UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives

Browse Items (94 total)

  • loc_gold_000375_000382.pdf

    A collection of letters from G. H. Milliken to Oscar Goldsmith regarding various business related topics including stockholders and directors meetings, certificates for shares of Pacolet stock for Judge Walker, the confirmation that Judge Walker's check was received and the stock certificate was mailed, and potential buyers of Huntsville Land Co's. Dallas stock.
  • loc_gold_000449_000450.pdf

    Loan contract for $225.00 for mules, horses, a cow, and equipment, borrowed by Thomas Wilson from Isaac Schiffman.
  • loc_gold_000431_000442.pdf

    Various loan contracts for livestock and equipment between I. Schiffman and customers including Moses Johnson, J. C. Todd, Gus Williams, Tom and B. F. Wyley, Henry Rice, and I. K. Carter.
  • loc_gold_000452_000463.pdf

    Various loan contracts, bills, and receipts for purchases made by Bill Bragg and Percy Bragg from I. Schiffman and Co. in 1906. The final document is a receipt for livestock and equipment in 1907.
  • loc_isco_036_041.pdf

    From the business records of I. Schiffman and Company. The materials include letters and instructions for handling and delivering the 1930-31 cotton crop to the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association. The instructions describe the different pools available for marketing cotton and lists warehouses throughout Alabama to be used for storing cotton. The last item, a letter from N. S. Stewart, discusses low cotton prices since 1926 and lists advantages of marketing cotton through the Association.
  • loc_gold_000224_000224.pdf

    A monthly monetary tally for Hunstville Shoe Co. written on S. Schiffman & Co.
  • loc_gold_000383_000383.pdf

    Addressed to "Madam", this letter details a clearance sale on all boys' clothing as it is needing to be cleared out to make room for other merchandise.
  • loc_gold_000301_000303.pdf

    This personal letter to Oscar Goldsmith from his grandson, also named Oscar, details the removal of young Oscar's tonsils and his gaining eight and a half pounds. He also writes of his first refrigerator sale and his hopes to sell more, though he is "no salesman". He conveys some information from his mom and thanks him for making her trip to New York possible. Finally, young Oscar thanks Papa Oscar for paying his tonsil removal bill, and promises that he can take care of his dentist bill.
  • loc_gold_000306_000307.pdf

    Jeannette thanks her uncle, Oscar Goldsmith, for letting them stay with them and getting to know the family. She details the difficult travels home and her plans to visit her father's family in Marietta.
  • loc_gold_000402_000422.pdf

    Personal letters to Ike Schiffman from Ben Stromberg written on Stromberg, Kraus and Co. letterhead. The letters contain various business related topics and personal health information. Among the letters are telegrams acknowledging bills received and other business information.