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F. M. Ginther Land Company fonds
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82 cm of textual records. -- 18 photographs. -- 2 audio cassettes. -- 42 maps
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The fonds consists of: family papers (1913-1920); school papers of Wilbur Ginther (1907-1911); F. M. Ginther Company Ltd. correspondence (1912-1921); maps and blueprints (42) (1913-1917); financial papers (1913-1921); various promotional and instructional booklets and pamphlets (1901-1920); Report of Seed Commissioner (1914); Oil Holdings Limited correspondence (1914-1919); order forms and receipts-Medicine Hat Wheat Company, Robert Mitchell Fresh and Cured Meats, and from Long Woe, gardener, Medicine Hat (1915); Company tax notices (1915-1919); correspondence with Myrtle Johnston of Moose Jaw and Charlivoix, Michigan re: land investment (1913); miscellaneous business documents including Alberta Supreme Court Summons, tax resolution, advertisements and a list of annual rainfall (1915-1920); images of various industry in and around Medicine Hat and hunting scenes; 2 audio cassettes dealing with the genealogy and biographical history of the Ginther family (an interview with Will Lorne Ginther and James Lorne Ginther) (1990), and an interview with Una May Ginther (1993); Medicine Hat Fire Insurance Maps (1905 - 1913).
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Gifts of F.M. Ginther Estate, Emmanual Melle, and Bev Watson Hargrave, October 18, 1993. 0525 -- Unknown donor.
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M88.67
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Record No. M68.37.1 - 29;M74.310;M75.21;M76.35.1;M78.131;M93.46.1 -.27;M99.2.1-.4;P 0146;P 0330;P 0525;C 58;C 77<br><br>
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- F. M. Ginther Land Company (Subject)
- Ginther (family) (Subject)
- Ginther, F.M. (Subject)