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Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898. Thomas F. Bayard papers, 1871-1897.

Title: Thomas F. Bayard papers, 1871-1897.

Correspondence primarily between Thomas F. Bayard and Samuel Bancroft, Jr.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company. Records, 1813-1969.

Title: Records, 1813-1969.

The Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company records trace the history of the firm from 1831 through 1969. However, the pre-1865 records are quite fragmentary, consisting largely of real estate records and day books. Board of Directors and Executive Committee minute books and reports date from 1889, while records of the Operating, Advisory, and Real Estate Committees date from 1910. Managing Director's letter books are virtually complete from 1862 to 1917, and give a very detailed picture of the company's operations. The collection also includes sales, purchasing and receiving records. Production records include expense analyses, cost books for labor and supplies, time books, wage records and payroll sheets. There is considerable documentation on the company's paternalistic approach to labor relations, the operation of its company housing and store programs, as well as efforts by the Textile Workers Union of America to organize the mills in the 1930s and 1940s. The records also include legal department files which document Bancroft's efforts to license and defend the Banlon and Everglaze trademarks in the United States, the British Commonwealth, Europe, Japan, and Latin America. The Spunize lawsuits center around Nathan and Abraham J. Rosenstein of the Spunize Company of America, Unionville, Conn., concerning their apparatus and process for crimping natural and synthetic fibers. Records of subsidiary companies include those of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of Pennsylvania and the Kepton Housing Company, operating cotton mills and company housing at Reading, Pa., and the Arrestox Company, formed to manufacture and market new products developed by Bancroft's Research Dept. The Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of New York, Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of Canada, Banco, Inc., Rockford Company, and Albert D. Smith & Company, Inc., were sales companies.

ArchivalResource: 430 linear ft.

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Bancroft family. Papers, 1788-1962.

Title: Papers, 1788-1962.

The records consist of two collections of Bancroft family personal and business papers. They include many copies and transcripts of early family letters in the possession of the English branch of the family and brought to America by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., in 1913. The records also include newsclippings, brochures, and typescript histories of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company and the Eddystone Manufacturing Company (absorbed in 1929), and genealogical notes on the Bancroft family in Britain and America and on the Wood family of Delaware County, Pa.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 1.5 linear ft.Photographs 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86094019 View

Bayard family. Bayard family papers, 1797-1923.

Title: Bayard family papers, 1797-1923.

Papers (1797-1815) of James A. Bayard, Sr.; papers (1823-1861) of James A. Bayard, Jr.; papers (1868 and later) of Thomas F. Bayard; speech (1923) given at the dedication of Caesar Rodney Equestrian Statue at Rodney Square, Wilmington; and papers (1897, 1918) of Florence Bayard Hilles, leader in the fight for women's suffrage in Delaware, including her pardon from President Woodrow Wilson for arrest during a women's rights demonstration.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Eckman, Jeannette, d. 1972. A century of fine cloth, 1831-1931, 1931.

Title: A century of fine cloth, 1831-1931, 1931.

The item is a 154 pp. typescript history of the Bancroft firm, with emphasis on the personal life of the firm's founder and that of his immediate successors. It was prepared as a centennial history but was not published as intended because of the Depression.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Rhoads, George A. (George Ashbridge), 1860-1937. George Rhoads autograph letter signed to Samuel Bancroft, Jr., and response, 1909.

Title: George Rhoads autograph letter signed to Samuel Bancroft, Jr., and response, 1909.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

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MacIntyre, W. Ralph (William Ralph), 1897-1984,. Interviews with William Ralph MacIntyre, former president of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. [typed transcript].

Title: Interviews with William Ralph MacIntyre, former president of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. [typed transcript].

Mr MacIntyre discusses strategy at Bancroft between the 1920s and 1950s, with emphasis on the personalities of the company's executives and owners. He covers the struggle for control between Joseph Bancroft and John Bancroft, Jr., problems of the Depression, the near-failure of the Eddystone Manufacturing Company, the refusal to move to the South, and the company's later reliance on research.

