Archives West Finding Aid

Bylaws of the Byron Hotel

Name change from Byron Hotel to Leopold Hotel

Articles and Papers of Dissolution

Oath of Office

First Meeting

Meeting Minutes (including By-laws)

Ledger – Important Papers of the Byron hotel (original copy)

Ledger – Important Papers of the Byron Hotel (not original)

Meeting Minutes (includes information on name change)

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Annual Stockholders Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Proxy Notices (regarding shareholders meetings)

Correspondence

Minutes

Minutes

Minutes

Minutes

General Correspondence

Western Hotels International Managers Meetings

Western Hotels International – Management Agreement Termination

Statements

Statements

Statements

Statements

Statements

Statements

Statements

Statements

General Journal

General Journal

General Ledger

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

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

C File – Café (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.

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

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

I File – Imprest Funds, Insurance, Interest, Inventory

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liabilities

Accounts Payable

Rooms, Food, Beverage, and Telephone Departments

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

Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Prepayments, and Other Assets

Liabilities, Capital, and Income

Operating Costs and Expenses

General Ledger

Profit and Loss

General Ledger

Profit and Loss

Rooms Department, Food Department, Beverage Department, Telephone Department, Administrative and General, Advertising and Promotion

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

Depreciation and Payroll Distribution

General Ledger

Profit and Loss

General Ledger

Assets

Liabilities

Operating

Food and Beverage Combined and Overhead

Payroll Taxes, Employee Relations, and Total Labor Cost

General Ledger

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

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

Operating – Rooms, Food Department, Beverage Department, Telephone, Cigar Stand, Other

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

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

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

Work in Progress and Liabilities

Operating – Rooms, Food and Beverage Depts

Food and Beverage Combined

Overhead

Payroll Taxes, Employee Relations Exhibit, and Total Labor Costs Exhibit

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Operating

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

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Operating – Rooms, Food, Beverage, Telephone, and Other

Overhead, Payroll Taxes/Employee Relations Exhibit

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Operating - Rooms, Food, Beverage, Telephone, and Other

Overhead, Payroll Taxes/ Employee Relations Exhibit

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Assets and Liabilities

Overhead and Payroll Taxes/ Employee Relations Exhibit

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Operating – Food

Operating – Beverage, Food, and Other

Overhead

Payroll Taxes and Employee Relations Charged to Departments

General Ledger

Assets and Liabilities

Operations and Overhead

General Ledger

General Ledger

Stockholder’s Ledger

Preferred Stock Certificates #1-99

Preferred Stock Certificates #101-168 (missing 152 and 157)

Common Stock Certificates #1-100

Common Stock Certificates #101-139

Correspondence Governor, Capital and Olympian Hotels (includes financial statements and reports)

Option Agreements 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)

Voting Trust Certificates

Property Agreements and Warranty Deeds

Mortgages

Insurance Contracts

Corporate Licenses

Management Agreement with Western Hotels International (includes mortgage information)

Legal (Pacific Northwest Bell litigation about termination charges)

Loans with Seattle First National Bank

Appraisals (includes photos and blue prints)

Appraisals

Appraisals

Personal Property and Real Estate

Personal Property and Real Estate

Excise

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Returns

FICA Quarterly Reports

FICA Quarterly Reports

FICA Quarterly Reports

Miscellaneous Finance and Expense File

Accounts Payable on Loans

Miscellaneous Financial Papers

Employee Information Index Cards

Labor Distribution

Corporate Pension Plan

Culinary Workers & Bartenders Local No. 451 Contract

Culinary Workers & Bartenders Local No. 451 Benefit Programs

Payroll Journal

Payroll Journal

Payroll Journal

Payroll Journal

Payroll Journal

Payroll Account 35102-011(closed)

Rolled Copy of Leopold Hotel Blue Prints

Photographs of the Leopold Hotel and its Employees

Photographs of the Leopold Hotel and its Employees