Folsom Brothers & Company records

  • Creator Names Folsom Brothers & Company.
  • Title Folsom Brothers & Company records [manuscript], 1871 April-1872 Jan.
  • Physical description ca. 170 items.
  • Collection summary Correspondence, co-partnership agreement, orders, bills, and receipts of the Chicago (Ill.) branch of Folsom Brothers & Company, a firm of importers and jobbers in firearms, ammunition, and similar goods. Chiefly letters from customers in response to the company's efforts to collect outstanding debts after the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871 destroyed the firm's records. Includes letters from David and Henry Folsom in New York City commenting on the fire losses and advising that orders should be referred to the St. Louis (Mo.) store. The partnership agreement included the Folsom brothers of New York, Thomas T. More of Proviso (Ill.), and Calvin P. Pease of Cicero (Ill.), April 1, 1871.
  • Finding Aids Note Unpublished finding aid available.
  • Names
    • Folsom Brothers & Company.
    • Folsom, David.
    • Folsom, Henry
    • More, Thomas T.
    • Pease, Calvin P.
  • Subjects
    • Business enterprises Illinois Chicago.
    • Firearms industry and trade Illinois Chicago.
    • Fires Illinois Chicago.
    • Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
  • Genre
    • Agreements. aat
    • Invoices. aat
    • Receipts (financial records) aat
  • Geographic name
    • United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.
    • United States New York New York.