The Stansbury Company
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Stansbury, Jacqueline
label: Collection Creator
content: Stansbury, Benjamin H., 1935-1996
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content: Benjamin H. Stansbury Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966-1994
label: Date
content: bulk 1978-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1350, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Stansbury Company was formed in 1973 by Benjamin H. Stansbury. His company provided product development services  from concept to production. This series consists of company organizational materials such as check lists, time cards, salary information, and a procedural manual for how the company operates. Many of the company materials contain forms such as cost estimates for labor and components, vendor reference check guide, invoices, work order changes, project design criteria objectives, and the standard terms and conditions agreement. Potential clients would complete forms such as the idea evaluation and disclosure agreement. 

The majority of the materials in this series consist of subject files for projects that Stansbury worked on the files are arranged alphabetically and contain photographs, slides, notes, advertisements, news clippings, sketches, drawings and printed materials. Product literature for many of the companies that contracted with Stansbury for his design services is found throughout this series. The files for Ronco-related products such as the Egg Scrambler, Smokeless Ashtray, and battery tester can be found in this series.  Other Ronco-related materials are found in series 9.