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Singer Manufacturing Company. Singer Manufacturing Company records, 1850-circa 1975.

Title: Singer Manufacturing Company records, 1850-circa 1975.

Records of the sewing-machine company founded by Isaac M. Singer in 1851 which grew to dominate the market for the remainder of the nineteenth century. Singer pioneered many business techniques including installment buying, trade-ins, and total control of the manufacturing process from raw product to distribution and sale to the customer. It was also one of the first American corporations to operate in an international market. Included are background and miscellaneous historical materials, incorporation records, outgoing and incoming administrative correspondence, advertising materials and publications, subject files, and legal and financial records. The outgoing correspondence (primarily 1877 to 1924 and mainly available on microfilm) includes letters dating from the presidencies of George McKenzie, Frederick G. Bourne, and Douglas Alexander that concern domestic and foreign management policy and routine administrative matters. Incoming correspondence consists of routine letters received at the New York executive office from 1861 to 1879, and letters and reports from both domestic (1851-1904) and foreign (1854-1909) agencies and factories. Legal records and correspondence, 1846-1906, pertain to patent assignments, litigation, and contracts. There are also court documents and transcripts, files of published patent decisions, miscellaneous patent drawings, and information on the acquisition and management of various properties and buildings. Advertising material consists of incoming letters, 1868-1978, and samples of nineteenth century advertising, company publications, brochures, and blank forms. Subject files include circular letters, examiners' reports on company problems, and traveling notebooks of company executives. There are also extensive files about losses experienced in Russia following the 1917 Revolution, in Central Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, and in Japan and Germany during World War II. A large quantity of nineteenth century financial records pertain to overall financial operations as monitored by the New York City office and to the operations at the Elizabethport, N.J. factory. Included are general ledgers and journals, cashbooks, check registers, and some payroll records. Accounting source documents such as bills and receipts document operational details of the 1850s. A few records and letterbooks relate to subsidiary companies or companies acquired by Singer such as the Wheeler and Wilson Company, the Morley Sewing Machine Company, and the National Machine Company. The processed portion of this series is summarized above, 1850-1968, and described in the register. Additional accessions, date 1851-circa 1975, are described below.

ArchivalResource: 90.0 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 card box) and579 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 23.6 c.f.,1,221 reels of microfilm (16 mm),554 reels of microfilm (35 mm),751 photographs,40 postcards, and1 piece of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613707431 View

Dagny Unsgaard Nygaard Papers, 1899-1979

Title: Dagny Unsgaard NygaardPapers 1899-1979

The life story and family historyof Norwegian immigrant Dagny Unsgaard Nygaard (born 1899), who came to Americacirca 1930.

ArchivalResource: 1 File (1 folder);

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv32000 View

Collection of Sally Fox, (inclusive), (bulk), 1575, 1667-2005, 1860-1929

Title: Collection of Sally Fox, (inclusive), (bulk) 1575, 1667-2005 1860-1929

Collection of Sally Fox, independent picture researcher, editor, writer, and collector of visual images of women.

ArchivalResource: 18.81 linear ft.; (7 + ½ file boxes, 8 folio boxes, 2 folio+ boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 supersize drawer) plus 1 videotape

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Sligh Family Papers, 1842-1967

Title: Sligh Family Papers 1842-1967

Grand Rapids, Michigan family, involved in furniture making and other businesses, also active in local state and Republican Party politics and businessmen's associations. Papers include family papers and correspondence, business records, scrapbooks and visual materials.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. (28 boxes), 30 v. (outsize), and 1 folder (outsize)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85481?rgn=main;view=text View

Pawolleck, Elsa,. Trade card album, 1897-1921 (inclusive).

Title: Trade card album, 1897-1921 (inclusive).

Allbum für Liebig-Bilder contains trade cards issued by Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Singer Sewing Machines, and other manufacturers, including makers of coffee, chocolate, and medicinal remedies. Cards often occur in series and include Christmas customs around the world, famous women from ancient times, scenes from fairy tales and plays, and views of cities such as Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig, and London.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/421230359 View

Clyde Nuell Clarke papers : scrapbook and photographs, 1870-1938.

Title: Clyde Nuell Clarke papers : scrapbook and photographs, 1870-1938.

The collection contains a scrapbook with clippings (including Singer sewing machine newspaper advertisements), business cards, a railroad pass, a ticket to the Democratic National Convention (1904), and photographs (especially of Company M, First Infantry, Arkansas State Guard). Many clippings and papers were laid in the scrapbook.. Photographs are mainly of the family, including many of the Ross family taken by Clarke's father-in-law, H. W. D. Ross, and views of Jonesboro (Craighead County) taken by Clyde Nuell Clarke. The material was collected by Clyde Nuell Clarke, and pertains to him and his family, including his father-in-law, H. Winchester D. Ross, a traveling photographer in northeast Arkansas in the late 1800s.

