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Andrew Brown & Son - R.F. Learned Lumber Company/Lumber Archives

MUM00046

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Title
Andrew Brown & Son - R.F. Learned Lumber Company/Lumber Archives.
ID
MUM00046
Date
1837-1974
Extent
117.0 boxes
Abstract
Collection consists of correspondence, business records, various account books and journals, photographs, pamphlets, and reports related to the Andrew Brown (and Son), and its immediate successor company, R.F. Learned Lumber Company created during the years 1837-1974.

Preferred Citation

Andrew Brown & Son - R.F. Learned Lumber Company/Lumber Archives (MUM00046). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

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Historical Note

Compared with the other lumber companies whose records are held in the lumber archives at the University of Mississippi, the firm of Andrew Brown (and Son) and its immediate successor company, R. F. Learned Lumber Company, whose Natchez sawmill facility represents the oldest continuously operated enterprise of its kind in the United States, has received sub stantial research attention. Two extensive scholarly treatments, in particular, may be cited: Charles Wann Crawford's A History of the R. F. Learned Lumber Company 1865 1900 and Moore's Andrew Brown and Cypress Lumbering in the Old Southwest.

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Scope and Contents Note

Collection consists of correspondence, business records, various account books and journals, photographs, pamphlets, and reports related to the Andrew Brown (and Son), and its immediate successor company, R.F. Learned Lumber Company created during the years 1837-1974.

The records of the R. F. Learned Lumber Company comprise approximately 53 linear feet of unbound materials housed in 106 HoIlinger boxes and over 150 bound volumes of financial records. A folder by folder inventory has been prepared for materials held in the Brown Learned Collection. Generally, correspondence has been sorted out of purely business and financial records and has been filed separately. Any correspondence, however, clearly dealing with a specific financial record has been retained together with its associated financial record and the entire record then filed with corres pondence. No differentiation in these records has been made between personal and business correspondence, although the preponderance of personal corres pondence falls in the period before 1930.

Records for Andrew Brown and Son begin in 1831 and end in 1869. After 1869 records are under the heading "R. F. Learned." Materials in the collection have been ordered in the following manner:

A. Brown: Correspondence; A. Brown: Business Records; R. F.

Learned: Corespondence; R. F. Learned: Business Records;

Learned: Natchez Ice Co.; Natchez Dept. Store (Andrew B.

Learned in co op w Britton & Koontz Bank); Learned Plantations.

All correspondence (both Brown and Learned) has been sorted chrono logically by day, month, and year. Business records initially were processed according to a similar scheme. However, to expedite sorting this scheme was not pursued for all of the records. Consequently, some of the records have been sorted only by year, leaving part of the records more thoroughly sorted chronologically than others.

As a result of indifferent custodial care prior to their donation the University of Mississippi, a significant portion of the Andrew Brown Collection is in very poor condition. Examples of water damaged, mud spotted, and insect ravaged records are not uncommon in these records. Other records have been subjected to human abuse in the form of excessive rubber cementing of records and tissue paper application. Before sorting, these documents were separated and cleaned although the exuberance of rubber cementing has reduced considerably the legibility and utility of many of the Brown records. While much care was exercised in cleaning and removing cement from the Brown records, nonetheless, some of the records could not be treated without causing further damage to the records. In some cases tissue paper had been affixed previously to the face of a record obscuring the record's content.

Non lumber centered enterprises of the Learned Company have been separated and filed discretely (i.e., Natchez Ice Co., Natchez Dept. Store, and Learned Plantations). However, correspondence dealing with the Natchez Ice Company, the Natchez Department Store, etc., have been subsumed into the general correspondence of the R. F. Learned Company. Correspondence dealing with the Learned Plantations is held in Hollinger box preceding plantation business records. These plantation records are relatively extensive and span the years 1875 1957. The paucity of legal records (i.e. deeds, insurance policies, etc.) in the Learned Collection did not warrant their separation into a distinct category. Hence, all such records have been placed with business and financial records.

The bound financial records embrace in nearly comprehensive fashion for Andrew Brown, daybooks, journals, ledgers, cashbooks, order books, tally books, and payroll records for the period 1831 1869. Bound financial records of R. F. Learned Lumber Company are comparably complete from 1872 to the mid 1950's, although gaps in the records for both com panies should be apparent in the inventory.

Areas of potential interest to researchers in the Brown Learned records include materials relating to wage and slave labor (Andrew Brown day journals), although post bellum records do not denote racial cate gories for laborers. Nonetheless, the records should prove useful in providing data on broader issues of labor conditions and practices. Both the Brown and Learned records document fully company growth patterns, management practices, logging techniques, manufacturing procedures, adver tising strategies, and transportation mediums and innovations. The Brown records, especially, will be helpful to researchers interested in documenting provenance and in dating construction materials used in ante bellum Natchez.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries 2005

Access Restrictions

Open. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. A minimum of five business days is required to view materials.

Use Restriction

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Processing Information

Processed by University of Mississippi Department Special Collections Staff

EAD encoded finding-aid begun September 2005.

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Collection Inventory

Series 1: Brown Correspondence. 

