Gorham Manufacturing Company Records (Ms.74)
Brown University Library
Box ABrown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
Collection Overview
| Title: | Gorham Manufacturing Company Records |
| Date range: | 1831–1986 |
| Creator: | Gorham Manufacturing Company |
| Extent: | 6000 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Archival records of the company founded in 1831 by silversmith Jabez Gorham in Providence, Rhode Island, and expanded under the leadership of his son John in the 1840s. The collection features many thousands of drawings and photographs of Gorham products. It also contains corporate, personnel, costing, sales, and advertising records, as well as blueprints, plaster casts, and copper printing plates. Incorporated into the collection are the records of fourteen companies acquired by Gorham prior to its acquisition by larger companies, first by Textron Inc., then by Dansk International, and finally by Brown-Forman Corporation in 1991. This collection is inventoried but not yet processed. |
| Language of materials: | English. |
| Repository: | John Hay Library , University Archives and Manuscripts |
| Collection number: | Ms.74 |
