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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 small quantity of non-edible dry goods.

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Vegetables, starches, and legumes: Onions, asparagus, corn, mushrooms, potatoes, spuds, and tapioca.
• Eggs and dairy: fresh eggs, cheese, reindeer milk [i.e. Reindeer brand condensed milk], and cream.
• Fruits: red raspberries, pears, apricots, King apples, apples, strawberries, Simcoe tomatoes, and lemons.
• 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.

• $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.

The Lyman Gardner papers contain the Civil War correspondence of Mr. Gardner, who served in the 26th Ohio Infantry Regiment, and a later account book which documents his work in the Ohio lumber industry.

The bulk of Lyman Gardner's collection consists of a series of letters to his parents in Ohio, including two letters to his brother and sister. The collection also contains a few brief articles announcing births, deaths, and marriages in the Gardner family. A ledger of his personal accounts and of his lumber business can be found in this collection as well.

Gardner's letters center around food, clothing, and money. He does not possess much understanding of why he is participating in the war. He views his service as a dutiful obligation, though he neither explains why he is dedicated to the Union, nor what he believes the Union cause to be. Gardner's letters reveal a strong religious background.

Gardner's letters serve as an account for his action in the Atlanta Campaign, and his regiment's assignments in Chattanooga, Tenn., Huntsville, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., New Orleans, La., and Irwin, Tex. He goes into some detail of his skirmishes, but the majority of his letters are filled with requests for supplies and money. Overall, Gardner seems to enjoy his involvement in the army and does not express a particularly strong desire to return from it.

The Myrick collection contains personal, business, and legal papers of a family engaged in the business of manufacturing gravestones and monuments in western New York State. Content includes New York State politics, gold rush California, land speculation, and the Civil War.

The Myrick papers document the personal, business, and legal affairs of a major mid-Victorian purveyor of grave stones and monuments from western New York state. The central figures in the collection, Albert G. Myrick, his son, William W., and brother John William, engaged in an active and highly successful business manufacturing stone monuments for graves and other purposes, but their varied interests took them into the world of New York state politics, Gold Rush California, western land speculation, and the Civil War. Only a small portion of the collection has been catalogued at the item level, with the remainder organized into series.

Box 1 of the collection contains items that have been catalogued individually, arranged in chronological order, 1845-1889. Many of the letters were written by John William Myrick to his brother Albert, describing his myriad schemes to make a fortune in California. More literate than many 49ers, John's letters offer an intriguing social and political perspective on California during the Gold Rush, notably the violence and lawlessness prevalent in the gold fields. His letters also describe the journey across the Isthmus of Panama and then by ship to California.

The Civil War content in the collection is less extensive, but Albert Myrick corresponded with several men who were more directly affected by the war than he, either as soldiers or in other capacities. Of particular interest are John's letters describing California politics during the war (1:76, 80, 90, 114), Edward C. Boyle's letters on military and political affairs in Kentucky (1:82-83, 92), and Christ Siminger's account of the terror to which Democrats were subjected following Lincoln's assassination (1:117). Among the miscellaneous items of interest are James Tibbits' letter announcing his divorce from a wife of ill repute (1:124), and Sophia Myrick's letter dispensing a dose of motherly of guilt upon Albert, "my once beloved son" (1:78).

The bulk of the collection, boxes 2-4, consists of correspondence, accounts, and receipts kept by Albert and William Myrick. The greatest proportion of material in these boxes is comprised of the business records of the Myricks' monument company, providing a wealth of detail about their operations, from the purchase of raw marble to the production of stones and the handling of customer orders and complaints. The correspondence between the Myricks and their many agents enables a fairly thorough reconstruction of their sales techniques and their methods for keeping track of potential customers. The accounts, while not complete, provide valuable information on costs for various grades of marble and for shipping, and, of course, on customer orders.

Also included in Box 2 are some personal accounts of the Myricks and a series of accounts with and relating to the town of Palmyra, including tax records, documents relating to the local cemetery, and records of work performed for the town.

Box 4 contains additional family, personal, political, and legal correspondence. Albert's family correspondence, in particular, often goes beyond the usual familial exchange of pleasantries, particularly in the case of Mary G. Myrick, who became embroiled in a scandal when an attempt was made to take her daughter from her. These letters suggest how deeply Albert was influenced by his participation in Freemasonry, his significant role in the American Party, in the formation of the Constitutional Union Party, and in the Democratic Party, and his entanglement in a legal battle dating from his days in the New York Canal Department. A small clutch of letters from family members who had settled in the west provides some interesting descriptions of life in Michigan and in the upper Midwestern states.