Provenance

Arrangements were conducted via David C. Morse who formally donated the records on August 26, 1996.

Processing Information

The original Board of Directors minutes have been retained by the company, but the records were microfilmed and are available for research use. The financial records and incoming correspondence were well organized and many of these records were previously bound in leather volumes. Several duplicate copies of city directories were donated to Wilson Library and the Whatcom Museum of Art. In 2000, Megan Sibbert, assistant archivist, organized the remaining series into a coherent system, organized the bound volumes by activity, and generated a comprehensive finding aid to the collection. In 2004, Amber Raney re-engineered the collection and its finding aid to reflect standards set for the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) consortium.

Bibliography

Heller, Ramon. Sell 'em low--send and get more : a centennial history of Morse Hardware Company. Bellingham, Wash. : R. Heller, c1984.