Box 1

Series I: Corporate Records 1902-1979

Articles of Incorporation 1902, 1952, 1979

1/1     Bylaws of the Byron Hotel 1902

1/2     Name Change from Byron to Leopold Hotel 1952

1/3     Articles and Papers of Dissolution 1979

 Board of Trustees 1902-1929

1/4     Oath of Office 1902

1/5     First Meeting 1902

1/6     Meeting Minutes (including By-laws) 1903, 1912, 1918, and 1920

1/7     Ledger – Important Papers of the Byron hotel (original copy) 1902-1929

1/8     Ledger – Important Papers of the Byron Hotel (not original) 1902-1929

Stock/Share Holders 1904-1978

1/9     Meeting Minutes 1950-52 (includes information on name change)

1/10     Meeting Minutes 1952-60

1/11     Meeting Minutes 1961-62

1/12     Meeting Minutes 1963-64

1/13     Annual Stockholders Meeting Minutes 1967-70

1/14     Meeting Minutes 1975-78

1/15     Proxy Notices (regarding shareholders meetings) 1958-59, 1962-64, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1975, 1977

1/16     Correspondence 1904, 1912-66

Directors Meeting Minutes 1949-1978

1/17     Minutes 1949, 1951-60

1/18     Minutes 1961-64

1/19     Minutes 1967-69

1/20     Minutes 1970, 1971, 1975-78

Manager's General Information 1936-1975

1/21     General Correspondence 1936-80

1/22     Western Hotels International Managers Meetings 1955, 1957, 1960-61, 1964-65

1/23     Western Hotels International – Management Agreement Termination 1966-75

Series II: Finance

Financial Statements 1939-1979

1/24     Statements 1939-59

1/25     Statements 1960-73  

1/26     Statements 1974

1/27     Statements 1975

1/28     Statements 1976

1/29     Statements 1977

1/30     Statements 1978

1/31     Statements 1979

Box 2

2/1     General Journal 1967-71

Box 3

3/1     General Journal 1973-77, 1979

Box 4

General Ledger 1928-56

4/1     A File – Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accrued Interest Payable/Receivable, Accrued Payroll, Accrued Sub-rents, Accrued Taxes, Accrued Telephone, Administrative Expense, Advertising, Auto Club of Washington

4/2     B File – Bad Checks/Debts, Baggage Bank (General Payroll), Bellingham Bay Improvement Co. (BBIC), Beer Expense/ Services/ Sales/Wages, Bellingham Hotel, Beverage Issues/ Sales, Building Alterations and Improvements/ Finances, Building Tulip Room

4/3     C File – Cafι (Alterations and Improvements/ Advertising and Printing/ Employee Meals/ Equipment/ Purchases/ Food Cost/ Entertainment/ General Expenses/ Heat/ Laundry/ Light and Power/ Maintenance/ Receipts/ Wages/ Water), Capital/ Common Stock, Carr Insurance Co., Sabine L. Case, Cash Over and Short, Cigar Counter Purchases/ Receipts, Commissions, Contract Payable, Coal, Custom Cleaners.

4/4     D File – Deferred Expenses, Discount and Commission on Bonds, Dividends Payable, Donations, Due Stock Subscriptions

4/5     E, F, G, and H Files – Employee Meals/ Rooms, Estimated Income, Exchange, Ferndale Power Association Bond, First National Bank, Foundation Salary, Furniture and Texture/ Laundry Operations, General Unapportioned Expense, E.A. Grant Co., Grill Expense, Group Life Insurance, Guest Charges, Heat/ Light/ Power and Refrigeration

4/6     I File – Imprest Funds, Insurance, Interest, Inventory

4/7     J, K, and L Files – C.C. Jerstedt, J.M. Kenney, Kitchen Equipment, Lamps, Laundry, Legal Expenses, Light and Power, Linen Store Rooms, Liquor, Lowery and Miscellaneous Garage

4/8     M and N Files – Maintenance, Malta Thurston Hotels Inc., Malted Milk Shop, Misc. Income, Mitchell Hotel, Mortgage, Mount Baker Development, Mt. Vernon Hotel Co., New Building, New Governor Hotel, New Washington Hotel, Notes Payable, Mable Armstrong, W.G. Melne

