Business collections may include company records, professional letterhead and historic correspondence, photographs, receipts, journals, cash books, and other documents related to local businesses. These collections are found in the Ledger Room on the second floor of the Barnum House. We are always interested in records from more businesses.
If you would like more information about one of these collections, please submit a research request.
A
Alliance Store
1 Box (2007.3010)
American Hotel, Ferndale
1 Box (2005.129)
Arcata Business Groups
1 Box (2018.028)
Arcata Drug Store, including Prescription Slips
6 Boxes, 1 Scrapbook (1990.02, 2018.022)
Arcata & Mad River Railroad (A&MRRR)
1 Box (2014.071.01; YD 5390; 1997.73)
B
Bair's Resort
1 Box (2012.038)
Bank of Eureka
3 ledgers
Bay Hotel
1 Box (2009.023)
Bayside Lumber Co.
1 Box (2019.055.381)
Belcher, Belcher & Crane
1 Box (2021.04, .015, .025, .078)
Bendixsen Schooner “Bertie Minor”
1 Box
Blue Lake Advocate
1 Box (1993.27)
Blue Ox Millworks
1 Box (2013.069)
Bridgeville Store
1 Ledger (2018.022)
Brizard Company Stores & Pack Trail
Requa, Gold Bluffs, Orick, Bald Hills, Martin's Ferry, Witchipec, Orleans, Sommes Bar, Forks of the Salmon, Hoopa, Willow Creek, Bair's Three Cabins, Blue Lake, Korbel, Dow's Prairie, Table Bluff, Port Kenyon, Maple Creek, Bald Mountain, Burnt Ranch, Angel Ranch, Cedar Flat, Big Bar, New River
36 Ledgers, 23 Boxes, 85 Binders, 10 framed items
(2008.069; 2008.048; 1996.55; 2004.239; 2009.107)
Buhne Company, H.H.
72 Boxes (2009.162; 2000.060)
Burwood Gardens Convalescent Hospital
1 Box (2009.041)
C
California Redwood Company
7 Boxes (1990.014)
California Barrel Company
1 Box (1998.40)
Capital Dairy
1 Box (2000.097)
Carlotta Lumber Company/Southern Humboldt Lumber Company
1 Box (2014.025)
Chamber of Commerce, Eureka
28 Boxes, 2 Scrapbooks (1990.026)
Cheney, Kelly, and Reid
1 Box
Chicago Bridge & Iron
2 Boxes (2001.165; 2001.238; 2006.174; 2012.005; 2012.033)
Coastal Inns, Inc.
1 Box (2019.055.392)
Coggeshall Launch Company
1 Box (2000.060)
Consolidated Fisheries
2 Boxes (1991.16)
Cox & Son General Merchandising
15 Boxes, 1 Hardware Catalog, 1 Ledger (2006.140; 2007.064; 2018.022)
Credit Association of Humboldt County
1 Ledger (2018.022)
Cullberg-Owned Businesses, Various
1 Box (2014.069)
D
Daly Brothers Department Store
13 Boxes, 1 Ledger (1996.57; 2018.022)
Diamond Fruit Co./Bon Boniere Candy
1 Box (2022.044)
Dickson & Dickson
8 Boxes, 1 Ledger (1996.57)
Dinsmore Store
1 Ledger (2016.006)
Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company
4 Boxes, 2 Ledgers (1991.21)
E
Eel River Creamery
1 Box (2008.6011)
Elk River Mill & Company
1 Box (1996.02; 2011.025)
Eureka/Alaska Exploration Company
1 Box (1993.35)
Eureka Beauty Shop
1 Box (2005.220)
Eureka Inn
1 Box
Eureka Mall
1 Box (2009.184)
Eureka Mining Company
1 Box (2018.022)
Eureka Printing/Jewett Printing
2 Boxes (YD 1752)
Eureka Redwood
2 Boxes
Everybody's Furniture
1 Box, 1 Scrapbook (1991.20.04)
Excelsior Redwood
1 Box
Exxon
1 Box (2006.190)
F
Ferndale Building Association
1 Box (2008.6011.03)
Ferndale Hotel
2 Boxes (YD 3492, YD 3491)
Ferrier D.
1 Box (2000.060)
Ferrar Maternity Home
1 Box (2011.096)
Fortuna Maternity Home
1 Box
Freshwater Store
4 Ledgers
G
Garberville Mercantile
7 Boxes
General Hospital
15 Boxes, 2 Scrapbooks (2008.019)
George R. Georgeson
1 Ledger (2013.002)
Gold Bluff Mining & Logging Co.
