Cogswell Brothers General Store records, 1882-1891.

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Cogswell Brothers General Store records, 1882-1891.

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The records include seven folders of correspondence and statements; seven folders and four rolls of freight bills; and an undated list of goods with their prices. All material is arranged chronologically.

0.33 linear ft.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Cogswell, Charles.

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Cogswell Brothers General Store.

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Charles and Arthur Cogswell bought out the E. E. Ellis store in Etna, New York when Ellis went bankrupt in 1891, running the store thereafter as the Cogswell Brothers General Store. In 1928, agents of Henry Ford acquired old stock from the Etna store to help furnish the general store which Ford relocated to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan from Waterford, Michigan. The materials in this collection were part of that acquisition. From the description of Cogswell Brothers Genera...

Cogswell, Arthur R. (Arthur Ralph), 1930-2010

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Arthur Cogswell was born on October 29, 1930, in Jacksonville, Florida. He received a B.A. in drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953 and B.Arch. from North Carolina State College in 1959. He began his architecture practice in 1962, and in 1967 formed a partnership with Werner Hausler. The Chapel Hill firm received many awards for groundbreaking modernist designs, and Cogswell was known for his modern houses. In 1974 he was named a Fellow of the America Institute of Ar...