McKell Company records MSS.192

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1 McKell Company records MSS.192 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit June 19, 2014 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Alexander M. Bracken Library 2000 W. University Avenue Muncie, Indiana, libarchives@bsu.edu

2 Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Administrative History...4 Scope and Contents... 4 Arrangement...4 Administrative Information...4 Controlled Access Headings...5 Collection Inventory... 7 Series 1: McKell Company purchasing records, Series 2: McKell Company other company records, Series 3: McKell Company fruit jar purchases, Page 2 -

3 Summary Information Repository Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Title McKell and Company records Date Extent 0.8 Cubic feet 3 boxes Language English Preferred Citation McKell and Company records, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries - Page 3 -

4 Administrative History McKell and Company was a family-owned glass and china store in Chilicothe, Ohio. Opened in 1832, this was the first glass and china store west of the Allegheny Mountains. The store bought and sold, wholesale and retail, all types of glass, china, and other products. McKell and Company operated continually until 1917 when it was closed to create space for Camp Sherman, a nearby WWI training camp. Documents relating to the business' last years of operation, from 1910 to 1917, were sorted into wooden boxes and stored in the attic of the garage of Wm. Scott McKell, the last owner. The wooden boxes containing the original records of the company were found by the descendants of Wm. Scott McKell. Scope and Contents The collection contains photocopies of correspondence, invoices, letters, and telegrams related primarily to fruit jar manufacturing and sales companies, Indiana glass companies, and companies that bought fruit jars from the McKell and Company between 1910 and Folders are listed alphabetically by company and chronologically by year respectively. Arrangement This collection is arranged in the following series: Series 1: McKell Company purchasing records, Series 2: McKell Company other company records, Series 3: McKell Company fruit jar purchases, Administrative Information - Page 4 -

5 Publication Information Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections. Documents from the collection may not be published, in any format, by any person other than the donor until after December 31st, 2003, except by written permission of the donor. No restrictions are placed on access for research purposes. Information from the documents may be quoted or paraphrased with proper credit. Photocopying is permitted. Custodial History This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as a donation from Tom Sproat. Accruals No further additions are expected. Processing Information EAD finding aid created 2012/10/15 by Julie Hausknecht. EAD finding aid revised 2013/10/28 by Rebecca Marangelli. Existence and Location of Originals This collection consists of photocopies of the original records and represents only a portion of the McKell and Company Records. The original records, which relate to all aspects of the company's business, were retained by McKell's grandson, Tom Sproat. Controlled Access Headings Geographic Name(s) - Page 5 -

6 Ohio Subject(s) Business Glass Glass manufacture Stoeckel Archives of Local History - Page 6 -

7 Series 1: McKell Company purchasing records, Collection Inventory Series 1: McKell Company purchasing records, Box Folder Armstrong cork company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, Ball brothers glass company, B&R rubber company, Boston Woven Hose company, 1911, Colombian enameling and stamping company, Page 7 -

8 Series 1: McKell Company purchasing records, Cupples, Samuel, Cupples, Samuel, Cupples, Samuel, Cupples, Samuel, Cupples, Samuel, Hazel-Atlas glass company, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Hollweg and Reese, Page 8 -

9 Series 2: McKell Company other company records, Imperial merchandise company, Kerr glass company, Kerr glass company, Kerr glass company, Macbeth-Evans glass company, Maring, Hart and company, Maring, Hart and company, Maring, Hart and company, The Ohio rubber company, Peaslee-Gaulbert company, Pennsylvania rubber company, Wheelock, George H. and company, , Series 2: McKell Company other company records, Box Folder - Page 9 -

10 Glass companies, , Indiana companies, Relates to glass, 1911, Telegrams. letters, Postcards, telegrams, Series 3: McKell Company fruit jar purchases, Box Folder Abel's Cafe, Bellaire bottle company, Briggs R.W., Cash hardware company, Aug. 18,? 2 8 Dixon, W.M., Eithel, Jacob and sons, Giestand, McKeeham grocery company, Page 10 -

