The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          R. Hoe & Co.                                     

Title:               Papers

Dates:             1851-1877

Call No.:         Col. 468

Acc. No.:         75x157, 75x239, 76x223

Quantity:        3 folders

Location:        34 K 3

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

R. Hoe & Co. were machinists, press makers, and saw makers working in the mid 19th century.  They had two offices, one at 29 +31 Gold St. in New York City, and the other on Foundry  St. in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

This collection contains letters and receipts between R. Hoe & Co. and its customers.  Most correspondence concerns orders, shipping, and payment of goods.  Items mentioned include Eagle gang saws, gunning or riffling machines, hammers, springs, and planers.  Some items were at one time possibly glued into a letter book and then torn out.  A very few items have printed billheads.              

 

ORGANIZATION

 

In chronological order.  Name indexes to each separate accession are appended to this finding aid.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Accession 75x157 purchased from William Pennybaker.

Accession 75x239 purchased from Rockwell Gardiner.

Accession 76x223 gift of Rockwell Gardiner.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Machinery industry.

            Saws.

            Commercial correspondence.

            Machinery.      

            Letters.

            Receipts (Acknowledgments).

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 34 K 3

 

Folder 1:         Letters and receipts, 1851-1853

(acc. 75x239.1; acc. 76x223.1-.20, .22-.60)

 

Letters addressed to R. Hoe & Co.; on the back of 76x223.31 is a sketch, referred to in the letter as a “rough draft of a [printing] press”

 

Folder 2:         Letters and receipts, 1854

(acc. 75x239.3-4; acc. 75x223.21, .61-.116)

 

Folder 3:         Letters and receipts, 1855-1857, 1862, 1874, 1877, no date

(acc. 75x157.1-.12; acc. 75x239.2, .5-.12; and acc. 76x223.117-.119)

Index to Col. 468, acc. 75x157

 

Adams . 11

Adams, Seth .11

 

Bailey .9, .11

Bayfield Land Co. .5

Benedict & Burnham Manuf'g Co. .6

Benedict, Aaron .6

Benedict., Chas., & Bro. .6

Bowen, A. J. .11-12

Buena Vista .4

 

Caho, John T. .5

Cincinnati Type Foundry .10

Clark & Sumner .9

Clark, E. W., Dodge & Co. .5

Clark, Stephen .9

 

Dodge (of E. W. Clark Dodge & Co.) .5

Dufief, John L. .5

 

Fall River Line .12

Fant, Hamilton G. .5

Fowler, Samuel .5

 

Goodnow (of Lamson, Goodnow & Yale) .7

Gordon, James M. .4

 

Hart (of Warren, Hart & Lesley) .1-2

Hawley, H. O., & Co. .9

Herron, W. T. .5

Holmes & Wells .3

Hottentot (barge) .9

 

Lamson, Goodnow & Yale .7

Lesley (of Warren, Hart & Lesley) .1-2

Lincoln, Geo. B. .8

 

Missionary House .4

 

New York & Erie Railroad .3

 

Palsgrave .11

Pratt & Co. .3

 

Rittenhouse, C. E. .5

 

Stansbury .11

Sumner (of Clark & Sumner) .9

Sweeny, Rittenhouse, Fant & Co. .5

Sweeny, H. B. .5

 

Tillinghast, C. W. .1-2

 

Van Allen .12

 

Warren, Hart & Lesley .1-2


Warren, J. M. .1-2


Warren., J. M., & Co. .1-2

Welch  .12

Wells (of Holmes & Wells) .3

 

Yale (of Lamson, Goodnow & Yale) .7


Index to 75x239

 

Appleton, D., & Co. .10

 

Bross, William .7, .8

 

Commercial Advertiser Printing Establishment .2

 

Daily Democratic Press .7, .8

Daily Ledger Office .1

Davidson (of Tyler, Davidson & Co.) .4 Demry (of Jones & Demry) .4

 

Hoe, Robert (Jr.) .11, .12

Houston, H. H. .4

 

Jewett, E. R., & Co. .2

Jewett, Thomas & Co. .2

Jones & Demry .4

 

Magagnos, J. L. .6

Maginnis, John .6

Montgomery Iron Works .9

 

Neefus & Tichenor .5

New-York Tribune .11, .12

Nunemacher, Jno. R. .1

 

Philadelphia (steamboat) .4

 

Reid, Whiteland .11, .12

 

Scripps, Bross & Spears .8

Scripps, John L. .7, .8

Spears, Barton W. .7, .8

Strickland & Co. .10

Strickland, William .10

 

Thomas Watson (ship) .5

Tichenor (of Neefus & Tichenor) .5

Tyler, Davidson & Co. .4

 

Upsbn, Edwin .10

 

