Materials regarding Edward Ford's activities with the Navajo
Agency, Department of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs; business records of Ed Ford's
leather work business through the Branding Iron store, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Collection Number
AHS-ND 45
Language
English.
Repository
Arizona Historical Society/Flagstaff Archives
PO Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523 5551
Fax: 928 774 1596
Email: ahsnad@infomagic.net
Biographical Note
Edward (Ed) Ford was born in 1903 and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. Ford held various
positions in the Four Corners area including ranch hand in Hillside, Arizona; clerk for
Babbitt Brothers Trading Company, Flagstaff, Arizona; stock handler and trader for
Hubert Richardson, Tonalea, Arizona; stockman; and later District Supervisor of Land
Management for the Navajo Agency, Window Rock, Arizona and Crownpoint, New Mexico.
Scope and Content Note
Materials regarding Ed Ford's activities with the Navajo Agency, Department of
Interior, Office of Indian Affairs; business records of Ed Ford's leather work business
through the Branding Iron store, Flagstaff, Arizona. Date ranges, ca. 1925-1972.
Organization
4 Series: I. Correspondence; II. Financial; III. Miscellaneous; IV. Papers
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3 file folders containing correspondence and attached materials to Ed Ford.
Box-folder
1.1
Correspondence: business and personal,
ca. 1928-1967
Mostly regarding ranchwear; also from U.S. Forest Service regarding sale of
livestock and waiver of grazing rights, 1950; cards and letter from sister and
aunt, 1950; etc.
Box-folder
1.2
Correspondence regarding bad checks,
1957-1967
Box-folder
1.3
Correspondence regarding employment with attached employment
applications,
1936-1940
34 file folders containing financial records, and attached materials, of Ed
Ford.
Box-folder
1.4
Financial: personal,
1928-1937
Promissary note and accompanying checks to R.B. Corbett, 1928-1931; financial
ledger, February 1929; Bank of America account statements and cancelled checks,
1934-1937; statement of account with Enterprise Blacksmith and Machine Shop,
n.d.
Box-folder
1.5
Financial: personal,
1937-1938
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.6
Financial: personal,
1938-1940
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.7
Financial: personal,
1940-1941
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.8
Financial: personal,
1941-1942
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.9
Financial: personal,
1942-1943
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.10
Financial: personal,
1943-1945
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.11
Financial: personal,
1945-1946
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.12
Financial: personal,
1936-1950
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips; also
promissary note, 1940; and auto documents, 1936-1950
Box-folder
1.13
Official Navajo Agency Receipts,
1936-1946
Box-folder
1.14
Official Navajo Agency Receipts,
1946-1947
Box-folder
1.15
Financial: personal,
1948-1950
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.16
Financial: personal,
1957-1969
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.17
Financial: personal,
1956-1958
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.18
Financial: personal,
1958-1960
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.19
Financial: personal,
1960-1963
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.20
Financial: personal,
1963-1966
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips
Box-folder
1.21
Financial: personal,
1963-1971
Bank of America account statements, cancelled checks, and deposit slips; also
safety deposit box records, 1963-1970
Box-folder
1.22
Financial: business,
1962-1972
Receipts from advertising
Box-folder
1.23
Financial: business,
1950 and 1967-1970
Allen Manufacturing Company receipts, miscellaneous receipts
Box-folder
2.1
Financial: business,
1950-1955
The Brandin' Iron ledgers
Box-folder
2.2
Financial: business,
1955-1963
The Brandin' Iron ledgers
Box-folder
2.3
Financial: business,
1963-1968
The Brandin' Iron ledgers
Box-folder
3.1
Receipts for leather work done by Ed Ford through the Brandin' Iron
Shop in Flagstaff, Arizona. Most of the orders are from the Arizona Fish and
Game Department,
ca. 1959-1969
Box-folder
3.2
Financial: business,
1961-1971
Boot wear receipts; Livestock Board inspection documents, 1969-1970; voter
registration for New Mexico, 1969; 2 receipts for donations to the Salvation
Army Service Fund, 1961 and 1962
Box-folder
3.3
Financial: business,
1960-1971
Clothing invoices
Box-folder
3.4
Financial: business,
1960-1970
Mail order customer receipts and accompanying correspondence
Box-folder
3.5
Store inventory for The Brandin' Iron,
1950-1960
Box-folder
3.6
Store inventory for The Brandin' Iron,
1961-1968
Box-folder
3.7
Financial: business,
1958-1971
Clothing and miscellaneous receipts for The Brandin' Iron
Box-folder
3.8
Records for film advertisements,
1956-1968
Correspondence, invoices, receipts, screening schedules with Alexander Film Co,
1956-1963; Motion Picture Alexander Corp, 1963-1966; and Motion Picture Ad
Corp, 1966-1968
Box-folder
3.9
Financial: business,
1950-1960
Tax records for The Brandin' Iron
Box-folder
3.10
District Supervisor of Navajo Agency Field Receipt books,
1945-1946
Box-folder
3.11
Supervisor of Navajo Agency Field Receipt books,
1947
Ed Ford's Public Notary log from New Mexico,
1946-1947
Box-folder
4.2
Insurance and liability records,
1960-1970
For The Brandin' Iron and personal auto insurance
Box-folder
4.3
Log of clothing orders,
ca. 1963-1970
Box-folder
4.4
Navajo Agency property records,
1937-1947
Box-folder
4.5
Miscellaneous business papers,
1936-1947
United States Department of Interior; Office of Indian Affairs;
Equipment Operation Cost Field Record (maintenance records) for Ed Ford's
government issued Ford automobiles, 1937-1943; and travel log, 1936-1947.
Box-folder
4.6
Ed Ford's Navajo Agency Individual Trip Reports,
1937-1939
Box-folder
4.7
Ed Ford's Navajo Agency Individual Trip Reports,
1939-1940
Box-folder
4.8
Ed Ford's Navajo Agency Individual Trip Reports,
1941-1947
Box-folder
4.9
Personal papers,
1927-1962
Ed Ford's stock certificates, horse list, registration of firearms form,
National Rifle Association announcements, Bill of Sale for horse, United Kennel
Club papers for "Tex," etc.,
Box-folder
4.10
Internal Revenue Service forms, etc.,
ca. 1950-1969
Box-folder
4.11
Ed Ford's daily calendar books with scheduled activities written for
dates from,
1939-1969
