Ontario Store Records, 1881-1956

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Ledger: "Sales and Cash Book", 1881-1887

Folder 2: Ledger: "Stock Book", 1882-1894

Folder 3: Ledger: "Monthly Statements", 1907-1915

Folder 4: "Catalogue of Fashions for Spring 1898, Published by The Butterick Publishing Co." for the "Ontario Department Store"

Folder 5: Legal Documents:

Item 1: Mortgage, R.B. Griffith and wife to Vermont Loan and Trust Co., 1907

Item 2: Assignment of Mortgage, Vermont Loan and Trust Co. to Elizabeth Merrifield, 1910

Item 3: Mortgage, Griffith and Shedd, July 1913

Item 4: Mortgage, Griffith and Shedd, October 1913

Item 5: Release of Mortgage, John Shedd to R.B. Griffith and wife, 1918

Item 6: Extension Interest Notes, R.B. Griffith and Minnie Griffith to Elizabeth Merrifield, 1922

Item 7: Certification of mortgage paid and satisfied, R.B. Griffith and Minnie Griffith to John Shedd, 1923

Folder 6: Baseball scorekeeping hand fan, produced by the Ontario Store

Folder 7: Photographs 1-10

Photograph 1: House in Gilby, North Dakota, Winter 1897

Photograph 2: "Two story house near Gilby, N.D., Winter 1896-97" (from front of photograph), Winter 1897

Snow is drifted to a level near the roof of the house

Photograph 3: "Farm scene near Gilby" (from front of photograph), Winter 1897

Photograph 4: "Winter 1896-97 40 foot drifts cause of high water" (from front of photograph)

Assorted buildings and people pose on the snow banks in Gilby, North Dakota

Photograph 5: "Building a house under 10 feet of snow, Larimore, North Dakota" (from back of photograph)

Photograph 6: "DeMers Ave. East Grand Forks 1897" (from front of photograph)

Flooded street scene

Photograph 7: "South 4th St East Grand Forks 1897" (from front of photograph)

Flooded street scene

Photograph 8: "From Minnesota Ave Bridge Looking North 1897" (from front of photograph)

Flooded street scene

Photograph 9: "800 Block South 4th St Looking South" (from front of photograph)

Flooded street scene

Photograph 10: "N 3rd St East Grand Forks 1897"

Flooded street scene

Folder 8: Photographs 11-20

Photograph 11: "House 703 S. 4th St 1897" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 12: "The Garber Home Riverside Park - Taken from Lewis Blvd. 1897" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 13: "Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge - Note Engine Weighing Down Approach - 1897" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 14: "DeMers Ave. East Grand Forks Minnesota April 11, 1897" (from back of photograph)

Photograph 15: "E Grand Forks April 1916" (from front of postcard)

Photograph 16: "First National Bank Under Construction" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 17: First National Bank

Photograph 18: First National Bank

Photograph 19: Ingalls Hotel (with the Ontario Store in the background)

Photograph 20: "Ingalls Hotel - Burned 1914" (from front of photograph; the Ontario Store in the background)

Folder 9: Photographs 21-30

Photograph 21: "Viets and Twamley's Store - 3rd and DeMers (about 1880)" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 22: Exterior of the Ontario Store, 1914

Photograph 23: "Ontario Store - 1914 (now Griffith's" (from front of photograph)

Photograph 24: Line of horse drawn carriages outside the Ontario Store

Photograph 25: Exterior of the Ontario Store

Photograph 26: Interior of the Ontario Store, 1900

Photograph 27: Interior of the Ontario Store

Photograph 28: Glassware Department of the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 29: Glassware Department of the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 30: Grocery Department of the Ontario Store, 1902

Folder 10: Photographs 31-36

Photograph 31: Footwear Department at the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 32: Dry Goods Department at the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 33: Haberdashery at the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 34: Book Department at the Ontario Store, 1902

Photograph 35: Unidentified group (possibly employees of the Ontario Store)

Photograph 36: Unidentified groups (possibly employees of the Ontario Store)

Ledger :

Placed on the shelves adjacent to the collection.

Ledger 1: Customer charge accounts, 1886-1887

Oversize Folder 1

Placed in the Oversize File Cabinets

Item 1: Grand Forks Herald advertisement for the Golden Jubilee sale, 1931

Item 2: Grand Forks Herald advertisement for the Diamond Jubilee sale, 1956