Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company - Inventory of Records

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Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

Inventory of Records(I found this on www.cslib.org )

TABLE OFCONTENTS

Overview of the

Collection

Historical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative

Information

Container List

Business File 1826-

1979

Legal File circa 1831-

1943

Administrative File

circa 1836-1980

Publications File circa

1850-1980

Mahron Collection

1871-1934

Addenda 1810-1948

RG 103, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

Inventory of Records

Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.

Copyright 2007 by the Connecticut State Library

Overview of the Collection

Repository: Connecticut State Library

Creator: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

Title: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company records

Dates: 1810-1980

Quantity: 98.25 cubic feet

Abstract: The records of Colts Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Companydocument gun manufacturing at the armory and the companys

subsidiaries, together with outside contracting activities.

Identification: RG103

Accession: Multiple

Language: The records are in English.

Historical Note

Samuel Colt (1814-1862) received U.S. Patent No. 138 in 1836 for the first revolving

cylinder pistol and along with other investors founded the Patent Arms Manufacturing

Company of Paterson, New Jersey. Due to small sales that business closed in September

of 1842. Still, Colt guns proved popular during the Mexican War and with the Texas

Rangers. General Zachary Taylor, who was commanding troops in Texas in 1846,

wanted 1000 Colt revolvers. Samuel Colt made an agreement with Eli Whitney, Jr., the

Connecticut contractor for Army muskets, to manufacture the guns. In 1847 Colt

borrowed money from his banker cousin Elisha Colt and other Hartford businessmen to

lease a factory on Pearl Street in Hartford, where he adapted the system of

interchangeable parts to the mass production of guns. In 1851 Colt's exhibited guns at

London's Crystal Palace Exposition and two years later opened a branch there that
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operated until 1857. The Colt's factory in Hartford manufactured 3,000 Dragoon pistols

by the end of 1850, first at the Pearl Street location and then on Grove Lane.

In 1851 Samuel Colt bought property in Hartford's South Meadows where he built the

Colt's Armory that was completed in August of 1855. The Armory was topped with an

onion-shaped blue dome on which stood a rampant colt cast from bronze. Samuel Colt

died unexpectedly in January of 1862. A fire in February of 1864 destroyed one half of

the Armory and the office. Some suspected that Confederates started the fire. The

armory had been running at full capacity to supply the Union army with guns, its total

wartime production totaling 378,000 revolvers and 114,000 muskets. Samuel Colt's

widow Elizabeth ordered the Armory rebuilt exactly as it was. Construction was

completed in 1867. In 1901 Mrs. Colt sold the company to Armstrong & Schirmer, a New

York financial house. A holding company was formed in New York State although the

Armory was still known as Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.

Colt's produced the first machine gun, the Gatling, in 1867. Dr. R.J. Gatling invented the

gun first fired at Confederate troops in 1862. Gatling later moved to Hartford after

improving the desgin. Colt's entered into association with John Moses and Matt Browning

in 1891 to manufacture their machine gun. In 1895 John Browning test fired his first

automatic pistol for Colt's. The Brownings reached a settlement with Colt in 1903 that

gave the company all the benefits of the automatic pistol and automatic machine gun

patents. The company also obtained rights to the English Vickers-Maxim automatic

machine gun, giving it control over all machine gun production in the world. In 1911

Colt's gave Fabrique Nationale of Liege an exclusive license to sell Browning's automatic

pistol in Europe, outside of England. Soon after the United States entered World War I,

John Moses Browning returned to Colt's and developed more powerful machine guns

than his earlier inventions. In addition to machine guns, pistols were also in demand.

The Army had adopted the Colt .45 as its standard sidearm in 1911. During the war

Colt's produced 425,000 automatic pistols, 151,700 revolvers, 13,000 Maxim-Vickers

machine guns and 10,000 new Brownings.

