J&B Manufacturing Company Records
name: label: Creator
content: J&B Manufacturing Company.
label: Creator
content: Huldah's Brook, Inc.
label: Names
content: Ford Motor Company.
place: label: Place
content: Latin America -- Business
topic: label: Topic
content: Automobile industry and trade
label: Topic
content: Automobile supplies industry
label: Topic
content: Industrial relations
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Benjamin W. Guy III., through Huldah's Brook, Inc., 1996.
creator: label: Creator
content: J&B Manufacturing Company.
label: Creator
content: Huldah's Brook, Inc.
setName: label: See more items in
content: J&B Manufacturing Company Records
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Pittsfield, Massachusetts company which made automobile ignition coils. The company was founded in 1895 by the Southard family and incorporated in 1912.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1924.
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Huldah's Brook, Inc. is a Massachusetts corporation which owns the former Southard property including the carriage house in which the records were housed. In 1996 they offered the papers to the Archives Center after first offering them to the nearest Southard heir, who declined them.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0563
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Advertising
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into ten series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Craig Orr, archivist, 1997.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Papers documenting J&B's manufacture and marketing of automobile parts to car dealers, jobbers and small retailers; correspondence, information on the supply of auto parts to Latin America, reports from jobbers, and information on parts developed and patented by J&B; information on the company itself, including documentation on factory floor operations, labor relations, financial information, and the company's relationship with Ford Motor Company.