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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the Enos Brown & Co. Records, 1867-1894, bulk 1867-1876
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Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Enos Brown & Co. |
| Title | Enos Brown & Co. Records |
| Dates | 1867-1894 |
| Dates | bulk 1867-1876 |
| Extent | 0.2 linear feet (5 folders) |
| Abstract | Collection formerly called Bowen Bros. Records, consists mainly of letters, orders and receipts generated by Enos Brown & Co., a Chicago firm selling machinery parts, warps, dyes and other manufacturing supplies to woolen mills in Utah in the 1870s. Bowen Bros., a dry goods firm associated with Enos Brown & Co., is briefly represented in the collection, and there is one letter to George S. Bowen, mayor of Elgin, Illinois and organizer of the Chicago & Pacific Railroad, demanding payment of an old debt. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS 153 |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 35 3 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Enos Brown & Co. Records, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, Kenneth Nebenzahl, 1989.
Processed by
Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.
Access
The Enos Brown & Co. Records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Enos Brown & Co. Records are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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History of Enos Brown & Co.
Chicago dealer in supplies for woolen mills.
Enos Brown & Co. and Bowen Bros. first advertised in Chicago in 1869, as cotton and woolen manufacturing suppliers. By 1876, Enos Brown & Co. was still listed in the Chicago Business Directory, “wool, woolen machinery; mnfg. supplies; dyestuffs; 19-21 Randolph”. Although several of the Bowen brothers still appeared to be associated with the firm, they also had gone into real estate and financial activities in the city.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Records consist of letters, orders, personal drafts and receipts kept by Enos Brown & Co., early Chicago firm dealing in manufacturing supplies for woolen mills. Most of the items were sent from companies in the Utah Territory, including the Brigham City Cooperative, Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution in Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Provo, and Beaver City. Some typical supplies ordered or sold are different dyes, warps, springs, spindles and spoolers, pickers and grinders, and other parts for looms. Also, a few business items addressed to the Bowen Bros., and one 1894 letter to George S. Bowen, by now Mayor of Elgin, Illinois, and a successful railroad and real estate mogul, demanding repayment for an old debt.
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Arrangement
Arranged by type of material.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Bowen, George S., 1829-1905
- Brigham City Cooperative Association (Brigham City, Utah)
- Enos Brown & Co. -- Records and correspondence
- Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution
Subjects
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900
- Dyes and dyeing -- Wool
- Manufacturing industries -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century -- Sources
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Utah -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Woolen and worsted manufacture
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Letters, orders, receipts, 1874 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Letters, orders, receipts, Jan.-June, 1875 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Letters, orders, receipts, July-Dec., 1875 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bowen Bros. & Co. items, 1867-1876 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Letter to George S. Bowen, 1894 | |||||||||