Employee records are perhaps the most interesting and potentially useful part of the collection. The time books are complete for the period from 1888 to 1899, giving a weekly record of the pay to the mill's workers. Information included consists of the name of the employee, a description of the work done, the pay rate, and the amount of wages paid. There are also a number of typescript abstracts of employee records in the collection at the Michigan Historical Collections. These concern earlier years than those records in this collection and are broken down by the division of employment.
Further records have to do with the sale of the firm's woolen goods.
Orders, mainly from larger dry goods companies, were entered chronologically. They list the items in quantity and include shipping and payment instructions. Samples of the woolens are attached to certain pages. Other kinds of records include inventory books , which include inventories of the company's stock made semiannually and cover the periods from 1875 to 1880 and 1890 to 1899. The books within the latter span were inventories by location.