11 Green river, Holdren's dry goods store, Imperial merchandise company, Lavel, De, McKell and company Mounjoy, C., Oman, A.E., The Paxton house, 191? 2 20 Pennsylvania lines, Rheinfrank, P.N., Roy, D.S., 1911, 1914, Stanford-Herron company, Sears and Nicols company, Smith, H.J. company, Page 11 -

12 Spiers, G.L. and sons, Sprouse, W.A., 1912, The Vaughters-Kramer company, Wells, B.S. and company, West, J.W., Charles Ahrenfeldt & sons, Jan 8, American can company, July 16, American distributung company, July 31, American 3-way prism company, July 6, American window glass company, The angle manufacturing company, undated 3 6 Armstrong cork company, 1910, Atlas fruit jars, Jan. 19, The B&R rubber company, Jan. 18, Page 12 -

13 Ball brothers, 1910, Banner window glass company, Mar. 19, Bawo & Dotter, Dec. 9, Bellaire bottle company, 1910, The J.D. Bergon company Box Folder Bing burner company, Feb. 14, L.D. Bloch & company, Boston woven-hose & rubber company, July 20, The George H. Bowman Company, 1910, Butler brothers, June 17, Buckeye window glass company, Dec. 9, The calgerton manufacturing company, Mar. 5, Central glass works, 1910, Page 13 -

14 China, glass and lamps, Mar. 17, The Cincinnati plate glass company, 1910, 1912, The Cincinnati sand blast company, Feb. 24, The Cleveland window glass &door company, The cobe glass company, Oct. 28, The Columbus plate & window glass company, 1910, W.B. conkey company, Jan. 10, The cooperative flint glass company, 1910, Conroy-Prugh company, Mar. 8, Crockery and glass journal, 1910, Samuel Cupples wooden ware company, 1910, Daubt glass & crockery company, Eagle glass & manufacturing company, 1910, The Easley manufacturing company, June 1, Page 14 -

15 Ebeling & Reuss, Eldred window glass company, Jan. 26, The federal glass company, Fostoria glass company, 1910, Franklin flint glass works, McFry glass company, Nov. 3, Gill brothers company, The William Glenny glass company, Apr. 4, C.T. Ham manufacturing company, Hazel Atlas glass company, 1910, A.H. Heisey & company, John B. Higbee glass company, John J. Hines, Apr. 28, The hocking glass company, Page 15 -

16 Hollwey & Reese, 1910, Illinois glass company, Aug. 18, The Jefferson glass company, 1910, Johnston brokerage company, Feb. 1, Kerr glass manufacturing company, The Kinney & Levan company, 1915 Mar The Lanchaster glass company, 1910, A.E. Lewis glass & door company, June 5, The Lotus cut glass company, Mar. 22, Logansport basket works, MacBeth-Evans glass company, 1910, James McDuffee & Stratton company, Pottery and glass, Apr. 16, McKee glass company, Page 16 -

17 McKell & company, Harry B. Mahan company, Marins & Hart company, McKee glass company, Mississippi glass company, Mississippi wire glass company, Feb. 11, Monongah glass company, 1915 Dec Theo. W. Morris & company glass, May 10, D.L. Murray Dec. 8, Mutual China company, Oriel glass company, Dec. 14, W.W. Patterson, Pottery and glass, Huolt publishing company, Apr. 16, Peaslee-Gaulbert company, Page 17 -

18 Pensacola excelsior company, June 3, Pittsburgh lamp, brass and glass company, 1910, G.C. Roirdant & company, 1910, The Sears & Nicholas company, June 5, The E.E. Shedd mercantile company, Stott brothers, Apr. 21, W.A. Sprouse, The sanitary crystal glass freezer, undated 3 87 Steel glass company, Jan. 11, The troop martin company, Jan. 13, Union stopper company, The United States glass company, 1910, The Vaughters-Kramer company, 1910, The Von Gerichten art glass company, Page 18 -

19 Washington flint glass works, July 26, George H. Whelock and company, Whitall tatum company, Oct. 13, Zaleski house, green river whiskey, Page 19 -