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Sources Cited for "Business and Employment records"

by Kory L. Meyerink

in: Chapter 10

The Source : a guidebook of American genealogy, Revised edition
edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking

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Research and Finding Aids

Ash, Lee.  Subject Collections: A guide to Special Book Collections 
and Subject Collections and Subject Emphasis. . . .7th ed. 
Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowkker Co., 1993.

Benedict, Karen M. A Select Bibliography on Business Archives and Records Management.Chicago. 
Society of American Archivists. 1981.

Brownstone, David M., and Gordon Carruth, Where to Find Business Information.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979.

Cochrane, Thomas Childs. 200 Years of American Business. 
New York: Basic Books, 1977. 

Craumer, Lucille V., ed. Business Periodicals Index. 
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, annual since 1958.

Daniels, Lorna M. Business Information Sources. 3rd ed. 
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Moskowitz, Milton, Michael Katz, and robert Levering, eds. Everybody's Business: 
A Field guide to the 400 Leading Companies in America. 
New York: Doubleday/currency. 1990.

Roy, William G. "Collecting Data on American Business Officials in the 
late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. 
Historical Methods. 15 (Fall 1982): 143-51.

Slocum, Robert B. Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works. 2 vols.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986. 


Directories

The American Blue book of Funeral Directors.
New York: Kates-Boylston Publications, biennial since 1929.

Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America.
New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co., irregular since 1885 
(Later editions titled who's Who in Railroading in North America.)

Directories in Print
Detroit: Gale Research Co., annual since 1967.

Directory of business Archives in the United States and Canada
Chicago. Society of American Archivists. 

Directory of Corporate Affiliations. 
Skokie, Ill.: National Register Publishing Co., annually since 1967.

Directory of Deceased American Phusicians: 1804-1929.
Chicago: American Medical Association. 199(?).

Directory  [of] Historical Societies and Agencies in the United States and Canada. 14th ed. 
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1990.

Dun's Marketing Serices. (Dun's) Million Dollar Directory. 
New York: Dun and Bradstreet Corp., annually since 1963.

Encyclopedia of Associations.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., biennial.

Fortune Magazine. Fortune Double 500 Directory. 
Trenton: Fortune Magazine, annually since 1970.

Jacques, Constant H., ed. Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches,
Nashville: Abington Press, annually since 1935.

Kruzas, Anthony T. and Robert C. Thomas, eds.  Business Organizations and Agencies Directory.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980.

Martindale-Hubble Law Directory
Summit, N.J>: Martindale-Hubble. Annual.

The National Directory of Morticians. Irregular.
Youngstown, Ohio.: National Directory of Morticians, 1950--. 

National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Directory of Archives and 
Manuscript Repositories in the United States. 
Washington,D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1988.

National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors. 
Youngstown, Ohio: Nomis Publications, annual.

Nordland, Rod. Names and Numbers; A Journalists Guide to the
Most Needed Information Sources and Contacts. 
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1978.

Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.  
New York: Standard and Poors Corp., annually since 1928.

Vandenberg, Peter N., ed. Historical Directory of the Reformed
Church in America 1628-1965. 
New Brunswick, N.J.: Reformed Church in America, 1966.

Ward, Baldwin H., ed. Wards Direcory of 55,000 Largest Corporations.
Petaluma, Calif.: Baldwin H. Ward Publications, annual.

Ward, Baldwin H., ed. Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private
and Public Companies. 
Petaluma, Calif.: Baldwin H. Ward Publications, annual.


Typical Guides to Manuscript Collections

Dructor, Robert M. A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pennsylvania State Archives. 
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
1980.

Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2nd ed. 
Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1949.
                       
Larson, David R., ed. Guide to Manuscript Collections and Institutional Records in Ohio. 
N.p.: Society of Ohio Archivists, 1974.

Lovett, Robert W., and Eleanor C. Bishop, comps. List of
Business Manuscripts in Baker Library. 
Boston: The Library, 1969.


The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. 
Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, annually since 1962.

Pflugll, Warner. A Guide to the Archives of Labor History and
Urban Afairs. 
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974.


Examples of Printed Primary Business Records

Gill, Harold B., Jr: Apprentices of Virginia 1623-1800. 
Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1989.

Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London. 4 vols. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.

Neible, George W.  "Account of Servants Bound and Assigned Before 
James Hamilton, Mayor of Philadelphia." 
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32 (1908): 88-103, 237-49. 351-70.

Nelson, William, ed. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the
 State of New Jersey. 1st series, vol. 12. 
Patterson, NJ.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1895.

Pennsylvania German Society. Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound 
Out as Apprentices, etc.,...  Philadelphia...1771 to 1773....
 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.

Ritter, Kathy. Apprentices of Connecticut 1637-1900. 
Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986.

Scott, Kenneth. "Some Huntington, Long Island Residents, 1763-1779."
National Genealogical Society Quarterly 61 (Sept. 1974): 173-77.

