The bulk of the records concern Holt and Balcom and Holt Lumber Company operations. Fragmentary unbound correspondence and business papers are followed by lengthy runs of letter books of outgoing correspondence and correspondence between the Oconto and the Chicago offices, and of financial and production records of various kinds. Financial records include Journals, Ledgers, Trial Balances, Cash Books, Sales Journals, Employee Time Books, Payrolls, and other records. Price Lists, Purchase Records, Log Books, Mill Scale Books, and Inventories, are examples of production records included in the collection. Records of predecessor organizations are also included in these groupings.
Like many other large corporations, the Holt Lumber Company had subsidiary companies and expanded its activities into fields related to lumbering. Some hint of this business development is contained in scattered records of three such subsidiary organizations-the American Lumber Company, the Sever Anderson Logging Company, and the Oconto Electric Company. These records are listed together in a final series for Subsidaries' Records. But filed with the unbound materials and the letter books are items concerning the Oconto River Improvement Company and the Union Falls Power Company.
The records are described in more detail in the contents list below.
