This collection of around 300 partially printed retained receipts is a record of sales made by a currently unidentified wholesaler and consignment merchant in Dawson City, Yukon, following the Klondike Gold Rush. The firm sold a wide variety foods, feed, hay, and a lesser quantity of non-edible dry goods.
Between January and July 1903, the company's clientele included individuals as well as hotels, a market, an auction house, grocery stores, cafes, and other merchants and traders. Among the business patrons were the Ladue Company, McDonald Trading Company, Klondike Market, Ahlert & Forsha, "St Charli Hotel"/"Hotel St Chas", Butler's Corner, the "Model Trunk", Straits Auction House, Ames Mercantile Company, Stanley Scearce, Kinney's Express, Garvie's Hotel, and N.A.S. & T. Company, and a number of cafes (Melbourne, Northern, Bank, and Merchants).
The establishment sold goods in quantities of tons, bales, crates, baskets, boxes, and socks.
Items sold include materials of the following variety:
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Grains: The greatest bulk of sales were thousands of pounds of feed, oats, rolled oats, bran, and hay. Other grain products included flour, wheat flour, Graham flour, macaroni, buckwheat, and germ wheat granules.
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Meats and other animal products: bacon, slab bacon, sliced bacon, Winchester bacon, dry salt pork, mutton, ham, pig feet, mackerel, salmon, lard, corned beef, veal loaf, gelatine, and tripe.
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Vegetables, starches, and legumes: Onions, asparagus, corn, mushrooms, potatoes, spuds, and tapioca.
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Eggs and dairy: fresh eggs, cheese, reindeer milk [i.e. Reindeer brand condensed milk], and cream.
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Fruits: red raspberries, pears, apricots, King apples, apples, strawberries, Simcoe tomatoes, and lemons.
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Also: coffee, sugar, chow chow, pickles, jellies, jams, marmalade, veal and tar soaps, coal oil, Snyder's candles, rock salt, Imperial B. Powder, playing cards, tobacco, and a letter file.
Among other sales were:
- $1,427.97 worth of merchandise sold in February 1903 on consignment, which was not credited until March. The recipient was marked "Sold to 'Suspense'."
- On February 26, 1903, the firm sold grocers Ahlert & Forsha a set of gold scales.