Wemple, John V. .3


Index to acc. 76x223.1-.116

 

Adams, J. & G. & Co.  .29, .33

Adams, William A.  .3

Ames & Green   .79

Ash, Thos. E.  .27

 

Babcock & Wildmare  .75

Baker, J. H.    .7

Baldwin, G. D.  .47

Barron, James A.  .43

Barrur, L. F.  .64, .80

Beardsley (of Gray,  Beardsley, Spear & Co.) .69, .114

Beardsley, J. L.  .6

Becket, John C.  .10

Beers & Davies  .115

Bonderwaut & Elliott  .97

Boston Type Founding  .5

Bowman, Jas.  .119

Braunlish, Hugo  .88

Brigham, D.  .44

Brownd, Geo. T.  .66

 

Campbell, F. H.  .102

Chambers & Knapp  .17

Chapman, S. T.  .32, .50

Cooledge, H. A.  .71

Cooper, H.  .14

Corning, E., Co.  .76

Cow[illegible], J.A. .74, .98, .101, .107

Cross, George W.  .112

Crosskile, J. N.   .23

Cummings, A.  .54

 

Daily Courier  .32, .50

Daily Democrat  .86

Daily "Forest City Democrat" .86

Davies, (of Beers & Davies) .115

Davies, John S.  .8

Day, E. G.  .1

Del La Rue & Co.  .66

Dowden, Thomas J.  .90

Dubois, B.P., & Co.  .110

 

"Eagle Hill Saws"  .37

Eagle Office  .70

Edward, F. S.  .22

Elliott (of Bonderwaut & Elliott) .97

Empire Stone Works .40

Evans, H.  .68

 

Foster, Charles  .28

Fowler, Saml.  .80

Franklin Printing Office  .49

Fraser, Thomas, & Bros.   .59

Frazer (of Kelly & Frazer)   .81

 

Gideon, George S.   .83

Gray, Beardsley, Spear & Co.  .69, .114

Gray, Medill & Cowles  .86

Gray, George H. & Co.  .11

Green (of Ames & Green)  .79

 

Haddock, George C.  .19, .31

Hawkins, Rich.  .21

Healy (of Small & Healy) .117

Herald Office .56, .58

Hodges, A. G. .55

Hoe, R. & Co.

Horner, T., & Co.  .111

Hound (ship) .81

Hoyt, B.C.  .20

Hull, William  .84

 

Innes, W. M. .2, .103, .25, .108, .109, .116

 

James (of Miller & James) .24

 

Kelly & Frazer .81

Kelly, James A. .77

Kendall (of Lumsden, Kendall & Co.) .94 Kimball, David .12

Knapp (of Chambers & Knapp) .17

 

Lee & Potter .72

Leggett, Ruben .117

Leviz, Charles .65

Livingston, John .39

Lumsden, Kendall & Co. .94

Lund & Williams .96

 

Mann, B. L. .59

Meier, Aldophus, & Co. .38

Miller & James .24

Miller, S. W. .24

Mills (of Sands & Mills) .61, .106

Moore, H. & G.  .63, .73

Morse, Charles W. .91, .104

 

Nichols, George N. .53

 

The Ohio Statesman .82, .95

 

Packet Post .66

Palmer, T. .105

Paper Commission Warehouse .15

Parker, Edward A. .54

Paule & Co. .49

Pike, George A. .100

Plain Dealer Office .6

Platt & Schram .70

Poole, James .56, .58

Potter (of Lee & Potter ) .72

 

Rea, John  .62

Robb, A.   .113

Robinson, H.H., & Co.  .57, .60, .85, .99 Robinson, Jos. .30, .34, .78

Rogers, John K. & Co. .5

Rose & Semple   .93

Rowlands, S. .48

Ruddock & [illegible]  .9

 

St. Clair, D. A.  .4

San Francisco Chronicle .118

Sands & Mills   .61,.106

Schram (of Platt & Schram) .70

Semple (of Rose & Semple) .93

Shaw, William .41

Seymour, Isaac G. .26

Sherman, C. .67

Sherman, George .40

Skiddy, Francis .41

Small & Healy .117

Smith & Cox .82, .95

South Alabamian .8

 

Spear (of Gray, Beardsley, Spear & Co.) .69, .114

Sproul, A., & Co. .87

Steel, J. B.  .18, .45, .89

Stimpson, N. R.  .13

 

Tabb, Edward P. & Co. .37

Taft, John B. .51

 

Underwood, Thomas .16

 

Vorhees, I. F.  .46

Vosburgh & Co., P.  .52

 

Walker, Joseph  .15

Warrock, J.  .36

Weisse, G. F., &.Co.  .42

West, Albert  .35

Wildemare (of Babcock & Wildemare)  .75 Williams (of Lund & Williams)  .96