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]