The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Bangor Stone Ware Co.

Title: Papers

Dates: 1893-1903

Call No.: Col. 30

Acc. No.: 85x60

Quantity: 1 box

Location: 14 C 3

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

The Bangor Stone Ware Company operated in Bangor, Maine between 1880 and 1917. Andrew (Anders) Persson, an immigrant from Sweden, was its founder. The company referred to itself as the "manufacturers of stone & fancy pressed ware of every description." A copy of "The Stoneware Manufactory at Bangor," chapter 24 in M. Lelyn Branin's book The Early Potters and Potteries of Maine (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978) is filed with the collection. It gives a good history of the company.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

These papers shed much light on the operation of this New England pottery company at the turn of the century. They show how the company dealt with obtaining raw materials, marketing its wares, and supplying customers with finished products.

The papers consist of bills, orders, receipts, and letters received in the course of doing business. They include short notes from firms supplying clay, specifications for pieces ordered, prices, utility company receipts, illustrated billheads, and so on.

ORGANIZATION

The Bangor Stone Ware Company papers are filed alphabetically in one sequence, with one folder of unsorted (due to difficulties in reading the names) papers at the end of the box.

The collection was partially processed upon receipt in 1985. At that time, most of the names in the following list were extracted from the documents to facilitate entering them in the library's Termatrex indexing system. Eleven more names were found when the collection processing was completed in 1989. Those 11 are marked below with an asterisk.

Researchers will need to bear in mind the following caveats about this list: the members of the manuscript library staff who did the preliminary processing of the collection usually inverted corporate names based on personal names. That gives us "Goodrich, B. F. & Co." rather than "B. F. Goodrich & Co." The entries were also made exactly as they appeared on the cards, so that we get "McLeod, Nichlos" and later "Nichols & McLeod" which probably refer to the same firm.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from the Paper Tiger, Wakefield, Massachusetts.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Persson, Andrew.

Topics:

Stoneware - Maine - Bangor.

Pottery industry - Maine - Bangor.

Clay.

Bills.

Orders.

Receipts.

Letters.

Potters.

Manufacturers.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 14 C 3

Box 1:

Folder 1: Branin, M. Lelyn. “The Stoneware Manufactory at Bangor,” from The Early Potters and Potteries of Maine. [photocopy]

Folder 2: Adams & Wilder

Aiken, F. B.

Allen, C. & Son

Allen, F. W., & Co.

Folder 3: Bailey, W. E.

Bangor Gas Light Company*

Bangor Stone Ware Co.

Barthlett, W. R.

Bellatter, A. L.

Bird & Hart

Boch [Bock?], Chas. W.

Bock, C. W.

Bodwell Granite Company

Boynton, Fred W.

Bryant's Wharf

Buck, A. R.

Bull, Geo. W.

Burbank, Douglass & Co.

Burns & Rimcy

Burrowes, E. T. & Co.

Folder 4: Carle & Jones

Carleton, Pascal & Co.

Cary & Son, L. K.

Chandler, C. G. & Son

Chesley, O. H.

Clark, Samuel

Cleveland, Scott*

Collins, Edwin

Collins House

Conant, C. M. Co.

Conary, W. C.

Cooper, W. A.

Corey, R. W.

Coughlin, J. B.

Crabtree & Havey

Crane, C. W., & Co.

Cummings, F. A. & Son

Cunningham, Chas. H.

Cushman, A. F.

Folder 5: Daigh, A. B.

Dakin, A. K. P.

Danah, J. G.

Dane, A. P.

Danforth & Co.*

Darrah & Salisbury

Darrah, F. G.

Daugherty, A. C.

Dexter Coop Store

Dickey, W. P. & Co.

Dingley, John & Co.

Dinsmore, J. R. & Co.

Dorchester Pottery Works

Doyle, A. B.

Duffy, James H. & Co.

Dunning, H. T.

Dunning, R. B.

Folder 6: Ellsworth Hardwood Supply Co.

Emery & Co.

Empire Clay Mining Co.

Ernst, Alfred O.

Farwell, O. Y. & Son

Favor, Eugene S.

Field, A. S.

Finson & Loane

First National Bank of Guilford, Maine*

Fletcher, A. W.

Frankford Supply Co.

Folder 7: Gagnon, H. A.

Gagnon, Michel A.

Gammon, C. J.

Gannett, E. F.

Gardner, E. B. & Co.

Garnett, R. J.

Gay, J. T. & Son

Genther, B. T.

Gerry, O. P.

Getchell, & Co.

Gifford, Sylvester

Gilbert, A. C.

Gillin Brothers

Goodhue, H. N.

Goodrich, B. F. & Co.

Gove, E.

Grant, C. O.

Green, H. S.

Greenleaf, C. D.

Griffiths, B. L.

Grimes, E. P.

Grindal, C. H.

Grover, G. C.

