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Guide to the Strunz and Son Soap Company Records, 1861-1918 AIS.1964.46

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Title
Records of Strunz and Son Soap Company, 1861-1918, Strunz and Son Soap Company records, 1861-1918, Strunz Company records, 1861-1918
Subject
Strunz, Stephen, Wetzel, Ernst, Strunz, Henry, Strunz, Fred B, Strunz and Son Soap Company, Strunz and Wetzel Company, National Wrapping Machine Company, Standard Wrapping Machine Company, Soap factories--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Manufacturing industries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Description
The S. Strunz and Son company records are seven volumes of business records about the Strunz soap manufacturing business which date from 1861 to 1918. There is also one letterbook with business correspondence written by F.B. Strunz on behalf of the National Wrapping Machine Company, later called The Standard Wrapping Machine Company. All of this material is stored on three reels of microfilm. The S. Strunz and Son ledger books contain information about inventory, expenses and customer accounts, and a few examples of business correspondence and product packaging. Each book is between 200 and 800 pages long. The Standard Wrapping Machine Company letterbook contains copies of company correspondence from 1884 to 1913. Most of the letters are signed by Secretary and Treasurer F.B. Strunz around 1892. The majority of the handwriting is blurred and very difficult to read., Records of Strunz and Son Soap Company, 1861-1918, AIS Micro 1964:46, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Microfilm. Hazelton, Pa. : IMR, Limited for the Archives of Industrial Society, University of Pittsburgh, [1998?], Gift of E. J. McGrael, 1964, Beginnning in 1852, Stephen Strunz manufactured soap in a building on Bingham Street on the south side of Pittsburgh. His company developed and sold such products as Duquesne Powder for cleaning, Presto Flake laundry soap, and Wax Soap. The business was originally called Strunz and Wetzel, and Stephen Strunz ran the business with Ernst Wetzel. Around 1885, the company was renamed S. Strunz and Son and Henry Strunz worked as the company foreman. The company's customer base was centered in the Pittsburgh area, but also extended to West Virginia, Ohio, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. The company discontinued business around 1920. The National Wrapping Machine Company was a venture related to the soap manufacturing company. The wrapping machines were designed to wrap bars of soap, but were to be adapted to wrap other rectangular products. Fred B. Strunz served as the secretary and treasurer of the company from about 1892 to 1899., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais196446
Contributor
Strunz and Son Soap Company, University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1861-1918
Type
Collection, Text
Identifier
pitt:US-PPiU-ais196446, oclc: ocm54060071, pitt: US-PPiU-ais196446
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais196446, pdcp_noharvest
Coverage
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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