Box 1: 1837-1839; 1841-1846 

Box 2: 1847-1849 

Box 3: 1850-1851 

Box 4: 1852-1859 

Box 5: 1860-1865 

Box 6: 1866-1868, undated 

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Series 2: Brown Business Records. 

Box 7: 1833; 1835-1844  

Box 8: 1845-1849 

Box 9: 1850-1854 

Box 10: 1855-1858 

Box 11: 1859-1860 

Box 12: 1861-1866 

Box 13: 1867-1869, undated 

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Series 3: Learned Correspondence. 

Box 14: 1869-1875 

Box 15: 1876-1878 

Box 16: 1879 

Box 17: 1880 

Box 18: 1881 

Box 19: 1882 

Box 20: 1883 

Box 21: 1884-1886 

Box 22: 1887-1889 

Box 23: 1890-1896 

Box 24: 1897 

Box 25: 1898 

Box 26: 1899 

Box 27: 1905; 1916-1923; 1926 

Box 28: 1932-1934 

Box 29: 1935 

Box 30: 1936-1939 

Box 31: January - September 1940 

Box 32: October - December 1940 

Box 33: January - March 1941 

Box 34: April - July 1941 

Box 35: August - October 1941 

Box 36: November - December 1941 

Box 37: 1942 

Box 38: January - May 1943 

Box 39: June - October 1943 

Box 40: November - December 1943 

Box 41: January - May 1944 

Box 42: June - December 1944 

Box 43: 1945 

Box 44: 1946 

Box 45: 1947 

Box 46: January - June 1948 

Box 47: July - December 1948 

Box 48: January - June 1949 

Box 49: July - December 1949; undated 

Box 50: January - July 1950 

Box 51: August - December 1950 

Box 52: January - August 1951 

Box 53: September - December 1951 

Box 54: January - May 1952. 

Box 55: June - December 1952 

Box 56: January - June 1953 

Box 57: July - December 1953 

Box 58: January - June 1954 

Box 59: July - December 1954 

Box 60: January - June 1955 

Box 61: July - December 1955 

Box 62: January - May 1956 

Box 63: June - Dec 1956 

Box 64: 1957; January - February 1958 

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Series 4: Learned Business Records. 

Box 65: 1870-1875 

Box 66: 1876-1879 

Box 67: 1880-1889 

Box 68: 1890-1893 

Box 69: 1894 

Box 70: 1895-1896 

Box 71: 1897-1898 

Box 72: 1899 

Box 73: 1900-1905; 1912; 1915; 1918-1921; 1926; 1928-1929 

Box 74: 1930-1934 

Box 75: 1935 

Box 76: 1936 

Box 77: 1937-1938 

Box 78: 1939-1941 

Box 79: 1942 

Box 80: 1943 

Box 81: 1944-1945 

Box 82: February - March, June - August 1946 

Box 83: September - December 1946 

Box 84: January - April 1947 

Box 85: May - December 1947; 1948 

Box 86: January - May 1949 

Box 87: June - December 1949 

Box 88: 1950-1951 

Box 89: 1952-1953 

Box 90: 1954 

Box 91: 1955 

Box 92: 1956-1958 

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Series 5: Miscellaneous Series. 

Box 93: Miscellaneous photos, pamphlets, and reports. Undated. 

Box 94: Miscellaneous. Undated. 

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Series 6: Natchez Ice Company. 

Box 95: 1902; 1904; 1925-1926; 1928-1933 

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Series 7: Learned Plantations Correspondence. 

Box 96: 1875-1881; 1883-1884; 1887-1888; 1891; 1895-1896; 1935-1940; 1942; 1945; 1947; 1953-1954; 1956-1957 

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Series 8: Learned Plantations Business Records. 

Box 97: 1870; 1872; 1874-1877 

Box 98: 1878-1881; 1883-1884 

Box 99: 1885-1887; 1889-1892; 1895-1899; 1902-1903 

Box 100: 1926-1935 

Box 101: 1936 

Box 102: 1937-1939 

Box 103: 1940-1946 

Box 104: 1947-1950 

Box 105: 1951-1953 

Box 106: 1954-1957 

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Series 9: Oversized Materials. 

Box 107: Miscellaneous photos and framed items. Undated. 

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Series 10: Loose Volumes - Andrew Brown & Son. 

Subseries 1: Day Books. 

1: 3 October 1837 - 29 December 1840 

2: 1 January 1843 - 23 February 1848 

2B: 5 March 1850 - 6 August 1850 

3: 3 April 1845 - 8 July 1845 

4: 1 November 1848 - 31 October 1851  

5: 23 April 1850 - 8 August 1850 

7: 5 May 1851 - 31 October 1851 

8: 27 October 1851 - 31 January 1853 

9: 23 April 1852 - 23 September 1853 

10: 1 January 1856 - 1 July 1858 

10A: 10 March 1857 - 31 December 1857 

11: 31 August 1857 - 21 September 1857 

12: 2 August 1858 - 28 April 1862 

14: 14 January 1864 - 5 July 1865 

15: 3 January 1870 - 30 December 1871 

Subseries 2: Account Books. 

