Herder Cutlery Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Herder Cutlery, Inc.
label: Names
content: Clarenbach and Herman Herder.
label: Names
content: Herder Cutlery, Inc.
label: Names
content: Herder-Fine Cutlery.
label: Names
content: L. Herder and Son.
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Domestic Life
label: Names
content: Herder Family
label: Names
content: Herder, Charles
label: Names
content: Herder, Herman
label: Names
content: Herder, Leopold
place: label: Place
content: Philadelphia (Pa.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Cutlery trade
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Herder's Cutlery, Incorporated, through Lynn Herder Walker, Secretary-Treasurer, 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: Herder Cutlery, Inc.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Herder Cutlery Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the Herder family and its cutlery business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Herder Family had several cutlery businesses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Charles Clarenbach and Herman Herder, 606 Arch Street; L. Herder and Son, founded 1871 by Herman's son Leopold, the elder of two sons; Herder-Fine Cutlery, founded by younger son, Charles, 830 Arch Street; and Herder's Cutlery, Inc.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 map folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1836 - 1976
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from the Division of Domestic Life (now the Division of Cultural and Community Life) to the Archives Center on May 26, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0050
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into seven series. 

Series 1: Corporate Records

Series 2: Financial Records

Series 3: Sales Records

Series 4: Photographs

Series 5: Clippings

Series 6: Correspondence

Series 7: Herder Family
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1983
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 19th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection documents through corporate records, correspondence, financial records, news clippings, personal papers, photographs, and sales records of several Herder family cutlery businesses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Artifacts in the Division of Work and Industry include ice skates, steel punches, stamps, grinders, scissors, shears, store signs, a grinder's stool, claim tags, honing stones, and razor blades. See accession 1983.0406.