Records, 1913-1949.

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Records, 1913-1949.

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This collection contains correspondence, financial records, legal documents, tax files, and ledgers from Ellis and Ellis, Inc. The records document the company's investments in stocks and in properties including the Ellis Hotel in Waterloo, the Woolworth building in Charles City, and the Sherman Nursery Company (also called the Charles City Nursery Company). The 1949 dissolution of the company is well documented by the records. The collection also includes documents relating to the Melvin W. Ellis family's personal finances and their Charles City home, known as Boulder Point.

4.2 linear ft. (10 document boxes)

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7766252

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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F.W. Woolworth Company

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The F.W. Woolworth Co. was started by Frank W. Woolworth on June 21, 1879 when the "Great 5c Store" opened in Lancaster, Pa. In 1912 Woolworth's merged with S.H. Knox Co. and 4 others, all of which became part of the F.W. Woolworth Co. From the description of F.W. Woolworth Company photographs, 1952 Aug 27-1976 Jun 17 : Buffalo, N.Y. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 29601579 ...

Ellis Family.

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Sherman Nursery Company

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Ellis, Melvin W., 1881-1946

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Ellis and Ellis, inc.

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The Charles City, Iowa, corporation of Ellis & Ellis, Inc. was formed 29 May 1917. The new corporation took over the business and property of the copartnership of Ellis and Ellis, which had been in existence for approximately forty years. The partners in this venture were brothers Adelbert E. Ellis (1848-1919) and Charles D. Ellis (1854-1933). Upon the formation of the corporation, these two men continued to be the sole owners of the business and property of the corporation. The first office...

Ellis Hotel (Waterloo, Iowa)

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