An interesting fair-copy manuscript account of an 1883 American tour by English carpet manufacturer William Horsfall with his wife and niece, chronicling their visits to Connecticut, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, New York City, New Hampshire and Boston. William Horsall was a manager of Naylor’s Carpet Factory in Kidderminster, located in the.....
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A substantive account book of Joseph Snyder and William Myers compiled during their forty-year long business association with the prominent Philadelphia businessman and shipmaker Anthony Cuthbert, revealing the full scope of their work. While the partners are identified in the 1822 Philadelphia city directory as “shipsmiths,” it is clear from.....
![Item #7036 [Business archive of New Hampshire mill owner Alfred I. Sawyer.]. Alfred I. Sawyer](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7036_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1631726193)
A substantive archive of New Hampshire mill-owner Alfred I. Sawyer including extensive business correspondence, a journal documenting his business operation in 1841, and more; taken as a whole, the archive documents Sawyer’s operation of the mill conglomerate from the 1820s to his death in 1849, as well as the afterlife.....