Aberthaw Construction Company Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918 - 1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Series 13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: The Aberthaw Construction Company (contracting engineers) of Boston was founded in 1894 and specialized in concrete.  The company made walks, stairways, and vault and building foundations. This series is divided into four subseries: Subseries 1, Correspondence, 1918-1919; Subseries 2, Reports, 1919-1920; Subseries 3, Purchase Orders, 1919-1920; and Subseries 4, Receiving Reports, 1919-1920. It consists of correspondence, reports, purchase orders and receiving reports for work the Aberthaw Construction Company completed for United Shoe Machinery Corporation.  

Subseries 1, Correspondence, 1918-1919, consists primarily of correspondence addressed to and from the Aberthaw Construction Company about work estimates and construction materials. There is a typescript copy of A.B. Cohen's paper "Reinforced Concrete Flat-Slab Railway Bridges," that appeared inProceedings of the American Concrete Institute, 1918. 

Subseries 2, Reports, 1919-1920, documents the weather conditions and describes what work occured, how many men were on site and the number of hours worked. The reports were written in longhand and then transcribed. 

Subseries 3, Purchase Orders, 1919-1920, consists of documentation describing the materials purchased for United Shoe Machinery projects through Aberthaw Construction's Purchasing Department, an agent for United Shoe.   Invoices for materials were sent directly to United Shoe Machinery. All of the purchase orders have a job number of 1172, presumably a number assigned to United Shoe machinery and other alphanuneric designations such as E2554. 

Subseries 4, Receiving Reports, 1919-1920, consists of reports documenting the receipt of goods, especially construction materials, for projects. The reports are arranged alphabetically by the name of the company furnishing the goods.