Item: Brassey Family Papers, 1877-1929
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Finding Aid Title: Brassey Family Papers, 1877-1929
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0776
Date Range of Collection: 1877-1929
Creator of Materials: Brassey family
Content Description: The letters in series one are photocopies and almost entirely addressed to Mrs. Racina Smith Brassey from friends and relatives in Virginia and Colorado and date from 1877 to 1915. Included in these letters are several to Racina from her sister, "Arvie," who wrote to her from Diamond City, Canyon Ferry, and Fort Logan, Montana from 1882 through 1888. All the transcriptions that were created from these copied letters have been placed in a separate folder, along with the corresponding photocopy. Copied photographs of the William Edward Brassey family, the James H. Charters family, and their homes in Lewistown and Grass Range, respectively. The photocopy of the scrapbook in folder 4 represents pages from an original kept by Lillian E. Brassey Charters and contains genealogical information about both the Brassey and Charters families. Series two contains real estate business records. The files from the American Loan and Investment Company are primarily individual case files of mortgage applicants filed alphabetically by name, along with some central office files from the business. The mortgage applications occasionally contain original land grand documents from homestead claims, color coded maps of individual farms showing land use, and inventories of farm buildings, equipment, and other data.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv72274
Keywords: diamond city (montana), canyon ferry (montana), fort logan (montana), farming, equipment, mortgage, american loan and investment company
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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