Corporate records, 1855-1958.

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Laird, Norton Co. Corporate records, 1855-1958.

Title

Corporate records, 1855-1958.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313852218

Abstract

Records of and information about a family-owned, Winona (Minn.)-based lumber company, and more than 75 associated logging, lumber, land, colonization, and other companies. Includes correspondence and subject files, minute books, annual reports, tax returns, log scale reports, and accounting records. There is extensive information on land acquisition and logging and lumbering in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Louisiana, and the Pacific Northwest; taxation, management, and sale of cutover lands; lumber camps; sawmills; transportation of logs and lumber; the manufacture of lumber; and the marketing of lumber, bricks, lime, cement, paper, glass, and other building materials at retail yards in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. There is information about lumber trade associations; legislation relating to the timber industry; grading and inspection of lumber; forests and forstry; forest fire prevention; timber trespass; labor in the woods and mills; scaling; relations with railroads; insurance; cooperation with the Wisconsin state and county boards of immigration; pine land investigations; and dams and the improvement of streams. There is information about river steamers, other lumbermen and lumber companies; the Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian reservations; and the design and construction of the Winona Free Public Library building (1895-1899). Correspondents include officials and employees of Laird, Norton and of associated companies; other lumbermen; boom and log towing companies; the Minnesota surveyor general of logs and lumber; railroads; vendors and suppliers; the Stillwater (Minn.) Board of Trade; the Lumbermen's Finance Corporation; trade associations; and architect Edgar V. Seelar.

Extent

143.75 cu. ft. (138 boxes).

Holding Repository

Minnesota Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7315706

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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