Records consist almost exclusively of financial materials. Included are balance sheet/profit and loss statements (1891-1922), registers (1954-1965) of deliveries and mail orders, account ledgers (1891-1903), general ledgers (1891-1921), suppliers' ledgers (1913-1928, a personal ledger (1908-1927) of Andrew Thisted, payrolls (1939-1945), records of merchandise (1937-1964), sales records (1943-1964), stock control sheets (1950-1966), and stock inventories (1949-1951) There is a subgroup for the Silver and Company grocery in Barker, owned by Thisted and Brosnan. It contains a ledger (1891-1892).