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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Louis Mathis Ringer Papers
					<date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1886/1891" encodinganalog="date">1886-1891</date></titleproper>
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        <author encodinganalog="creator">Mary I. Wakeling</author>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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        <date calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="2013">2013</date>
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          <addressline>Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA</addressline>
          <addressline>(509) 335-6691</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc</addressline>
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      <creation>Finding aid encoded by: Mary I. Wakeling
				<date normal="2013" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2013</date></creation>
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          <addressline>Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA</addressline>
          <addressline>(509) 335-6691</addressline>
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        <extent encodinganalog="300$a">1.75 linear feet of shelf space</extent>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203">Bound letterbook for Sibson, Quackenbush, and Company; ledger of the Pullman Mercantile Company; clipping about L.M. Ringer.
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				<language langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial>
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      <p>Louis Mathis Ringer was a wheat buying agent at Almota, Washington, for Sibson, Quackenbush and Company, located in Portland, Oregon. He was also an owner, with his brother, John T. Ringer, of the Pullman Mercantile Company, 1890-1893.</p>
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      <p>This collection consists of a bound letterbook for Sibson, Quackenbush, 1886-1887; a ledger of the Pullman Mercantile Company, 1890-1891; and a clipping about L.M. Ringer, Spokesman-Review, May 3, 1908.</p>
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      <p>This collection is arranged in a single series.</p>
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      <p>This collection is open and available for research use.</p>
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      <p>[Item Description]
Louis Mathis Ringer Papers, 1886-1891</p>
      <p>Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Washington State University Libraries
Pullman, WA
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      <p>This collection was donated to the WSU Libraries by L. Hamilton in 1931.</p>
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        <persname encodinganalog="600" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Ringer, Louis Mathis</persname>
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        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Merchants -- Washington (State) -- Almota</subject>
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        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Ringer, John T.</subject>
        <corpname encodinganalog="610" source="lcsh">Sibsen, Quackenbush and Company</corpname>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Wheat -- Washington (State) -- Marketing</subject>
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