ArchivalResource: 1 container (65 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44513051 View

Hayes Textile Company. Hayes Textile Company papers, 1913-1929

Title: Hayes Textile Company papers, 1913-1929

Included are administrative records, general accounts, sales and purchase records, production records, scrapbooks, blueprints and miscellaneous ephemera. The Oswego County Historical Society retains the bound ledgers of the Hayes Textile Company.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes ; 27 x 32 x 13 cm.4 boxes ; 27 x 40 x 13 cm.3 boxes ; 27 x 40 x 7 cm.1 box ; 27 x 32 x 7 cm.1 box ; 30 x 43 x 2 cm. + 1 blueprints

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29483451 View

Drudge, Anty, pseud. [Culinary ephemera : cleaning, heating, sewing]. Box 367.

Title: [Culinary ephemera : cleaning, heating, sewing]. Box 367. 1880-1974.

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495277526 View

Simson, Lotta Sampson (Lottie), 1885-fl. 1944. Papers, 1887-1945.

Title: Papers, 1887-1945.

Correspondence and postcards (some related to Lotta's brother and sister-in-law Luther V. and Frances Sampson in Petersburg), University of Illinois ephemera, Cleveland family genealogy, advertising items, World War I ration tokens, and paper dolls.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear inches

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276305470 View

Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Personal Series, 1901-1957 (bulk 1920-1957)

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Personal Series, 1901-1957 (bulk 1920-1957)

This is a series of RSC and Francine's personal items, divided into six subseries: documents; medical records; writings; horses; inventories; and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263436822 View

Tyson, James D., 1903-. Oral history interview with James D. Tyson, 1970 December 5, 1971 January 23 and February 6.

Title: Oral history interview with James D. Tyson, 1970 December 5, 1971 January 23 and February 6.

Interview with J. D. Tyson, a former representative of the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands and a speech therapist at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, who shares his and his family's experiences while civilian internees of the Japanese during World War II. Tyson discusses the Japanese arrival in Baguio, his incarceration at Camp John Hay (1942), Camp Holmes (1942-1944), Bilibid Prison, Manila (1944-1945), and his liberation.

ArchivalResource: 65, 75, 38 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156789792 View

Raymond Loewy Associates. Sales portfolio, c. 1952.

Title: Sales portfolio, c. 1952.

ArchivalResource: v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84643461 View

Sturtevant, J. B. (Joseph Bevier), 1851-1910. Meginnes Block photographs, [1880-1889].

Title: Meginnes Block photographs, [1880-1889]. [1880-1889]

ArchivalResource: 3 photographs (1 view).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427363275 View

Austin, P. E. Trade catalogs of sewing and needlework, 1860-1929.

Title: Trade catalogs of sewing and needlework, 1860-1929.

Catalogs, brochures, and instruction books on home and industrial sewing machines, chiefly Singer sewing machines, accessories and parts, histories of the sewing machine, and other ephemera relating to sewing machines.

ArchivalResource: 55 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568977 View

Singer Company. Records, 1851-1990.

Title: Records, 1851-1990.

The records of the Singer Company comprise a group of materials from its Trademark Department collected by a former employee.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122392267 View

Arthur E. Armstrong papers, 1911-1938

Title: Arthur E. Armstrong papers 1911-1938

Hillsdale, Michigan, Singer Sewing Machine Company representative in central China, 1911-1917; wife, Elsa F. Armstrong of Northfield, Minnesota, Evangelical Lutheran missionary in China, 1911-1917. Correspondence between Arthur and Elsa Armstrong, Elsa Armstrong's family, and other missionaries, concerning life in China; also photographs and Arthur and Elsa Armstrong's reminiscences of China.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (3 boxes).

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Tuffley, Edward W. Trade catalogs of travel, 1876-1958.

Title: Trade catalogs of travel, 1876-1958.

Pamphlets, brochures, maps, and other ephemera relating to travel or description of places in Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

ArchivalResource: 30 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508873 View

Wills family. Papers of the Will and Huffman families [manuscript], 1790-1938 (bulk 1846-1901).

Title: Papers of the Will and Huffman families [manuscript], 1790-1938 (bulk 1846-1901).

The papers contain letters, 1856-1867, to Annie Elizabeth Huffman from friends and relatives, particularly her brother, David B. Huffman chiefly regarding the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Wilderness and Early's Washington raid are described. There are also Shenandoah County deeds, 1790, 1795, 1854; business papers of the two families including accounts, drafts, notes, receipts, the will, n.d., of George Will, an estate inventory for Frederick Huffman, insurance assessments, a canvasser's agreement for Singer Sewing Machine Company, children's school reports, and several daybooks and ledgers, one from the firm of Huffman and Calvert.

ArchivalResource: 256 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820417 View

Marcus Pete Collection, 1918-1946

Title: Marcus Pete Collection 1918-1946

Records belonging to Marcus Pete, collected between the years 1918-1946. Collection includes ephemera pertaining to The Indian Store, a general store on Section 14 of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation owned and operated by Marcus Pete. Notable subjects recorded include Pete's 1930s trip to Washington D.C. in support of land allotments, notes on tribal births and deaths between 1909 and the 1930s, and news items discussing World War II and Iwo Jima (Japan).

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet

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Business and industry -- Singer Sewing Machine Company.

