The papers include the business records of Mathew, John, and Sebastian Ziegler. They consist of 22 volumes containing accounts, receipts, and various business records for Valle and Ziegler; the successor firm of Ziegler and Co. (tobacco manufacturers in Ste. Genevieve); journals of food and liquor sales at Sebastian Ziegler's Ste. Genevieve billiard parlor; records of S. Ziegler, commission and forwarding merchants in Ste. Genevieve, which include steamboat ladings; a journal of pig metal and other ores received from the American Iron Mountain Co. by John Ziegler, commission merchant in Ste. Genevieve; and two account books of an unidentified Little Rock, Missouri, commission merchant, presumably one of the Zieglers, 1856-1858. In addition, there are more personal materials that include a certificate granting Johann Georg Ziegler the right to bear arms, Burghausen, Palatinate (Germany), September 12, 1713; an inventory of the property of the Widow Moro (Moreau), June 7, 1806; and an undated third-year Latin composition book of C.F. Ziegler.