Poughkeepsie business firms collection, 1859-1981.

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Poughkeepsie business firms collection, 1859-1981.

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Catalogs, histories, reports, postcards, calendars, manuals, and other pamphlets of Adriance, Platt & Co., W.T. Reynolds Co., Smith Bros., Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation, Fiat, Western Publishing Co., International Business Machines, and other companies and business including lumber, clothing, woodworking, furniture, steam cars, and dumb waiters.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6880718

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International Business Machines Corporation

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International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in New York State on June 16, 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. In 1922, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. purchased all of the shares of Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft. In 1924 the official name of the company was changed to International Business Machines Corporation. In 1933, IBM CEO Thomas Watson ordered the merger of IBM subsidiaries in Germany (Optima, Degemag, Holgemag, Dehomag) under the name De...

Fiat (Firm)

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Smith Brothers (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Smith Brothers Cough Drop Company was founded in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1847 by brothers William Wallace Smith (1830-1913) and Andrew Smith (1836-1895). Their father, James Smith, had emigrated from Scotland and settled in New York, where he started a small candy business. Upon purchasing the formula for a "cough candy" from a traveling man, James added the items to his product line. Menthol cough drops were added in 1922, a cough syrup in 1926, and the wild cherry flavor, the firm's most pop...

W.T. Reynolds Co. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Adriance, Platt & Co. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Adriance Memorial Library (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Western Publishing Co.

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Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation

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