After the war Colt's diversified into manufacturing other products and established

divisions for dishwashers, electrical, and plastics. Colt's production dropped during the

early years of the Depression but improved starting in 1933. However, on March 13,

1935 over a thousand workers walked off the job to begin a strike that lasted thirteen

weeks. The company experienced further catastrophe when the Flood of 1936 and

Hurricane of 1938 damaged the armory. Despite increasing output at the start of World

War II and winning the Army-Navy "E" award for outstanding production in 1942, Colt's

began to experience financial losses starting in July of 1943 due in part to its failure to

adopt modern manufacturing techniques, resulting in layoffs. Control of the company


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changed hands a few times and eventually became a subsidiary of Penn-Texas. That

holding company collapsed in 1958 and what remained became the holding company

Fairbanks Whitney. By 1960 manufacturing operations moved from Hartford to West

Hartford.

Presidents of Colt's through 1969:

Samuel Colt, 1855-1862

Elisa K. Root, 1862-1865

Richard Jarvis, 1865-1901

John Hall, 1901-1902

Lewis C. Grover, 1902-1909

William C. Skinner, 1909-1911

Col. Charles L.F. Robinson, 1911-1916

William C. Skinner, 1916-1921

Samuel M. Stone, 1921-1944

Graham H. Anthony, 1944-1949

B. Franklin Conner, 1949-1955

Chester Bland, 1955-1958

Fred A. Roff, Jr., 1958-1962

David C. Scott, 1962-1963

Paul A. Benke, 1963-1969

Source: Ellsworth S. Grant, The Colt Armory: A History of Colt's Manufacturing

Company, Inc., (Lincoln, R.I.: Mowbray Publishing, 1982).

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Scope and Content

The Connecticut State Library received the Colt Factory Firearms Collection and a large

manuscript collection from Colt's in 1957. While there is much information regarding the

operation of the company contained in the manuscript collection, it does not contain the

sources needed to trace the history of a specific firearm. Such information can only befound in the company's shipping records, which were not part of the 1957 donation, and

which Colt's has retained. For a fee, theArchives Departmentof the Colt's Manufacturing

Company Inc. can provide an Archive Letter detailing the history of a specific firearm.

The records of the Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company cover the period 1810-

1980, though most of the collection falls within the period 1840-1890. The records also

document many of the company's outside contracted activities and subsidiaries such as

the Gatling Gun Company, London Armory/Agency, and Union Ferry Company. Records
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on several of the related activities are limited to a single item. Not included among the

records are minutes of the board of directors meetings, personnel records, internal office

memoranda, annual reports, and printed financial statements.

The principle strengths of the Business File lie in the Incoming Correspondence (Series

3), and the Orders for Arms (Series 4). The routine nature of most of the incoming

correspondence lessens its informational value. The Legal File contains documentation

on patents. Generally, the Administrative File contains "public relations" materials,

including drafts of unpublished company histories and biographies, scrapbooks, armory

museum records and an index to correspondence compiled by museum staff. The

Publications File contains several catalogs of arms manufactured.

The collection contains handwritten and printed materials, bound volumes, drawings and

foreign language material.

Material in the separate manuscript catalog was transferred into the record group. All

the material pertaining to the Colt Company in the State Library, except for published

monographs and biographies and the gun collection in the Museum of Connecticut

History, is in RG 103 or picture group PG460.

A later accession has been added as the Mahron Collection, as well as several smaller

accessions collectively as Addenda.


Arrangement

Business File, 1826-1979, Accession: T001481, 25.75 cubic feet

Legal File, circa 1831-1943, Accession: T001481, 6.50 cubic feet

Administrative File, circa 1836-1980, Accession: T001481, 9 cubic feet

Publications File, circa 1850-1980, Accession: T001481, 6.75 cubic feet

Mahron Collection, 1871-1934, Accession: T003190, 46 cubic feet

Addenda, 1810-1948, Accessions: 1992-018,1994-038, 2000-036, 4.25 cubic

feet


Restrictions
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Restrictions on Access

See theRules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured

Collectionspolicy.

Restrictions on Use

See theReproduction and Publications of State Library Collectionspolicy.


Related Material

PG400, Hartford collection. See "Hartford - Industries - Colt's".

PG440, Collins photograph collection. Album 3 consists entirely of views of the factory

during and after the the 1936 and 1938 floods.

