COLLECTIONS: 26 - 50 of 1681
Adonijah Upton ledger
Collection Identifier: Mss:871 1764-1814 U71Scope and Contents:
Ledger of glazier Adonijah Upton, of Dighton, Massachusetts, recording debits and credits related to his business, dating from 1763 to 1814. Common charges were for priming window sashes, setting squares of glass, and mending glass and leadlights, in addition to painting windows. Upton performed glazing work on homes, ships, and public buildings. Barter payments were in the form of labor and commodities, such as iron, lumber, molasses, wool, and flax, but many entries indicate his clients...
Advertising ephemera collection
Collection Identifier: Vis 29Overview:
This artificial collection contains a variety of advertising materials, including trade cards, clipper ship cards, business cards, labels, and posters. Also included are scrapbooks of advertising trade cards and other ephemera, as well as greeting cards, calling cards and rewards of merit.
Advertising trade card scrapbook
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: VIS 37Scope and Contents:
Scrapbook filled with trade cards dated about 1879 to 1901, also includes calling cards, greeting cards and other small chromolithographed cards all pasted onto sheets. A variety of products and services are covered with a focus on businesses in upstate New York, particularly Sodus and Rochester.
Agriculture printed matter collection
Collection Identifier: Mss: 1 1810-1889 AOverview:
This artificial collection contains a variety of printed materials related to the agricultural industry.
A.H. Hews and Company, Inc./Lockwood Products, Inc. records
Collection Identifier: Mss:605 1780-1984 H613Abstract:
The records of A. H. Hews and Company and its successor company, Lockwood Products, Inc. cover the period of its beginning in the eighteenth century until the mid-1990s. The records in this collection document early examples of products manufactured - Hews invented the stacking flower pot in 1888 - and sold by a company which remained in the same family for four generations
AI. A. Rosenbush Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:773 1903-1932Scope and Contents:
Minutes, account books and unbound materials of a firm which was one of the first to distribute low cost shoes by means of concessions leased in stores across the country. There are records for predecessor firms, including Boston Sample Shoe Shop, Inc. (of Philadelphia and Seattle), Boston Shoe Shop, Inc. (Portland, Me.), Sample Shoe Shop, and Berland Sample Shoe Shop. Records of the concessions in some sixty-nine stores include copies of leases, tax papers, and correspondence; bound...
Wilfrid Airy business papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:708 1862-1916 A298Overview:
Wilfrid Airy was a Civil Engineer in London. The Wilfrid Airy business papers span the years 1862 to 1925, and primarily document the various civil engineering projects on which Airy consulted.
A.L. Avery & Son business records
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1864-1940 A954Overview:
Business records of the Charlemont, Massachusetts general store A.L. Avery & Son, owned and operated by five generations of the Avery family.
Alabama Mining Institute photograph albums
Collection Identifier: Mss:351 1922-1923 A316Scope and Contents:
The two albums contain 153 black and white photographs that depict the company-owned houses and other buildings provided by twelve member companies of the Alabama Mining Institute in 1922 and 1923. The photographs show houses, schools, churches, boarding houses, commissaries, and other buildings in Alabama coal mining towns. Each set of photographs depicts the separate houses, schools, and other facilities that each company provided for its white workers and for its African American workers....
Albert and Thomas Smith papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1773-1814 S642Overview:
Brothers Albert Smith (1763-1823) and Thomas Smith (born 1775) were merchants and shipmasters in Hanover, Massachusetts. The Albert and Thomas Smith papers, dated 1773-1814, consist of shipping records, legal documents, mainly related to Albert Smith's service as a justice of the peace, and personal and professional correspondence.
John Alden receipt book
Collection Identifier: Mss:252 1774-1816 A358Scope and Contents:
Receipt book of maritime agent Captain John Alden, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, recording payment of shares in whaling voyages and wages to maritime workers, dated 1774-1816, as well as prize money to the crew of several privateers during the American Revolutionary War. Vessels sailed from Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, and included the ships Dartmouth, Friendship, Industry, and Rainbow. In late 1776, Alden paid out multiple shares of prize money for investors and sailors on the...
Winthrop W. Aldrich papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1918-1973 A365Scope and Content Note::
The papers of Winthrop W. Aldrich reflect his professional and personal activities over a period of forty years. The bulk of the material relates to his activities from 1929-1953, when he was at the helm of Chase National Bank and played a leading role in national and international banking policies. The collection also includes materials relating to his organization of relief activities during and after World War II, duties as an overseer at Harvard University, and involvement with national...
