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Providence Lithograph Company Records (MSS 1028)

Rhode Island Historical Society

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

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence files

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 General
 1880-1908
Box 1, Folder 2 General
 1921-1924
Box 1, Folder 3 General
 1925-1929
Box 1, Folder 4 General
 1930-1931
Box 1, Folder 5 General
 1932-1933
Box 1, Folder 6 General
 1934-1939
Box 1, Folder 7 General
 1940-1944
Box 1, Folder 8 General
 1945-1951
Box 1, Folder 9 General
 1953-1965
Box 1, Folder 10 Abington-Cokesbury (customer)
 1942-1943
Box 1, Folder 11 American Baptist Publication Society (customer)
 1905
Box 1, Folder 12 American Baptist Publication Society (customer)
 1931-1936
Box 1, Folder 13 American Red Cross
 1926-1929
Box 1, Folder 14 American Sunday School Union (customer)
 1931-1932
Box 1, Folder 15 Augustana Book Concern
 1941-1952
Box 1, Folder 16 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1931-1937
Box 1, Folder 17 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1938-1941
Box 1, Folder 18 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1942-1944
Box 1, Folder 19 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1945-1946
Box 1, Folder 20 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1947-1948
Box 1, Folder 21 Baptist Sunday School Board (customer)
 1949-1950
Box 1, Folder 22 A. & C. Black
 1954
Box 1, Folder 23 Blackie & Son
 1951-1960
Box 1, Folder 24 Boy Scouts of America
 1958-1960
Box 1, Folder 25 Copping pictures
 1934-1942
Box 1, Folder 26 Copyright correspondence
 1890-1900
Box 1, Folder 27 Copyright correspondence
 1901
Box 1, Folder 28 Copyright correspondence
 1902
Box 1, Folder 29 Copyright correspondence
 1903
Box 1, Folder 30 Copyright correspondence
 1904
Box 1, Folder 31 Copyright correspondence
 1905
Box 1, Folder 32 Copyright correspondence
 1906
Box 1, Folder 33 Copyright correspondence
 1907
Box 1, Folder 34 Copyright correspondence
 1908
Box 1, Folder 35 Copyright correspondence
 1909
Box 1, Folder 36 Copyright correspondence
 1910
Box 1, Folder 37 Copyright correspondence
 1911
Box 1, Folder 38 Copyright correspondence
 1912
Box 1, Folder 39 Copyright correspondence
 1913
Box 1, Folder 40 Copyright correspondence
 1914
Box 1, Folder 41 Copyright correspondence
 1915
Box 1, Folder 42 Copyright correspondence
 1916
Box 1, Folder 43 Copyright correspondence
 1917
Box 1, Folder 44 Copyright correspondence
 1918
Box 1, Folder 45 Copyright correspondence
 1919
Box 1, Folder 46 Copyright correspondence
 1920
Box 1, Folder 47 Elder, Whitman & Weyburn
 1932-1939
Box 1, Folder 48 Elder, Whitman & Weyburn
 1940-1943
Box 1, Folder 49 Elder, Whitman & Weyburn
 1944-1948
Box 1, Folder 50 Employee reference letters
 1904-1920
Box 1, Folder 51 Evans Brothers
 1954
Box 1, Folder 52 Eyre & Spottiswoode (customer),
1923-1924
Box 1, Folder 53 Eyre & Spottiswoode (customer),
1925-1930
Box 1, Folder 54 Eyre & Spottiswoode
 1931-1944
Box 1, Folder 55 Eyre & Spottiswoode
 1944-1952
Box 1, Folder 56 Eyre & Spottiswoode
 1953-1955
Box 1, Folder 57 Eyre & Spottiswoode
 1956-1963
Box 2, Folder 1 Forest Lawn Memorial Park
 1965-1966
Box 2, Folder 2 General Board of Primary association, Church of Latter-Day Saints
 1952
Box 2, Folder 3 Girls Friendly Society
 1955-1957
Box 2, Folder 4 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1936-1937
Box 2, Folder 5 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1938-1940
Box 2, Folder 6 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1941-1947
Box 2, Folder 7 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1948-1949
Box 2, Folder 8 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1950
Box 2, Folder 9 Gospel Trumpet Co. (customer)
 1951
Box 2, Folder 10 Greystone Press
 1952-1954
Box 2, Folder 11 Guthrie Clinic
 1953-1954
Box 2, Folder 12 Hanfstaengl
 1894-1895
Box 2, Folder 13 Hanfstaengl (publisher)
 1923-1925
Box 2, Folder 14 Hanfstaengl (publisher)
 1928-1929
