The Missoula Lumber Company was one of many businesses utilizing the vast natural resources of Western Montana to supply wood and construction products for the early urban development of Missoula and its surrounding communities. Founded in the late 1880s, the company served the Missoula region until 1914 when it was renamed the Largey Lumber Company after company president, Patrick A. Largey. The Missoula Lumber Company was favorably located on the corner of Scott Street and Stoddard Street in Missoula’s Northside Neighborhood, an emerging center for warehousing and light industry near the Northern Pacific Railway Yard. Sold and renamed in 1917, Largey Lumber Company became the Missoula White Pine Sash Company, which manufactured wooden window and door components at that location until 1996.
This collection contains invoices and related records detailing charges to the Missoula Lumber Company during the years 1904-1909. Included are invoices from an array of early Missoula area businesses and individuals, such as the Missoula Mercantile Company, Big Blackfoot Milling Company, Albee’s Livery, the Florence Hotel, and the Golden Rule. The collection offers a structured inventory of expenses incurred by the company over a five-year period, as well as an excellent collection of stationery from many of early Missoula’s most prominent businesses.
Records have been arranged chronologically by the date invoices were paid by the Missoula Lumber Company.
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[Name of document or photograph number,] Missoula Lumber Company Records, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula
This collection was donated to the K. Ross Toole Archives by the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula in 2003.
This collection was processed in the fall of 2003, at which time the material was placed in chronological order.
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