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Barnum, Richardson Company Records., undated, 1793-1925.

Title: Barnum, Richardson Company Records. undated, 1793-1925.

Barnum Richardson Company was established in 1830 in Salisbury, CT. The company was based on a foundry that remelt pig iron. Barnum, Richardson and Company, as it was first called, was a small firm specializing in the production of clock and sash weights, plow castings, and other small items. In the 1860s there were several reorganizations and name changes. The company merged and expanded into the turn of the century and was purchased in 1920 by the Salisbury Iron Company. The Salisbury Iron Company went out of business in 1923 and shut down what was then the last of Connecticut's iron furnaces.

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Barnum, Richardson Co. Barnum Richardson Company records, 1793-1925.

Title: Barnum Richardson Company records, 1793-1925.

Correspondence, stock certificates, and other records of companies in which Barnum's son and company president, William H. Barnum (1818-1889) had interest, administrative records (1833-1925) including bills of sale, promissory notes, probate and land records, deeds, labor and production records, blueprints and patterns for factory equipment, inventories, financial records, and estate papers of William H. Barnum.

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