1 Box (1999.019)
Grand Hotel Register 1952-1953
1 Box (2004.051.08)
Gregor & Connick
1 Box (2016.036)
H
H.B. Logging Company, Garberville
1 Ledger (1993.29)
Hammond Lumber
2 Boxes (2002.002)
Hanson & Hunter Furniture
1 Box (YD 1413B)
Hansen Grocery
1 Box (2007.008)
Ole Hansen Mill
1 Box
Horel & Caskey Medical
1 Box (YD 5918-5921; YD 5923-5924; YD 5926; YD 5928)
Humboldt Auto Exchange
1 Box (2014.069)
Humboldt County Machinery Shop
2 Boxes (2008.146; 2012.130; 2011.007)
Humboldt Land & Title Company
2 Binders (2008.3004)
Humboldt Lumber Manufacturing
1 Box (BK 732)
Humboldt Manufacturing/Northern Humboldt Mercantile
1 Box (2014.069)
Humboldt Oil
2 Binders (2008.3003)
Humboldt Redwood Mills
2 Boxes, 1 Ledger (2018.022)
Humboldt Standard Publishing Co.
1 Box (2006.022)
Humboldt Stevedore Company
4 Boxes, 1 Ledger (2012.118; 2014.5000, 2018.022)
Humboldt Tugboat Company
1 Box (2012.118)
Hydesville Store
1 Box, 2 Ledgers/Scrapbooks (2018.022)
Hydesville Meat Market
1 Box
J-K
Jambalaya, Arcata
29 Event Schedule Posters, 1974-1977 (2005.213.01-29)
D.R. Jones Company
11 Boxes
Kelly’s Mecca Cafe
1 Box (2008.3006)
Korbel Brothers
1 Box (2009.162)
L
Lambert & McKeehan Printers
2 Boxes, 1 Binder (2007.165)
Lawton Bussman Incorporated
1 Box (2005.141)
Lazio Fish Company
2 Boxes (1991.16)
Little River Redwood Company
1 Box (2008.010)
Little River Steamship Company
1 Box (2001.180)
Louisiana-Pacific
1 Box (2016.035)
M
M & M Woodworking
2 Boxes (1990.21)
Mahan & Mahan
1 Box, 1 Binder (1996.012; 2000.036; 2008.071)
Marshall & Hodgson Grocers
3 Boxes (2023.14)
Maternity Home, Fortuna
1 Box (1991.18)
Mattole Lumber Company
3 Boxes, 2 Ledgers
Mendenhall Transportation Company
1 Box
Meat Market, Arcata
1 Box (2008.090)
Mercer, John
1 Binder (YD 3494)
Monte Carlo Hotel
1 Box (2009.091)
Mortuary Ledgers: Pierce, Sanders & Citizens
1 Box (2015.030 & 2019.072)
McCallan, John Insurance
1Box (2000.060)
McDonald, D. C. Company
3 Boxes, 2 Binders
N
Northern Redwood Lumber Co.
1 Box, 1 Ledger (2019.055.230 & 2019.055.380)
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
1 Box (2007.148)
Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Alton Station
1 Box (2010.025)
O-P
Ohman Hardware, Eureka
4 Ledgers (2018.022)
Orick Dairy Ranch
1 Box (2013.015)
Overland Hotel, Blocksburg
1 Box (2003.113)
Occidental Shingle
2 Ledgers
Pacific Lumber Company
1 Box (2018.003)
Pacific Redwood Shingle
1 Ledger
Pluke, E.J.
1 Box (2009.118)
Prescription Slips, Various Arcata Druggists
2 Scrapbooks, 1 Box (2018.022, 2000.060)
Printing Plates
1 Box (2022.061.21)
R
Red Cap Mining Company
1 Binder
Redwood Export Compnay
1 Box, 3 Ledgers
Ruscoe & Lundblade Furniture Store
1 Box (2021.015.01, 02., 03)
The Rosery Flower Shop
1 Box (2004.121)
Russ Business Ledgers
1890s, 1905
S
Savings Bank of Humboldt County/Bank of Eureka
11 Ledgers, 1 Box (2018.022)
Shell Service Station
1 Box (2013.98)
Skinner & Duprey Drugstore
1 Box
Standard Furniture
1 Folder (2007.014)
Star Hotel, Springville/Fortuna
1 Copied Register, 1 Guestbook (2018.022)
Swanlund Photo
1 Box (2022.050.178)
Sweasy & Son, Eureka
1 Ledger (2018.022)
T-V
Thompson General Store
2 Boxes
Tupper & Brown Restaruaunt
1 Box
Vance, John M.
1 Box (2011.038)
W
Waddington Store
1 Box, 2 Binders (1993.59; 2001.112; 2002.196)
Weck & Vance Pharmacy
1 Box
Wilkinson, C.E.
1 Box
Woods
1 Box
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