WAUWashingtonMillCompany1005_3257.xml Guide to the Washington Mill Company Records 1842-1942 Washington Mill Company records Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2012 (Last modified: 4/19/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 1005, 3257 Washington Mill Company (Seabeck Wash.) Washington Mill Company records 1842-1942 8.80 cubic feet (15 boxes) 13 microfilm reels 1 vertical file 1 oversize package Collection materials are in English. Records of the Company

Established 1857 at Seabeck, Washington Territory. Mill destroyed by fire, 1886.

Organized into 4 accessions.

Accession No. 1005-001, Washington Mill Company records, 1857-1890 Accession No. 1005-002, Washington Mill Company records, 1857-1890 Accession No. 1005-003, Washington Mill Company records, 1842-1942 Accession No. 3257-001, Washington Mill Company records, 1861-1884

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A photograph and negative of the Hadlock Mill crew were transferred to Visual Materials on July 30, 1986.

Helms, A. A. (1999). The descendants of William James Adams and Cassandra Hills Adams: Including collateral families Babb, Best, Bray, Desin, Dudley, Easton, Kehrlein, Mayhew, Selby, Tainter, Ward, and Wood. Salinas, Calif.

 Washington Mill Company (Seabeck Wash.)--Archives Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Forestry and Forestry Products Logging Washington (State) Businesses and Corporations Maps Diaries

 

Accession No. 1005-001: Washington Mill Company records, 1857-1890 6.36 cubic feet (15 boxes and 1 oversize package) 3 microfilm reels

Scope and Content: Records, 1857-1888. Bills, 1858-1872; business records, 1857-1887, including accounts of individuals, balance sheets, cargo invoice records, cash book, day books, inventory books, journals, ledgers and other financial records; correspondence, 1857-1887, including letterpress copybooks; scrapbook; and other records of the company. Oversize is a map of Kitsap County with names of section owners, ca 1909(?).

Papers re will of Marshall Blinn, 1886, n.d. Two items, incomplete from California State Records. Added by Tom Gedosch, 3 August 1967.

Papers of W.J. Adams, Washington Mill Company, and related. (Xerox copies) ca. 75 items (Box 16). Added by Tom Gedosch 15 October 1968.

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Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Gift of 4 independent donations: Manson F. Bacher, Clarence B. Bagley, Lawrence J. Colman, and Thomas W. Prosch. 1967-1968.

 Accession No. 1005-002: Washington Mill Company records, 1857-1890 1.20 cubic feet (10 microfilm reels--4 negative, 4 positive, 2 copies)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, financial records, documents, private papers of Company executives, 1857-1890.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Filmed from originals at UW Libraries under 1965 NHPC grant.

Accession No. 1005-003: Washington Mill Company records, 1842-1942 0.21 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Information about the dissolution of the W. J. Adams Estate Company, which included the property at Hadlock where the Washington Mill Company operated before the 1886 fire.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Jane Adam Helms, February 25, 2013.

 1/1 1005-003 Historical Background 1/2 1005-003 Correspondence related to the debts of W. J. Adams Estate Company 1941-1942 1/3 1005-003 West Coast Lumber Company Correspondence 1907 1/4 1005-003 Financial Reports, tax returns, and easement/indenture papers 1907-1941 1/5 1005-003 Logbook, checks, and receipts, all handwritten 1842-1910 Accession No. 3257-001: Washington Mill Company records, 1861-1884 0.03 cubic feet (1 vertical file)

Scope and Content: Diary 1869[?], deed records, 1861-1884; two clippings.

Diary kept at Seabeck by an unidentified Washington Mill Company employee. Following diary entries is a record of deeds, presumably acquired by the firm, listed by county: Whatcom, 1878, 1882-83; Jefferson, 1861-1883; Kitsap, 1861-1884; Mason, 1861-1883.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Robert Minnihan. Seattle, February 19, 1982.