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American Steel & Wire Co.

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1831 - 1977

Biography

(Ichabod Washburn Wire Manufacturers; Worcester, Mass.; established in 1831; in 1851 became Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company; affiliated with other wire companies in 1899 to form American Steel & Wire Co., which became a division of United States Steel Corporation in 1901; producers of wire and wire products; operations ceased in 1977

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Records of American Steel and Wire Company and its predecessors

Collection Identifier: Mss:596 1822-1936
Scope and Contents: Records of predecessor firms include records, 1868-1899, of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, Worcester, Mass., comprising about half of the total collection. The material on this company includes stock certificate stubs, stock ledger, directors' records, 1868-1886, bill books, letter books, 1890-1902, miscellaneous volumes and three boxes of folders. There is considerable material on the patent suits of the 1880's and 1890's, and the consolidation of the company into one of the...

United States Steel Corporation photographs

Collection Identifier: Vis 31
Overview:

A large collection of black and white gelatin silver prints depicting the United States Steel Corporation's steel plants, works, personnel, machinery, mining operations, buildings, warehouses and production of the numerous products manufactured by the company, circa 1940-1960.