Severance, Frank Haywood. The Holland Land Company and
Canal Construction in Western New York. 
Buffalo, N.Y: The Buffalo Historical Society, 1910.

The Stoystown and Greensburgh Turnpike Road Company: Minutes 1815-1826.
 N.p.: Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1976.

Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. "The Janeway Account Books 1735-1746."
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 33 (Jan./April 1958): 1-4.


Selected Vocational Collective Biographies

Barrett, Walter. The Old Merchants of New York. 5 vols. 
New York: Carleton, 1863-70.

Bell, Charles H. The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. 
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894.

The Bench and Bar of Chicago: Biographical Sketches. 
Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., n.d.

Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall. The Cabinetmakers of America. 
Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1957.

Bowers, William S. Gunsmiths of Pen-Mar-Va, 1790-1840.
Mercersburg, Pa.: Irwinton Publishers, 1979.

Burton, E. Milby. South Carolina Silversmiths, 1690-1860.
Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Co., 1968.

Carlisle, Lilian Baker. Vermont Clock and Watchmakers,
Silversmiths, and Jewelers, 1778-1878. 
Burlington, Vt.: Stinehour Press, 1970.

Currier, Ernest M. Marks of Early American Silversmiths.
Watkins Glen, N.Y: American Life Foundation, 1970.

Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of North Carolina From 1696 to 1860, 2nd rev. ed.
 Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1984.

________.The Silversmiths of Virginia from 1694 to 1850.
Richmond: Dietz Press, 1952.


De Voe, Shirley Spaulding. The Tinsmiths of Connecticut.
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press for the
Connecticut Historical Society, 1968.

Drepperd, Carl William. American Clocks & Clockmakers.
Boston: C.T Brandord Co., 1958.

Drost, William E. Clocks and Watches of New Jersey. 
Elizabeth, N.J.: Engineering Publishers, 1966.

Eckhardt, George H. Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers. 
New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1955.

Elliott, Mary Quickly. Biographical Sketches of Knox County Writers. 
Mount Vernon, Ohio.: n. pub., 1937.

Ensko, Stephen Guernsey Cook. American Silversmiths and Their
Marks. 3 vols. 
New York, 1927-48.

Foote, Henry Stuart. The Bench and Bar of the South and
Southwest. 
St. Louis: Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1876.

French, Hollis. A List of Early American Silversmiths and Their
Marks. 1917. Reprint. 
New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.

Fried, Frederick. Artists in Wood: American Carvers of
Cigarstore Indians, Show Figures, and Circus Wagons. 
New York: C.N. Potter, 1970.

Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck. Yankee Stonecutters: The First
American School of Sculpture, 1800-1850. 
New York: Columbia University Press for the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 1945.

Gerstell, Vivian S. The Silversmiths of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1730-1850. 
Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster County Historical Society, 1972.

Gill, Harold B., Jr. The Gunsmith in Colonial Virginia.
Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974.

Heisey, John W A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers.
Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978.

Hiatt, Noble W The Silversmiths of Kentucky: Together With
Some Watchmakers and Jewelers, 1785-1850. 
Louisville, Ky.: Standard Print Co., 1954.

Hutslar, Donald A. Gunsmiths of Ohio 18th and 19th Centuries. Longrifle Series.
York, Pa.: George Shumway, 1973.

Kovel, Ralph M. A Directory of American Silver, Pewter, and
Silver Plate. 
New York: Crown Publishers, 1961.

Langdon, John Emerson. Canadian Silversmiths, 1700-1900.
Toronto: Stinehour Press, 1966.

Laughlin, Ledlie Irwin. Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their
Marks. 
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1940.

Lewis, George E. The Bench and Bar of Colorado. Denver: Bench
and Bar Publishing Co., 1917.

Lynch, James Daniel. The Bench and Bar of Texas.
 St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1885.

Martin, John Hill. Martins Bench and Bar of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1883.

Martin, John Hill. Martins Bench and Bar of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1883.

Miller, Stephen Francis. The Bench and Bar of Georgia. 2 vols.
Philadelphia: 1.B. Lippincott, 1858.

Palmer, John McAuley. The Bench and Bar of Illinois, 2 vols.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1899.

Parsons, Charles Sumner. New Hampshire Clocks &
Clockmakers. 
Exeter, N.H.: Adams Brown Co., 1976.

Proctor, Lucien Brock. The Bench and Bar of New York. 
New York: Diossy, 1870.

Reed, George Irving. The Bench and Bar of Michigan. 
Chicago: Century Publishing and Engraving, 1897.

Reed, George Irving. The Bench and Bar of Ohio, 2 vols.
Chicago: Century Publishing and Engraving, 1897.

Reed, Parker McCobb. The Bench and Bar of Wsconsin.
Milwaukee: the compiler, 1882.

Rice, Alvin H. The Shenandoah Pottery. 
Berryville, Va.: Virginia Book Co., 1974.

