Inventory and Appraisal Records
name: label: Names
content: Standard Appraisal Company
label: Names
content: United States Census Bureau
label: Collection Author
content: Falcone Custom Grand Pianos
label: Collection Donor
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Sohmer & Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Census of Manufacturers
label: Topic
content: Appraisals
label: Topic
content: Inventory
setName: label: See more items in
content: Sohmer & Co. Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891 -1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0349, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Inventory book
label: Type
content: Inventories
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Inventory book
label: Genre/Form
content: Inventories
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Inventory and Appraisal Records, dating between 1891 and 1980, have many gaps.  The inventory book, dated 1891 1895, contains entries such as lumber in drying room or basement, prepared material, and stock in veneering room.  The inventory was done the first of January of every year except 1893 when an additional one was done on July 1st.  Appraisals of plant and equipment were done for the years 1929, 1939, 1977, and 1980.  Within the appraisal book of 1929, written by the Standard Appraisal Company, were the miscellaneous inventory and appraisal sheets, 1911 1915, concerning the Astoria plant.

The Censuses of Manufactures, dating between 1909 and 1947, are forms from the United States Census Bureau designed to gather information about manufacturers.  Categories of information include character of industry (i.e., piano making), number of supervisors and wage earners, time in operation during the year, the products and their value, the costs of materials, mill supplies, fuel, the nature of mechanical employed (i.e., steam engines), and what sort of fuel consumed (i.e., coal or gas).