PG460, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company collection.

Also see theResearch Guide to Materials about Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing

Company.


Index Terms

Organizations:

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.

Persons:

Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862

Subjects:

Colt firearms

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. -- Records and correspondence

Subjects:

Hartford (Conn.)

Document Types:

Account booksAdvertisements

Agreements

Application forms
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Broadsides

BrochuresCashbooksCatalogsChartersClippingsContracts

CorrespondenceDaybooks

Design drawings

DiariesFinancial statements

InventoriesLedgers (account books)

Legal documentsLicenses

Logs (records)Manuals (instructional materials)

PatentsPhotographs

Powers of attorneyPrice lists

Prints (visual works)Purchase orders

Receipts (financial records)Reports

Scrapbooks


Administrative Information

Provenance

Following the 1955 take-over of the Colt Company by the Penn-Texas Corporation,

the new president/chairman made a gift to the people of Connecticut of the

valuable collection of Colt guns then at the armory's museum. Having concluded

that the museum at the State Library was the best repository, the Pratt & Whitney

Company Foundation transferred the gun collection and the business records on

March 7, 1957.

Processing Information

Most of the material that became RG 103 was cataloged separately at the point of

transfer. It was not until 1971 that staff arranged and described the records as

Record Group 103. Even then, many items were still among the cataloged

manuscripts. Staff processed RG 103 again in 1976.

In 1982 Richard Mellon provided funds for a project designed to reorganize and

microfilm the Colt Company records and personal papers of Samuel Colt at the

Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Wadsworth

Atheneum. An outside consultant prepared a report on the condition of the
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collection in the State Library and advised staff on organizational strategies. The

present organization represents efforts to clarify the original administrative and

legal purposes of the records. The consultant recommended utilizing the four major

file units of Business, Legal, Administrative, and Publication, to organize records

whose provenance had been destroyed. A later accession has been added as the

Mahron Collection, as well as several smaller accessions collectively as Addenda.

Independent researcher Cari Peretzman completed Phase I, reprocessing under the

grant funds in September 1983. At that point, staff concluded that the records

required further processing before microfilming could proceed. Arrangement and

description continued until July 1984.


Container List

Business File, 1826-1979, Accession: T001481, 25.75 cubic feet

Series 1. Accounts, 1840-1890

This series contains those financial and accountingrecords that have survived from the Colt

Company. It contains the accounts of guns sold bythe "Allies? a select group of Colt firearm

distributors. These are arranged in numericalorder by the distributor's account number. These

Allies accounts cover the period 1883-1884.Samuel Colt's bank account book and two volumes

of cash and rent books, 1863-1890, are also

included in this series. The Colt Company hadsome thirty contractors working in the Armory,comprising most of the company's employees.

Contractor's Accounts, 1868-1889, provideinformation on the materials produced by oontract

for the company and the amount of money Coltpaid for it.

The accounts are arranged in chronological order

by month and year.

Box

Allies Rebate Account, 1883-1884 1

Bank Account Book, S. Colt, 1857-1859

Bills and Receipts

1840-1841, 1849-1855, 17 folders

1856-1857, 15 folders 2

1858-1859, 1861-1864, 15 folders 3

1865-1867, 1872-1874, 1878-1882, 1885-1889,25 folders

4
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Cash and Rent books, 1863-1890, 2 volumes 5

Contractor's accounts,

1868, 1881-1886, 1889, 7 folders

Series 2. Outgoing Correspondence, 1826-1962, 38 folders

Partial index to correspondence in AdministrativeFile.

