Rural New Yorker ad 1884

There are two distinct collections of Reed & Barton archives at Harvard:

The first, transferred to Harvard in 1940, contains daybooks, journals, ledgers, cashbooks, accounts, trial balances, notes and bills receivable, inventories, time books, payrolls, 12 boxes of unbound papers, including a brief typewritten history of the company, and inventories of the New York, San Francisco and Chicago offices, 1902–1918. In addition there are some 200 illustrated catalogs and 17 scrapbooks.

Dates: 1828–1931

The second, transferred to Harvard in 2016, contains administrative records, and account books (1851–1996), board of directors records (1902–2007), operational records documenting the company’s business activities (circa 1860–2007), financial statements (1978–2007), sales team records (1940–1991), original illustrated US patents (1860s), records of several Reed & Barton subsidiaries (circa 1880s–1956), The Silver Lining (Reed & Barton’s employee newsletter), and the photographs and other materials used to produce it (1942–2001), an extensive set of Reed & Barton trade catalogs and other publications documenting the company’s marketing and advertising efforts (1877–2008), product information files (1873–2007), audiovisual materials produced by Reed & Barton, and photographs of Reed & Barton products, facilities, and operations.

All images on this page from:

Reed & Barton Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Link to Website

Finding Aid for the 1940 collection

Finding Aid for the 2016 collection

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