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Browning Mercantile Company records, 1907-1927

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Browning Mercantile Company (Browning, Mont.)
Title
Browning Mercantile Company records
Dates
1907-1927 (inclusive)
Quantity
5.5 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 230 (collection)
Summary
The Browning Mercantile Company was a Browning, Montana, general mercantile firm founded by Thaddeus E. Scriver and Horace C. Willits. Records (1907-1927) include general correspondence (1914-1927), cash books, daybooks, trial balance books, ledgers, and miscellany.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The Browning Mercantile Company was founded in 1907 by Thaddeus E. Scriver and Horace C. Willits under the name Willits and Scriver. In December 1913 the company was incorporated as the Browning Mercantile Company. Thaddeus Emery Scriver was born in Clarenceville, in the province of Quebec, Canada, on November 17, 1879, the son of James and Mary Scriver. He attended the Royal Military Academy in Toronto and Stanstead Commercial College. He then enlisted as a bugler in the Sixth Hussars under Major George H. MacFie. Following his military service, he began working for the Minneapolis Journal. There he met J.H. Sherburne who invited him to work for his newly established Sherburne Mercantile Company at the Blackfeet Indian Agency in Browning, Montana. In 1907 Scriver opened his own store with Horace C. Willits. The store served as the official trader for the Blackfeet Reservation and as a general mercantile. Thaddeus Scriver married Ellison Westgarth MacFie, daughter of his former regimental commander, in 1911. They had two sons Harold Scriver and Robert Scriver. Thaddeus was a mason and an active sportsman. He died August 14, 1971. Horace C. Willits was partner with Thaddeus E. Scriver in their mercantile business from 1907 to 1925 and was vice president of the Stockmen's State Bank in Browning. Around 1925 he moved to South Bay, Florida, where he worked for two years for the South Shore Transportation Company before setting up his own business.

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Content Description

Records include general correspondence (1914-1916, 1919-1927) with a variety of wholesalers, fur traders, automobile supply houses, and customers. Many of the suppliers' letters enclose brochures, price lists, and other materials documenting fashions and products of the period. In addition there are financial records including orders (1915, 1927) for goods, mostly scribbled on small scraps of paper; cash books (1909-1924), and ledgers (1907-1917). legal documents (1916-1926); court papers (1914-1927); and miscellany.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series. Some material housed in Manuscript Volume.

Location of Collection

12:6-1

Location of Collection

146:4-2 (volume)

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Cash book
      Dates: 1919 July- 1920 December
      Container: Volume 1
      Location: Financial Records