F, 1826 6

C, 1839

F, 1844

H-Z, 1847

C-S, 1850

C-E, 1852

C-S, 1853

C-T, 1854

B-S, 1855

C-H, 1856

C-R, 1857

A-W, 1858

A-W, 1859

C-H, 1860

A-W, 1861

G, 1868

W, 1869

B, 1870

R, 1873

U, 1875

W, 1876

C, 1878

J, 1879

E-H, 1880

M, 1881

G, 1882

H, 1885

Mc, 1886

C-L, 1887


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R, 1888

A-K, 1889

G, 1899

P, 1906

The following are in the same folder

F, 1910

F, 1911

F, 1916


C, 1936

F-T, 1937

L-M, 1940

S, 1941

G-W, 1942

New York, 1937-1948


B, 1947

C, 1952

B, 1954


E-W, 1960

A-W, 1961

A-W, 1962

W.B. Franklin Copy Book, 1874-1881

Franklin was a Colt Vice President andGeneral Agent.

Most of the correspondence in his copybook is directed to the London Agency.

Letters in the book are arranged in

chronological order. No index.

Form letters, 1889-1955 7

Form letters were sent to Colt distributorswith notification of price and supply

changes and information on new weaponsmanufactured.

Form letters are arranged chronologicallyby month and year.

Typescript


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Typescript is a record of both outgoing andincoming correspondence transcribed from

a dictaphone. The bulk of thecorrespondence falls between 1853-1860

and deals with matters concerningshipment and manufacture in Europe,

patents, routine incoming correspondenceon manufacture and shipment in the U.S.

and some occassional personal

correspondence between Sam Colt and hisbrother James.

Arranged by cylinder and follows a veryrough chronological order.

Series I, No. 1-79, 1847-1861


Series I, No. 79-99, 1847-1861

Series II, No. 1-8, 1847-1861

Correspondence, A-W, undated

Series 3. Incoming Correspondence, 1836-1970

This series contains correspondence to SamuelColt and to the Colt Company, 1836-1970, withthe bulk of the letters covering up to 1890. Themajority of the series is composed of orders androutine requests for catalogs, price lists, parts.The series also contains reports from agents in

Europe and the United States. Requests foremployment in Colt's new Armory are common inthe early correspondence as are letters of a more

personal nature from Samuel Colt's brother

James. The series also contains a letter book ofincoming correspondence from the Allies, 1873-

1880. The Allies were a select group of armsdealers who, because of special araangementswith the Colt Company, were insured of specialprices and supplies. This letter book contains a

copy of the Colt reply.

Arranged chronologically as created bycorrespondent. Partial index in Administrative File.

See also: Series 4, Orders for Arms, 1862-1933.Administrative File, Company history, for

photostats on government orders of Walkerrifles,ca. 1847.

1836-1851, 14 folders 8

1852-1853, 7 folders 9

1854-1864, 12 folders 10

1865-1873, 11 folders 11

Allies Letter Book, 1873-1880 11A

Allies Price Lists, 1875, 1 folder

1874-1877, 6 folders 12


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1878-1879, 5 folders 13

1880-1882, 6 folders 14

1883-1885 June, 6 folders 15

1885 July-1886 July, 4 folders 16

1886 August-1887, 4 folders 17

1888-1890, 7 folders 18

1891, 1893-1894, 1899-1903, 1907-1911, 1914, 1916-1917, 1920, 1922-1923, 1925-1927, 1930-1944, 1946-

1949, 1951-1956, 1958-1962, 1970, 53 folders

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Series 4. Orders for Arms, circa 1860-1933

See also: Series 3, Correspondence, Incoming,1836-1970. Administrative File, History files

contain photostats of correspondence pertaining togovernment order of Walker rifles, circa 1847.

General Orders (post cards), 1873-1897 20

The General Orders were placed by variousdealers using post cards supplied by the

Colt Company.

These are arranged in chronological orderby year, and within that are mixed.

Bureau of Ordnance 21

Composed of orders placed by the U.S.Board of Ordnance to arm the military.

Over the years, these orders were placedby the various divisions- U.S. Army, Navy,and War Departments. The Army and Navy

Department orders cover the Civil Warperiod. War Department orders cover

World War I.

The Army and Navy Department orders arearranged chronologically by the date theorder was submitted. War Department

orders are listed by contract number andare not in chronological order. A list in thefirst folder details what each order was for.