18: 1836-1840 

20: 23 May 1837 - 18 April 1843 

21: 31 May 1837 - 6 November 1841 

22A: 26 October 1846 - 7 April 1847 

23: 1 January 1849 

24: 8 May 1849 - 7 April 1854 

25: 1 May 1850 

26: 5 January 1851 - 1 January 1852 

28: 21 July 1858 - 13 April 1859 

29: 1 May 1860 - 20 July 1860 

30: 23 January 1861 - 24 December 1870 

31: 23 January 1863 - 7 September 1863 

Subseries 3: Order Books. 

34: 14 March 1836 - 29 December 1843 

35: 1 July 1839 - 5 Spetember 1839 

36: 3 January 1844 - 1851 

36A: 5 May 1853 - 23 July 1853 

37: January 1859 - 25 March 1863 

38: 23 January 1864 - 24 October 1868 

Subseries 4: Journals. 

39: 22 October 1839 - 28 February 1843 

39A: 1 January 1836 - 13 September 1840 

40: March 1843 - 31 October 1848 

41: 20 January 1844 - 9 July 1844 

42: 1 November 1848 - January 1853 

42A: 10 August 1850 - 26 May 1851 

43: 31 October 1851 - 31 December 1853 

45: 1 February 1853 - 31 December 1860 

46: 1 January 1855 - December 1860 

53: 9 January 1860 - 18 December 1863 

54: January 1861 - September 1865 

55: January 1861 - December 1870 

56: January 1871 - 31 December 1876 

Subseries 5: Cash Journals. 

116: 1 March 1829 - 13 January 1836 

57: 11 January 1831 - 1 July 1840 

126: 1 January 1836 - 14 August 1840 

58: 25 November 1837 - 7 January 1846 

59: 2 January 1841 - 27 January 1841 

60: 12 April 1842 - 30 June 1842 

61: 18 September 1844 - 6 November 1844 

62: 1 November 1848 - 24 April 1855 

63: 2 April 1849 - 29 May 1849 

64: 27 November 1850 - 12 April 1851 

65: 23 April 1851 - 19 May 1852 

66: 20 May 1852 - 21 July 1853 

67: 2 July 1855 - 31 August 1864 

68: January 1857 - 30 July 1865 

70: 1 January 1871 - 30 December 1876 

71: 1 May 18__ - 4 May 18__ 

Subseries 6: Time Books. 

72: January 1838 - December 1840; 10 August 1848 - July 1848 

73: 10 January 1848 - July 1848 

74: 2 August 1848 - 16 August 1848 

75: 16 August 1848 

76: 26 July 1852 - 27 December 1852 

77: 18 August 1850 - 18 January 1851 

78: 3 January 1853 - 11 June 1853 

78A: January 1861 - December 1870 

79: 3 August 1861 - 11 December 1861 

80: 5 March 1864 - 13 July 1864 

81A: 18 February 18__ - 3 August 18__ 

Subseries 7: Purchases & Deliveries Books. 

82: 22 December 1841 - 8 March 1842 

84: 1849 

86: 15 March 1852 - 15 July 1852 

87: 14 January 1851 - 24 April 1851 

88: 3 May 1854 - 26 November 1863 

89: 17 July 1854 - 27 January 1855 

90: 17 June 1857 - 6 October 1857 

91: 10 March 1858 - 21 July 1858 

92: 18 October 1858 - 26 January 1859 

93: 15 March 1860 - 30 March 1860 

94: 27 June 1859 - 5 September 1859 

95: 10 September 1859 - 17 December 1859 

96: 12 March 1860 - 30 March 1860 

97: 19 April 1860 - 6 June 1860 

98: 1 December 1861 - 28 April 1862 

99: 6 January 1873 - 26 November 1873 

101: 28 January 18__ - 7 July 18__ 

102: 3 June 18__ - 4 July 18__ 

103: 27 October 18__ - June 18__ 

Subseries 8: Receipts. 

104: 1 April 1848 - 13 March 1858 

122: 7 July 1860 - 27 August 1860 

123: 23 July 1860 - 23 August 1860 

124: 22 December 1860 - 7 February 1861 

Subseries 9: Petty Cash. 

105: 1 January 1839 - 21 March 1844 

106: 29 June 1849 - 6 July 1850 

107: 17 July 1854 - 18 December 1856 

Subseries 10: Inventories. 

108: 31 December 1854 

Subseries 11: Board Books. 

109: 1 August 1837 - 18 July 1838 

110: 3 January 1843 - 15 July 1844 

Subseries 12: Rent Books. 

111: 1 October 1861 - 11 July 1865 

112: 6 March 1864 - 1 January 1877 

Subseries 13: Expenses Books. 

113: 19 August 1857 - 9 January 1860 

114: 22 November 18__ - 22 December 18__ 

Subseries 14: Marketing Books. 

115: December 1857 - 30 September 1858 

Subseries 15: Lumber Books. 

116: 2 August 1832 - 13 January 1836 

117: 1 November 1850 - 30 June 1851 

118: 9 July 1854 - August 1854 

119: unknown dates 

120: unknown dates 

120A: 10 April 1861 - 1 February 1862 

Subseries 16: Water Level. 

121: 8 February 1851 - 23 February 1852 

Subseries 17: Ledgers. 

