9/50/27 Guide to the Hart Mirror Plate Company Hart Mirror Plate Company Journal  and Minutes

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Guide to the Hart Mirror Plate Company 1899/1962 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Hart Mirror Plate Company 1899-1962 9/50/27 Hart Mirror Plate Company 4.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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2 Pages

Additional information may be found at https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0950027.pdf

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Business Archives
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/63

Conditions Governing Access:

None.

Related Materials:

Kaufman's Inc. (9/50/10)

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Brief Description: Records of the Hart Mirror Plate Glass Company (HMPC), manufacturer of mirrors and display glass, founded in 1899 by Joseph S. Hart in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and presided over (1916-45) by his wife, Rose Hart, and their daughter, Josephine Hart Kaufman, and her husband, Stanley L. Kaufman of Champaign, Illinois, contains minute books of stockholder and director's board meetings; financial records, including audits, financial statements, and balance sheets; sales reports and ledgers; production records; product catalog; plans for factory expansion (1945); discontinuation of mirror manufacturing at the Grand Rapids plant and the start of a joint silvering operation with the Hagemann Company of Shelbyville, Indiana (1954); sale of the Grand Rapids facility to the Owen-Ames-Kimball company (1955); creation of a new firm, the Josephine Hart Kaufman Company, for the purpose of liquidation and disbursement of HMPC's assets (1959-60); and correspondence between the firm's representatives and suppliers, clients, trade associations, accountants, employees, advertisers, and contractors.