Army Department

1863-1864, 1872-1874, 1878, 1880-1889,6 folders

Miscellaneous orders and payments, 1862-

1889

Navy Department

1862-1890

Correspondence, 1872-1890

War Department

Master list of arms, 1917-1918


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P14321-2405 Sa, 1918 August 21

P2937-1219 Sa, 1918 February 12

P10740-1933 Sa, 1918 June 26

P15482-2611 Sa, 1918 September 26

P14094-2364 Sa, 1918 August 10 22

CMG 6, 1917 July 16

CMG 156, 1918 January 8

CMG 181, 1918 January 14

P5820-1429 Sa, 1918 April 12

CMG 3, 1918 July 16

CMG 174, 1918 November 13

P13043-2161 Sa, 1918 February 5

P13095-2177 Sa, 1918 August 6

14984, 1917 October 1

P9886-1851 Sa

14670-R32; 14671, 1917 September 18

5662-1412 Sa, 1918 May 21

18497-2992 Sa, 1918 October 17

P4813-1868 Sa, 1918 May 15

P13264-2196 Sa, 1918 August 9

47253-143/2, 1916 December 16

749/15/1442; 1443, 1915

12962-2155 Sa, 1918 August 30

1915 January 22

Miscellaneous 23

National Guard, 1873-1889

U.S. Arsenals, 1873-1887

Orders from Foreign Governments

Includes numerous British WW I orders.

These are arranged in chronological orderas they were placed by each country.

Italy, circa 1860 January 16

Egypt, 1865 September 20, 1866 February 15

Egypt, 1866 May 17

Russia, 1867 December 7


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Turkey, 1886 November

Rumania, 1915 May 1

Russia, 1915 November 26

Great Britain, 1917 November 28, 1918 April 27

Great Britain, 1918 May 7, 1918 May 8

Argentina, 1933 August 29

Series 5. Tests and Reports, 1857-1921, 20 folders

This series contains the records of tests conductedwith arms manufactured by the Colt Company.

Prior to adoption of arms, the governmentrequired that numerous trials and inspections beconducted. The series also contains reports from

military officers on the merits of Colt's weapons.

Series is arranged in chronological order. See itemlisting in first folder.

1857-1860, 1867, 1875, 1892-1904, 1910, 1912, 1921 24

Series 6. Production Records, 1856-1928

This series contains those records dealing with thenumber of arms manufactured and ordered,

production notes, records of employee'sproduction and time, materials received,

contractors, and ballistic tests.

Arranged in rough chronological order with somematerial arranged in folders by type.

See also: Series 5, Tests and Reports, 1857-1921.Administrative File, Records of Colt Company

Production, box 62.

Production Notes, 1856-1865, 1875-1877, 1912 24A

Production Log, 1861-1882

Contractor Log, 1867-1869, 1871-1873, 2 volumes

Production/ Time Books, 1871-1889, 6 volumes

U.S. Army M1897's Delivered, 1897-1899

Price/Buyer's book, 1895-1905

Orders Placed, 1926 24B

Orders Placed, 1928

Production notes on Baxter, Universal, Colt Company, and

Gatling

Miscellaneous, 1892, undated

Series 7. Stocks and Stockholders, circa 1917-1979, 4folders

Notices, 1934-1942 24C

Most of the notices appeared in


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newspapers and dealt with dividends,dates of annual meetings, and company

policy as it effects employees. Thesenotices were issued by the Board of

Directors.

Statements, 1919-1948, 1979, 2 folders

Contains an important record of condensedfinancial statements issued to

stockholders. One odd statement isincluded for the first quarter of 1979. Mostof these were released in conjunction with

annual meetings.

Stock Certificates, circa 1917-1953

Contains stock certificates that because ofcompany name changes, are void.

Material arranged by type in roughchronological order.

Subgroup 1. London Armory, circa 1840-1890

Samuel Colt's success at the 1851 Crystal PalaceExposition in London lead to his decision to open a

branch armory at Pimlico, on the Thames, in1853. The manufacturing phase of the operationwas short-lived. The factory was closed in 1857

but the London Agency, operating as a salesoffice, remained until 1912.