Alexander Hill receipt book
Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1769-1775 H645Scope and Contents:
Receipt book kept by Boston merchant and shipowner Alexander Hill, primarily recording payments for freighting flour and iron from Philadelphia and Baltimore and purchase of wholesale flour in Boston, dated 1757-1775. The volume also contains receipts for commodities like hemp, pepper, paint, and oil, and for personal expenses like milk, shoes, and medical attendance by Dr. John Perkins. Among the other signatures are cooper Joshua Pico, and merchants Joseph Barrell (1739-1804), Fortesque...
Ship Alexander logbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1820-1822 A374Scope and Contents:
A single volume ship's log kept during the Alexander's voyage dating October 26, 1820 to November 23, 1822. The daily entries record the ship's latitude and longitude, the direction of the wind, sails used, the ship's navigational course, and weather. Notable events such as the passing of other ships, passengers taken aboard, trade conducted, and deaths of crew members are also recorded. The first page of the log book features a note by Captain Philip Dumaresq of Boston that states that he...
Alexander Smith and son account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:1 1795-1844 S642Scope and Contents:
Account book kept by Alexander Smith (1766-1843), and his son, Alexander Smith, Jr., of West Springfield, Massachusetts. The entries for Alexander Smith the elder date from 1795 to 1834 and pertain to sale of crops he grew, including beans and rye, and day labor he provided to neighbors, including carting produce. The entries for Alexander Smith, Jr., date from 1834 to 1844 and include records of the sale of apples, oats, corn, and other agricultural products, in addition to shoes he crafted...
Alfred Church Lane collection of legal instruments
Collection Identifier: Mss:899 1479-1818 L265Overview:
The Alfred Church Lane collection consists mainly of legal instruments, including wills, indentures, and receipts, the bulk of which are related to the Lane family and Rickmansworth, England
Allen and Weld ledger
Collection Identifier: Mss:770 1790 A425Scope and Contents:
Ledger of general store sales by Amasa Allen and Jabez H. Weld of Walpole, New Hampshire, dated 1789-1790. The store carried West Indies and New England rum, brandy, tea, sugar, molasses, chocolate, indigo, tobacco, hardware, dry goods, paper, Webster’s spelling books, and almanacs, among other merchandise. Payment was accepted in barter of labor and services, such as medical attendance and carting goods to and from Boston, and commodities like bricks, planks, butter, flax, cheese, wheat,...
Allen-Lane Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1853-1941Scope and Contents:
A remarkably complete collection of the records of Allen-Lane and of the individual mills controlled by Allen-Lane. There are administrative records, general accounts, purchase and receiving records, sales and shipping records, letters, and unbound papers. Materials also include stock and dividend records as well as Lane Family materials including correspondence, Benjamin C. Lane's 1917 will establishing a trust for his wife, Florence, and information on church and civic matters, including...
Account book of Lydia Augusta Allen and Hannah Maria Allen in account with their guardian
Collection Identifier: Mss:8995 1822-1844 A425Scope and Contents:
The account book, maintained by the guardian of sisters Hannah Maria and Lydia Augusta Allen between 1822 and 1844, details the personal expenses and the sources of income for two sisters living in Boston, Massachusetts. It is not clear who the sisters’ guardian is or why a guardian was appointed considering both parents were living, but it is clear that the guardian kept meticulous records for both sisters: Lydia Augusta from 1824 to 1844 and Hannah Maria from 1822 to 1841. The sisters’...
Allen Presbrey account book and scrapbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1814-1847 P928Scope and Contents:
Account book containing records of Allen Presbrey's business activities from February 16, 1814 to February 3, 1821. The volume lists accounts for ten customers: Seth Presbrey, Seth Presbrey and Sons, Nathaniel Crandall, Crocker, Bush & Richmond, Taunton Cotton Mill, Samuel Crocker, William Woodward, Samuel Cook Fales, Hopewell Manufacturing Company, and Richard Park & Co. Each account consists of a page for debits and another for credits. Most accounts carry over onto other pages in...
Almy, Day & Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:770 1847-1849 A452Scope and Contents:
Two ledgers and one cash book kept by Almy, Day & Company of Providence, Rhode Island from 1847 to 1849. The ledgers include entries for purchases of drygoods, sundries, flour, pork, molasses, cashmere, silk, butter, raisins, and other groceries.