Grover, Henry

Folder 8: Hadlock, Chas. W.

Hall & Knight Hardware Co.

Hamilton, C. G.

Harmon & Harris Co.

Hart, G. H.

Haskell, Geo. B. Co.

Haskell, Geo. H.

Hassard, W. B.*

Hayes, F. H.*

Herrick, Smith & Co.

Heywood, D. E.

Hill, W. A.

Hillmann & Co.

Hillmann, F. A.

Hincks & Co.

Hodgdon, G. A.

Hodgkins, J. F.

Hollis, W. W.

Hooper, Havey & Co.

Howes, A. A. Co.

Hoxie, C. M. & Co.

Hudson, M. & J.

Humphrey Bros.

Hunter, McMaster & Co.

Huxford, T. I.

Folder 9: Industrial Journal, The

Ironside, C. N.

James & Abbot

Jeffords, J. E. & Co.

Jenkins, Abbie L.

Johnson, M.

Jones, H. E.

Kellogg, Horace

Kendall & Whitney

Keuffel & Esser Co.

Kimball, F. L.

Kroc, Jos.

Kuig, H. B. & Son

Folder 10: Lamb, J. C.

Landerkin, Charles

Lawrence, Herbert

Lawry, Chas. A.

Lawry, S. T.

Leibley, C. O.

Leighton & Haines

Lewiston Second-hand Hardware Co.*

Liby, John

Littlefield, C. E.

Loder, Mrs. A. J.

Lombard, C. W.

Loud, B. & Son

Lowell & Engel, Dr.

Folder 11: Mahan, G. W.

Maine Central Railroad Company

Manley, S. B.

Martin, E. S. & Son

Martin, Jos. & Son

Mathews, Roy & Co.

Mathisen, Christian*

Maxcy, Sawyer, & Co.

Mayo, A. H.

McIntyre, L. B.*

McLellan, H. A.

McLeod, Nichlos

McNally, James

Meally, E. H.

Merriam, H. E.

Merrill, Geo. T.

Mildon's Variety Store

Millar, John A.

Milmore, J. C.

Momeault, Charles

Morneault, F. R. & Co.

Morrill, H. L.

Morse & Anderson

Muller, J. B.

Mulvany, J. D. & Co.

Mutual Ice Co.

Folder 12: Neally, E. H.

New England Pottery Co.

New England Telephone and Telegraph Company

Newell, Thos. C. & Co.

Nichols & McLeod

Nickerson & Damm

Norton Emery Wheel Co.

Noyes & Miller Mfg. Co.*

Folder 13: Packs, A. H.

Page, Mrs. C. P.

Page, Spearing & Co.

Parks, A. H.

Paul, William A.

Peaks, J. B.

Pearl & Dennett

Peirce, Albert J.

Pendleton, F. P.

Penobscot Exchange

Percy, David T. & Sons

Perrine, H. C. & Son

Perry, H. A.

Persson, Anders

Philadelphia City Pottery Co., Inc., The

Pitman, L. J.

Porter, C. C. Fish Co.

Portland Pottery Company

Pratt, C. F.

Price Brothers

Folder 14: Rankin, Isaac

Rice & Miller

Rich, J. C.

Richards, F. M.

Richardson, G. W.

Ridley & Jones

Ripley, Eva

Robinson, S. H. & Son

Ross, George W.

Russell, E. J.

Ryder, E. C.

Folder 15: Saunders & Co.

Sawyer, C. O. & Co.

Sawyer, Charles H.

Sawyer, F. W.

Sawyer, Nancy

Sawyer, Otis

Schlotterbeck & Foss Co.

Seymour, H. A.

Shannon House

Shaw, R. A.

Sherwood, L. J.

Smith, M. C.

Smith, Mrs.

Spencer, H. O.

Stanley, A.

Staples, Geo. A.

Stevens, E. W.

Stillman - Armstrong

Stockwell, A. G.

Stokoe, G. H.

Stratton, G. F.

Swift & Paul

Sylvester & Gifford

Folder 16: Taylor & Mitchell

Taylor, C. H.

Thoron, Casimir

Trafton, C. W.

Trenton Potteries Co., The

V. Tyler Gay & Son*

Vanceboro [Maine] Dining Hall

Folder 17: Wakefield, H. D.

Ward, M.

Ward, Plummer & Ward

Warwick, O. H.

Washburn, C. A.

Weatherbee, E. A.

Wentworth, Hartley E.

Weymouth, Myron J.

White & Ruig

Whiting Brothers

Whitney & Cameron

Willard Kitchen & Co.

Williamson, John N.

Wilson, Chas. H.

Wilton, Lewis C.

Windsor Hotel

Winslow, A. & Co.

Withall, C. W.

Witham, Andes

Woodcock, A. H.

Woodman, C. & Co.

Woodman, J. L.

Folder 18: Unsorted [names hard to read]