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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Alaska Commercial Company Records, 1868-1918 |
| Reference | MS 28 |
| Library | California Historical Society |
| Date | 1868-1918 |
| Description |
Two volumes of official minutes of monthly and special Board of Trustees meetings and annual stockholders meetings, along with a few related miscellaneous notes and papers. The volumes include information on bylaws, contracts, inventories, dividends and assessments, and other company business. Volume 1 consists of 264 handwritten pages, and dates from 19 October 1868 to 6 January 1904. Volume II consists of 134 typed and handwritten pages, dating from 19 October 1868 to 19 January 1870, and then from 18 January 1904 to 9 October 1918. The minutes do not include discussion of the various decisions reached by the ACC trustees and stockholders during their meetings. Essentially the minutes record only official motions which were agreed upon, formal resignations and appointments of officers and trustees, a few reports and letters read into the minutes, and the like. |
| Document Type | Business Records, Correspondence, Ephemera, Manuscript |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | minutes, fur trade, correspondence, paper, records, business, commerce, stockholder, meetings, Jew, Alaska Purchase, seal, report, shipping, steam, sea otter |
| Countries | USA; Russia |
| Places | Alaska; California; Pribiloff Islands |
| Ports | San Francisco, USA |
| Company | Alaska Commercial Company; Northern Commercial Company; Northern Navigation Company; Russian American Company |
| People | Louis Sloss; Lewis Gerstle; Simon Greenewald; Hayward M Hutchinson; Albert Boscowitz; William Kohl; August Waserman; Gustave Niebaum; General John F Miller |
| Additional Information |
Established in 1868 with the intention of obtaining exclusive rights for taking seal furs from the Pribiloff Islands, the Alaska Commercial Company is credited with helping to open up the Alaska Territory to settlers and to various commercial enterprises immediately following the US purchase of the territory from Russia. The founders of the Alaska Commercial Company were among the pioneering Jewish families of San Francisco. Major stockholders and directors include Louis Sloss, Lewis Gerstle, and Simon Greenewald. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue. |
| Copyright | California Historical Society |