Series 1. Correspondence 25

As a branch of the armory in Hartford,London agents were required to sendmonthly reports to the home officeconcerning the London operation.

Arranged in chronological order by type.

Incoming

1852-1854, 1860, 1870, 1875, 6 folders

Outgoing

1853, 1855, 1859-1860, 1862-1864,1868-1875, 12 folders

1876-1883, 1885-1886, 9 folders 26

1887-1890, 8 folders 27

Series 2. Accounts, 4 folders 28

Arranged in chronological order.

1866

Balance Sheets, 1871-1882

Cash Received and Paid Out, 1871-1882

Accounts of Gatling Gun Co. to London Agency,1873, 1875


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Series 3. Orders, 1 folder

Contains requests for arms and parts fromall over Europe and Australia. The orders

appear to have been submitted to Hartfordwhere they were filled by the armory

there. The London Armory was apparently

just a go-between and maintained nostocks of their own.

Arranged in numerical order.

Orders, 1-199, 1888-1890

Series 4. Scrapbook, 3 folders

Contains clippings from foreignnewspapers, pasted in scrapbook pages.They concern arms in general and Colt

arms in particular. They begin circa 1840,over ten years before the London Armorywas established. The clippings can most

likely be attributed to an enthusiastic earlyemployee.

circa 1840-1860, 3 folders

Series 5. Miscellaneous, 1 folder

Contains extract and autobiography ofJames Nasmyth.

Subgroup 2. Colt's Cartridge Works, 1855, 1 folder 29

Samuel Colt established the Cartridge Works in1855. Located in the South Meadows, it

manufactured the cartridges necessary for theguns in the nearby armory. As far as we can tell,

almost all of the Cartridge Work's employees were

women. Not a totally unusual occurence in light ofthe experiences of "mill girls" in Lowell andLawrence, the early use of women in gun

manufacturing in the Connecticut River Valleyneeds to be explored.

Unfortunately for researchers, few records havesurvived from the Cartridge Works. Contained inthis subgroup is the payroll record for October,

1855, and a few cartridge paper samples.

Subgroup 3. Brass Foundry, 1855-1889, 1 folder

The Brass Foundry, supervised by Thomas Curry,

was one of many Colt armory inside contractingoperations. Colt supplied the workspace and

machinery and in return, experienced workersfilled the orders. The owners of large

manufacturing interests in the mid-nineteenthcentury used the inside contractor system to more

efficiently run the operation. The owner coulddevote himself to money matters while skilledspecialists saw to the employees and actual

production.

Contains only two items; an account book, 1855-1889 and a diary, 1871. Both were kept by Curry.


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Subgroup 4. Johns-Pratt Company, 1922-1942, 4 folders

In an attempt to diversify production, the ColtCompany purchased the Johns-Pratt Company in

1923. Located in Hartford on Capitol Avenue,Johns-Pratt had produced electrical and mouldedplastic products since 1886. Out of Johns-Pratt,

Colt created three new divisions: the PlasticsDivision, Electrical Division, and the Autosan Dish-

washing Machine Division.

Johns-Pratt Company, 1 folder

Contains an accounting firm's report on theJohns-Pratt Company, December 31,

1923; financial statements, income andcash reports, January 1924-January 1926.

Plastics Division, 1922-1937, 1 folder

The Plastics Division was divided into threedepartments: the button department,

mechanical goods department, and generalplastics moulding department. The

materials in this subgroup contain, anarticle on the Plastics Division from a

November 1936 "Connecticut Industry,"and a March 1940 "American Era." Alsoincluded are newspaper clippings and an

advertising circular.

Colt Noark Division (Electrical Division), 1922-1942, 1folder

Colt's Electrical Division produced a widearray of fuses, switches, and starters for

industrial use.

Most of the material's on the division in thefile are catalogues of products and two

newspaper/magazine clippings.

Autosan Dish-Washing Machine Division, circa 1935, 1folder

First patented in 1913, the Colt AutosanDish-Washer gained wide acceptance withrestaurants and holels during the 1930s.

Production continued until circa 1950.

Records include an instruction and partsbooklet and advertising circulars.

