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Reed & Barton

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1840 - 2015

Biography

Founded in Taunton, Massachusetts. Was a silver manufacturer that produced silverware, flatware, and other silver goods and giftware.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Kenneth R. Andrews papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 3
Overview:

Teaching, consulting, research and administrative papers of Harvard Business School professor Kenneth Andrews.

Joseph Fremont Dean correspondence

Collection Identifier: Mss:597 1887-1888 D281
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of postcards and letters J.F. Dean wrote primarily to his father during the span of two years. Dean wrote nearly every day and always signed his letters “Mont”, which was short for his middle name Fremont. The correspondence varies in length, but in general Dean describes or comments on the weather, whether sales was poor or good, his health and his family’s health, baseball, hotels or towns he was staying in, the difficulty of his travels by train, the challenge of...

Reed & Barton additional records

Collection Identifier: Mss:597 1830-1931
Overview:

The Reed & Barton Additional Records document the history of the Taunton, Massachusetts, silversmith company from the 1850s to 2008.

Reed & Barton records

Collection Identifier: Mss:597 1828-1931
Scope and Contents:

Daybooks, journals, ledgers, cashbooks, accounts, trial balances, notes and bills receivable, inventories, time books, payrolls, 12 boxes of unbound papers, including a brief typewritten history of the company, and inventories of the New York, San Francisco and Chicago offices, 1902-1918. In addition there are some 200 illustrated catalogs and 17 scrapbooks.