Summary Information

Title: Brown Brothers Lumber Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1959

Creator:

• Brown Brothers Lumber Company (Rhinelander, Wis.)

Call Number: Northland Mss Q; Northland Micro 10; Micro 12

Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 4 oversize volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, History Center and Archives, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the Brown Brothers Lumber Company and its affiliate, the Pelican Boom Company, concerning operations of a sawmill and planing mill in Rhinelander, Wis.; timber operations around Stevens Point, Wis.; timber investments in Wisconsin and the West, especially the Seattle area; and formation of the Rhinelander Paper Company. Included are invoices, account books, cruising and log mark records, a land inventory, letterbooks, and miscellaneous correspondence and agreements. On microfilm are reminiscences of Stevens Point and Rhinelander, an 1874 timber cruising diary, and additional correspondence.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-nort000q

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