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: W.M. Adams
      Dates: 1920-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E. Albrecht and Son (St. Paul fur dealers)
      Dates: 1920-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: A
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Baker, Heyne and Company (Chicago livestock commission)
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blackfeet Agency (mostly re merchandise orders)
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blackfeet Irrigation Project
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: George Blinn (Washoe, Bear Creek, and Lochray coal dealer)
      Dates: 1916-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Browning School District #9
      Dates: 1916-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: M.S. Bush (Cut Bank jeweler)
      Dates: 1915-1916, 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ba-Bj
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Bl-By
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Cascade Milling and Elevator Company
      Dates: 1916-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E.C. Clapper Garage (Cut Bank Ford dealer)
      Dates: 1920-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Collins Brokerage Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: J.B. Colt Company (New York City carbide lamp and generator manufacturer)
      Dates: 1922
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Columbia Graphophone Company / Columbia Phonograph Company
      Dates: 1915-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Continental Oil Company
      Dates: 1913-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Crosley Radio Corporation (Cincinnati, Ohio)
      Dates: 1926-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Curtis 1000 St. Paul, Inc. (office stationery)
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ca-Cl
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Co-Cu
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: D
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Eddy's Steam Bakery / Eddy's Bakery (Great Falls)
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: John V. Farwell Company (Chicago fur and merchandise dealer); Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk and Company, St. Paul (wholesale hardware dealer)
      Dates: 1915-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: First National Bank of Harlem (enclosing checks for credit)
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: First National Bank of Harlem (enclosing checks for credit)
      Dates: 1915-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1-2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: First National Bank of Kalispell
      Dates: 1915-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Flathead Commercial Company; Flathead Merchants' Association; Flathead Wholesale Company
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Foley Bros. and Kelly / Foley Bros. and Quinlan / Foley Bros. Grocery Company, St. Paul and Great Falls
      Dates: 1914-1922
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Foot and Foot, Kalispell attorneys C.H. Foot and E.B. Foot
      Dates: 1923-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: F
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Glacier County government
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Glacier County Abstract Company / Van Demark Abstract Company
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Glacier Park Hotel Company (includes R.D. Choquette, H.A. Noble, Charles Mankenberg, Mrs. Barney McDermott, Mrs. J.C. Graves, and "Margaret")
      Dates: 1916-1925, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company / Goodyear Rubber Company
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gordon and Furguson (St. Paul fur and skin dealers)
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Great Falls Drug Company; Great Falls Meat Company; Great Falls Paper Company; Great Falls Tribune, et al.
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Great Northern Express Company; Great Northern Railway Company
      Dates: 1914-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Great Western Monument and Granite Works (Miles City tombstone manufacturer)
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: G
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hackett, Gates, Hurty Company (St. Paul wholesale hardware dealer)
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company (St. Louis and Boston)
      Dates: 1915-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hardware Dealers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Wisconsin / Hardware Mutual Casualty Company
      Dates: 1924-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mark G. Harris and Company (Chicago tailors)
      Dates: 1914-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: W.R. Hogsed
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Holy Family Mission / Ursaline Convent (includes Alexander A. Anderson, Thomas Grant, James G. Old, and Sister M. Eulaline)
      Dates: 1916-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: I
      Dates: 1916-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Jackson and Neff (Shelbyville, Missouri, horse dealers)
      Dates: 1921-1922
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Janney, Semple, Hill and Company (Minneapolis wholesale hardware dealers)
      Dates: 1920-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: J
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Kalispell Flour Mills Company
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Kalispell Mercantile Company
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Kelly-How-Thomson Company (Duluth wholesale hardware dealer)
      Dates: 1915-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Kirk Brothers (Gallup, N. M., Navaho rug dealers)
      Dates: 1921-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Kranz, the House of Flowers (Great Falls)
      Dates: 1920-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: K
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Lindsay Fruit Company / Lindsay Great Falls Company / Lindsay-Kalispell Company
      Dates: 1915-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: L
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Marshall-Wells Hardware Company / Marshall-Wells Company (Duluth)
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: McCaull-Dinsmore Company (Minneapolis wholesale grain dealer)
      Dates: 1920-1921
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miller and Holmes (St. Paul wholesale produce dealer)
      Dates: 1916-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mitchell Lewis Motor Company (Racine, Wisc.)
      Dates: 1914-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Development Association (includes minutes of organizational meeting, preamble, newsletters, membership card)
      Dates: 1919-1920
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Flour Mills Company
      Dates: 1924-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana State Highway Commission
      Dates: 1923-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana (other state agencies)
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ma-Mi
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mo-My
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Nash Spokane Company (wholesale produce dealer)
      Dates: 1920-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Neustadter Brothers (Portland mens' furnishings dealer)
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Northern Montana Association of Credit Men
      Dates: 1921, 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Northern Montana Development Association (re Roosevelt Highway guide book)
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 27
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: N
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Oskamp Nolting Company (Cincinnati jewelers)
      Dates: 1915-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: O
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Pacific Bone, Coal and Fertilizing Company (re shipment of bones)
      Dates: 1915-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: F.A. Patrick and Company (Duluth wholesale dry goods dealer)
      Dates: 1914-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: P.A. Peterson (includes 1925 Legislature, Troy Chamber of Commerce, Troy Commercial Company, H.C. Willits)
      Dates: 1920-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: P-Q
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Racine Woolen Manufacturing Company
      Dates: 1915-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Radio-Auto Supply, Inc. (Great Falls and Havre)
      Dates: 1925-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Retail Merchants Association of Montana
      Dates: 1920-1923, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: D. Claude Roberts (re Indian moccasins)
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Roberts, Johnson and Rand (St. Louis shoe dealers)
      Dates: 1920-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ryan Fruit Company / Ryan-Havre Company (wholesale grocers)
      Dates: 1923-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: R
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: P.H. Schaefer (Great Falls jeweler)
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: A. Schilling and Company (San Francisco coffee and tea dealer)
      Dates: 1914-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H.J. Shinn and Company (Spokane fruit and produce dealer)
      Dates: 1914-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Roy H. Smith (Ft. Defiance, Ariz.)
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H.P. Stanford (Kalispell taxidermist)
      Dates: 1915-1917, 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: James Stone; J.M. Stone; J.W. Stone
      Dates: 1925-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Stone-Ordean-Wells Company (Great Falls importers and jobbers)
      Dates: 1915-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Suhr Fruit Company (Great Falls)
      Dates: 1921-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Sa-Sh
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Si-Sw
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: J.L. Taylor (Chicago merchant tailors)
      Dates: 1924-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Terrell's Aquatic Farm, "Natural Foods for Attracting Wild Ducks" (Oshkosh, Wisc.)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mary V. Telstad; Merton Telstad
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 27
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Teton County government
      Dates: 1914-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 28
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Tobacco By-Products and Chemical Corporation (re cattle dipping)
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 29
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: T
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 30
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Forest Service (re supplies for fire fighters)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 31
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Indian Service / Office of Indian Affairs (see also Blackfeet Agency)
      Dates: 1921-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 32
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Internal Revenue Service / Collector of Internal Revenue
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 33
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: United States Rubber Company (St. Paul)
      Dates: 1920-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 34
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U-V
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 35
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Western Union Telegraph Company (re baseball results by telegraph)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 36
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H.C. Willits
      Dates: 1925-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Wyman, Partridge and Company (Minneapolis wholesale dry goods dealer)
      Dates: 1923-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: W-Z
      Dates: 1914-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Miscellaneous Correspondence

