Russell & Co.
Biography
Russell & Co. was the largest American trading house of the mid-19th century in China. Founded by MIddletown, Conn. merchant Samuel Russell, but eventually expanded by Thomas H. Perkins, John Perkins Cushing, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, and Augustine Heard.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Forbes family business records
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1803-1942 F693Business records of the Forbes family of Milton, Mass., commission merchants engaged in the China trade during the nineteenth century. Records include correspondence, financial material, and business papers relating to the China trade.
J. Howard Nichols papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1856-1905Personal and professional papers of China trader and textile manufacturing firm treasurer J. Howard Nichols, 1856-1905.
Russell & Co. records
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1820-1891The Russell & Co. collection contains letter books, order and purchase books, invoices, shipping orders and other financial material relating to the China trade merchant firms.
Ship Shirley and Bark Solomon accounts and logbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1869-1877 S558Account book of the Ship Shirley on voyage between Hong Kong and San Francisco, California (1869), and account book and logbook of the Brig Solomon on various voyages between 1873 and 1877. Captain Henry W. Ferguson mastered both vessels.
Thomas Hunt & Company business records
Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1863-1869 H943Correspondence and business records of Hong Kong, China based ship chandlery and commission merchant Thomas Hunt & Company.
William Appleton and Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1840-1889The business records of Boston, Massachusetts shipping merchant William Appleton and Company and successor firm Samuel Hooper and Company, 1813-1889.
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- Subject
- China--Commerce--United States. 2
- Foreign marketing. 2
- Merchants--China. 2
- Shipping. 2
- United States--Commerce--China. 2
- Accounts. 1
- China--Commerce. 1
- Cotton manufacture--Massachusetts. 1
- Cotton trade. 1
- Decedents' estates--Massachusetts--Boston. 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--Buenos Aires. 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--Denmark. 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--Germany. 1
- Executors and administrators--Massachusetts--Boston. 1
- Export Marketing. 1
- Export marketing--Massachusetts. 1
- Export marketing. 1
- Invoices. 1
- Letterpress copybooks. 1
- Letters. 1
- Marketing. 1
- Merchants--Massachusetts. 1
- Missions--Turkey. 1
- Opium trade--China. 1
- Philippines--Governors. 1
- Philippines--Politics and government. 1
- Railways (Street), United States: Massachusetts--1919. 1
- Real estate investment--Missouri. 1
- Real estate investment--Texas. 1
- Ship chandlers--China. 1
- Ships--Equipment and supplies. 1
- Tea trade. 1
- Textile industry. 1
- Transportation. 1
- Trusts and trustees--Massachusetts--Boston. 1 ∧ less