Includes board of directors meetings 1967-1970, directors and annual meetings and misc reports 1917-1967, and all meeting minutes 1895-1903.
Scrapbook of obituaries of prominent citizens with alphabetical list at end of reel.
Day book 1798-99; ledger 1801-03 store accounts, prices of goods, etc. of Captain Josiah Bartlett of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Include entries beginning at 263 from his South Bend bakery business 1838-1840.
Index at 003; ledger A index at 005; at 081 begins an account book for 1834-1845, including customer(?) purchase totals and lawsuits, notes given, building expenses (apparently for a house) brief index at 082, suits begin at 084; cash book starts at 090; day book G starts at 094; inventory book begins at 128 for 1865, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1870, and 1873, includes minutely detailed listing of quantities of goods on hand January 1st of each year (dry goods, clothing, hardware, paper goods, utensils, and groceries totaling $21,857).
Contents of reel at 001; store records from two periods: 1834-54 and 1857-73; minute book of the St. Joseph County Total Abstinence Society 1839-1863 at 123 (Brownfield was its first president) names of members at 128; treasurer's book of Northern Indiana College 1861-1869 at 131, with Schuyler Colfax's name appearing on page 5 debit column "for Layton"; memo book on St. Joseph Iron Works 1869-70; record of fires and fire department 1868-70 at 157; stewards book of First Methodist Church 1843-55 at 135; diary of Mrs. Brownfield 1834-35 at 162; list of debts for 1857-59 and index at 042; South Bend Tribune biogrphical sketch of Brownfield from April 10, 1915 at 159; 1934 typescript biography of Brownfield by John Brownfield Campbell at 160.
In Halifax, currency but location not given, and at St. Joseph, Michigan 1800-1802 (starts at 036); includes list of furs taken in trade.
Description of collection at 001; wages and wage rates 1894 on payroll list; correspondence over a factory injury and suit; numerous employee notes authorizing pickup of wages by another person; legal agreement following insolvency of A.M.E. Zion Church of South Bend and list of pledges; Campbell (?) passbook; stock certificates at 068.
Day book 1831-33 (South Bend area store?); day book for 1833-38 starts at 084.
Horatio Chapin ledger 1831-34 and 1834-35 with invoices 1831-39; minute book of the South Bend branch of the State Bank of Indiana 1838-58 includes names of many prominent citizens of the South Bend area including Brownfield, Coquillard; some correspondence at 212; report (incomplete) of the State Bank December 1841 at 213.
Re business matters, civic activities including St. Joseph Co. Library, schools, brief genealogy guide at 13.000; indenture for land in South Bend from 1858 at 13.019.
Extensive card index with brief description of each item at 000, contains correspondence, speeches, clippings, and notes of Colfax as well as later articles dealing with his life, the statue fund controversy, and numerous Odd Fellows items.
Papers of Alexis Coquillard, nephew of the fur trader and South Bend pioneer, including partial diary of overland journey to California in 1849, account book, company letterhead which has illustrations of his and other prominent South Bend businesses.
Ledger of customer accounts indexed at 001.
South Bend merchant's typescript biography and genealogy by his son Thaddeus Sobieski Taylor, various contracts, account book.
Day books A at 084 1836-37, B at 001 1837-39, and C at 039 (Hanna and Taylor) 1839, consisting of customer accounts.
Day book 1839-42 at 001.
Day book 1844-45 at 001, 1845-47 at 100.
Day book 1847-50 at 001.
Ledger 1837-1840 with index at 001, ledger 1840-46 with index at 103.
Ledger 1846-53 with index at 001.