Roberts, Kenneth D. Planemakers and Other Edge Tool Enter-
prises in New York State in the Nineteenth Century.
Cooperstown, N.Y: New York State Historical Association,
1970.

Sams, Conway Whittle. The Bench and Bar of Maryland. 
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1901.

Shelton, Lawrence P California Gunsmiths, 1846-1900. 
Fair Oaks, Calif.: Far Far West Publishers, 1977.

Smart, Charles E. The Makers of Surveying Instruments in
America Since 1700. 2 vols. 
Troy N.Y: Regal Art Press, 1962-67.

Wendell, Emory. Wendell 's History of Banking and Banks and
Bankers of Michigan. 
Detroit: Winn & Hanunond, n.d.


Selected Historical Information About Businesses and Records

Apprenticeship Past and Present. Rev. ed. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.

Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth
Century. 
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955.

Clough Shepard B. A Century of American Life Insurance: 
A History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 1843-1943. 
New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.

Cochran, Thomas. Railroad Leaders, 1845-1890.The Business
Mind in Action. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Commerce, Manufactures and Resources of Buffalo and Environs:
A Descriptive, Historical and Statistical Review; Industry,
Development, Enterprise. 
Buffalo, N.Y : Commercial Publishing Co., 1880.

Daniells, Lorna M. Studies in Enterprise. 
Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Dun and Bradstreet. America's Corporate Families. 
Skokie, Ill.: National Register Publishing Co., annual.

Engelhardt, George Washington. Buffalo, New York: The Book of
Its Merchants Exchange. 
Buffalo, N.Y: MatthewsNorthrup Co., 1897.

Evans, George H., Jr. Business Incorporations in the United
States, 1800-1943. 
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948.

Galles, Duane "Using Life Insurance Records in Genealogical
Research." 
Genealogical Journal 20 (1992): 156-71.

Herrick, Cheesman A. White Servitude in Pennsylvania. 1926; reprint ed.,
New York: Negro University Press, 1969.

Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970. 
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1975.

The Industrial Advantages of Houston, Texas and Environs: Also
a Series of Comprehensive Sketches of the City's Representative
Business Enterprises. 
Bryan, Tex.: Fuller Printing Co., 1977.

Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook. 35th ed. 
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Lanier, Henry Wysham. A Century of Banking in New York, 1822-
1922. 
New York: Gilliss Press, 1922.

Larkin, Harold F. "Retention of Life Insurance Records." 
American Archivist 5 (April 1942): 93-99.

Larson, Henrietta. Guide to Business History. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.

Levitt, James H. For Want of Trade: Shipping and the New Jersey
Ports, 1680-1783. 
Newark, NJ.: New Jersey Historical Society,
1981.

Lewinson, Paul and Morris Rieger. "Labor Union Records in the United
States."  
American Archivist 25 (Jan. 1962): 39-57.

Madison, James H. "The Credit Reports of R. G. Dun and Co. as Historical
Sources." 
Historical Methods Newsletter 8 (Sept. 1975): 128-31.

_______. "The Evolution of Commercial Credit Reporting Agencies
in Nineteenth Century America." 
Business History Review 48 (1974): 164-86.

Moody's Transportation Manual. 
New York: Moody's Investors Service, annual.

Peabody, Robert E. Merchant Venturers of Old Salem: A History of
the Commercial Voyages of a New England Family to the Indies
and Elsewhere in the XV111 Century. 
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

Robert D. Fisher Manual of Valuable and Worthless Securities ....
New York: 
R.D. Fisher, 1926 to present.

Salinger, Sharon V To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and
Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania. 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Saretsky, Gary D. "North American Business Archives: Results
of a Survey."
American Archivist 40 (October 1977): 413-20.

Sample Corporate Histories


1OO Years 1OO Men, 1871-1971: A History of the Edwards &
Broughton Company in Raleigh. North Carolina. Edited by
Christopher Crittenden, William S. Powell. and Robert H.
Woody. 
Raleigh. N.C.: Edwards & Broughton, n.d.

Clough. Shepard B. A Century of American Life Insurance: A
History of the Mutual Life Company of New York, 1843-
1943. 
New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.

Ewing. John S., and Nancy P. Norton. Broadloom and Busi-
nessmen: A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company,
1825-1953. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School
of Business History, 1955.

Gibb, George S. The Whitesmiths of Taunton: A History of Reed
and Barton, 1824-1943. 
Cambridge: Haryard University Graduate School of Business History, 1943.

Hower, Ralph M. History of Macys of New York, 1858-1939:
Chapters in the History of a Department Store. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Business History, 1943.

________.The History of an Advertising Agency: N. W Ayer &
Son at Work, 1869-1949. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Business History, 1949.

Shinn, Charles Howard. The Story of the Mine: As Illustrated
by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. 
New York: D. Appleton. 1897.

White. Gerald T. A History of the Massachusetts Hospital Life
Insurance Company. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Business History, 1955.

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