Forstmann Companies Records, 1904-1957, (bulk 1905-1959).

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Forstmann Woolen Company. Forstmann Companies Records, 1904-1957, (bulk 1905-1959).

Forstmann Companies Records, 1904-1957, (bulk 1905-1959).

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The records consist of ledgers, journals, and cashbooks for the Forstmann and subsidiary companies. Included in the general journals for the Forstmann and Huffmann Company is information on Botany Worsted Mills, the First Company Julius Forstmann worked for when he came to the United States. The ledgers and journals contain information on cash transactions, income and expense accounts, advertising, payroll deductions, union dues, group insurance, and stock inventory. The correspondence in the collection (1924-1925) is found primarily in the papers of Super-Tex, Inc. This correspondence concerns a lease with a real-estate firm, Sperry and Hutchinson, involving Super-Tex, Inc. and the Julius Forstmann & Co., Inc. The Super-Tex, Inc. material also includes the trade-mark registration granted to the company in 1923 as well as related correspondence (1923). Personal ledgers of the Forstmann family include Julius Forstmann, his wife Mrs. Adolfine Forstmann, Elizabeth Forstmann, wife of Curt Erwin Forstmann, and the Orion Steamship cashbook. These personal financial journals record shares, interest earned, and expenses such as postage, charities, and wages for the chauffeur. The Orion Steamship was Julius Forstmann's diesel yacht in which Julius George and Curt Erwin Forstmann traveled around the world in 1929-1930. While the papers and ledgers provide a good source for surveying the financial operations of a twentieth-century textile manufacturing company and subsidiaries, they are less useful for studying the Forstmann family.

35 cubic ft. 4 document boxes and 110 oversize ledgers contained in 43 boxes.

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