127: 2 January 1837 - 31 October 1848 

128: 22 October 1839 - 1 March 1843 

129: 1 November 1848 - September 1850 

130: 1 February 1853 - 31 December 1860 

131: 1 March 1853 - 30 December 1859 

27: 1 January 1855 - 13 March 1864 

132: 1 February 1867 - 15 December 1867 

133: 1 January 1871 - 2 October 1872 

134: 1 January 1871 - 21 October 1876 

Subseries 18: Check Books. 

136: 1 January 1851 - 11 June 1852 

137: 5 August 1852 - 4 June 1855 

138: 14 June 1855 - 26 January 1859 

139: 4 February 1859 - 20 December 1870 

125: 11 February 1861 - 28 March 1861 

Subseries 19: Andrew Brown Journal & Labor Ledger. 

139B: 17 August 1835 - 11 April 1841 

Subseries 20: Purchases Journal. 

19: 4 March 1837 - 30 December 1837 

22: 8 February 1844 - 8 November 1844 

22A: July 1851 - February 1861 

Subseries 21: Pocket Memoranda. 

83: 10 October 1849 - 6 May 1850 

85: Andrew Dott, 12 December 1849 - 20 January 1850 

44: 1 February 1853 - 30 July 1860 

47: 30 January 1855 - December 1860 

48: 1 August 1855 - 31 March 1856 

49: 10 JUly 1856 - 27 April 1857 

50: 17 August 1857 - 7 November 1857 

51: 10 November 1857 - 29 January 1858 

52: 7 June 1858 - 21 July 1858 

13: 1 January 1861 - 19 May 1861 

Subseries 22: Miscellaneous. 

32: Illegible dates 

33: Illegible dates 

99: 17 September 1849 - unidentified 

69: 9 April 1860 

81: 22 June 18__ - 27 August 18__ 

6: Day Book of T. Seaton of Natchez, MS, 29 November 1850 - 19 May 1851 

6A: 9 July [1850] - 16 August [1850] 

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Series 11: Loose Volumes - R.F. Learned Lumber Company. 

Subseries 1: Day Books. 

140: 1 January 1872 - 31 March 1876 

16: 8 August 1872 - 19 March 1877 

141: 1 January 1877 - 31 May 1880 

142: 10 May 1877 - 6 December 1881 

143: 1 July 1881 - 19 October 1883 

144: 1 January 1881 - August 1895 

145: 2 January 1882 - 5 June 1883 

146: 30 October 1883 - 26 February 1889 

147: 1 September 1887 - 30 March 1889 

148: 2 June 1890 - 18 December 1891 

149: 21 December 1891 - 13 September 1892 

150: 14 September 1893 - 4 November 1895 

151: 5 November 1895 - 28 September 1897 

152: 30 September 1899 - 12 October 1899 

153: 16 October 1899 - 25 March 1904 

154: 21 December 1912 - 17 January 1914 

412: 1 November 1915 - 17 July 1918 

Subseries 2: Cash Journals. 

155: February 1870; May 1870; September 1870 

156: April 1877 - May 1886 

157: January 1877 - December 1883 

158: December 1883 - May 1889 

159: Natchez Cotton Mill Co., June 1886 - October 1896 

160: June 1889 - November 1895 

161: November 1895 - June 1901 

162: June 1901 - June 1905 

163: June 1905 - October 1908 

164: October 1908 - June 1911 

165: 25 August 1909 - 15 January 1910 

166: June 1911 - August 1914 

167: August 1914 - July 1917 

168: August 1917 - May 1920 

170: Natchez Oil Mill, February 1918 - December 1919 

171: 29 April 1918 - 12 September 1918 

173: 1 January 1919 - 1920 

Scope and Content

Also contains an inventory.

174: 18 May 1920 - October 1923 

175: July 1920 - September 1920 

178: October 1925 - December 1925 

179: May 1934 - January 1937 

Subseries 3: Ledgers. 

180: November 1893 - 1944; 1859-1860 

181: 1 January 1877 - 3 January 1881 

182: 20 April 1877 - October 1884 

183: 1 January 1874 - 9 January 1897 

184: 1 January 1881 - 21 December 1886 

185: 6 January 1883 - 31 December 1883 

186: March 1886 - 15 September 1891 

187: 1 January 1883 - December 1890 

188: 1 December 1884 - 2 January 1892 

189: 1 January 1883 - 15 February 1896 

190: 1 January 1897 - 2 January 1902 

191: 3 January 1895 - 29 August 1901 

192: Ashland Plantation, 2 January 1900 - 25 December 1904 

193: 1 January 1897 - 25 December 1905 

194: 20 May 1898 - 10 November 1899 

195: 1 February 1904 - 19 June 1905 

196: 1 JUlay 1907 - 31 January 1909 

197: 12 January 1909 - 30 December 1910 

198: 8 January 1911 - 31 December 1913 

199: 1 July 1911 - 31 July 1913 

200: Panola Plantation, 21 December 1912 - 1 January 1915 

201: 10 January 1913 - 20 January 1915 

202: 1 February 1915 - 31 January 1917 

203: 1 January 1915 - 31 January 1917 

204: 2 January 1917 - 31 December 1918 

205: Panola Plantation, 1 January 1919 - 24 January 1921 

205A: 1922-1926 

206: 27 December 1920 - 4 January 1923 

207: 16 February 1921 - 1 January 1923 

208: 1 September 1923 - 20 November 1945 

Subseries 4: Reports of Logs Scaled. 

