00394.xml OSBORNE BROS. (BOY RIVER, MINN.): An Inventory of Its Company Records Finding aid prepared by David B. Peterson. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

 Finding aid encoded by Stephanie Grabowski,March 15, 1999. Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society Osborne Bros. (Boy River, Minn.). Company records. 1911-1917. Financial records and miscellaneous correspondence of a firm engaged in "piece work" logging operations in north central Minnesota. Material is concerned with logging camps, the hiring of lumberjacks, and with the production, sale, and shipment of railroad ties, pulpwood, mining timber, and other forest products. 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes, including 8 v.). See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. HISTORY OF OSBORNE BROS.

Osborne Bros. were dealers and shippers of railroad ties, pulpwood, lumber, shingles, mining timber, poles, posts, cordwood, and other forest products made from cedar, tamarack, spruce, and birch trees. They operated at Remer and later at Boy River, Minnesota, in the years immediately following the great White Pine lumbering era. The firm had a cedar yard at Remer, Minn., and evidently operated several logging camps. Principals in the organization included Louis and Anton Osborne. The firm may also have included John Jacob Osborne and Edward A. Osborne.

 SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

Includes logging camp daybooks, ledgers, and time books; a log shipment record book; and what appears to be a record of logs cut. A folder of miscellaneous correspondence and papers includes a bound time check book (stubs only); employment agency receipts for lumberjacks hired through the Olund-Engberg Employment Company (Duluth) and the Olson & Anderson Employment Agency (Bemidji); a timber cruiser's map of T141 R25, Cass County; correspondence relating to the placement and shipping of orders; and invoices for camp supplies. There is information about products produced and sold, orders placed and shipped, logging camps operated by the firm, camp provisions and supplies, and individual loggers and wages earned. Correspondents include members of the firm, Martin Brothers (Duluth, Minn.; dealers in logs and pulpwood) and Mahlum Timber Company (Brainerd, Minn.), railroads, and grocers and other suppliers.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Employment agencies -- Minnesota. Forest products industry -- Minnesota. Logging -- Minnesota. Lumber camps -- Minnesota. Lumber trade -- Minnesota -- Cass County. Places: Boy River (Minn.) -- Industries. Remer (Minn.) -- Industries. Persons: Osborne, Anton. Osborne, Louis. Occupations: Loggers -- Minnesota. Lumbermen -- Minnesota. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Osborne Bros. Company Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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 Accession Information:

Accession number: 15,335

 Processing Information:

Processed by: David B. Peterson, September 1998

Catalog ID number: 09-00320299

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION P23101Log shipment record, 1914-1916. Logging camp day books, 1912-1914. 2 volumes. P23102Logging camp ledgers, 1911-1913. 2 volumes. Logging camp time books, 1915-1917. 2 volumes. Record of logs cut, [ca.1916?]. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1912-1917.