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Real Estate Records

National Museum of American History

Object Details

sova.nmah.ac.0320_ref259
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep80750c916-57f1-4e7f-a187-a66f7a1a12fc
Collection Donor
Nickse, Hugo
Johnson, Hanford
Collection Creator
Comstock, Cheney and Co.
Pratt, Read and Company
Collection Donor
Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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Pratt, Read Corporation Records
Pratt, Read Corporation Records / Series 3: Pratt, Read and Company, Pratt, Read and Company, Inc., and Pratt-Read Corporation
Date
1867 - 1978
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 3.8
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Pratt, Read Corporation Records, 1839-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Scope and Contents
The REAL ESTATE RECORDS, 1867-1978, consist of maps, plans, architects' drawings, and specifications detailing the various buildings at Pratt, Read's two factory sites. The Deep River site is depicted on two maps taken from the 1867 edition of the Beers & Company Atlas of New York and Vicinity. Site specific insurance maps provide detailed information about factory layout, building construction, and manufacturing processes for the period pre 1880 and 1915-1937. Most of the plans for the Deep River site date from the period after the great fire of 1881. They include the main keyboard factory, the player action factory, bleach houses, an ivory storage vault, various storehouses, and other utilitarian buildings. The Ivoryton site is represented by plans for the expansion of the keyboard factory in the post World War II period. Also of interest are plans and architects' drawings for apartment buildings and houses for company employees, a housing plat of Deep River, and a real estate record book that shows receipts from tenants in company owned housing for the period 1932-1945.
Collection Restrictions
Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
NMAH.AC.0320_ref259
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep80750c916-57f1-4e7f-a187-a66f7a1a12fc
NMAH.AC.0320
ACAH
Record ID
ebl-1505493610265-1505493610470-0

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