4/9     O, P, and Q Files – Occupational Disease Tax, Officers Salaries, Old Age Employee Benefits, Olympian Hotel, Organization Expense, Pacific Coast Investment Co., Pacific Coast Paper Mills Stock, Pacific Telephone and Telegraphy Co., Payroll Distribution, Pay Collections, George Pierce Barber Shop, Pierce Bros. Inc., Porters, Preferred Stock Subscription, Prepaid Insurance, Prepaid License, Prepaid Mortgage Expense, Prepaid Sign Rent, Prepaid Taxes, Profit and Loss

4/10     R File – Real Estate, Rent, Reserve for Taxes, Restaurant Expenses, Restaurant Receipts, Returned Checks, Rodmans, Room Earnings and Expenses

4/11    S and T Files – Salaries, Sample Room Expense/ Earnings, San Juan Pulp and Paper Mill Stock, Sanitarium Baths, Peter G. Schmidt/ Schmidt Estate Inc., Henry Schupp, Seattle First National Bank, Stationary and Printing, N.J. Stevens and Co., Store and Other Rentals, Storeroom, Sublease Deposit/ Rents, Sundry Assets, Supervision, Surplus, Special Suspense, Taxes, Tacoma Hotel Stock, Telephone and Telegraph, S.W. Thruston, Paul F. Tiffany, Traveling Expense, Tulip Room Rentals

4/12     U, V, X, W, Y, and Z Files – Unclaimed Dividend, Unemployment Insurance, U.S. Collector Internal Revenue, Victory Tax, War Bonds, Washington Hotel Co. Stock, Washington Mutual Savings, Washington State Sales Tax, Washington State Unemployment Insurance, Water, Western Hotels International, Western Union, With-holding Tax, Wood Fuel, Yellow Cat Company

General Ledger – 1931-62

4/13     Liabilities

4/14     Accounts Payable (1947-61)

4/15     Rooms, Food, Beverage, and Telephone Departments (1961)

4/16     Administrative and General, Advertisement and Business Promotion, Payroll Taxes and Employee Relations, Heating Lighting and Power, Repairs and Maintenance, Rent, Taxes and Insurance, Misc. Income, Store Rentals, Federal Income Tax, Depreciations Interest, Payroll Distribution (1961)

4/17     Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Prepayments, and Other Assets(1962)

4/18     Liabilities, Capital, and Income (1962)

4/19     Operating Costs and Expenses (1962)

General Ledger – 1953-55

420     Profit and Loss

General Ledger – 1954-59

4/21     Assets and Liabilities

4/22     Rooms Department, Food Department, Beverage Department, Telephone Department, Administrative and General, Advertising and Promotion

4/23     Payroll Taxes and Employee Relations, Heating Lights and Power, Repairs and  Maintenance, Rent Municipal Taxes and Insurance, Store Rentals

4/24     Depreciation and Payroll Distribution

General Ledger – 1960

4/25     Profit and Loss

Box 5

General Ledger – 1964-65

5/1     Assets

5/2     Liabilities

5/3     Operating

5/4     Food and Beverage Combined and Overhead

5/5     Payroll Taxes, Employee Relations, and Total Labor Cost

General Ledger – 1966

5/6     Assets – Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventories, Prepaid Expenses, Other Current Assets, Investments, Deposits, Furniture Fixtures and Equipment, Reserve for Duplication and Amortization, Land, Other Assets

5/7     Liabilities – Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenditures, Accounts Payable, Western International Hotels, Federal Taxes on Income, Other, Notes Contracts and Mortgages Non-Affiliates, Net Worth, Profit and Loss

5/8     Operating – Rooms, Food Department, Beverage Department, Telephone, Cigar Stand, Other

5/9     Overhead – Administrative and General, Advertising and Promotion, Heat Light and Power, Repair and Maintenance, Payroll Taxes and Employee Relations

5/10     Payroll Taxes and Total Labor Costs – Sub-Rental Income, Local Taxes and Insurance, Interest Expense, Depreciation Amortization, Federal and State Income Tax Expenses

General Ledger – 1967-78

5/11     Assets -  Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventories, Paid Expenses, Other, Investments, Deposits

5/12     Work in Progress and Liabilities

5/13     Operating – Rooms, Food and Beverage Depts.

