Account Book. Bro[ther] [John Carlson] In Account With Ouray Miners' Union No, 15, Initiated [Jan 30] 189[7]. Financial Secretary's Address: [A I Morton Ouray Colo]. (With a handwritten letter laid in.)

Denver, Colorado: Allied Printing Trades Council [Union Label], 1897. Ephemera. Very Good. Light lavender colored bifolded card [13 x 7.5 cm] printed on all sides with a folded handwritten letter [20 x 12.5 cm] laid in. Card is signed and neatly filled in with contemporary black ink. Some light fading to card. [Bracketed text in title is manuscript inked into the blank spaces.]. The folded card is a miners' union account book, printed with illustration, text, and blanks to be filled out by hand. The laid in sheet of paper is a simple lined sheet, torn on one side with handwriting in ink on both sides; one side contains a letter signed by John Carlson [Altman, CO] addressed to A. W. Dusenberry [Ouray, CO], the reverse side contains sporadic jotted notes.

The letter reads:
"Altman [Colorado] Nov. 7 | 1897 | Mr. A. W. Dusenberry [?] | Ouray. Colo | Dear Sir | Please find inclosed Posted | Money order for $4.70 due to you | from the 1st of Aug. to the | 15the of Nov. 1897. | Yours Resp | John Carlson | P.S. Due to you from the | 25 of June to the 8 of J[anuary?] | 1898 | Please return my paper | from American [?] to | Altman Colo"

The jotted notes on the reverse side (in the same hand) are sporadic and messy but mostly still legible.