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Color Association of the United States. Records, 1915-1983.

Title: Records, 1915-1983.

The archives of the Color Association of the United States (CAUS) is a fragmentary collection of records dating from its founding in 1915 to 1983. The records are arranged in three series: I. Corporate Records; II. Color Standardization Services (Subseries A-Government, and Subseries B-Industry); and III. Color Forecasts (Subseries A-Seasonal Bulletins, and Subseries B-Color Cards).

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122355351 View

Sherwin-Williams Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

Title: [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

ArchivalResource: v. 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701752182 View

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Executive Committee. Records, 1903-1991 (bulk 1950-1982).

Title: Records, 1903-1991 (bulk 1950-1982).

This group of Executive Committee records is extremely fragmentary. They were received in three lots, each representing a culling from the complete file. The first lot contained files of historical interest from the 1903-1921 period in which the company assumed its modern shape. The second lot was limited to only a few subjects, primarily dossiers for patent and licensing agreements (1950-1972), for capital improvements (1972), and departmental annual reports (1981-1982). The third lot consists of committee files copies by David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith for their book, "Science and Corporatate Strategy".

ArchivalResource: 17 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123721 View

Soo Hardware Company. Inbound correspondence, 1911-1918.

Title: Inbound correspondence, 1911-1918.

The records consist of inbound correspondence received between the years 1911 and 1918. The correspondence is incomplete with the bulk dating from 1915 to 1918. The records passed through the hands of a local antique dealer who began to break them up and sell the pieces as thematic ephemera collections. For example, correspondence relating to firearms and sports fishing was sold separately.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134216 View

Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Investment analysis files ("Q-S"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

Title: Investment analysis files ("Q-S"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Dept., but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370795 View

Low Moor Iron Company (Alleghany County, Va.). Papers of the Low Moor Iron Company [manuscript], 1872-1930.

Title: Papers of the Low Moor Iron Company [manuscript], 1872-1930.

Papers of the Low Moor Iron Company, Alleghany County, Va., producer of pig iron and owner of coal and iron mines and a limestone quarry, contain accounts, annual reports, bills, boarding house books, cash books, check stubs, correspondence, inventories, invoices, order books, payroll books, rent books, scrapbooks, scrip books, time books, blueprints of mechanical drawings, and other operational, financial, and employee records covering all phases of the company operations including coal and iron mining, limestone quarrying, pig iron production, marketing and transportation, and company and employee relations. The papers reflect national economic cycles from the 1880s through the 1930s. They document the company's strained relations with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the procurement of immigrant labor, the running of company towns and labor difficulties including a 1902 strike. The papers also trace the precipitous decline of the Virginia iron industry in the 1920s caused by transportation difficulties and a shift of iron production to newer fields, and the final dissolution of the company. Also in the papers are two letters from Calvin Coolidge to John Fowle, Jan. 17, and April 18, 1900. Correspondents include Allis Chalmers, American Cyanamid, Atlas Powder, B. F. Goodrich, Borderland Coal, S. G. Cargill, Carnegie Steel, E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder, Firestone Rubber, Fox Film Corporation, Henry D. Flood, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, General Electric, Hercules Powder, F. U. Humber, John Roebling and Son, Charles Gilmore Maphis, Thomas Staples Martin, E. C. Means, H. G. Merry, Metropolitan Life Insurance, J. W. Monteith, Michelin Tire, Otis Elevator, Remington Typewriter, Sears Roebuck, Sherwin Williams, Standard Oil, Stromberg Carlson Telephone and Manufacturing, Union Carbide, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U. S. Dept. of the Interior, U. S. Dept. of Labor, U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission, U. S. Iron and Steel, U. S. War Industries Board, Universal Portland Cement, Virginia Pig Iron Association, and Westinghouse.

ArchivalResource: 95 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647901910 View

Beardsworth, Ada Bantz, 1877-1965. Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

Title: Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

The collection consists primarily of Bantz and Beardsworth family papers, including letters, diaries, ledgers, and photographs. They reflect the life of Ada Bantz,a strongminded, artistically talented, and independently oriented Virginia woman and her husband, the musician Tom Beardsworth. Topics include Ada B. Beardworth's search for employment, family troubles, health, social life, travels,long engagement and evenutal marriage and struggle with social conventions. Of interest is correspondence with her gay godson and cousin William Baker Powell, an advertising salesman, author of home decorating articles, and friend of Gene Tunney, Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Topics also include Tom Beardsworth's positions at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, Mary Baldwin Seminary, the Virginia Female Institute, Camp Terra Alta, the Stonewall Band Brigade and the Staunton Military Academy and tours and performances in numerous Virginia cities including Charlottesville. Other topics include current events,particularly the election of 1896, Spanish American war, World Wars I and II, and the depression; fashion trends; life in Winchester and Staunton, Va.; student life at Amherst; employment with Sherwin-Williams, advertising as a career, women owned businesses. There are also mentions of Allen Caperton Braxton, Barnett McFee Clinedinst, Lady Duff Gordon, Leonard Hanna, Jr., Cole Porter, John Powell, Maggie Teyte, Gene Tunney,and Woodrow Wilson. There are brief references to birth control and abortion, the bicycling fad, ping pong, a flood in Winchester in 1902, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901, the inaugurations of William McKinley and Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson as president, Walter Damrosch's orchestra, the Pan American Exposition, the Jamestown Expostion, the New York Worlds Fair, voyage to Europe on the RMS Mauretania, the stock market crash, Cole Porter musicals and nostalgia for the "good old days of slavery." Of interest are letters from William Glass and Sidney Moss, University of Virginia students, 1892-1895, 1912-1913, regarding student life and misbehavior, the Glee Club and the Rotunda fire and aftermath. Correspondents include: Richard E. Byrd, Henry LaT Cavenaugh, John Warwick Daniel, George Dewey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frank R. Gillis, William Wood Glass, Jr., Curtis Guild, James Hay, Louis E. McComas, Perry L. Miles, Alexander M. Patch, Fitz-John Porter, William Baker Powell, and Charles "Broadway" Rouss. Several of these letters are routine replies to requests for patronage.

ArchivalResource: circa 9000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004500 View