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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Harry Oscar Bell was the owner of a successful Ford automobile dealership in Missoula, Montana from 1915 until about 1970. He also owned and operated the Bar Lazy B Ranch near Ronan, Montana, specializing in Arabian horses. This collection consists of publications, financial records, photographs, correspondence, artifacts and films relating to H.O. Bell, his family, his ranch, and his Ford dealership. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Big Blackfoot Milling Company was a timber company based in Missoula, Montana. The forty-seven volume collection contains minutes, organizational and financial records of the Big Blackfoot Milling Company, and financial records (1882-1890) of the various sub-groups which were predecessor and successor businesses of that corporation. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection includes photos, receipts, and correspondence laying out the changes and challenges that Ernest Millikan and his family met as they ran the Bitterroot Market in Missoula, Montana, from 1932-1987. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Edmund Christopherson was a freelance writer from Missoula, Montana. This collection contains his personal and biographical information, general correspondence, writing and research materials, personal financial and legal documents, and project photographs as well as business records generated by Earthquake Press, which he operated. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Cottrell and Helean Logging Company operated in Missoula, Montana. The collection contains general correspondence, financial records, legal documents and maps from 1945 to 1971. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Charles Cowell was an early Missoula, Montana, businessman. This collection consists of correspondence, much of which is to and from Joseph M. Dixon, financial records and architect's plans, all pertaining to the construction of the Montana Block in downtown Missoula. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection contains personal and professional papers, financial records, photographic materials, and scrapbooks generated and/or collected by Charles Herbert McLeod as an official of the Missoula Mercantile Company, investor in multiple businesses throughout western Montana, and community leader. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection contains personal and professional papers, financial records, photographic materials, and general corporate records generated and/or collected by Walter H. McLeod as an official of the Missoula Mercantile Company and regional business leader in western Montana. The collection documents the rural mercantile business, politics, and the personal business of one of western Montana's most prominent families. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Invoices and related records detailing charges to the Missoula Lumber Company during the years 1904-1909. The Missoula Lumber Company sold a variety of timber and construction products in Missoula, Montana from the late 1880s until 1917. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Morin Lumber Company was located in Missoula, Montana. This collection includes financial and legal records detailing the daily operations of a small-scale western Montana lumber mill, with particularly detailed records between 1944 and 1957. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Murphy-Worden and Company was a Missoula, Montana, dry goods and grocery store. This collection is comprised of nine bound store registers dating between 1893 and 1902. These registers overlap dates and primarily track patron account status with few details regarding the nature of items purchased. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Accounting ledger listing expenses and income for theatres in Missoula, Montana, in 1922. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The collection includes drug prescriptions filled by the Peterson Drug Company in Missoula, Montana, between 1914 and 1915. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Polleys Lumber Company was founded in Missoula, Montana by E.H. Polleys in 1910 and continued to operate through 1955, when it was purchased by Intermountain Lumber. This collection consists primarily of 3 ledgers, 1 listing accounts according to customer from 1924-1926 and 2 listing sales by date. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Rankins were a Missoula, Montana, family with a mill business. The collection includes a broad range of John Rankin's financial records, 1888-1906; speeches and clippings of Jeannette Rankin from 1916-1941, her 1940 congressional campaign, and a Report of International Congress of Women, 1919; and Wellington Rankin's 1946 campaign and two Montana Supreme Court cases, 1925 and 1941, in which he served, respectively, as attorney for the plaintiff and attorney for the defendant. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The collection includes one ledger from the Tevis and Crashaw Grocers and Bakers (Missoula, Montana), from 1907-1909. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Western Montana National Bank was an early Missoula, Montana, bank. This collection primarily consists of large bound bank ledgers with a small set of loose bank documents. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Frank L. Worden was a Missoula, Montana, businessman. The collection consists of financial records from two of Frank Worden's businesses: his general merchandise store at Ravalli, Montana, and the Bus State Depot in Missoula, Montana. There are also financial records from a livery stable that operated in Ravalli and Kalispell, Montana. |