    • Description: Charles R. Ellis to Sherburne Mercantile Company (re Federal Food Conservation Division
      Dates: 1917 November
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: Robert J. Hamilton to Wolf Plume, White Antelope, Curley Bear, and Black Weasel (re A.E. McFatridge, allotment, and Blackfeet Indian Jurisdiction Act)
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Office of Indian Affairs circular to superintendents and supervisors of Indian schools (re exhibition of products of native industries)
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: A-W
      Dates: 1914-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence

  • Court Papers

    • Description: Affidavits and depositions
      Dates: 1914-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: Bankruptcy proceedings (re Otto Van Sanden; Harvey Leiphart)
      Dates: 1922-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: Merchants Association, Inc. vs. Ernest Cut Finger
      Dates: 1920-1922
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Court Papers

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Advertisements for bids (U.S. Indian Service, Blackfeet Agency)
      Dates: 1921-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Cash books
      Dates: 1909 September-1915 August
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12-14
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Cash books
      Dates: 1915 August-1918 August
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Cash books
      Dates: 1921 January-1924 December
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3-4
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Corporate income tax: Montana

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1917-1920
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Corporate income tax: U.S.

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1915-1920
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Daybook
      Dates: 1920 November-1922 August
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Financial statements
      Dates: 1914-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Freight and express book
      Dates: 1922-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: General ledger
      Dates: 1907-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Great Northern Railway claim register for lost and damaged merchandise
      Dates: 1919-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Individual income tax: T.E. Scriver

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1918-1919
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Order book
      Dates: 1920-1921
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Cut Bank School mess
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: hay account
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 11
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: A-W
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 12-13
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Blackfeet Agency
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Browning School District #9
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: U.S. Indian Service for Blackfeet Agency, school, and hospital
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: A-W
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: U.S. Indian Service for Blackfeet Agency, school, and hospital
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Browning School District #9
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Glacier County poor fund and road fund
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: Montana State Highway Commission
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: W.D. Strang for Blackfeet tribal members
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Orders for goods: A-Y
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10-11
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Pawn ticket of Joe Bird for a war bonnet
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 12
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Petty ledger sheets: A-B
      Dates: 1907-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 13-14
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Petty ledger sheets: C-K
      Dates: 1907-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1-5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Petty ledger sheets: L-V
      Dates: 1907-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1-6
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Petty ledger sheets: W-Y
      Dates: 1907-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Proposal and acceptance: U.S. General Land Office
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Recapitulation
      Dates: 1912-1921
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Receipt books
      Dates: 1927 Feburary-November
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4-5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Tax assessments: Glacier County

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1922-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Trial balances
      Dates: 1912-1922
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 7-8
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1915-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
      Location: Financial Records

  • Legal Documents

    • Description: Agreements with Great Western Marble and Granite Works, Miles City (re orders for tombstones)
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
      Location: Legal Documents
    • Description: Agreements with wholesalers
      Dates: 1916-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 11
      Location: Legal Documents

  • Miscellany

    • Description: List of land owned by George and Katie Croff
      Dates: circa 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Mailing list
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 13
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Oil barrel record
      Dates: 1920-1922
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 14
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: R.G. Dun and Company and Bradstreet Company reports on Browning businesses
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 15
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Referendum Measure No. 13 (re primary elections)
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 16
      Location: Miscellany

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Baseball--Montana
  • Blackfeet Indians--Montana
  • General stores--Montana
  • Public welfare--Montana
  • Retail trade--Montana

Corporate Names

  • Browning Mercantile Company (Browning, Mont.) (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Browning (Mont.)--commerce
  • Glacier County (Mont.)--commerce

Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 1992
2005

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