Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fuller Brush Company
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records / Series 2: Corporate Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1999 (bulk 1973-1976)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1459, Subseries 2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Files in this subseries are arranged alphabetically by last name of primary correspondent, when identifiable. In most cases, file names represent recepient of correspondence; however, instances where file naming conventions reflect sender of correspondence have been preserved. Mixed correspondence is listed after correspondence groupings wtih clearly identifiable receipients and has been arranged chronologically.
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content: Prominent correspondents include Fuller Brush Company Presidents Walter Freedman and Nat Zivin; Consolidated Foods President John Bryan; President of Fuller Brush Company, Limited, Leon Lapidus; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Mark A. Waldron; and Fuller Brush Company Vice Presidents of Household Sales W.D. Melvin and L. Scott McKnight. Recurrent topics discussed include product sales forecasts, discontinued items, and distribution lists; company facility sales and relocation; operational issues; and budgets. Researchers interested in the financial history should note that sales and financial materials are frequently attached to correspondence, particularly among the files of CFO Mark A. Waldron. Also noteworthy among the correspondence is a testimonial letter (1974), written by former Fuller Brush salesman Billy Graham.