MS 498
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Jacobs, Lionel, 1841-1922 |
| Creator: | Jacobs, Barron, 1843-1936 |
| Collection Name: | Baron and Lionel Jacobs collection, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1868-1903 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1874-1889 |
| Physical Description: | 0.5 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | The collection includes cancelled checks, drafts, invoices, receipts, weigh bills, stationery letterheads (business), letters and miscellaneous items pertaining to the mercantile and banking businesses of Barron Jacobs (1846-1936) and his brother, Lionel Jacobs (1840-1922) in Tucson and Southern Arizona. |
| Collection Number: | MS 498 |
| Language: | Materials are in English. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Lionel M. Jacobs (1840-1922) and Barron M. Jacobs (1846-1936) were brothers, merchants, and bankers. Their father, Mark I. Jacobs (1816-1894) was an established merchant in San Francisco who sent them to Tucson, Arizona in 1867 to open a new branch of their retail store. Initally called the M.I. Jacobs and Co., the name was changed to the L.M. Jacobs and Co. following their father's retirement in 1875. Following their arrival to Tucson, the brothers found success in their exchange business; gold coin from San Francisco was exchanged for paper money in Tucson. By 1879 they established the Pima County Bank, the first bank in Tucson. The brothers gave up the mercantile part of the business in 1880 to concentrate on banking. They later became associated with the Cochise County Bank of Tombstone (known before 1882 as the Agency Pima County Bank) and the Arizona National Bank (first called the Santa Cruz Valley Bank).
The collection includes cancelled checks, drafts, invoices, receipts, weigh bills, stationery letterheads (business), letters and miscellaneous items pertaining to the mercantile and banking businesses of Barron and Lionel Jacobs in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Banking records consist of cancelled checks, notes, drafts, deposit slips, memorandum checks, and certificates of deposits from the M. I. Jacobs & Company, the L. M. Jacobs & Company Bankers, the Pima County Bank branches in Tucson and Tombstone, Cochise County Bank, and the Arizona National Bank. Mercantile records include invoices, receipts, letters, licenses, and other miscellaneous items. Additional records include bank correspondence, newspapers and records detailing business with mining companies. Cancelled checks, notes, drafts and deposit slips. Cancelled checks, drafts, memorandum checks, certificates of deposits. Cancelled checks. First National Bank Tucson, Bank of Tucson, Santa Cruz Valley Bank Tucson, and Arizona National Bank. Invoices, receipts. Letters, licenses, and receipts. Invoices and receipts.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
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See also Jacobs family papers (AZ 196). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries. Materials concerning the Jacobs family are also located at the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson.
Acquired by the Arizona Historical Foundation. Former collection number MSS 81. Transferred to the University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections in April 2012.
Baron and Lionel Jacobs collection (MS 498). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Processed by Arizona Historical Foundation staff.
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | M. I. Jacobs & Company and L. M. Jacobs & Company Bankers, 1874-1880 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Cancelled checks, notes, drafts and deposit slips. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Agency Pima County Bank Tombstone and Pima County Bank Tucson, 1879-1882 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Cancelled checks, drafts, memorandum checks, certificates of deposits. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Cochise County Bank, Tombstone, 1882-1889 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Cancelled checks. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bank cancelled checks and certificates of deposits, 1882-1903 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| First National Bank Tucson, Bank of Tucson, Santa Cruz Valley Bank Tucson, and Arizona National Bank. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Sightdrafts, 1868-1880 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Receipts, invoices, and notes, 1874-1884 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Business Firms (Mercantile), 1876-1880 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Invoices, receipts. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Business Firms (Sundry), 1868-1880 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Letters, licenses, and receipts. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Mining Companies, 1879-1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Stage Stations and Livery Stables, 1875-1880 | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Invoices and receipts. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Bank Correspondence, 1879-1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Newspaper Invoices, 1871-1887 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Business letterheads, blank checks, drafts, and miscellaneous items, 1880-1890 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Weigh Bills, 1870-1878 | |||||||||