Amariah Frost, Jr., ledger
Collection Identifier: Mss:83 1786-1801 F939Scope and Contents:
Ledger kept by lawyer Amariah Frost, Jr. (1750-1819), of Mendon (now Milford), Massachusetts, from 1786 to 1801, recording credits and debits for legal services, schooling, and room and board. Charges are for representing clients in lawsuits, taking depositions, drawing writs, certificates, licenses, and oaths, and serving subpoenas and summonses in Mendon, as well as Boston, Brookville, Holliston, and Cambridge. Accounts included fellow attorney and Massachusetts congressman Seth Hastings...
Ambrose White records
Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1854-1886 W582Scope and Contents:
Blotters, daybooks or journals, ledger, cash books, account books, letter book, of a firm in Busksport, Maine dealing in ship supplies. The firm was known as E. Barnard and Company until the death of Enoch Barnard in 1863, after which Ambrose White carried on the business. There are records of shares the firm had in fishing voyages. The business began as a general store carrying some ship supplies and gradually evolved into a business dealing principally in ship supplies.
America (Ship: ca. 1815) logbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1823-1828 A512Scope and Contents:
Logbook kept by De Koven during two of the America's voyages from New York to Canton, China in the 1820s. The daily entries record the ship's latitude and longitude, the direction of the wind, and the ship's navigational course. Most entries include a brief note describing the weather and the sails used that day. There are no entries for the ship's time in port. No mention is made of the cargo that was carried on board either of the voyages.
American Can Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:7635 1901-1986Overview:
The records come from the American Can Company's Corporate Communications Office and span the years 1901-1986. The collection includes material from ACC as well as from its subsidiaries.
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- Creator
- A. H. Hews and Company, Inc. 1
- A.L. Avery & Son 1
- A.P. Gibson & Company 1
- Abbot, George Jacob (active 1860-1870) 1
- Abbot, Samuel (1732-1812) 1
- Abernathy, William J. 1
- Adams Sugar Refinery 1
- Adams family 1
- Adams, Ansel (Ansel Easton) 3
- Adams, Jacob 1
- Adams, Joseph T. (Joseph Thornton) (1796-1878) 1
- Adler and Childs Department Store 1
- Aguilar, Francis J. (Francis Joseph) 1
- Airy, Wilfrid (1836-1925) 1
- Akin, David K. (David Kelley) (1799-1887) 1
- Anthony, Robert N. (Robert Newton) 2
- Associates of Harvard Business School 2
- Bailey, Joseph Cannon (1899-) 2
- Baker, George P. (George Pierce), 1903-1995 2
- Baker, John Calhoun, 1895-1999 2
- Bates, George Eugene 2
- Bauer, Raymond Augustine, 1916-1977 2
- Bliss, Charles A., 1904-1977 2
- Borden, Neil H. (Neil Hopper), 1895-1980 2
- Boston Sugar Refinery 3
- Bright, James R. (James Rieser), 1917- 2
- Brown, Theodore H., 1888-1973 2
- Bursk, Edward C., 1907-1990 2
- Business Historical Society, Inc. 5
- Chase, Henry (1827-1904) 2
- Cherington, Paul W. 3
- Clark, Kim B. 2
- Cole, Arthur Harrison, 1889-1974 2
- Collamore, Horace 2
- Copeland, Melvin Thomas, 1884-1975 2
- Cunningham, William J. (1875-1962) 2
- Cushing, Joseph Davis (1833-1875) 2
- Daggett, Isaac 2
- David, Donald Kirk, 1896-1979 5
- Dennison, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis) 2
- Donham, Wallace Brett, 1877-1954 6
- Dooley, Arch R. 2
- Doriot, Georges F. (Georges Frederic), 1899-1987 5
- Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869) 2
- Ensign, Sidney Ariel 2
- Folts, Franklin E. (Franklin Erton) 2
- Fox, Bertrand 2
- Gay, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis) (1867-1946) 2
- Glover, John Desmond 2
- Goodwin, Ichabod 2
- Gordon, Lincoln 2
- Gras, Norman Scott Brien, 1884-1956 2
- Graves, Ebenezer E. (1832-1870) 2
- Hansen, Harry L., 1911-1992 2
- Harvard Business School 3
- Harvard Business School. Office of the Dean 3
