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Erie Specialty Company Erie, Penn., and New York, N.Y. Records, 1902-1928 Size: 4 ft. Catalog number: MSS 6 sg 11 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, Jr. ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
The Erie Specialty Company was organized on 8 January 1902, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Originally the company manufactured "... hardware, kitchen, hotel, bar, and druggist sundries, metal advertisements and soda fountain specialties." The next decade saw a gradual move into more technical and heavier manufacture. In 1917, after takeover by a New York group which added a manufacturing plant in New York, the company moved into machine parts for aircraft and automobiles. It may have been in this period that Sayles gained a controlling interest in the company's stock shares. Paul C. Nicholson of Providence, Rhode Island, son-in-law of Frank A. Sayles, early became a large shareholder. After the death in 1920 of Frank A. Sayles, two of the executors of his estate, Charles O. Read and Kenneth F. Wood, were seated on the board of directors.
Scope and content:
Included are organizational and financial records of light and heavy manufacturing, principally of metal products, 1902 - 1928. The records of this company illustrate the impact of World War I on U.S. industry - much of their business was done with the Federal government and with industries contracting with the government.
Provenance:
Gift of the Sayles Finishing Plants on 25 December 1971.
Processing note:
Inventory:
Item 1. Stock Register Feb 1902 - Jun 1923
Item 2. Minute Book Aug 1902 - Aug 1917
Item 3. Records -- including accounts payable and receivable; 1917 - 1919, 1920,
financial statements; detail of charges; profit and loss 1921, 1922, 1923,
statements; operations accounts; list of capital assets. 1924
These appear to have been compiled for a series of
annual reports. No effort was made to reconcile this
material with any of the following records which may
appear to duplicate dates and headings.
Item 3. Notes Payable and Receivable Mar 1921 - Apr 1923
Item 3. Trial Balance May 1920 - Mar 1923
Item 3. Trial Balance Jan 1921 - Mar 1924
Item 3. Reports on Audit 1918 - 1919
Item 3. Bills Payable Mar-Aug 1917
Item 3. Bills Receivable Jun 1917 - Mar 1923
Item 4. Closing Entries Oct 1911 - Mar 1917
Item 5. Cash Books Nov 1916 - Jul 1917
Item 6. Cash Books Sep 1917 - Dec 19186
Item 7. Cash Books Dec 1918 - Aug 1922
Item 8. Cash Books Aug 1922 - Aug 1928
Item 9. Accounts Payable Register Jan 1923 - Mar 1924
Item 10. Ledgers Jan 1909 - Sep 1917
Item 11. Ledgers Sep 1911 - Aug 1917
Item 12. Ledgers Jul 1917 - Feb 1922
Item 13. Ledgers Aug 1920 - Feb 1924
Item 14. Ledgers - Includes: notes discounted; Jan 1921 - Feb 1924
Slater Trust Co. deposit record; record of sales.
Item 15. Trial Balance Mar 1918 - Nov 1918
Item 16. Journal Jan 1921 - Aug 1928
Item 17. Journal - New York office Aug 1917
Item 18. Trading Statements - Statements of income Dec 1917 - Dec 1919
and expenses
Item 19. Gains and Losses on Steel Consumed Feb 1920 - Feb 1921
by Productive Orders
Item 20. Estimated Costs-Actual Prices for Steel Jun 1920 - Feb 1921
Consumed by Productive Orders
Item 21. Finished Orders Analysis Jan 1920 - Sep 1925
Item 22. Overhead Dec 1919 - May 1921
Item 23. Cost Ledger Sep 1918 - Aug 1919
Item 24. Cost Ledger Aug 1919 - Feb 1923
Item 24. Details of Manufacturing Cost -- including Dec 1919 - Feb 1923
manufacturing statement; cost analysis of Ford orders;
cost analysis of miscellaneous orders; statement of
automatic and labor charges to orders; details of
manufacturing cost; supplementary details of
departmental debits.
Item 26. Factory Journal Aug 1919 - Feb 1923
Item 27. Tax Records - State and Federal 1912 - 1917 , 1918,
1919, 1920-1921,
1922-1924
Item 28. Recapitulation of Sales Aug 1921 - Mar 1923
Item 29. Inventories and Valuations, etc. - inventory 1915-1916
Item 30. Inventories and Valuations, etc. - appraisal Mar 1917
Item 31. Inventories and Valuations, etc. Sep 1918, Jan 1923, n.d.
Item 32a, 32b. Inventories and Valuations, etc. - appraisals, inventory Aug 1920
Item 33. Inventories and Valuations, etc. - machinery & Apr 1915 - Sep 1925
equipment register
Item 34. Inventories and Valuations, etc. - report "re Tools Dec 1917
Investigation"
Item 35. Correspondence 1917 - 1921
Item 36. Recapitulation of Salesmen's Reports 1921, 1924, n.d.
Item 37. Customers
listed by state 1920
listed showing their banks Sep 1920
listed with Dun's ratings1920
listed showing estimated wealth and grade of credit Jul 1920
Item 38. Erie Specialty Company vs. United States c.1918 - 1922
Item 39. Office Employees and Foremen's Salaries 5 Jun 1920
Subjects:
Business records - New York - New York.
Business records - Pennsylvania - Erie.
European War, 1914-1918.
Iron industry and trade - New York - New York.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Erie.
Metal trade - New York - New York.
Metal trade - Pennsylvania - Erie.
Nicholson, Paul Coe.
Read, Charles Otis, 1846-1926.
Sayles Finishing Plants.
Sayles, Frank Arthur, 1866-1920.
Steel industry and trade - New York - New York.
Steel industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Erie.
Wood, Kenneth Foster, 1873-1925.
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