Francis L. Niven Papers, 1901-1982

Records detailing the purchase of live animals and their slaughter for sale at the North Side market; payroll and retail sales records. Information includes the names of suppliers, live weight, dressed weight, and prices paid. Also included are records for the operation of livestock feedlots, inventory lists, and payroll information. The personal account book in box 3, folder 5, was kept by Spokane, Washington resident W. L. Trump, who may have worked for the North Side Market as a butcher.

Primarily letters to the United States Price Administration office, with accompanying report forms, detailing the North Side Market's compliance with federal regulations. Also included are letters received from Senator Zales Ecton and Congressman Wesley D'Ewart in response to Niven's complaints on dealing with the federal meat price controls.

Clippings, mounted and loose, of advertisements placed by the North Side Market in Bozeman newspapers. Special pricing of selected meats are displayed, and many of the clippings are dated. An additional folder of materials dealing with the shipment of live cattle and sheep to Turkey, coordinated by the United States General Services Administration in 1958, is included with this series.

Papers created by members of the Scheytt family of Springhill and Maudlow, Montana. Included are F.A. Schyett's farm account book detailing his expenses and income; Ethel Scheytt's memoranda book listing letters sent or received by her in the 1920s; ledger entries pertaining to the Scheytt Brother's general store in Maudlow.

Primarily household expense accounts, detailing all domestic expenses incurred by the Niven family beyond the operation of the North Side Market. Ledger in folder 4 records personal expenses kept by Ethel Scheytt Niven which includes lists of gifts (probably received at her wedding) and books that she read. Expense record in folder 6 includes ration books and coupons used during World War II.

Report on homestead activity in Musselshell County, Montana, prepared by Francis Niven for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in 1935; manuscript history of the North Side Market written by Francis Niven around 1950.

Photographs of Francis Niven and his prize winning sheep shown at various gatherings including the Montana Winter Fair; photographs of the 1958 shipment of livestock to Turkey; snapshots of unidentified people in the Maudlow, Montana area probably taken by Ethel Scheytt Niven, circa 1920s.