Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beers, E.R.
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content: E. R. Beers Electric Company Collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0232, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains specifications and bids for electrical work including telephone installations.  Reference is made to the "Underwriters Association" in 1910.  Price schedules for incandescent lamps are given for each year.  The date the partnership was dissolved (January 1911) is reported in May 1911.  Advertisements of household appliances show changes in design and cost.   Price list of "Perfection Oils and Greases" (May 1912) and reference to carburetors for Ford Model T and Model 10 Buick using a mixture of kerosene and gasoline (June 1913) are included.

Balance sheets (cash statements) are first reported in 1915 as are references to Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation reporting of accidents.  Sales of electrical supplies by the E.R. Beers Electric Co. (Beers) to Schuylkill Electric Construction & Supply Co. (SEC & SC) appear. In March 1922 a comprehensive report to the Bureau of Statistics and Information is included.