5/14     Food and Beverage Combined

5/15     Overhead

5/16     Payroll Taxes, Employee Relations Exhibit, and Total Labor Costs Exhibit

General Ledger – 1969

5/17     Assets and Liabilities

5/18     Operating

5/19     Food and Beverage Combined, Overhead, Payroll Taxes, Employee Relations Exhibit, and Total Labor Costs Exhibit

Box 6

General Ledger – 1970

6/1     Assets and Liabilities

6/2     Operating – Rooms, Food, Beverage, Telephone, and Other

6/3     Overhead, Payroll Taxes/Employee Relations Exhibit

 General Ledger – 1971

6/4     Assets and Liabilities

6/5     Operating - Rooms, Food, Beverage, Telephone, and Other

6/6     Overhead, Payroll Taxes/ Employee Relations Exhibit

General Ledger – 1972

6/7     Assets and Liabilities

6/8     Operating - Rooms, Food, Beverage, Telephone, and Other

6/9     Overhead and Payroll Taxes/ Employee Relations Exhibit

General Ledger – 1973-75

6/10     Assets and Liabilities

6/11     Operating – Food

6/12     Operating – Beverage, Food, and Other

6/13     Overhead

6/14     Payroll Taxes and Employee Relations Charged to Departments

General Ledger – 1976

6/15     Assets and Liabilities

6/16     Operations and Overhead

6/17     General Ledger – 1977

6/18     General Ledger – 1978

Box 7  

Stock 1928-79

7/1     Stockholder’s Ledger

7/2     Preferred Stock Certificates #1-99 1928-40

7/3     Preferred Stock Certificates #101-168 (missing 152 and 157) 1941-1971

7/4     Common Stock Certificates #1-100 1912-1964

7/5     Common Stock Certificates #101-139 1964-1979

7/6     Correspondence 1949-51– Governor, Capital and Olympian Hotels – includes financial statements and reports

7/7     Option Agreements 1947-53 between Byron/Leopold Hotel and Pacific Coast Investment Company or Maltby Thurston Company or Western Hotels International (details purchase of Capital and Olympian Hotel Stock by John C. Pierce)

7/8     Voting Trust Certificates 1949

 Agreements 1910-1979

7/9     Property Agreements and Warranty Deeds 1910, 1912, 1915, 1925, 1928, 1947, 1958-60

7/10     Mortgages – 1915, 1920, 1930, 1947, 1954, 1955, 1960

7/11     Insurance Contracts – 1949

7/12     Corporate Licenses 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1975-79

7/13     Management Agreement with Western Hotels International 1960 (includes mortgage information)

7/14     Legal – Pacific Northwest Bell litigation about termination charges 1982-84

7/15     Loans with Seattle First National Bank 1954-78

Appraisals 1935, 1972, 1977

7/16     Appraisals - 1935 (includes photos and blue prints)

7/17     Appraisals – 1972

7/18     Appraisals – 1977

Taxes 1943-1979

7/19     Personal Property and Real Estate 1959-63

7/20     Personal Property and Real Estate 1971-79

7/21     Excise 1975-77          

7/22     Income Tax Returns 1943-49

7/23     Income Tax Returns 1950-55

7/24     Income Tax Returns 1956-57

Box 8

8/1     Income Tax Returns 1958-60

8/2     Income Tax Returns 1972-76

8/3     Income Tax Returns 1977

8/4     Income Tax Returns 1978

8/5     Income Tax Returns 1979

8/6     FICA Quarterly Reports 1974

8/7     FICA Quarterly Reports 1978

8/8     FICA Quarterly Reports 1979

Box 9- 

Series III: Personnel Records Restricted

9/1       Employee Information Index Cards

Box 10- 

10/1     Labor Distribution (Date Unknown)

10/2     Corporate Pension Plan

10/3     Culinary Workers & Bartenders Local No. 451 Contract 1974-76, 1976-79

10/4     Culinary Workers & Bartenders Local No. 451 Benefit Programs 1969, 1972, 1977, 1978

Box 11-

11/1     Payroll Journal 1975

Box 12-   

12/1     Payroll Journal 1976

Box 13-

13/1     Payroll Journal 1977

Box 14-  

14/1     Payroll Journal 1978

Box 15- 

15/1     Payroll Journal January 1979-June 1979

15/2     Payroll Account 35102-011(closed)

Series IV:  Architectural Drawings

Rolled Copy of Leopold Hotel Blue Prints n.d.