Box 2, Folder 15 Hanfstaengl (publisher)
 1930-1931
Box 2, Folder 16 Hanfstaengl (publisher)
 1932-1937
Box 2, Folder 17 Hanfstaengl (publisher)
 1954-1955
Box 2, Folder 18 Hardy, Emily S. (artist)
 1926-1929
Box 2, Folder 19 Harper & Brother
 1951-1965
Box 2, Folder 20 Herrman, Erich S.
 1946-1954
Box 2, Folder 21 Home Words Printing & Publishing
 1954-1956
Box 2, Folder 22 International Council of Religious Education (customer)
 1937-1951
Box 2, Folder 23 Lithographer's National Association
 1936-1938
Box 2, Folder 24 Lithographer's National Association
 1939
Box 2, Folder 25 Livingstone Press (customer)
 1923-1928
Box 2, Folder 26 Lorenzo de Nevers (customer)
 1938-1942
Box 2, Folder 27 Lutterworth Press, (formerly Religious Tract Society)
 1943-1950
Box 2, Folder 28 Lutterworth Press
 1950-1955
Box 2, Folder 29 Lutterworth Press
 1956-1962
Box 2, Folder 30 Mansell & Co.,
1924-1926
Box 2, Folder 31 Mennonite Publishing House
 1938-1947
Box 2, Folder 32 Methodist Book Concern
 1912, 1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 33 Methodist Episcopal Church South
 1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 34 Methodist Publishing House
 1938-1945
Box 2, Folder 35 Methodist Publishing House
 1946-1951
Box 2, Folder 36 Morehouse Gorham Publishing
 1936-1944
Box 2, Folder 37 Morehouse Publishing Company (customer)
 1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 38 National Baptist Publishing Board
Contents Note: Lawsuit.
 1918-1920
Box 2, Folder 39 National Sunday School Union
 1954-1963
Box 2, Folder 40 Nazarene Publishing Company (customer),
1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 41 Nazarene Publishing Company
 1938-1951
Box 2, Folder 42 Nelson & Son
 1922-1929
Box 2, Folder 43 Nelson & Son
 1947-1962
Box 2, Folder 44 Newton Photographic Services
 1952-1958
Box 2, Folder 45 Pflaum Publishers
 1937-1938
Box 2, Folder 46 Photography - Byron C. DeBolt,
1943-1946
Box 2, Folder 47 Pilgrim Press
 1937-1939
Box 2, Folder 48 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education (customer)
 1931-1937
Box 2, Folder 49 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education (customer)
 1939-1944
Box 2, Folder 50 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education (customer)
 1945-1947
Box 2, Folder 51 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education (customer)
 1948-1951
Box 2, Folder 52 Presbyterian Committee of Publication (customer),
1939-1946
Box 2, Folder 53 Presbyterian Committee of Publication (customer),
1947-1950
Box 3, Folder 1 Religious Tract Society
 1905-1924
Box 3, Folder 2 Religious Tract Society
Contents Note: Re rights to Copping pictures
 1927-1946
Box 3, Folder 3 Religious Tract Society
 1927-1928
Box 3, Folder 4 Religious Tract Society
 1929-1930
Box 3, Folder 5 Religious Tract Society
 1931-1934
Box 3, Folder 6 Religious Tract Society
 1935-1936
Box 3, Folder 7 Religious Tract Society
 1937-1938
Box 3, Folder 8 Religious Tract Society
Contents Note: Becomes Lutterworth Press
 1939-1942
Box 3, Folder 9 Roberts, Cushman & Grover
 1948-1952
Box 3, Folder 10 Roberts, Cushman & Grover
 1953-1962
Box 3, Folder 11 Sesquicentennial International Exhibition
 1926
Box 3, Folder 12 Shaw & Co.
 1924-1927
Box 3, Folder 13 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
 1949-1963
Box 3, Folder 14 Sunday School Publications, Evangelical Church
 1944-1946
Box 3, Folder 15 Technical matters
 1887-1910
Box 3, Folder 16 Technical matters
 1922-1927
Box 3, Folder 17 Technical matters
 1928-1951
Box 3, Folder 18 Testimonial letters
 1881-1886
Box 3, Folder 19 Union Gospel Press (customer)
 1940-1945
Box 3, Folder 20 United Church Publishing House
 1932-1944
Box 3, Folder 21 United Church Publishing House
 1945-1951
Box 3, Folder 22 United Lutheran Publishing House
 1945-1949
Box 3, Folder 23 United States Post Office
 1913-1923
Box 3, Folder 24 W.F. & F.C. Sayles order forms
 1888
Box 3, Folder 25 Ward, Lock & Co.,
1953-1965
Box 3, Folder 26 Wyeth, Newell C. (artist),
1929-1943
Box 3, Folder 27 Yale Divinity School (customer),
1944-1945

