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Lumber trade -- Texas, East

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Daniel Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0003
Scope and Contents

The records in this collection include deeds, blueprints, insurance contracts, liens, and other papers relating to the different mills operated by the company.

Dates: 1945-1951; Other: Date acquired: 1995

Edwards Brothers Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0004
Arrangement This collection consists of four series arranged across 12 boxes. Series 1: Audits and Correspondence (Boxes 1-2)     Audits (1947-1952, 1954). Chronological.     Correspondence (1937-1960). Alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically. Series 2: Financial Records, 1928-1961 (Boxes 3-10)     Sub-series 1 - Daily Operations. Alphabetical or chronological depending on the...
Dates: 1928-1967; Event: Donated in 1987

Frost-Johnson Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0006
Scope and Contents

This collection covers a portion of the business records of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company.

Dates: 1902-1956

New Birmingham Development Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0078
Scope and Contents

Six volumes 1907-1975, of minute books of the Board of Directors

Dates: 1906-1975

Newton County Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0009
Scope and Contents

Most of the collection consists of routine correspondence for both John B. McGee, chief clerk at Deweyville mill and Cecil Smith, manager of the Deweyville mill for the year 1940, as well as others. There are also pamphlets, applications, inventories, lists and miscellaneous business records.

Dates: 1940-1944

Pickering Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0015
Content Description

The Pickering Lumber Company Collection mostly contains documents pertaining to East Texas and Western Louisiana. The collection contains land surveys, business correspondence, oil and gas lease records, ledgers, and maps. The collection contains 18 boxes of documents, records and correspondance, 5 boxes of dismantled and intact ledgers, and 52 maps.

Dates: 1898-1955

San Augustine County Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: F-0010
Dates: 1916-1924

W. T. Block Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0195
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of research notes, unpublished manuscripts and a large collection of the newspaper articles Block wrote for the 'Beaumont Enterprise between 1998 and 2004. The collection also has the manuscript pages by chapter for 'Mill Towns and Ghost Towns of East Texas', which contains information about mill towns, sawmills, tram roads, and logging camps relating to East Texas lumbering towns.

Dates: 1992-2004; Event: Donated 3/4/1993; Event: Addendum donated 10/26/2001; Event: Addendum donated 9/30/2004