ArchivalResource: 25, 11 p. : 28 cm.

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Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated. Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, records, 1880-2005 (bulk, 1901-1995).

Title: Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, records, 1880-2005 (bulk, 1901-1995).

The records of the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, provide an excellent case study of the inherent tension between planned development and the realities of the market for commercial and residential real estate. They also document the outward growth of the Greater Wilmington area over the course of the 20th century and the activities of its Quaker families. The records of the Trustees include charters, minutes, officer lists, directors' correspondence, real estate records, property maps, reports, drawings and specifications and newspaper and journal articles on the history of the Trustees and of the Bancroft family. Subjects covered include the development of the city park system and the Bancroft Parkway, the building and maintenance of the "Woodlawn Flats," the Citizens Housing Corporation, the development of post-World War II suburbs, the Quaker beliefs of the Trustees and discussions withing the Society of Friends over their development activities and the disputes over racial discrimination in housing and segregation in the suburbs. The papers of William Poole Bancroft, his wife Emma C. Bancroft and their children include family genealogies, pedigrees and biographies, including material on the family's antecedents in England, personal correspondence, material on their charitable activities, particularly their interest in African American education and Quaker schools and colleges, and also Samuel Bancroft Jr's. interest in collecting Pre-Raphaelite art, which he bequeathed to the Delaware Art Museum.

ArchivalResource: 56 linear ft.

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Bounds, Harvey C., 1894?-1969. Bancroft's Mills, 1831-1961, One hundred and thirty years of fine textile products, 1961.

Title: Bancroft's Mills, 1831-1961, One hundred and thirty years of fine textile products, 1961.

The item is a 112 pp. typescript history of the Bancroft firm written by Bounds, the company's unofficial historian, in 1961. Bounds also produced other typescript company histories, which are catalogued separately.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bounds, Harvey C., 1894?-1969. Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of Rockford, Wilmington, Delaware, 1831-1951, 1951.

Title: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of Rockford, Wilmington, Delaware, 1831-1951, 1951.

The item is a 169 pp. typescript history of the Bancroft firm written by Bounds, the company's unofficial historian, in 1941. Bounds also produced two other manuscript histories on other aspects of the company, which are catalogued separately.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bancroft family. Bancroft family miscellany, 1841-1948.

Title: Bancroft family miscellany, 1841-1948.

Letter of Martha Mellor to her parents and sister Margaret, addressed to John Bancroft & Son, from Glasgow, Scotland, 15 July 1841, describing her visit to Scotland. John Bancroft & Son account with Dilworth & Branson, 19 Aug. 1842. Samuel Bancroft, account with Brooks & Roach, 30 September 1851. John Bancroft & Son, notice of draft on W.T. Crook & Co., 2 August 1842. Samuel Bancroft, account with Thomas P. Remington, 30 June 1854, 31 December 1855. Samuel Bancroft, account with Thomas & Martin, 9 October 1854. Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company, expense sheets; J.H. Coady, 1917; Charles A. Bamberger, 1917 (2). John Bancroft, check to McDaniel & Merrihew Cycle Company, 1895, on the Equitable Guarantee & Trust Company. Rockford Company, subscription to capital stock, 1903, by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., William P. Bancroft, John Bancroft, Joseph Bancroft, and Henry B. Thompson, at $50,000 each. Miscellaneous postal covers, 19th century to 1984, including one of 19 July 1948, a first day of issue of the commemorative stamp of 100 years of progress by the women of America, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Blank checks of the Brandywine Granite Company, Rockford, Wilmington, Del.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

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Bancroft family. Papers, 1788-1962.

Title: Papers, 1788-1962.

The records consist of a collection of Bancroft family personal and business papers. They include many copies and transcripts of early family letters in the possession of the English branch of the family and brought to America by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., in 1913. The records also include newsclippings, brochures, and typescript histories of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company and the Eddystone Manufacturing Company (absorbed in 1929), and genealogical notes on the Bancroft family in Britain and America.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft.

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