Daniel Shaw Lumber Company Records, 1861-1911

Scope and Content Note

The collection principally consists of 19 letterpress books (1877-1909), 17 of which contain company correspondence and 2 of which contain Eugene Shaw's personal correspondence. Also included are miscellaneous loose records consisting of timber “scale” books (winters 1866-1867), field books delineating timber stands on sections of land (1899, undated), and miscellaneous correspondence, business receipts, and legal documents (1861-1911). The microfilm includes a daybook recording sales in a company store (1881), and the records of the Eau Claire dynamo and the production of city electric lights (1893-1894). No frame numbers appear on the microfilm.