Subgroup 5. Sonora Mining and Exploring Company, 1858-1861, 1 folder

Interested in the exploration of the Arizonaterritory, Samuel Colt founded the Sonora Miningand Exploring Company. He sent his secretary,

J.D. Alden; his agent, W.B. Hartley; and hisbrother-in-law, R.W.H. Jarvis to Arizona to

investigate land expansion and miningpossibilities. The Sonora Mining and ExploringCompany shared board members and some

stockholders with the Colt Company.


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The subgroup contains correspondence, 1858-1861 form Colt's men in Arizona as well as letters

to Board of Directors and stockholders. Alsocontains H.R. 836, January 1859, a bill to provide

temporary government for the Territory ofArizona. Also S. 555, February 1859, a bill to

provide temporary government for the Dakota andArizona territories.

Subgroup 6. Union Ferry Company, 1857-1875 30

The Union Ferry Company was incorporated in1857 for the purpose of operating a ferry acrossthe Connecticut River between Hartford and East

Hartford. Samuel Colt was elected a director of thecompany in August, 1858, and was the company's

single largest stockholder.

Series 1. Correspondence, 2 folders

Arranged in chronological order by type ofcorrespondence.

Outgoing, 1858 October-1859 October

Incoming, 1858 January-1864 November

Series 2. Corporate Legal Records, 2 folders

Contains the act incorporating the UnionFerry Company in May, 1857.

Record of Incorporation, 1857 May

Corporate papers and by-laws

Contains a record book withminutes of Board of Director's

meetings, July 1857-March 1867,

corporate by-laws and legalcorrespondence, lists of

stockholders, and certificates forshares of stock, 1858.

Series 3. Financial Records, 8 volumes

Contains a fairly complete records of thecompany's finances.

Bank account book, 1858-1875

Daybook, 1858-1875

Daybook, 1858-1866

Trial balances and Treasurer's Reports, 1859-1867

Contains accounts of the UnionFerry Comapny with the Colt

Company, indicating that there wassome exchange of labor andstorage between the two.

Record Book, 1857-1869 30A

Ledger, 1858-1866 30B


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Cash book, 1858-1866 30C

Journal, 1859-1866 30D

Series 4. Passenger Logs, 10 volumes 31

Contains ten volumes listing the horseteams, wagons, ox teams and footpassengers ferried across the river.

Volume one is missing.

Volume 2, 1863 July-December

Volume 3, 1863 September-1864 September

Volume 4, 1864 September-1865 September

Volume 5, 1866 November-December

Volume 6, 1867 March-October

Volume 7, 1867 May-June

Volume 8, 1867 April-September

Volume 9, 1870 December-1871 October 32

Volume 10, 1871 October-1872 September

Volume 11, 1874 July-December

Subgroup 7. Willow Ware Manufacturing Company, 1864-1873, 9 volumes

Samuel Colt built his armory on a floodplain inHartford's South Meadows. A dyke was built andthousands of willow trees planted to help preventsoil erosion. These willows were the inspiration,

and the material, for Colt's Willow WareManufacturing Company. Founded circa 1864, the

company used the abundant willows to

manufacture furniture, baskets, and wagons. Coltbrought skilled craftsmen and their families overfrom Germany to work in the Willow Ware plant.He built them a "company town", called PotsdamVillage, complete with chalet-type housing and a

beer garden. Fire destroyed the Willow Warefactory building in 1874. Due in part to increased

competition, it was never rebuilt.

Financial Records, 1864-1873

Items 3, 4, 5 are in one box.

Daybooks, 1868-1873, 2 volumes

Although these volumes are labeled"daybooks" they do not contain

standard daybook entries. Theycontain the Willow Ware Company'sretail accounts and list the orders

placed by these various merchants.

The volumes are chronological byyear, and within, chronological by

month and year.


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1868 December-1873 October Item 1

1870 November-1873 April Item 2

Checkbook, 1870 November-1873 March, 1volume

Item 3

Contains check stubs for checkswritten as well as some forty pages

of blank checks.

