Reminiscences of William L. Maxwell : oral history, 1953

Biographical Note

Auditor, controller

Scope and Contents

Potlatch Lumber Company from 1906: excise tax law requiring separate accounting for land and timber values, Potlatch Village, 1910 forest fires at Elk River, Industrial Workers of the World, eight-hour day, blister rust, group insurance plan for Potlatch employees. Impressions of William Deary, Allison W. Laird, Andrew Bloom, Frederick and Charles A. Weyerhaeuser

Subjects

• Accountants--Interviews.
• Accounting.
• Industrial Workers of the World.
• Interviews.
• Lumber trade.
• Maxwell, William L.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.