Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of business ledger books and invoices. There is a single letter written to John Reagan Harris in the collection. This collection is a great resource for researchers looking information on 1950s businesses in Shelby County businesses in the 1950s, many of whom purchased products from the Harris hardware store branches. Researchers might also be interested to look at the geographic diversity of products being sold by a hardware store in 1950s East Texas.

Scope and Contents This collection includes business and personal correspondence, advertising mailers, legal documents, deposit slips, bank statements, invoices, patents and case files dating from 1907-1916. The W. T. Wilson Grain Company conducted business across the southwest and the collection includes documentation from more than 175 different companies. Most materials relate to transactions with Texas-based companies, but there are substantial records for dealingss with businesses in Kansas City, New...