Title: Robert Bruce Davies Research Files
Inclusive Dates: 1957-1982

Creator:

• Davies, Robert Bruce

Call Number: M87-301

Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 1 archives box), 70 photographs, 9 negatives, and 1 transparency

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Robert Bruce Davies’ research files for his dissertation, “The International Operations of the Singer Manufacturing Company, 1854-1895,” and his book, Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854-1920. Included are research notes, photographs, advertising specimens from the company and other miscellaneous Singer and sewing machine industry documents (1846-1917), articles, clippings, and a copy of the dissertation.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m87301

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Robert B. Davies. Accession Number: M87-301

M87-301 Box   1 Folder   1	Sewing machine statistics, 1856-1908
Box   1 Folder   2	Copies of publications on sewing machines and the sewing machine industry, 1846-1913
Box   1 Folder   3	Singer Company foreign business, 1885-1894
Box   1 Folder   4	Newspaper clippings, 1967-1982
Box   2 Folder   1	Copies of articles and advertisements from sewing machine trade journals, 1877-1908
Box   2 Folder   2	Twelfth U.S. census, 1900 sewing machines
Box   2 Folder   3	Miscellaneous materials, Isaac Singer/Ed Clark/Inslee Hopper, 1859-1972
Box   2 Folder   4	Podolsk workers' demands, Singer Company reply, 1917
Box   2 Folder   5	Albany agreement, October 24, 1856/quadruple license agreement, , September 21, 1860
Box   2 Folder   6	Copies of records on Singer Company organizational structure, sales and marketing organization, 1872-1906, and advertising scheme
Box   2 Folder   7	Manufacturer cyclopaedias/United States Trade Mark Association, 1887-1889, undated
Box   2 Folder   8	The Channels of Distribution for an Innovation: The Sewing-Machine Industry in America, 1860-1865, Andrew B. Jack, 1957
Box   2 Folder   9	Dissertation, “The International Operations of the Singer Manufacturing Company, 1854-1895,” Robert Bruce Davies, University of Wisconsin, 1966
	Research notes
Box   2 Folder   10-17	1860-1889
Box   2 Folder   18-20	1890-1930s
Box   3 Folder   1-5	1890-1930s
Box   3 Folder   6-13	Sewing machine industry, 1850-1863/company histories/trade mark treaties/Singer personnel files
PH Box   23	Photographs, 1851-1922, undated Scope and Content Note: Includes photographs of individual Singer sewing machine models, company executives, and company locations in the United States (including the Singer Building in New York City) and abroad.