Records, 1919-1977, (bulk 1919-1951).

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Records, 1919-1977, (bulk 1919-1951).

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The collection consists of ledgers and ledger sheets, receipt books, day books, inventory, and cash sheets from Babitt and Roberts Trading Post in the Jeddito Valley, Arizona. The ledgers record sales and trade of groceries, hardware, wool, livestock, sheep, etc. One of the ledgers records transactions with Indians. A cassette tape containing an interview conducted by David Brugge with Wilmer Roberts in 1977 is included in Box 1 of the collection. Also included in the collection are ledger sheets for Antelope Springs Trading Post and Babbitt Brothers Trading Company.

5 boxes (5 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7521960

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Babbitt Brothers Trading Company

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The Babbitt Brothers developed one of the largest and most influential business operations in northern Arizona. The enterprise was originally founded by Edward, George, William and Charles Babbitt. The C.O. Bar Livestock Company was their first business, founded shortly after David Babbitt arrived in Flagstaff from Ohio in 1886. The Babbitt Brothers Trading Company was established as a partnership in 1889 and incorporated in 1918 with branches in Williams, Winslow, Page, Holbrook and at the Gran...

Roberts, Wilmer C.

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Antelope Springs Trading Post.

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Brugge, David M.

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David L. Brugge was born in Jamestown, New York on September 3, 1927. He was drafted into the army in the fall of 1945 and served until the summer of 1947. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1950 he and a friend, Glen F. (Jim) Wilson, ran the Ayani Trading Company in Albuquerque Old Town. This business venture gave Brugge the opportunity to make contacts on buying trips to the reservations in the Southwest. In 1952 Brugge began his ...

Babbitt and Roberts Trading Post.

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David and William Babbitt arrived in Flagstaff, Ariz. in 1886. They and their brothers, Charles, George, and Edward began a small cattle business and a general store. By 1889, the store, operating as Babbitt Brothers Trading Company did business with a broad spectrum of northern Arizona society, including reservation traders and Indians. The Babbitt brothers owned a number of trading posts on the Navajo Reservation which were operated as parternships. One such post located in the Jeddito Valley,...