This series contains advertisements, correspondence, deeds, ephemera, financial documents, ledgers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and patents pertaining to Dole family businesses, including the Dole Orange Groves, Powell Publishing Company, and the Dole brothers' furniture business. Epherma found laid in the bound ledgers have been separated into folders marked "Items laid in...".

This series is aranged alphabetically by folder title, then chronologically by earliest inclusive date.