 1936; 1937; 1938 | |
Park Bottling Works: customer
book |
1929 | |
Lehrkind Coal Company and Park Bottling
Works: telegraph duplicate book |
1938 | |
Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company, duplicate
scale book |
1934-1938 |
Subordinate Component # 3Return to Top
Container(s): Box 3
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Ledger: Coal and Ice |
1922-1927 | |
Coal reports
(shows types of coal sold)
|
1935-1938 | |
Ledger: ice
(3 books)
|
1922-1928; 1933-1937; 1938 | |
Park Bottling works: Ledger |
1925-1932 | |
Park Bottling works: account
ledger |
1933-1938 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Beverage industry -- Montana -- History
Corporate Names
- Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company -- Archives
Form or Genre Terms
- Business records -- Montana