Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. records
Scope and Contents
Collection includes log analysis, 7 volumes, 1957-1958; administrative and financial records, 1886-1975; advertisements, circa 1886-1975; architectural plans for mill, circa 1915; administrative records, memoranda, reports, correspondence regarding financial status, and brochures, 1978-1979.
Dates
- 1886-1979
Creator
- Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Administrative history
Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. was founded as Brooks Brothers by Lester R. Brooks, Dwight F. Brooks and Anson Brooks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1873. The company purchased its first lumberyard in 1875 and formed Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in 1901. It purchased Oregon timber holdings and built a sawmill in Bend in 1915. Its other major operations are located in Florida, Louisiana, British Columbia and Minnesota.
Extent
169 Cubic Feet (168 record cartons, 2 loose volumes and 4 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records include log analysis, administrative and financial records, advertisements, mill architectural plans, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and brochures.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Material formerly designated Mss 1700-2, Lib. Acc. 20321; material formerly designated Mss 1700-1, gift of Brooks Associates, October 1988.
General
Contains material formerly designated Mss 1700-1 and Mss 1700-2.
- Advertising -- Oregon -- Bend
- Bend
- Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company
- Brooks-Scanlon, Inc.
- Forestry and Forestry Products
- Lumber trade -- Oregon -- Bend
- Lumbering -- Oregon -- Bend
- Sawmills -- Oregon -- Bend -- Designs and plans
- administrative records
- advertisements
- architectural drawings (visual works)
- correspondence
- financial records
- printed ephemera
- reports
Creator
- Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. records
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
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Portland OR 97205 United States
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