Comstock, Cheney and Company
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1863-1936
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records in series two, comprising approximately six cubic feet, relate to Comstock, Cheney & Company.  They date from 1863 to the company's merger with Pratt, Read & Company in 1936.  The series is divided into twelve subseries:  Executive Records, Correspondence, Stock Records, Legal Records, Financial Records, Sales Records, Personnel Records, Real Estate Records, Machinery Records, Manufacturing Records, Photoprints, and Photonegatives. The EXECUTIVE RECORDS consist of organization papers from 1872 and the complete set of corporate minute books from the company's incorporation in 1872 through its merger with Pratt, Read & Company in 1936.