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David S. Brown and Company records
The David S. Brown & Company records include financial and other records of the firm David S. Brown & Company and related companies in which David Sands Brown played an active role. The collection spans from 1820, shortly before David Sands Brown joined the firm Hacker, Brown & Co., unti...
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| Collection Number: | 1586 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Brown, David Sands |d 1800-1877. |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a David S. Brown and Company records |f 1826-1911 | |
| 300 | |a 40.4 Linear feet |f 101 boxes | ||
| 351 | |b Box 1: Account Sales, Receipts, Expense Statements (1837-1845) Box 2: Account Statements, Loan/Debt Statements (1832-1844) Box 3-8: Bills (1833-1880) Box 9-11: Bills of Lading (1835-1845) Box 12-16: Freight Bills (1833-1852) Box 17-24: Cancelled Checks (1832-1843) Box 25-29: Cancelled Drafts (1833-1857) Box 30-53: Invoices (1832-1858) Box 54-93: Letters (1830-1863) Box 94-95: Letters to N.D. Wetmore (1842-1845) Box 96: Private Letters (1835-1843) Box 97: Miscellaneous, Sundry, Memos, Administrative Records (1820-1844) Box 98: Orders, Dyed Twills, Returns and Exchanges, Receipts (1833) Box 99: Papers concerning Specific Persons and Companies (1833-1845) Box 100: Schedules, Inventories, and Fabric samples (1833-1848) Box 101: Transaction Receipts (1836) | ||
| 500 | |a Location of resource: D. S. Brown processed boxes (1-101) are in the 4th floor stacks, shelves 52G-53I D. S. Brown unprocessed boxes are in 2V, shelves 91b-g, 92b-g, 93b-g, and 94b-g. D. S. Brown volumes are in Basement Room 2, shelves 28a-e, 29a-d, 30a-d, 31a-d, 32a-d, 33a-d, 34a-d, 35a-d, 36a-d, 37a-d, 40a-b, 41a, and 42a. | ||
| 500 | |a Processing Information: This guide represents the small portion of the David Sands Brown collection that has been processed. There is also an inventory of 942 volumes, which is currently available at HSP. The remaining unbound materials are completely unprocessed and very difficult to use because of their physical condition, arrangement, and/or housing. For information about the unprocessed materials, or to use the inventory of volumes, please contact HSP archives staff. | ||
| 506 | |a The boxes of papers in this inventory are open for research, as are a number of volumes that have been inventoried. (Inventory available in repository.) Please contact HSP archives staff regarding access to the unprocessed portion of the collection. | ||
| 520 | |a The David S. Brown & Company records include financial and other records of the firm David S. Brown & Company and related companies in which David Sands Brown played an active role. The collection spans from 1820, shortly before David Sands Brown joined the firm Hacker, Brown & Co., until three decades after the end of his life. The processed portion of the collection includes 101 boxes (40.4 linear feet) of unbound records and approximately 940 manuscript volumes (131 linear feet). An additional 66 linear feet of unprocessed records (boxes densely packed with bundles of folded documents) are closed to researchers for physical access reasons. The processed unbound records are divided into eleven subgroups: Account Sales & Statements, Bills, Cancelled Checks, Cancelled Drafts, Invoices, Letters, Miscellaneous, Orders & Returns, Papers concerning Specific Persons and Companies, Schedules, Inventories, and Fabric Samples, and Transaction Receipts. This material spans from 1820-1880 (bulk 1832-1845) and mainly documents the day-to-day sales and operations of David S. Brown & Company. The largest subgroups are Invoices and Letters. Most of the letters are general business correspondence, but there are also two boxes of letters to N.D. Wetmore (D.S. Brown’s agent/attorney ) and one box of private letters. Brown was born in New Hampshire, and the connections that he maintained in New England are evident in the records. A sizable portion of the correspondence and transactions are made with companies in Boston and a few other cities in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The volumes are organized by name of firm and within each firm by type of record. Firms represented include Hacker, Brown & Company (1826-1831, 2 volumes); Brown, Hanson & Company (1830-1847, 55 volumes); David S. Brown & Company (1833-1900, 609 volumes); Washington Manufacturing Company (1842-1892, 60 volumes); Gloucester Manufacturing Company (1855-1890, 31 volumes); Gloucester Gingham Mills (1871-1905, 25 volumes); Gonic Manufacturing Company (1843-1846, 5 volumes); Gloucester Iron Works (1871-1911, 30 volumes); Ancona Printing Company (1871-1885, 109 volumes). There are also 109 volumes whose company of origin has not been identified, and 2 volumes of David Sands Brown’s personal outgoing correspondence (circa 1839-1841). The volumes are predominantly financial records, including ledgers, cash books, order books, sales books, invoices, stock books, payroll, checkbooks, dividends, and other records. There is some correspondence, chiefly in the David S. Brown & Company, Washington Manufacturing Company, Gloucester Manufacturing Company, and Gloucester Gingham Mills sections. There are also some Washington Manufacturing Company stockholders’ minutes and Gonic Manufacturing Company record of incorporation. | ||
| 544 | |a At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Chew family papers (2040), especially the following series: 10 (Samuel Chew, 1832-1887) -- Subseries B (Correspondence) and E (Legal and Business), 11 (Brown and Johnson families), 12 (Samuel Chew, 1871-1919), 13 (David S. Brown & Company), 14 (Elizabeth Brown Chew, 1863-1958), 25 (Maps and Surveys), and 28 (Photographs). | ||
| 545 | |a David Sands Brown was born July 27, 1800 to William and Abigail (Peasley) Brown of Dover, New Hampshire. The Browns were an active Quaker family in New England. David had two brothers and a sister, Abigail. David’s older brother, Jeremiah, came to Philadelphia in 1814 to establish a dry goods business, which had its headquarters on Market Street. Textiles produced in New England by the mills of Samuel Slater, the English-born textile magnate, were among the items sold by Jeremiah’s firm. In 1815, another brother, Moses, joined the business. The company, which changed its title to J. & M. Brown & Co., expanded and began selling its goods to western Pennsylvania and various locations through the Ohio River Valley. In 1817, David joined the firm, as well. In 1821, David became a member of the Philadelphia firm Hacker, Brown & Company, with partner Isaiah Hacker. In 1832, this firm was dissolved and the firm of Brown, Hanson & Company was established, to manufacture and sell textiles. In 1838, the firm was renamed David S. Brown & Company. In 1844, Brown formed and served as president and manager of the Washington Manufacturing Company in Gloucester, N.J., which manufactured cotton, and absorbed David S. Brown & Co. as a selling subsidiary. Other subsidiary and interlocking companies were added later. One was Washington Mills, a huge operation that contained both mills and boarding houses for its single workers, and was based on the Lowell textile mill model. Following this, Briown established the Gloucester Manufacturing Company, which had facilities for fancy dyeing, bleaching, and finishing processes; the company specialized in the production of printed calicoes and madder prints. In 1859, he built the Gloucester Gingham Mills, incorporated in 1872. In 1864, he established and was president of the Gloucester Iron Works, which was incorporated in 1871. Other companies Brown established included the Gloucester Print Works and the Gloucester Land and Improvement Company. He founded the Ancona Printing Company in 1871, which introduced new methods of applying colors that had been successful in Europe but previously untried in America. Brown also served as a Director of Girard National Bank from 1840 to 1843. David Sands Brown’s daughter, Mary Johnson Brown, married Samuel Chew (1832-1887), who became David’s business associate and treasurer, and took charge of his estate after his death. David Sands Brown died July 6, 1877 in Philadelphia. | ||
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b David S. Brown and Company Records |l 1586 | ||