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Engineering Department Records

National Museum of American History

Object Details

sova.nmah.ac.0320_ref262
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep809e84ea6-4876-420b-9cc8-754c04c6a04c
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
1964 - 1964
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 3.11
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
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT RECORDS, 1964, consist of customer files, interoffice correspondence, vendor files, and miscellaneous files. They are a complete one year sample, chosen at random, of the Engineering Department records from a period of Pratt, Read's high postwar productivity. The customer files are arranged alphabetically by name of company or individual to whom Pratt, Read supplied actions, keyboards, or components. Several major piano and organ companies are included, such as Aeolian American, Janssen, Kimball, Lowrey, and Sohmer & Company. The files consist of specifications, drawings, memos, and schedules for production. The interoffice correspondence is that sent or received by A. W. Nordquist, Chief of the Manufacturing Engineering Section. This correspondence deals with personnel questions, changes in specifications, customers' orders, and other routine matters. The vendor files are correspondence, catalogues, price quotations, and other information sent to A. W. Nordquist from various supply houses. Nordquist's miscellaneous files cover a variety of topics, including inventories of shipments made to the company's Central, S. C., plant; plans for plastic spray on key coverings; personnel notices; the safety program; plastic key production schedules; and other engineering issues. Also of interest is a file of drawings supplied to British Piano Actions, Ltd.
Collection Restrictions
Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
NMAH.AC.0320_ref262
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep809e84ea6-4876-420b-9cc8-754c04c6a04c
NMAH.AC.0320
ACAH
Record ID
ebl-1505493610265-1505493610511-0

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