Summary Information

Title: Daniel Shaw Lumber Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1911

Creator:

• Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, Inc.

Call Number: Eau Claire Mss CT; Eau Claire Micro 16; Micro 944

Quantity: 3.4 cubic feet (3 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; 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-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records, 1861-1911, of a lumber company headquartered at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which owned thousands of acres of timber in Wisconsin's Chippewa River Valley and operated its own farms, flour mills, tow boats, and general stores in the area. The records consist of letterpress books, seventeen of which contain company correspondence and two of which contain General Manager 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 microfilmed portion of this collection includes a daybook recording sales in a company store (1881), and the record of the Eau Claire dynamo and the production of city electric lights (1893-1894).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ec00ct

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