Manuscript recollection by Taylor of the settlement and early years of South Bend, real estate records; original plat of South Bend, 1831, at 060; 1838 plat at 061; listing of misc papers, mostly deeds, at 062; Taylor's appointment as postmaster, 1829, at 076, followed by ledger kept as postmaster; various documents declaring his election to certain county offices and as colonel of the 79th militia, 1832, beginning at 112; record book kept by Taylor as colonel of militia, 1832-1839, at 115, includes copies of correspondence, lists of fines assessed for absences, officer lists, orders, weapons list; beginning at 142 are Taylor-(James and William) Burnett papers, including card index with descriptions; long court depositions at 171 re Indian life + early years of Jim Burnett by Lydia Beaubien, Shaw-wee, 1878, and legal opinions from Indianapolis law firm of Baker, Hord and Hendricks (Hendricks was later Vice President).
S. Hanna and Company ledger, South Bend, 1827-28 (from L. M. Taylor papers); ledger 1828-1832 and index at 025, includes many Indian customer accounts; Indian accounts ledger and index 1831-1836 at 085; index marked 1840-45 at 116; Indian ledger for 1840-41 begins at 121; Indian ledger 1840-1858 at 152.
S. Hanna and Co. (Samuel Hanna, James Burnett, and Allen Hamilton, partners in trade, Lathrop M. Taylor agent) account book 1828-31; ledger 1831-32 at 044; ledger 1832-34 at 091; ledger 1834-36 at 165.
Taylor's list of Indians; book of Indian accounts prepared for the Tippecanoe and Chicago treaty meetings of 1832; day book 1831-36 at 018; postmaster's day book 1831-36 at 032; book of merchandise and misc memoranda 1833-1855 with index at 034; S. Hanna and Co. ledger 1828-32 and index at 061; book of merchandise purchased, freight, etc, 1833-36 at 084; book of inventory and sales 1833-55 and index at 104; letter and order book 1833-41 at 126.
Hanna and Taylor Indian account book 1833-39; L. M. Taylor journal of Indian accounts 1840-44 at 034.
S. Hanna and Co. ledger 1831-33, index at 006; Hanna and Taylor ledger 1833-35 and index at 064; Hanna and Taylor ledger 1835-37 and index at 130.
Hanna and Taylor suspended ledger A 1834-58 and index at 002; L. M. Taylor ledger of suspended accounts 1858-92 and index at 062 includes Indian and other accounts, gifts and losses, and unpaid notes; fur ledger 1851-56 at 129.
Day books 1855-58 at 002, customers include Schuyler Colfax, University of Notre Dame, St. Mary's Academy, Studebaker and Son, (page index noted beside each entry in margin); day book 1857-58 and index at 128.
Correspondence among various family members, James and Joseph G. Oliver, and others, 1883-1936, brief description of each item at 003, which include business, social, and personal items.
Day, ledger, and account books; index at 002.
Store books, ledger and cash, 1860-91; index at 002, customers include Notre Dame (p. 1).
Books of various South Bend area business and tradesmen 1817-1866, index cards with brief descriptions and highlights at 002, includes blacksmith; book of prices published 1841 by the Master Carpenters and Joiners Society of South Bend with by-laws and names of charter members; ledger of Rose Livery 1838-42 and index at 043, day book 1841-53 at 069; painter Alfred Wright misc papers 1834-86 and some papers of his widow, including an 1852 letter from Schuyler Colfax at 109; Articles of Association for the South Bend Hotel Co., 1855, with list of shareholders and their holdings(including Schuyler Colfax) at 109; day book of the Baker Shoe store 1852-56; papers of Stanfield Thomas and the Northern Indiana Railroad with description cards at 163; index of financial records of NIRR at 181.
Papers of misc South Bend organizations, including temperance, Bible, debate, library, old settlers, female seminary, county seminary, St. Joseph collegiate institute, Carlisle collegiate institute, vigilance (Oceola, 1859-60), and fire (South Bend Hook and Ladder Co., 1875-80, and numerous reminiscences of memorable fires, roll book at 096).
Unpublished typescript of Charles Bartlett titled "He Was Tyrannous and Strong," 1939, about the visit of a tornado, family history, and reminiscences.