209: 3 January 1920 - 30 December 1922 

210: 6 January 1923 - 31 December 1926 

211: 1 January 1927 - 31 December 1929 

212: 4 January 1941 - December 1943 

213: 1 January 1927 - 31 December 1929 

214: 5 January 1945 - December 1948 

215: 12 May 1947 - December 1954 

Subseries 5: Cotton Ledgers. 

216: 1925 

Subseries 6: Journals. 

217: 1 January 1874 - January 1885 

218: 1 June 1880 - 30 June 1881 

219: 17 April 1887 - 30 April 1889 

220: 4 May 1883 - 29 November 1890 

221: 1 March 1886 - 31 August 1887 

222: February 1885 - January 1897 

223: 1 April 1889 - 31 May 1890 

224: White Hall Plantation, 8 January 1895 - 8 February 1901 

225: Moss Point, MS, 20 July 1895 - 20 November 1900 

226: 28 March 1904 - 27 October 1906 

227: 27 October 1906 - 25 August 1909 

228: 26 August 1909 - 1 March 1912 

229: 1 March 1912 - 31 December 1915 

230: 1 January 1915 - 31 October 1917 

231: 1 November 1917 - 24 April 1923 

231A: January 1920 - January 1930 

Subseries 7: Trial Balance. 

232: March 1872 - 30 June 1875 

233: 10 January 1905 - 11 July 1906 

234: June 1907 - 12 Janaury 1909 

235: January 1916 - December 1916 

236: January 1917 - December 1917 

240: January 1921 - December 1922 

237: January 1919 - November 1919 

238: July 1920 - December 1920 

239: 1 January 1921 - December 1922 

241: January 1923 - December 1923 

242: January 1924 - December 1924 

243: January 1924 - December 1924 

244: January 1925 - June 1925 

245: 1 January 1926 - June 1926 

246: July 1926 - 30 December 1926 

247: January 1927 - November 1927 

248: January 1927 - November 1927 

249: January 1928 - December 1928 

250: January 1928 - December 1928 

251: January 1929 - December 1929 

252: January 1929 - December 1929 

253: January 1930 - December 1930 

254: January 1933 - December 1933 

255: January 1934 - December 1934 

256: January 1935 - December 1935 

257: January 1936 - December 1936 

258: January 1937 - December 1937 

259: January 1937 - December 1937 

260: January 1945 - December 1947 

261: January 1948 - December 1949 

262: undated 

Subseries 8: Order Books. 

262A: 14 July 1871 - 14 August 1872 

263: 4 October 1882 - 7 June 1893 

264: 27 June 1905 - 11 August 1905 

169: 4 December 1917 - 27 April 1918 

172: 13 September 1918 - 24 May 1919 

176: 4 November 1920 - 6 February 1921 

177: 26 May 1922 - 17 October 1922 

265: 2 January 1922 - 1 September 1924 

266: 6 January 1944 - 6 November 1944 

267: 13 May 1955 - 31 December 1955 

Subseries 9: Gas Tickets. 

268: 17 August 1954 - 30 November 1954 

Subseries 10: Log Deck. 

269: 21 November 1905 - 21 August 1906 

270: 26 November 1946 - 22 January 1947 

271: 28 November 1946 - 23 January 1947 

272: 14 April 1952 - 18 June 1952 

273: 16 April 1952 - 17 June 1952 

274: 23 June 1952 - 29 September 1952 

275: 27 March 1953 - 22 May 1953 

276: 29 March 1953 - 23 July 1953 

277: 25 May 1953 - 29 July 1953 

278: 30 July 1953 - 28 September 1953 

279: 4 October 1955 - 15 December 1955 

280: 16 December 1955 - 27 February 1956 

281: 28 June 1956 - 11 October 1956 

282: 27 June 1956 - 10 October 1956 

283: 9 January 1957 - 3 April 1957 

284: 10 January 1957 - 11 April 1957 

285: 18 June 1957 - 4 September 1957 

286: 17 June 1957 - 3 September 1957 

Subseries 11: Time Books. 