- Harvard Business School. Operations 2
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration 3
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Bureau of Business Research 2
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Office of the Dean 4
- Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration 2
- Hassler, Russell H., 1906-1969 2
- Hidy, Ralph W. (Ralph Willard), 1905-1977 2
- Hosmer, W. Arnold (Windsor Arnold), 1894- 2
- Hunt, Pearson 2
- Isaacs, Nathan (1886-1941) 2
- Lambert, David R., 1772-1825 2
- Lane, Jonathan A. (Jonathan Abbott) 2
- Larson, Henrietta M. (Henrietta Melia) (1894-1983) 2
- Learned, Edmund P. (Edmund Philip), 1900-1991 3
- Levitt, Theodore 3
- Liles, Patrick R. 2
- Lloyd, Henry 2
- Lombard, George F.F. (George Francis Fabyan) 2
- McNair, Malcolm P. (Malcolm Perrine) 2
- Moseley, William (1764-1839) 2
- Nathan Trotter and Company 2
- Navin, Thomas R. 2
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company 2
- Polaroid Corporation 11
- Porter, Michael E. (1947-) 2
- Powers and Weightman 2
- Powers, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry) 2
- Reed & Barton 2
- Rodman, Samuel, Jr. 2
- Selekman, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Morris), 1893-1962 4
- Smith, George Albert, Jr., 1905-1969 2
- Teele, Stanley F. (Stanley Ferdinand), 1906-1967 3
- Thorndike, Israel 2
- Tosdal, Harry R. (Harry Rudolph) (1889-1978) 2
- Towl, Andrew Renwick, 1910- 2
- Townsend, William Blair (1723-1778) 2
- United States. Army Air Forces. 2
- United States. Army. 2
- United States. Navy 3
- Wells, Charles 2
- Wetmore, William Shepard (1801-1862) 2
- Whitin Machine Works (Whitinsville, Mass.) 3
- Williams, Charles M. (Charles Marvin) 2
- Winthrop, Henry R. (Henry Roger) (1811-1896) 2 ∧ less
- Subject
- Account books 44
- Letters. 43
- Business education. 41
- Ledgers. 31
- Marketing. 23
- Business history. 22
- Manufactures. 22
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration -- Faculty. 21
- Photographs 19
- Shipping. 13
- Retail trade. 12
- Finance. 11
- General stores--Maine. 10
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Faculty 10
- Export marketing. 9
- Transportation. 9
- Letterpress copybooks. 8
- Manufacturers. 8
- Textile industry--Massachusetts. 8
- Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce. 7
- Audiocassettes 6
- Black and white photographs. 6
- Boston (Mass.) 6
- Business education 6
- Cotton manufacture--Massachusetts. 6
- Investments. 6
- Marketing 6
- Merchants. 6
- Business -- History. 5
- Case method -- Study and teaching. 5
- Diaries. 5
- Floppy disks. 5
- Iron industry and trade. 5
- New York (N.Y.) 5
- Payrolls. 5
- Railroad engineering. 5
- Textile industry. 5
- Transportation 5
- Bankers. 4
- Bills of lading. 4
- Boston (Mass.)--Commerce. 4
- Business history 4
- Business--History. 4
- Case method--Study and teaching. 4
- Case method. 4
- Coastwise shipping. 4
- Consultants. 4
- Deeds. 4
- Finance 4
- Finance--Study and teaching. 4
- Food industry and trade 4
- Foreign marketing. 4
- General stores--Massachusetts. 4
- Industrial relations. 4
- Management. 4
- Manufactures--Massachusetts--Lowell. 4
- Merchants--China. 4
- Metal products. 4
- Minutes. 4
- Railroads--United States 4
- Shipping 4
- Textile workers. 4
- Wholesale trade -- 19th century. 4
- Wholesale trade -- Massachusetts. 4
- Working class--Massachusetts. 4
- Accounts 3
- Advertisements. 3
- Agriculture. 3
- Bangor (Me.). 3
- Banks and banking 3
- Banks and banking--Massachusetts 3
- Boston (Mass.)--Commerce--19th century. 3
- Business--Research. 3
- China trade. 3
- China--Commerce--United States. 3
- Commission merchants--New York (State)--New York City. 3
- Correspondence. 3
- Department stores--United States. 3
- Financial services industry. 3
- Fishing--New England 3
- Groceries. 3
- Insurance. 3
- Investment banking. 3
- Investments--Massachusetts. 3
- Invoices. 3
- Iron. 3
- Letters 3
- Life insurance. 3
- Management--Study and teaching. 3
