RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Lonsdale Company Records (MSS 9 SG 2)

Rhode Island Historical Society

121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Tel: 401-273-8107
Fax: 401-751-7930
email: reference@rihs.org

Scope & content

Included in this collection are: administrative records, 1834-1924; general accounts, 1831-1944; production records, 1836-1916; correspondence, 1832-1921; miscellany, 1910-45. Especially important are the minute of company meetings, 1834-1906, which are quite thorough and complete. They include a historical narrative entered in June, 1900, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the management firm of Goddard Bros.