Series 2. Artist and publisher files

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 28 American artists 1
Box 3, Folder 29 American artists 2
Box 3, Folder 30 American artists 3
Box 3, Folder 31 American artists 4
Box 3, Folder 32 American artists 5 - Newell C. Wyeth
Box 3, Folder 33 Foreign publishers 1
Box 3, Folder 34 Foreign publishers 2
Box 3, Folder 35 Foreign publishers 3
Box 3, Folder 36 Foreign publishers 4
Box 3, Folder 37 Foreign publishers 5
Box 4, Folder 1 American photographers
Box 4, Folder 2 American publishers
Box 4, Folder 3 American miscellaneous
Box 4, Folder 4 Artist file (lists paintings by artist), undated
Box 4, Folder 5 Fine arts artist file (lists paintings by artist and by number), undated
Box 4, Folder 6 Painting log book
 1960-1969

Series 3. Contracts and agreements

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 7 American Baptist Publication Society
 1924-1935
Box 4, Folder 8 American Sunday School Union
 1911-1918
Box 4, Folder 9 Bethel Publishing Company
 1928-1936
Box 4, Folder 10 Christian Board of Publication
 1925-1927
Box 4, Folder 11 Christian Publishing Association
 1927-1936
Box 4, Folder 12 Church of God Publishing House
 1928-1932
Box 4, Folder 13 Conference Press
 1927-1935
Box 4, Folder 14 Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House
 1924-1936
Box 4, Folder 15 Evangelical Press
 1929-1936
Box 4, Folder 16 Free Methodist Publishing House
 1929-1936
Box 4, Folder 17 Gospel Advocate Company
 1930-1935
Box 4, Folder 18 Gospel Publishing House
 1927-1934
Box 4, Folder 19 Gospel Trumpet Company
 1928-1932
Box 4, Folder 20 Harris & Jones (press manufacturer),
1895-1912
Box 4, Folder 21 Lutterworth Press, draft agreements
 1950-1961
Box 4, Folder 22 Lutterworth Press, contract correspondence
 1950-1954
Box 4, Folder 23 Lutterworth Press, contract correspondence
 1957-1960
Box 4, Folder 24 Lutterworth Press, contract correspondence
 1961
Box 4, Folder 25 Lutterworth Press, misc. contract papers
 1957-1961
Box 4, Folder 26 Nazarene Publishing House
 1929-1936
Box 4, Folder 27 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
 1901-1938
Box 4, Folder 28 Presbyterian Committee of Publication
 1910-1940
Box 4, Folder 29 Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church
 1925-1935
Box 4, Folder 30 Publishing House of the Pentecostal Holiness Church
 1930-1936
Box 4, Folder 31 Religious Tract Society
 1905-1953
Box 4, Folder 32 Ryerson Press
 1927-1934
Box 4, Folder 33 Sunday School Publishing Board of National Baptist Convention
 1902-1936
Box 4, Folder 34 Union Gospel Printing Co.
 1921-1936
Box 4, Folder 35 United Brethren Publishing Establishment
 1926-1928
Box 4, Folder 36 United Brethren Publishing House
 1894, 1927-1935
Box 4, Folder 37 United Church Publishing House
 1930-1938
Box 4, Folder 38 United Lutheran Publishing House
 1927-1934
Box 4, Folder 39 Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Association
 1929-1936
Box 4, Folder 40 Miscellaneous
 1896-1912
Box 4, Folder 41 Miscellaneous
 1914-1928

