Zimmers Hardware Store, Dodge City

[Delmonico]

I am searching for some information and thought maybe someone here could help.  Does anyone know of a on-line source that would have a listing of items sold in the early 1870's out of their store?  Or perhaps has a source they could copy and E-Mail to me? 

I'm doing some research and a list of items sold at the height of the buffalo hide harvest would help a lot  I'm coming up blank so far.

Yer Friend from up North of the border in Newbrassky.

Delmonico aka Glen Carman

[W. Gray]

You may have already done so but if you have not and can't find anything otherwise, you could go to your local library.

Ask their interlibrary loan people order a Dodge City microfilmed newspaper of the era from the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka.

Be prepared for a wait, though, and your library would have to have a microfilm reader and hopefully an attached printer.

You would have to provide a reel number.

The Dodge City Messenger is on reel numbers S678 and D399 for a few issues.

The Society website will show other Dodge City newspapers at http://www.kshs.org/library/news.htm

Local stores were steady advertisers in early Howard County newspapers listing some of the items they had.

Many times the editor gratuitously helped out by announcing a new wagon load of specific goods coming in at the local general or hardware store, etc.

[Delmonico]

Perhaps a trip down there might be better sometime.  I have planned to for sometime because of some other items I want to check on/discuss with them down there.

Thanks for the information.

[W. Gray]

Let me provide you with some crucial advice.

When you enter the Kansas State Historical Society be sure you do not have a pen in your hand.

Take only a pencil and use only a pencil to sign in and fill out requests for material, etc.

If you do not have a pencil, they will provide you with one.

[kdfrawg]

Boy, those kind of things on the web seem few and far between. Maybe these will find some leads.

http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=104
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/684/files/hardware.pdf

I did run into several references to hardeware store ledgers and inventory sheets that were on microfilm in state or county historical societies. There were a few that mentioned manuscripts, so they must have the originals to look at. None of the ones I saw were in Nebraska or Kansas. It might be worthwhile for you to email a couple of the historical societies near you and see if they have what you want. Or, as others have said, to just go ask

[frawin]

The Kansas Genealogical Society and library is headquartered in Dodge City, Kansas. I ahve been a member of it and they do have an exstensive library and historical material. You can go to their website for review.
Frank

[kdfrawg]

If you really get stuck, let me know and I'll take a whirl through the historical collections at the University of Kansas libraries. They have one of everything, but it's always in that corner WAY over there.

[Diane Amberg]

 Get that scooter!

[kdfrawg]

I can do most of my "whirl" on the computer and the phone. But going to look at stuff or getting copies from the KU historical libraries will probably be the thing that makes me do just that. Some time, probably soon, I'm going to be unable to get to them from even where I can park. If that won't do it, nothing will.

[MarineMom]

Do you mean Zimmermans Hardware?  There was a store of that name in early Dodge. You might try Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City


http://www.boothill.org/

another place to try may be

http://www.dodgedev.org/Tourism.html