Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

The Robert B. Fisk Papers consist of family correspondence and business papers created and accumulated by Robert B. Fisk during the course of his career as an attorney and land developer in Potter County, South Dakota. Correspondence broadly documents nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Dakota life, including the rapidly growing settler population, business and real estate transactions, politics and the transition to statehood, the conditions of workers and prisoners, and the effect of the Panics of 1893 and 1907 on the local population. Business records include correspondence from mortgage and wholesale companies for whom Fisk worked as a collections agent. Additionally, letters from family members document life in contemporary Kentucky.