Holdings Business Business Archives Hart Mirror Plate Company Finding Aid Title: Hart Mirror Plate Company, 1899-1962
ID: 9/50/27
Primary Creator: Hart Mirror Plate Company
Extent: 4.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Business Archives
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
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.
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Access Restrictions: None.
Related Materials: Kaufman's Inc. (9/50/10)
Other Note: 2 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0950027.pdf
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