Company records. 1867-1969 (bulk 1898-1960).

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Company records. 1867-1969 (bulk 1898-1960).

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Corporate record books, photocopies of newspaper advertisements, photographs, clipppings, and a scrapbook of a Minneapolis dry goods firm that began in 1867 as G. W. Hale and continued through several ownership and name changes, reorganizations, and building construction projects for nearly one hundred years. Includes information about charges of fraud and tax evasion brought against an owner of the company in the late 1950s.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6646912

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Thomas, John W., ca. 1871-1949

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Hale, Thomas & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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G. W. Hale (Firm : Minneapolis, Minn.).

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John W. Thomas & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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John W. Thomas & Co. was a Minneapolis retailer of dry goods, women's apparel, men's furnishings, fine furniture, rugs and draperies, and interior decorations. The firm was begun as G. W. Hale [or George W. Hale] in 1867, in a small store building located on Washington Avenue near Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. George's brother James M. Hale joined the business in 1872, and the name of the firm became George W. Hale & Co. The store moved to a building located at Nicollet Av...

Thomas, John W., 1844-1916.

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E. E. Atkinson & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Gift House Stamp Co.

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Dranow, Benjamin.

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Smith, Stanley D.

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Godfrey, Harriet Rezada, 1849-1943.

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George W. Hale & Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle), 1913-

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Jimmy Hoffa a U.S. union and labor leader. He was born in Brazil, Indiana in 1913 and began his work as a union organizer with Detroit's Local 299 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1932. By December, 1946 he was president of Local 299. In 1952 he was elected international vice president of the Teamsters Union, and in 1957 he became international president. Under his leadership, the Teamsters negotiated the National Master Freight Agreement, the first nationwide collective bargaini...