Charles Ilfeld Company
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Ilfeld Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-BC
Scope and Content
The collection contains records of the Charles Ilfeld Company including correspondence, ledgers, receipts and invoices, inventories, and advertisements. It is divided into three series: correspondence, account books and ledgers, and records of other businesses. The correspondence, 1867-1903, contains letters received and letters sent, both arranged chronologically, and consisting mostly of orders placed with the company. These are followed by copies (Copy Books) of remittance letters and...
Dates:
1865-1929
Contreras Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-52-BC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of business and private papers pertaining to Abram Contreras, Felipe Peralta, Emiliano Contreras and their relatives who resided in Socorro County, central New Mexico, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dates:
1820-1944
Gustave Elsberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-305-SC
Abstract
The Gustave Elsberg papers relate to a suit levied by Elsberg against his former business partner Jacob Amberg in 1869.
Dates:
1869-1897
Raton Grocery Store Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-297-BC
Abstract
The Raton Grocery Store Records consist of fifteen ledgers and notebooks pertaining to the operations of a grocery and mercantile business in Raton, New Mexico, 1907-1938.
Dates:
1907-1938
Smith Mercantile Company (Santa Rosa, N.M.) Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS -215 -BC
Abstract
The collection contains financial records of George H. Smith, Jr., and the Smith Mercantile Company, also known as the Santa Rosa Mercantile Company. The business, located in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, was owned and operated by George H. Smith, Jr.
Dates:
1891-1959; Majority of material found in 1901-1958
William Jackson Parish Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-276-BC
Scope and Content
The bulk of the William Jackson Parish collection is made up of research material for Parish's Harvard dissertation and 1961 Harvard University Press publication, The Charles Ilfeld Company: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico. This material consists of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, business reports, an editor's copy of The Charles Ilfeld Company..., as well as the bound dissertation....
Dates:
1700-1964; Majority of material found in 1945-1963