Included in the papers are photographs of the meier family about the turn of the century and in the 1970s, a farmer's ledger 91910-1925), and two local histories written by Meier. The ledger, started by Karl Albert Meier, Roy's father, was taken over by Roy in November 1918. It contains information concerning the breeding and due dates of cows as well as monthly accounts. One of the histories documents the growth of a Spirit dairy herd beginning in 1887. The other describes the German settlement of the Spirit region beginning in the 1870s.
