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R         Gideon‑Anderson Lumber & Mercantile Company.

290                  Papers, 1901‑1938 (bulk, 1901-1919).

                                    Thirty-seven folders.

 

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This collection consists of correspondence and business papers of the Gideon-Anderson Lum­ber & Mercantile Company concerning the lumber trade in southeastern Mis­souri and north­east­ern Arkansas.  Based in Gideon, Missouri, the company operated primarily in Dunklin, New Madrid, and Pemiscot counties in Missouri.  The collection includes papers from two sub­sidiary opera­tions, the Gideon Cooperage Company and the Gideon & North Island Railroad Company.

 

 

                Folders 1‑21:  Correspondence, 1901-1934.

 

                                Folder 01: Correspondence, 1901.

                                Folder 02: Correspondence, 1902.

                                Folder 03: Correspondence, 1903.

                                Folder 04: Correspondence, 1904.

                                Folder 05: Correspondence, 1905.

                                Folder 06: Correspondence, 1906.

                                Folder 07: Correspondence, 1907.

                                Folder 08: Correspondence, 1908.

                                Folder 09: Correspondence, 1909.

                                Folder 10: Correspondence, 1910.

                                Folder 11: Correspondence, 1911.

                                Folder 12: Correspondence, 1912.

                                Folder 13: Correspondence, 1913.

                                Folder 14: Correspondence, 1914.

                                Folder 15: Correspondence, 1915.

                                Folder 16: Correspondence, 1916.

                                Folder 17: Correspondence, 1917.

                                Folder 18: Correspondence, 1918.

                                Folder 19: Correspondence, 1919.

                                Folder 20: Correspondence, 1933‑1934.

                                Folder 21: Correspondence, undated fragments.

 

                Folders 22‑29:  Miscellaneous legal and business papers, 1902‑1938.

 

                                Folder 22: Legal and business papers, 1902‑1938.

                                Folder 23: House of HOO‑HOO, application papers, 1905‑1906.

Folder 24: Order of Railroad Telegraphers, application papers of R. B. Meente­meyer, Gideon, Missouri, 1914‑1915.

                                Folder 25: Advertising materials and sales brochures, n.d.

                                Folder 26: Maps of timber tracts in Pemiscot County near Wardell, Missouri, n.d.

Folder 27: List of charitable contributions for injured or disabled workers, 1913‑1918.

                                Folder 28: Gideon‑Anderson farm account, n.d.

                                Folder 29: Gideon Cooperage Co., housing rental account, 1918.

 

                Folders 30‑37:  Railroad freight bills and bills of lading, 1903‑1916.

 

                                Folder 30: Frisco system, 1903‑1916.

                                Folder 31: Gideon & North Island Railroad Co., 1915‑1916.

                                Folder 32: Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Railway Co., 1910‑1911.

                                Folder 33: St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co., 1915‑1916.

                                Folder 34: St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., 1916.

                                Folder 35: Union Malleable Iron Co., 1916.

                                Folder 36: Wells Fargo & Co., 1916.

                                Folder 37: Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Co., 1915.

 

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