Wood and Brooks Company Records
name: label: Creator
content: Wood & Brooks Company
label: Names
content: International Association of Machinists
label: Names
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Names
content: United Furniture Workers of America
label: Donor
content: Brady, Larry
label: Donor
content: Gielow, Albert C.
topic: label: Topic
content: Collective labor agreements
label: Topic
content: Factory workers
label: Topic
content: Factories
label: Topic
content: Ivory
label: Topic
content: Ivory industry
label: Topic
content: Keyboard instruments
label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Piano
label: Topic
content: pianos
label: Topic
content: stock certificates
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Wood & Brooks Company, through Elizabeth W. Crane, President, 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wood & Brooks Company
setName: label: See more items in
content: Wood and Brooks Company Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the activities of Wood & Brooks, a manufacturer of piano keys and actions.
accruals: label: Accruals
content: Additional materials documenting Wood and Brooks Company was donated by Albert C. Gielow (1992); Larry Brady (1994); and Courtney Brooks (2017).
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Hammond Wood founded Wood and Brooks Company in 1901, in North Tonawanda, New York with financial help from Connecticut entrepreneur, M.S. Brooks. The company manufactured piano keys and piano actions. In 1905, Wood and Brooks acquired Seavern Piano Action Company of Cambridge, Massachusettts and in 1910 purchased Kurtz Action Company of Rockford, Illinois.  

Source

Dolge, Alfred. Pianos and Their Makers. Development of the piano, Volume II, 1913.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0457
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Specifications
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into six series.

Series 1: Executive Records, 1889-1949		
 
Series 2: Correspondence, 1890-1932	
 
Series 3: Financial Records, 1891-1932	

Series 4: Photographs, 1902-1959		
 
Series 5: Piano Action and Specification Materials, 1927-1959

Series 6: Miscellaneous, 1958
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2021.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 19th-20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Specifications
label: Genre/Form
content: Specifications
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection conists primarily of correspondence Charles H. Wood, M.S. Brooks and Hilton C. Brooks, financal and sales records, and some photographs documenting the company's work as manufacturer's of ivory piano keys and piano actions.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the Archives Center

Pratt, Read and Corporation Records (NMAH.AC.0320)

Warshaw Colletion of Business American, Series: Ivory (NMAH.AC.0060)

Warshaw Colletion of Business American, Series: Pianos (NMAH.AC.0060)

Ernest D. Moore Papers (NMAH.AC.0321)

Otto Gerdau Collection (NMAH.AC.0363)

Sohmer & Co. Records (NMAH.AC.0349)

Steinway & Sons Records and Family Papers (NMAH.AC.0178)

Chickering & Sons Piano Company Collection (NMAH.AC.0264)