COLLECTIONS: 101 - 125 of 1683
Bank of Portland (Maine) records
Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1819-1852 P852Scope and Contents:
Minutes of Directors, Stockholders and Rent book. Also records of the Bank of Portland Trust Fund, including minutes of Directors, journal, ledger, and letterbook.
Bank of the United States (1791-1811). Boston Branch (Boston, Mass.) records
Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1792-1794 U58Overview:
Two volumes of financial records, dated 1792-1794, of the Boston branch of the first Bank of the United States (1791-1811.)
William Bant account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:899 1776-1779 B218Scope and Contents:
Account book of business agent and merchant William Bant, of Boston, Massachusetts, recording transactions related to his management of the properties and affairs of John Hancock (1737-1793), dated from 1776 to 1779. Bant includes a note explaining why he charged a five-cent commission in 1779, writing, it is a "small commission for the business done as it includes a recompence for the time trouble and attention that I have given to General Hancock's affairs which were multifarious from...
Earl Huntington Barber papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:750 1909-1969 B234Overview:
Earl Huntington Barber was a public utility engineer who specialized in gas and electric rates. Includes work notes, correspondence, reports, and articles, largely relating to a number of Massachusetts towns and cities whose gas and light companies Barber investigated.
Ship Barclay logbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:252 1847-1851 B244Scope and Contents:
Account of a whaling expedition bound eastward from Nantucket, Massachusetts on October 29, 1847 but which cruised in the South Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Entries include weather observations, sailing direction, longitude and latitude direction, other ships seen and whales caught. The master of the ship is not identified in the logbook.
Barden & Murphy Co. ledger
Collection Identifier: Mss:876 1872-1877 B245Scope and Contents:
Ledger kept by Pittsfield, Massachusetts livery, sale, and boarding stable Barden & Murphy Co. from 1872-1877. Entries include payments received for stabling horses, feeing horses, and exercising horses.
Bark Mabel crew account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:252 1881-1882 M112Scope and Contents:
Crew accounts of the Mabel's voyage dating September 9, 1881 to September 13, 1882. Pasted to the inside front cover are a payroll listing all 33 crewmen; a consolidated account noting each sailor's bonus, his salary for the voyage, the amount he owed, advances, etc.; and a receipt by J.N. Knowles, of San Francisco, California, listing the amount of bone, ivory, sperm and whale produced by the voyage. This is followed by lists of expenses charged to each crewman for such things as clothing,...
William Barker ledger
Collection Identifier: Mss:770 1776-1786 B255Scope and Contents:
Ledger maintained by general store owner William Barker, of Pittston, Maine, recording sales of products including cloth, earthenware, groceries, and liquor, from 1765 to 1786. He was paid in cash and bank bills, and accepted promissory notes. William Barker also lent money to his customers, for which he would accept payment-in-kind; for example, Mrs. Stapleton repaid her loan partially in cash, and by providing washing. Other customers included an indigenous man named Philip, who bought rum...
Barlow and Bancroft insurance maps
Collection Identifier: Mss:1411Scope and Contents:
The Barlow and Bancroft Insurance maps include over 1,600 maps with detailed information on site specific buildings in the New England region from roughly the 1870s to 1890s. Each map includes a page of text facing an isometric view and plan, colored to indicate the building's construction. Information describes the buildings, their occupation, location, and fire risk.
Barnabas Thayer account books
Collection Identifier: Mss:451 1778-1793 T369Scope and Contents:
Two account books of tailor Barnabas Thayer of Braintree, Massachusetts, recording charges for clothing, shoes, and day labor. Volume one contains ledger accounts dated from 1779 to 1795. Volume two is a ledger dating from 1778 to 1796; an index to names includes William Bowditch, Lieutenant William Allen, Daniel Loring, and Ebenezer Thayer. Many accounts contain clothing made for people only listed by first name, possibly family or servants of the customers: Captain Samuel Arnold paid for...
Chester I. Barnard papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:81 1925-1961Overview:
Manuscripts, letters, and notes relating to Barnard's writings and lectures on management subjects. There are six folders of material by or about Lawrence J. Henderson of Harvard. Correspondents include Adelbert Ames, Jr., James B. Conant, William E. Hocking, George C. Homans, Robert K. Merton, Talcott Parsons, and others.
Barnett Family receipt book
Collection Identifier: Mss:8895 1792-1861 B259Scope and Contents:
Receipt book kept by cabinetmakers Isaac and Abraham Barnett, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recording their payment of taxes and purchase of mahogany and services like painting, from 1792 to 1808. There are also rent payments from the Barnetts to landlord Sarah Marshall. Isaac Barnett died in approximately 1800, and the volume continues with entries by Abraham Barnett until 1808. The name of Thomas Barnett, a sawmill owner, first appears in 1805, and his entries reflect payment of taxes,...
Barre Cheese Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:4152 1864-1897 B271Overview:
The Barre Cheese Company was formed in Barre, Massachusetts, in the County of Worchester on February 9, 1864. The collection consists of 23 volumes which document the daily activities of the company and its inception and eventual dissolution.