287: 7 January 1871 - 15 January 1878 

288: 5 January 1878 - 5 February 1881 

289: 12 February 1881 - 3 March 1883 

290: 22 November 1884 - 4 June 1887 

291: 18 June 1887 - 14 December 1889 

292: 21 December 1889 - 20 June 1891 

293: 7 October 1893 - 16 November 1896 

294: 9 October 1897 - 28 October 1899 

295: 12 February 1898 - 23 December 1899 

296: 1 October 1899 - 30 May 1903 

297: 22 September 1900 - 19 August 1901 

298: 24 May 1901 - 3 July 1903 

299: 1 January 1903 - 6 August 1904 

300: 14 September 1906 - 13 January 1907 

301: 13 March 1908 - 18 July 1909 

302: 19 August 1910 - 15 December 1911 

303: 22 December 1911 - 29 March 1913 

304: 22 June 1912 - 28 February 1913 

305: 12 December 1913 - 22 August 1914 

306: 31 July 1914 - 22 October 1915 

307: 7 May 1915 - 18 February 1916 

308: 20 February 1916 - 4 November 1916 

309: 6 April 1918 - 3 April 1920 

310: 16 July 1921 - 31 July 1927 

311: 18 January 1921 - 30 July 1923 

312: 3 March 1922 - 20 July 1923 

313: 28 July 1923 - 11 July 1924 

314: 12 March 1928 - 22 October 1928 

315: 23 October 1936 - 10 December 1937 

316: 1 January 1937 - 2 April 1937 

317: 24 October 1938 - 15 July 1939 

318: 29 October 1938 - 17 February 1940 

319: 22 July 1939 - 6 April 1940 

320: 30 January 1942 - 9 October 1942 

321: 5 November 1938 - 22 December 1944 

322: 24 February 1940 - 26 April 1941 

323: 19 April 1941 - 11 April 1942 

324: 31 July 1942 - 16 April 1943 

325: 28 November 1941 - 24 July 1942 

326: 23 April 1943 - 17 September 1943 

327: 23 April 1943 - 10 December 1943 

328: 24 September 1943 - 20 July 1944 

329: 11 December 1943 - 11 August 1944 

330: 19 May 1944 - 15 December 1944 

331: 28 July 1944 - 8 June 1945 

332: 18 August 1944 - 23 March 1945 

333: 4 October 1945 - 1 March 1946 

334: January 1946 - December 1947 

335: 18 December 1947 - 20 May 1948 

336: 8 January 1948 - 30 December 1948 

337: 2 March 1950 - 24 August 1950 

338: 17 March 1950 - 25 August 1952 

339: 23 February 1951 - 9 August 1951 

340: 15 March 1951 - 19 June 1952 

341: 31 July 1952 - 22 January 1953 

342: 15 January 1953 - 31 December 1953 

343: 29 January 1954 - 26 August 1954 

344: 29 January 1954 - 26 August 1954 

345: 2 September 1954 - 12 May 1955 

346: 19 May 1955 - 1 March 1955 

265A: R.L. Learned Saw Mill, 1899-1901 

Subseries 12: Workmen's Account Books. 

347: 1 October 19__ - 2 December 19__ 

348: 2 December 1929 - 30 February 1930 

349: 3 April 19__ - 18 August 19__ 

350: 1 May 19__ - 31 September 19__ 

Subseries 13: Timber Records. 

351: 3 July 1903 - 1 January 1905 

Subseries 14: Expenses. 

352: 28 February 1879 - 1 June 1880 

353: 18 October 1886 - 24 December 1887 

Subseries 15: Foreign Orders. 

354: 13 October 1908 - 28 March 1911 

355: 15 July 1910 - 16 January 1914 

356: 23 January 1914 - 10 May 1917 

357: 18 April 1917 - 27 May 1919 

Subseries 16: Stacking Orders. 

358: 25 January 1905 - 14 June 1906 

359: 17 March 1947 - 27 October 1947 

360: 6 November 1947 - 22 July 1948 

361: 28 January 1953 - 19 November 1953 

362: 6 January 1954 - 29 December 1954 

363: 5 January 1955 - 16 November 1955 

364: 14 November 1956 - 19 April 1957 

Subseries 17: Invoice Books. 

365: January 1864 - 19 April 1879 

Subseries 18: Timber Purchases. 

366: 1 January 1859 - 15 June 1870 

Subseries 19: Letters & Correspondence. 

135: 30 September 1870 - 2 January 1877 

367: 25 May 1878 - 23 November 1879 

368: 16 January 1889 - 8 July 1890 

369: 13 December 1892 - 14 December 1894 

370: 5 January 1895 - 8 February 1898 

371: 1 November 1899 - 21 May 1900 

372: 21 May 1900 - 10 December 1900 

373: 10 December 1900 - 27 August 1901 

374: 27 August 1901 - 5 June 1901 

375: 6 January 1902 - 23 August 1902 

376: 26 August 1902 - 19 May 1903 

377: 13 May 1903 - 22 September 1905 

378: 17 June 1904 - 23 March 1906 

379: 31 January 1922 - 26 June 1929 

Subseries 20: Tally Sheets. 

408: 15 August 1905 - 19 December 1905 

380: 4 February 1908 - 9 March 1910 

381: 10 July 1944 - 6 September 1944 

382: 4 January 1940 - 6 September 1944 

409: 5 January 1945 - 12 December 1947 

410: 6 January 1947 - 23 December 1947 

411: 5 January 1948 - 27 December 1948 

384: 3 January 1950 - 20 January 1951 

383: 3 February 1950 - 11 May 1950 

385: 12 May 1950 - 8 July 1950 

386: 10 July 1950 - 5 September 1950 

387: 20 January 1951 - 9 March 1951 

388: 25 October 1951 - 17 January 1952 

389: 19 January 1952 - 19 March 1952 

390: 20 March 1952 - 14 May 1952 

391: 17 July 1952 - 26 September 1952 

392: 28 April 1953 - 17 June 1953 

393: 21 November 1953 - 30 January 1954 

394: 3 February 1954 - 7 April 1954 

395: 22 November 1954 - 20 January 1955 

396: 25 January 1955 - 25 March 1955 

397: 28 March 1955 - 6 May 1955 

398: 9 May 1955 - 9 June 1955 

399: 13 June 1955 - 16 August 1955 

400: 18 August 1955 - 22 September 1955 

401: 23 September 1955 - 11 November 1955 

402: 14 November 1955 - 6 January 1956 

403: 6 January 1956 - 21 February 1956 

404: 22 February 1956 - 28 March 1956 

405: blank 

406: 28 March 1956 - 15 May 1956 

407: 7 July 1956 - 10 August 1956 

Subseries 21: Tally Books. 

