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A significant part of the collection documents Brown's business and legal interests. Business and legal files (8 linear ft.; 1902-1973) is especially valuable for information on Brown's banking interests and his involvement with St. Ignace and Mackinac Island land development. For the historian of the Mackinac Straits, these files detail the operation of the Arnold Transit Company, the firm which operated the ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, and to Mackinac Island. Brown was for many years a member of the board of directors of the Arnold Company.

Materials retained by the family have been copied. This Microfilmed Materials series (1932-1973; 12 rolls) includes diaries kept by Brown from 1942 to 1973. The microfilm was includes scrapbooks, the originals of which are described in the Scrapbooks and Clippings series. One of the microfilm reels consists of Brown material located in the Franklin Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.