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston. 3
- Mineral industries. 3
- New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce. 3
- New York (N.Y.)--Commerce. 3
- Paper industry--Massachusetts. 3
- Personnel management. 3
- Petroleum--United States 3
- Photography of automobiles. 3
- Railroads 3
- Railroads -- New England. 3
- Railroads -- United States. 3 ∧ less
- Names
- Polaroid Corporation 15
- Augustine Heard & Company 9
- Donham, Wallace Brett, 1877-1954 8
- David, Donald Kirk, 1896-1979 7
- Morse, Meroë Marston 7
- General Electric Company 6
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Advanced Management Program (AMP) 6
- Russell & Co. 6
- Sheafe, Jacob 6
- Bryant & Sturgis (Boston, Mass.) 5
- Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson (1831-1920) 5
- Doriot, Georges F. (Georges Frederic), 1899-1987 5
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration 5
- Boston Sugar Refinery 4
- Boston and Maine Railroad 4
- Harvard Business School. External Relations 4
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Office of the Dean 4
- Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration 4
- Land, Edwin H. 4
- Lombard, George F.F. (George Francis Fabyan) 4
- Nashua Manufacturing Company 4
- Reed & Barton 4
- Russell & Sturgis 4
- Selekman, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Morris), 1893-1962 4
- Western Electric Company 4
- William Wirt (Ship) 4
- Adams, Ansel (Ansel Easton) 3
- American Can Company 3
- Amoskeag Manufacturing Company 3
- Associates of Harvard Business School 3
- Baker, George F. (George Fisher) 3
- Baring Brothers & Co. 3
- Boston Chamber of Commerce 3
- Boston Stock Exchange 3
- Boston and Albany Railroad Co. 3
- Cherington, Paul W. 3
- Chrysler Corporation 3
- Cole, Arthur Harrison, 1889-1974 3
- Cushing, John Perkins 3
- Dwight Manufacturing Company 3
- Dwight, Edmund (1780-1849) 3
- Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869) 3
- Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron) 3
- General Foods Corporation 3
- General Mills, Inc. 3
- Great Falls Manufacturing Company 3
- Hamilton Manufacturing Company (Lowell, Mass.) 3
- Harvard Business School. Office of the Dean 3
- Heard, Augustine 3
- Lawrence Manufacturing Company 3
- Learned, Edmund P. (Edmund Philip), 1900-1991 3
- Lee, Higginson & Co. 3
- Levitt, Theodore 3
- McNair, Malcolm P. (Malcolm Perrine) 3
- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. 3
- Northern Pacific Railway Company 3
- Rotch, Joseph 3
- Townsend, William Blair (1723-1778) 3
- United Fruit Company 3
- United States. Navy 3
- Whitin Machine Works (Whitinsville, Mass.) 3
- Adams, Joseph T. (Joseph Thornton) (1796-1878) 2
- Aldrich, Winthrop W. (Winthrop Williams) 2
- American Steel & Wire Co. 2
- Anthony, Robert N. (Robert Newton) 2
- Ashley, Edward R. 2
- Ashuelot Savings Bank 2
- Bailey, Joseph Cannon (1899-) 2
- Baker Library 2
- Baker, George P. (George Pierce), 1903-1995 2
- Baker, John Calhoun, 1895-1999 2
- Baldwin, Loammi, Jr. 2
- Barnard, Chester I. 2
- Batchelder, Samuel, 1784-1879 2
- Bauer, Raymond Augustine, 1916-1977 2
- Belcher, Ebenezer 2
- Bliss, Charles A., 1904-1977 2
- Boott Cotton Mills 2
- Borden, Neil H. (Neil Hopper), 1895-1980 2
- Boston Edison Company 2
- Boston Manufacturing Company 2
- Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation 2
- Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation 2
- Boylston Manufacturing Company 2
- Bright, James R. (James Rieser), 1917- 2
- Bromfield, Henry 2
- Brown, Theodore H., 1888-1973 2
- Bryant, John (Shipowner) 2
- Bursk, Edward C., 1907-1990 2
- Business History Foundation, Inc. 2
- Chase, Henry (1827-1904) 2
- Clark, Kim B. 2
- Clow, Andrew 2
- Collamore, Horace 2
- Comstock family 2
- Comstock, William Ogilvie 2
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 2
- Cooke, Jay 2
- Copeland, Melvin Thomas, 1884-1975 2
- Cunningham, William J. (1875-1962) 2 ∧ less
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