413: 14 November 1899 - 6 March 1900 

414: 15 November 1899 - 14 March 1900 

415: 4 January 1900 - 22 May 1900 

416: 8 February 1900 - 23 May 1900 

417: 9 October 1901 - 23 December 1901 

418: 15 October 1901 - 24 December 1901 

419: 30 December 1901 - 13 June 1902 

420: 12 May 1901 - 14 June 1902 

421: 24 June 1902 - 13 October 1902 

422: 25 June 1902 - 12 November 1902 

423: 7 July 1902 - 23 October 1902 

424: 11 July 1902 - 10 November 1902 

425: 12 November 1902 - 9 March 1903 

426: 14 November 1902 - 26 February 1903 

427: 2 March 1903 - 16 July 1903 

428: 21 April 1903 - 24 September 1903 

429: 1 July 1942 - 8 August 1942 

430: 12 December 1942 - 31 January 1943 

431: 10 February 1943 - 10 March 1943 

432: 31 December 1941 - 3 April 1943 

433: 19 April 1943 - 15 May 1943 

434: 15 May 1943 - 1 June 1943 

435: 1 July 1943 - 21 August 1943 

436: 1 July 1943 - 21 August 1943 

437: 31 August 1943 - 30 September 1943 

438: 30 September 1943 - 1 November 1943 

439: 13 November 1943 - 31 December 1943 

439A: 24 May 1946 - 4 October 1946 

440: 20 October 1947 - 3 July 1948 

441: 2 February 1948 - 31 August 1948 

442: 17 February 1948 - 2 April 1949 

443: 2 July 1948 - 17 June 1949 

444: 6 August 1948 - 8 October 1948 

445: 10 September 1948 - 17 December 1948 

446: 16 April 1949 - August 1949 

447: 16 May 1948 - 27 April 1950 

448: 18 October 1949 - 21 April 1950 

449: 14 November 1949 - 17 April 1950 

450: 17 November 1949 - 22 November 1952 

451: 3 May 1950 - 24 August 1950 

452: 4 May 1950 - 22 August 1950 

453: 10 May 1950 - 18 August 1950 

454: 11 May 1950 - 18 August 1950 

455: 29 August 1950 - 22 February 1951 

456: 31 August 1950 - 22 February 1951 

457: 31 August 1950 - 15 December 1950 

458: 19 January 1951 - 26 November 1955 

459: 6 April 1951 - 26 September 1951 

460: 7 April 1951 - 27 September 1951 

461: 11 April 1951 - 19 September 1951 

462: 14 April 1951 - 5 October 1951 

463: 5 October 1951 - 14 August 1953 

464: 12 October 1951 - 17 January 1952 

465: 13 October 1951 - 14 May 1952 

466: 14 October 1951 - 29 December 1953 

467: 18 October 1951 - 24 September 1953 

468: 6 June 1952 - 9 October 1953 

469: 10 October 1952 - 2 October 1953 

470: 7 November 1952 - 12 August 1953 

471: 27 November 1953 - 24 June 1954 

472: 8 January 1954 - 28 February 1955 

473: 26 February 1954 - 10 December 1954 

474: 4 June 1954 - 28 December 1955 

475: 8 April 1955 - 25 November 1955 

476: 18 April 1955 - 1 December 1955 

477: 21 October 1955 - 19 December 1955 

478: 28 October 1955 - 15 December 1955 

Subseries 22: Check Books. 

479: 22 January 1885 - 9 July 1886 

480: 14 July 1886 - 13 October 1887 

481: 4 August 1914 - 21 September 1914 

482: 12 February 1926 - 1 November 1926 

483: 3 November 1926 - 27 May 1927 

484: 27 July 1940 - 30 November 1940 

485: 14 August 1940 - 12 August 1941 

486: 20 December 1941 - 29 April 1942 

487: 27 May 1944 - 22 September 1944 

488: 31 July 1945 - 30 November 1945 

489: 28 February 1946 - 18 June 1946 

490: 7 March 1952 - 3 June 1952 

491: 30 August 1951 - 13 May 1952 

492: 7 March 1952 - 3 June 1952 

493: 2 December 1952 - 24 February 1953 

494: 18 February 1953 - 16 November 1953 

495: 23 June 1953 - 2 October 1953 

496: 18 February 1954 - 13 May 1954 

497: 12 February 1955 - 12 April 1955 

Subseries 23: Pocket Memoranda. 

