Summary Information

Title: Otto F. Geiger Business Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1908

Creator:

• Geiger, Otto F., 1859-1930

Call Number: Platteville Mss L

Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (1 archives box and 9 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; 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.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Primarily records of a prominent business firm owned by Otto Geiger of Cassville, Wis., which operated under various names, including Raffauf & Geiger and Klindt, Geiger & Company. There are daybooks, 1859-1865, letter books, 1856-1908 (with gaps), and a folder of miscellaneous papers, 1854-1864. The daybooks concern sales at the general store, and the letter books and miscellaneous papers relate to the sale of wheat, meat, and lard down the Mississippi; insurance of shipments; purchase of coal, seed, binder twine, flour, and other merchandise; sale of livestock and wool; employees; the local electric plant of which the later partners were part owners; the creamery; and the canning factory operated at Cassville.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000l

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