Title: Business and industry -- Singer Sewing Machine Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310558952 View

Atlas Steamship Company. Trade catalogs of travel, 1857-1983.

Title: Trade catalogs of travel, 1857-1983.

Brochures, guidebooks, maps and other ephemera relating to travel or description of places in Canada, Niagara Falls, and Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 70 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221781344 View

Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Diaries Series, 1923-1949.

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Diaries Series, 1923-1949.

The Diaries begin with Robert Sterling Clark's falling out with his brother, Stephen, and continue, on and off, through the end of World War II, with some spotty entries until 1949. The entries recount friendships; disputes; meals and cooking; parties; financial investments; the purchase of artwork and silver; Clark's relationship with various art dealers; his thought and opinions about art and collecting; his and Francine's health; horse breeding and racing; politics; and the other subjects that make up a lifetime.

ArchivalResource: 12.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263440380 View

J. Walter Thompson Company. Frankfurt Office. J. Walter Thompson Company Frankfurt Office George Black papers, 1968-1989.

Title: J. Walter Thompson Company Frankfurt Office George Black papers, 1968-1989.

Collection focuses on the 1980s, when Black presided over an expansion of business in the German Speaking Area (GSA) which included the opening of new offices in Hamburg and Düsseldorf; the establishment of JWT divisions for pharmaceutical advertising (Deltakos) and direct marketing (JWT-Direkt); and the British WPP Group's leveraged buyout of JWT in 1987. General trends and events reflected in the papers include the increasing globalization of clients and markets, the world energy and financial crises of the 1970s, JWT's international expansion and business management worldwide. Specific topics documented include ethical and legal issues surrounding children and advertising in Germany; the production of film and print advertisements for current and prospective clients; Black's membership in professional organizations such as European Association of Advertising Agencies (EAAA) and the Art Directors Club of Germany; Black's participation in JWT international strategic planning groups, with emphasis on Europe and the GSA; promotions and management changes within JWT; and special events and seminars for JWT international staff and clients. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, reports, photographs, press releases, speeches, overhead transparencies, agendas, invoices and receipts, contracts, newsletters, articles, advertisements, and collateral literature. Correspondents in the collection include media and management consultants, artists and producers, current and prospective clients, persons affiliated with various agencies, publications, and organizations, and JWT executives such as David Campbell-Harris (JWT-Milan), Jack Cronin (JWT-New York), Peter Horak (JWT-Zürich), Don Johnston (JWT-New York), Denis Lanigan (JWT-London), Eilika Schmidt-Roessler (JWT-Brussels), Alfred Tiefenbrunner (JWT-Vienna), and Hakan Verner-Carlsson (JWT-Stockholm). Clients well-documented in the collection include Braun (Gillette Company), Campari, DeBeers, Elida Gibbs, Ford, Jacobs, Kellogg, Kraft, Lever-Sunlicht (Unilever), Nestlé, Singer, Pepsi, Warner-Lambert, and Wick.

ArchivalResource: 29,250 items (39.0 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/688044429 View

Robinson, Frances,. Frances Robinson collection, 1833-1978.

Title: Frances Robinson collection, 1833-1978.

Photocopies of James Westerfield and Cornelius Post family papers, 1833-1928, include estate papers, deeds for property in Wayne County, Michigan, tax receipts, specifications for school house, lease for a Singer sewing machine, and a timetable for the Detroit, Jackson, and Chicago Railway. Photocopies of the Hames C. Westerfield family letters, 1886-1890. Photocopies of the Robert Miner Capps letters, 1919. Four Flags Historical Study Committee of Niles, Michigan, final report and recommendations, 1976-1978. (All photocopies).

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.25 cu.ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318440365 View

J. W. (James Webb). Business records, 1833-1886 (inclusive).

Title: Business records, 1833-1886 (inclusive).

Ledgers, daybooks, and unbound papers of a shoemaker from Bridgton and North Bridgton, Maine. Includes some records of Isaiah S. Webb of NorthBridgton, who worked in leather and was an agent for Singer Sewing Machine. The volumes also include farm records, accounts for highway work from the town and similar matters.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft. (9 v., 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269578951 View

Marcus Pete Collection, 1918-1946

Title: Marcus Pete Collection 1918-1946

Records belonging to Marcus Pete, collected between the years 1918-1946. Collection includes ephemera pertaining to The Indian Store, a general store on Section 14 of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation owned and operated by Marcus Pete. Notable subjects recorded include Pete's 1930s trip to Washington D.C. in support of land allotments, notes on tribal births and deaths between 1909 and the 1930s, and news items discussing World War II and Iwo Jima (Japan).

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet

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Reilly, Sarah Porter, 1863-1943. Sarah P. Reilly papers, 1841-1892

Title: Sarah P. Reilly papers, 1841-1892

Correspondence of Porter family interest including letters, to William and Sarah (Johnson) Porter, and from James Porter, Robert Porter, W.A. Cowan, Thomas H. Elliott, the Singer Sewing Machine Co., David E. Johnson, etc.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 wallet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615591146 View