Barrell & Company account books
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1770-1803 B271Scope and Contents:
Collection consists of seven volumes dated 1770-1803 recording business transactions of Boston, Massachusetts, importer Joseph Barrell (1739-1804) and his son Joseph Barrell, Jr. (1765-1801), who succeeded his father in business, in a partnership with John Box Hoskins (1768-1824?) in 1794. Barrell & Hoskins continued to operate after the death of the younger Barrell in 1801, and volumes contain both accounts for the company and personal accounts for the Barrell family.
Volume one is a...
Norman J. Bartczak syllabus for Analysis of Corporate Financial Reports course
Collection Identifier: Arch CB 1977.1Scope and Contents:
Course syllabus for Professor Norman J. Bartczak's Corporate Financial Reports course, Fall Semester 1984. Includes syllabus for the semester listing textbooks required, the first meeting of the class, reading schedule, written assignments and lists of materials for the class. The materials are divided by tabs reflecting the indivdiual class sessions. In addition to the syllabus are cases, assignments, photocopies of articles related to the topic of the class session, and various...
Elisha Bartlett account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:770 1782-1823 B280Scope and Contents:
Account book kept by merchant, tailor, and general store owner Elisha Bartlett in Charlotte and Georgia, Vermont, from 1782 to 1823. Commodities sold at the store included rum, brandy, flax, corn, beef, tobacco, potatoes, and oats, as well as lumber. There are also charges for tailoring coats, dresses, breeches, and overalls. Additionally includes accounts of hiring out his horse or team, charges for serving writs, day labor, and rent from boarders. Bartlett received payment-in-kind by other...
Batchelder and Faulkner letter book
Collection Identifier: Mss:831 1894-1898 B328Overview:
The Batchelder and Faulkner letterbook spans the years 1894 to 1898 and contain the records of a law firm operating in Keene, New Hampshire.
Bates Trade Card collection
Collection Identifier: Mss:767 B329 c.1878-1958Scope and Contents:
This artificial collection consists primarily of advertising trade cards from a variety of Boston and New England based companies. Also included are a small number of scrapbooks, business cards, stock cards, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera. Many of the the items are undated however it is presumed that they date from the late 1870's to 1958.
Diary of Jonathan Battles, Jr.
Collection Identifier: Mss:862 1836-1841 B336Scope and Contents:
The “journal of the doings of Jonathan Battles, Jr.” was kept regularly for 4 years, 11 months, and 11 days, with the first entry in the journal on May 11, 1836 and the last April 25, 1841. The journal begins with Battles describing when he was born, details about the various places where he and his family lived, and the work he was engaged in prior to becoming a teacher, including masonry and shoe making. Battles also recounts his education, including his formal studies at Milton Academy,...
Henry Baxter daybooks
Collection Identifier: Mss:403 1829-1837 B355Scope and Contents:
Two daybooks maintained by Henry Baxter, of Barton, Vermont, from 1829 to 1837. The books document tanning and dressing skins for an assortment of customers. Details include the name of the customer, the type of skin tanned and dressed (e.g., calf, sheep, and goat), and the charge for the work done. Note that there are missing pages from the first volume.
Bay State Steamboat Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:500 1850-1870 FScope and Contents:
Includes stock share book and account book.
Beal & Warden Trustees account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:993 1854-1889 B366Scope and Contents:
Inside cover of account book is rudimentary hand-drawn sketch of five lots of land in the Shanghai (China) foreign quarters, with a hand-written history of the lots owned by H.H. (Henry Hughes) Warden on the following two pages. Warden wrote the memo from New York in January 1869. Over the next several pages Warden describes in details the foundation of the “ante nuptial” Beal and Warden Trust in 1854 for the “Shanghai Estate.” The original agreement was between H.H. Warden and Joseph S....
Edward R. Bedrosian (MBA 1964) Manufacturing class notes
Collection Identifier: Arch DC 1964Ebenezer Belcher account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:641 1808-1842 B427Scope and Contents:
Account book of a farmer-shoemaker under the putting-out system kept from 1808-1864. Ebenezer Belcher practiced his trade in the characteristic "Tenfooter". Belcher operated his business out of Randolph, Massachusetts. The volume was then used by his son and other family members. Included in the volume are entries for making shoes and boots in exhange for dry goods such as molasses, sugar, tobacco, flour, and manual labor. The Belcher's also regularly lent out their horse and wagon for extra...
Gail C. Belden papers
Collection Identifier: Mss:75 1928-1936 B7Scope and Contents:
A small collection that includes lectures and/or essays written by Gail Belden on the topic of public utilities, a history of the Middle West Utilities Company, and stock certificates and various other corporate publications. Also contains legal pleadings and other materials relating to the receivership and eventual reorganization of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1932. Belden evidently gathered these records in his capacity as secretary of the company's Board of Trustees.
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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 12
- 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 16
- 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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