Company records. 1911-1917.

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Company records. 1911-1917.

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Financial records and miscellaneous correspondence of a firm engaged in "piece work" logging operations in north central Minnesota. Material is concerned with logging camps, the hiring of lumberjacks, and with the production, sale, and shipment of railroad ties, pulpwood, mining timber, and other forest products.

Minnesota Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6646743

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Osborne, Anton.

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Osborne, Louis.

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Osborne Bros. (Boy River, Minn.).

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Osborne Bros. were dealers and shippers of railroad ties, pulpwood, lumber, shingles, mining timber, poles, posts, cordwood, and other forest products made from cedar, tamarack, spruce, and birch trees. They operated at Remer and later at Boy River, Minnesota, in the years immediately following the great White Pine lumbering era. The firm had a cedar yard at Remer, Minn., and evidently operated several logging camps. Principals in the organization included Louis and Anton Osborne. The firm may a...