Records, 1875-1967.

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Records, 1875-1967.

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Administrative records consist of board of directors' minutes, charters, bylaws, and treasurer's annual reports. Correspondence includes letters to selling agents, customers, rag dealers, as well as letter books of the dye house, and Carlisle mills. Of particular interest are the letters between Edward C. and C. Gilbert Beetem. These describe debates on business strategy, with Edward Beetem advocating concentrating on a small line of high-quality carpets and his son Gilbert seeking to establish an extensive line of Raglin rugs to meet the growing working-class market. The collection also documents the company's pricing practices, marketing strategies, as well as its labor relations. Production and employee records include work books, rule books, time books, journals, and payroll sheets which describe wages of the weavers, as well as the practice of relying on women workers to assemble rag rugs in their homes.

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Stephens, J. M. (John Mortimer), 1901-

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Bedford Mills (Carlisle, Pa.).

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Charles B. Young Company.

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Carson Pirie Scott & Company.

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Carlisle Carpet Mills (Carlisle, Pa.).

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Beetem, C. Gilbert 1881-1969.

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George K. Van Nostrand, Inc.

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W. & J. Sloane (San Francisco, Calif.).

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Stephens & Beetem.

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J. Kennard & Sons Carpet Company.

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Beetem, Edward C., 1852-1938.

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Eden Mills (Philadelphia, Pa.).

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Carlisle Dye Works (Carlisle, Pa.).

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E.C. Beetem & Son, Inc.

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John C. Stephens and Edward C. Beetem formed the partnership of Stephens & Beetem at Carlisle and bought the firm of Frysinger & Co. of the same place in 1875. In 1877 they built a carpet factory. The firm of E.C. Beetem & Co. was established in 1901, after Stephens' death. In the same year it built the Carlisle Carpet Mills. In 1906 the Charles B. Young Co. became the selling agency, the first "Hit and Miss Rag Rug" was made, and Charles Gilbert Beetem, partner of his f...