Item: Alvin J. Lucke Collection, 1893-1923
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Finding Aid Title: Alvin J. Lucke Collection, 1893-1923
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0223
Date Range of Collection: 1893-1923
Creator of Materials: Lucke, Alvin J., collector
Content Description: In the autumn of 1964 Alvin Lucke responded to a solicitation for manuscripts from MSU librarian Minnie Paugh, who had heard of his store's large collection. Lucke's donation included a day book ledger from the Chinook, Montana mercantile business of Andrew S. Lohman which lists transactions occurring from mid 1893 through the end of 1894. Information includes the name of the customer, list of items purchased, and price. A second ledger day book is unidentified, but Lucke maintained it came from a logging/sawmill operation in the Little Rocky Mountains. In addition to tallies of logs, cut lumber, and hardware items purchased circa 1919, the book also records cattle breeding notations from 1923. The final item in the Lucke donation is a printed one hundred dollar bond for the Havre Coal Mining Company, 1910.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06820
Keywords: montana history, day books, mercantile businesses, mills, logging, alvin j. lucke, andrew s. lohman, cattle breeding (20th century), logging and saw mills, dry goods businesses, lou lucke company, blaine county (montana) businesses, montana mayors, politi
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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