Abstract

Patrick Brophy was a Butte, Montana, Wholesale and retails grocery dealer, with interests in mining development. The collection (1897-1922) consists primarily of letterpress volumes of outgoing correspondence and a stock certificate book. Brophy's letters discuss both his personal interests and investments, and those of his firm, P.J. Brophy and Co.

Abstract

These Montana Trade Commission records (1919, 1937-1973) consists of documents for the Board of Railroad Commissioners and the State Board of Food Distributors in their capacity ex officio as the Montana Trade Commission. Records include general correspondence, filed alphabetically by correspondent, subject, and town; records of public hearings; and a gasoline price survey.

Abstract Robert Wallace (1837-1928) was a Helena, Montana, grocery store owner, and partner in the Elkhorn Queen Mining Company. Collection consists primarily of records (1884-1892) of the Davis and Wallace and the R.C. Wallace Company grocery businesses, including ledgers, invoices, and inventories. There are also subgroups for the Dearborn Land and Livestock Company, Elkhorn Queen Mining Company and the W.C. Gillette Company, and for the personal papers of Robert Wallace and his partner James L....