Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

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Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

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Copies of outgoing correspondence of company officials and secretaries to agents, suppliers, shippers, lawyers, inventors, and other manufacturers concerning both domestic operations and foreign trade. Topics include sales and production goals; field trials and machine performance; prices and contracts; agricultural conditions; arrangements for supplying parts, repairs, and twine; competitors and their practices; problems with unreliable agents; collection policies; agent expenses and commissions; freight routes and costs; and the expansion of the agricultural implement trade. Three letterbooks of R. B. Swift deal with patent matters and inventions and improvements to McCormick implements. Three volumes contain the outgoing correspondence of field agents J. B. Heywood of Indianapolis, D. W. Pratt of St. Louis, and N. E. Barnes of San Francisco. One volume of circular letters to agents contains instructions on prices, sales and advertising strategy, assembly of machines, and similar matters. One letterbook is that of Harold F. McCormick as company vice president, 1899-1900. Letters of Cyrus H. McCormick, particularly concerning foreign markets, appear after he joined the company in 1879.

8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) and.472 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6719033

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Swift, R. B. (Rodney B.)

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McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936

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Chicago-based manufacturers and philanthropists. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936), was the oldest son of reaping machine inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. After his father's 1884 death, Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr. took over as president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, and continued in that role when the company merged with rival Deering Harvestor Company in 1902 to create the International Harvester Company. He married Harriet Bradley Hammond in 1889 and h...

McCormick, Harold Fowler, 1872-1941.

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Pratt, D. W. (David W.)

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Barnes, N. E.

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Heywood, J. Brian

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

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