AMERICAN FUR COMPANY:

These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Nute, Grace Lee. Calendar of the American Fur Company's papers. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 1945.

Grace Lee Nute's Calendar, also published as volumes 2 and 3 of the Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1944, provides a detailed description in chronological order of the items within the American Fur Company's papers. Items listed within the Calendar are identifed by an item number. These numbers are generally noted in either handwriting or typescript in the upper right hand corner on the first page of each item.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Microfilm Production:

[New York]: New York Historical Society, 1951-1953.

Location of Originals (approximately 18,180 items):

New York Historical Society.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 10,730.

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 007064654

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Reels 1-10 contain the contents of 26 letterpress copy books. Items designated with "L. B. C." in Grace Lee Nute's Calendar of the American Fur Company Papers refer to these 26 volumes.

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Reels 11-22 contain microfilmed invoices, orders outward and inward, blotters, store books, receiving books, memoranda, cash books, and other bound volumes.

The volumes are arranged according to the numbering sequence used in the Calendar.

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Correspondence, arranged chronologically and numbered according to the Calendar. Letters 1-724 are filmed on the second part of roll 22. Letters that were filmed out of chronological order are noted in the reel list below.

Correspondents include John Jacob Astor, Lewis Cass, Ramsay Crooks, Robert Stuart, Henry Hastings Sibley, Joseph Nicholas Nicollet, Lawrence Taliaferro, Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, Sir George Simpson, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Jean Joseph Rolette, Pierre Chouteau, Gabriel Franchère, Charles Gratiot, Alexis Bailly, Hercules Louis Dousman, George Bonga, Allan Morrison, and many others associated with the fur trade in Minnesota.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Fur trade -- Minnesota.

Davenport, Ambrose.

Davenport, William.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

Persons:

Aitken, William Alexander, 1787-1851.

Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848.

Bailly, Alexis, 1798-1861.

Borup, Charles W. W. (Charles William Wulff), 1806-1859.

Boutwell, William Thurston, 1803-1890.

Brewster, William.

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866.

Chouteau, Pierre, 1789-1865.

Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859.

Dousman, Hercules L.,(Hercules Louis), 1800-1868.

Franchère, Gabriel, 1786-1863.

Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843.

Rolette, Joseph, 1781-1842.

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891.

Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871.

Organizations:

Columbia Fur Company.

Michilimackinac Company.

Gott (Benjamin) and Sons.

Hudson's Bay Company.

Henry (A and H) Company.

North West Company.

Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Company.

Places:

Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.)

Mississippi River Valley.

Voyageurs National Park (Minn.)

Document Types:

Microform.

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