100: 11 January 1875 - 18 April 1876 

498: 17 October 1905 - 7 September 1906 

499: 10 June 1909 - 30 April 1910 

517: 10 June 1909 - 7 May 1910 

500: 8 June 1909 - 7 May 1910 

501: 24 January 1911 - 26 August 1911 

502: 19 April 1911 - 2 December 1911 

503: 31 May 1911 - 24 February 1912 

504: 9 March 1912 - 27 July 1912 

505: 27 August 1912 - 8 February 1913 

506: 18 October 1913 - 15 May 1914 

507: 18 May 1914 - 10 October 1914 

508: 23 May 1914 - 28 January 1915 

Subseries 24: Lumber Books. 

509: 24 August 1951 - 11 December 1952 

510: 12 March 1955 - [unknown] 

Subseries 25: Gas Records. 

511: 1 April 1946 - 19 April 1946 

512: 9 July 1952 - 27 October 1954 

513: 6 February 1954 - 22 March 1954 

514: 30 March 1954 - 20 April 1954 

515: 28 September 1955 - 4 October 1955 

Subseries 26: Timber Miscellaneous. 

516: 14 January 1905 - 2 May 1910 

518: 21 July 1920 - 28 November 1920 

Subseries 27: Shipping Records & Sales Journal. 

519: 22 August 1895 - 3 March 1896 

Subseries 28: Purchases Journal. 

520: 4 August 1914 - 19 August 1914 

521: 3 January 1955 - 30 June 1955 

Subseries 29: Payroll Records. 

522: 8 October 1955 - 29 June 1957 

321: 5 November 1938 - 22 December 1944 

Subseries 30: The Corp of Engineers Vessel Operation Report. 

523: April 1952 - 10 November 1952 

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Series 12: Loose Volumes - R.F. Learned Lumber Company, 20th Century. 

Subseries 1: Cash Books. 

524: 1923 - 1927 

525: 1927 - 1932 

556: 1928 - 1929 

526: 1932 - 1937 

557: 1937 - 1939 

527: 1937 - 1942 

528: 1942 - 1947 

558: 1945 - 1947 

529: 1947 - 1952 

530: 1952 - 1957 

531: 1958 - 1959 

Subseries 2: Journals. 

532: April 1923 - December 1933 

533: December 1933 - June 1938 

534: July 1938 - July 1942 

535: August 1942 - August 1946 

536: September 1946 - January 1952 

537: January 1952 - December 1956 

564: 30 August 1952 - 3 April 1961 

538: January 1957 - May 1959 

538A: June 1959 - December 1961 

592: May 1960 - December 1960 

539: 1963 

539A: January 1966 - December 1970 

Subseries 3: Ledgers. 

540: 1924 - 1926 

541: 1926 - 1929 

542: 1930 - 1933 

543: 1933 - 1937 

544: 1938 - 1941 

545: 1942 - 1946 

546: 1946 - 1950 

547: 1951 - 1954 

548: 1955 

549: 1956 - 1959 

549A: 1957 - 1958 

549B: 1958 

549C: 1963 - 1971 

Subseries 4: Day Books. 

550: 1881 - 1902 

551: 1912 - 1925 

552: 1924 - 1927 

Subseries 5: Log Deck. 

553: 1951 - 1956 

554: 1957 - 1962 

555: 1945 - 1950 

Subseries 6: Letter Books. 

559: 1898 - 1902 

560: 1902 - 1911 

561: 1911 - 1914 

562: 1914 - 1918 

Subseries 7: Address Books. 

563: [Unknown date] 

Subseries 8: Time Books. 

565: December 1937 - December 1938 

566: December 1939 - December 1941 

567: May 1946 - December 1946 

568: October 1947 - July 1948 

569: January 1950 - May 1951 

570: June 1951 - November 1952 

571: December 1952 - April 1954 

572: May 1954 - May 1956 

573: June 1956 - July 1958 

574: August 1958 - July 1959 

Subseries 9: Panola Land & Development Company Records. 

575: January 1959 - May 1969 

576: January 1959 - December 1972 

577: January 1959 - June 1959 

578: January 1972 - December 1974 

Subseries 10: Natchez Pulpwood & Timber Company Records. 

579: January 1964 - December 1968 

580: January 1964 - August 1971 

581: June 1968 - April 1971 

582: January 1968 - March 1971 

Subseries 11: Sales Journal. 

583: Natchez Oil Mill, July 1917 - February 1919 

Subseries 12: Name Indexes. 

584: no date 

585: 1843 

586: no date 

587: 1885 

588: no date 

Subseries 13: General Ledgers. 

589: 1959 - 1962 

590: 1962 

Subseries 14: Payroll Journal. 

591: 1960 - 1968 

Subseries 15: Miscellaneous. 

139A: September 1875 - 21 December 1876 

593: October 1928 - February 1929 

594: January 1895 - December 1900 

595: February 1946 - July 1947 

596: January 1904 - March 1905 

597: 1928 

598: July 1915 - April 1916 

599: March 1946 - September 1946 

600: May 1946 - July 1947 

601: August 1945 - October 1946 

602: January 1916 - August 1936 

603: June 1929 - August 1929 

604: August 1929 - September 1929 

605: June 1942 - February 1943 

606: March 1912 - October 1912 

607: June 1912 - August 1914 

608: March 1912 - July 1912 

609: July 1909 - February 1913 

Subseries 16: Order Book. 

610: November 1916 - August 1918 

Subseries 17: Accounts Payable. 

611: December 1909 - [unknown] 

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