Series 4. Miscellaneous

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 42 Citizen's Bank - President's report
 1962
Box 4, Folder 43 Copyright notes
 1880-1896
Box 4, Folder 44 Copyright registrations
 1881-1901
Box 4, Folder 45 Employee insurance plan
 1955
Box 4, Folder 46 Employee presentation dinner (lists staff celebrating
1954
Box 4, Folder 47 Greeting card proposal
 1950
Box 4, Folder 48 Hassenfeld Bros. (Hasbro) - Dun & Bradstreet report
 1964
Box 4, Folder 49 Lithographer National Association - Roster of PLC journeymen
 1938
Box 4, Folder 50 Lithographic Technical Foundation - Undated brochure
Box 4, Folder 51 Marketing research memoranda
 1953
Box 4, Folder 52 Marketing research memoranda
 1954 Jan -1954 Sep
Box 4, Folder 43 Marketing research memoranda
 1954 Oct -1954 Dec
Box 4, Folder 54 Marketing research memoranda
 1955
Box 4, Folder 55 News clippings (archival copies)
 1949-1975
Box 4, Folder 56 Ode, Randolph T. Certificate, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
 1957
Box 4, Folder 57 Ode, Randolph T. Diary
 1947 May 01 -1947 May 23
Box 4, Folder 58 Ode, Randolph T.
Contents Note: Definitely 1940s - mentions Washington as 30th most populous state as per 1940 census. At a conference on May 12, "was elected to the presidency". The June 1949 edition of New England Printer mentions that Ode became president of the Lithographers National Association "last month".
1949 May 04 -1949 Jun 06
Box 4, Folder 59 Order book, undated (circa 1930)
Box 4, Folder 60 Order cards
 1953-1962
Box 4, Folder 61 Orders
 1971-1973
Box 4, Folder 62 Re-engineering proposal by the Austin Company
Contents Note: Circa 1950
 1950
Box 4, Folder 63 Sales data and graph
 1917-1949
Box 4, Folder 64 Technical data and undated
 1941
Box 4, Folder 65 Postal regulation testimony
 1902
Box 4, Folder 66 Gorham family papers
Contents Note: Letter, Amy Gorham to husband Jabez (photograph)
 1819 Nov 01
Box 4, Folder 66 Gorham family papers
Contents Note: Letter, John Gorham to sister Amanda Harris(original)
 1873 Nov 27
Box 4, Folder 66 Gorham family papers:
Contents Note: Deed, John Gorham to Amanda G. Harris (original, transcription)
 1876 Dec 18
Box 4, Folder 66 Gorham family papers:
Contents Note: Draft of lecture, "The Gorham Manufacturing Company", unsigned, undated
Box 4, Folder 66 Letter, Burrill Getman to Randolph Ode, re early Gorham letters.
 1967 Feb 10
Box 5 Purchase ledger
Contents Note: Very Large volume.
 1911-1936
Box 5 Professor Holmgren's Worsted Test for Color Blindness"
Contents Note: Not dated.