Richard M. Hoe and Company papers records, 1824-1953.

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Richard M. Hoe and Company papers records, 1824-1953.

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The collection consists of many of the firm's letterpress books, 1837-1878, containing letters, accounts, and estimates for printing offices, newspaper offices, job presses, binderies, type foundries, saw mills, lithography shops, and stereotype foundries in all parts of the United States, Canada, and Latin America. There are incomplete series of incoming letter files, many with name indexes, for the years 1837, 1851, 1853-1858, 1862-1865, 1868, 1872-1879, and 1901. Also, a small group of letters sent to Richard March Hoe (cataloged correspondence). Salvaged files include incomplete contract files with related correspondence, 1894, 1910-1912, but chiefly for the year 1911. Also, some miscellaneous patents, 1949-1953, and miscellaneous manuscript patent files for printing presses with diagrams and blueprints as follows: American patents, 1850-1900, French patents, 1824-1906, and German patents, 1893-1908; and a small subject file of technical data for printing, binding, and other Hoe equipment as well as scrapbooks with photographs of Hoe machinery and ten oversize photographs of Hoe presses, 1872-1950.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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