Stubs are in chronological order.

Inventories, 1864-1870, 2 volumes

Contains year-end inventories ofmanufactured items, chairs,

baskets, hampers etc., as well assome materials used in production.

The first inventroy, 1864December, was crossed out and

consolidated in the second volume,

1864 December-1870 December.

Chronological by year.

1864 December Item 4

1864 December-1870 December Item 5

Journals, 1864-1873, 2 volumes

Contains a monthly accounting ofthe basic assets and liabilities for

the Willow Ware plant.

Organized in chronological order bymonth and year.

1864 January-1871 May Item 6

1871 June-1873 October Item 7

Ledger, 1864-1873, 1 volume Item 8

Contains the list of Willow Wareaccounts and their debit/credit

standing with the company. Indexincluded at front and back of

volume.

Petty Cash Book, 1872 January-1873 February, 1volume

Item 9

Contains the account of petty cashon hand for the Willow Ware

Company.

Chronological by month and year.

Subgroup 8. Baxter Steam Engine Company, 1871-1894 33

The Colt Company manufactured a number ofproducts under contract from other companies inthe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.One of these was the Baxter Steam Engine. TheBaxter Steam Engine Company was apparently


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purchased sometime in 1871 from the firm ofRussell E Spheer and operated out of New York

City. The Colt contract with the Company (Russell& Spheer) dates to September, 1870. Colt thentransferred business to the new Baxter Steam

Engine Co. at the request of Russell & Spheer. TheColt Company manufactured the engine, which in

turn was sold by the Baxter Steam EngineCompany and its agents.

Series 1. Outgoing Correspondence, 1871-1890

Contains the correspondence to the ColtCompany from the Baxter Steam Engine

Co. and its agents. Most of thecorrespondence is concerned with ordersand the squaring of accounts between

Baxter and Colt.

It is arranged in chronological order byyear and, within each folder, alphabetically

by name of correspondent.

1871-1874, 1877-1885, 13 folders

1886-1890, 5 folders 34

Series 2. Incoming Correspondence, 1871-1873, 3 folders

Contains a relatively small amount ofcorrespondence from the Colt Company to

Baxter Steam Engine. Most of thecorrespondence deals with the early periodof the business relationship between thetwo companies and therefore concernsitself with setting down the terms underwhich the two companies would continue

to do business.

Arranged in chronological order by year,within that it is alphabetical by name of

correspondent.

Series 3. Accounts, 1874-1881, 2 folders

Contains an account between BaxterSteam Engine and the Colt Company of the

total amount, in dollars, of engines soldand the royalties due the Baxter Steam

Engine Company. Also, lists of engines soldand consigned to dealers. Includes

horsepower designation.

Accounts, 1874-1881


Engines sold, 1871-1872

Agent's stock, 1872

Miscellaneous, 3 folders

Advertising cuts and circulars

Catalogues, 1878, 1880, 1889, 1894


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Weight of castings for canal boat

Subgroup 9. Colt's Disc Engine (West's Patent DiscEngine), 4 folders

35

The Colt Disc Engine was another productmanufactured under contract by Colt. The West

Patent Disc Engine adopted the name of itsmanufacturer and was renamed Colt's Disc

Engine.

Advertising cuts and circulars

Catalogues

Correspondence, 1878, 1880-1882, 1884, 1888

Royalty and sales records of engines, 2 volumes

Subgroup 10. Facer Refrigerating and Ice MachineCompany, 1 folder

36

The Colt Company, in addition to the enginesnoted, manufactured other related machinery. The

Facer Company of New York contracted for themanufacture of its refrigerating and ice machine.

Catalogue, undated

Subgroup 11. Federal Adding Machine Company, 1918-1924, 5 folders

As part of the post-war diversification effort, Coltcontracted with the Federal Adding Machine

Company for production of its "A" adding machine.Production began at the Colt Company in 1919.

The relationship between the two companies wassomething less than beneficial, especially for Colt,

and production ceased circa 1923.

Letters of recommendation, 1918

About the machine prior to themanufacturing agreement.

Outgoing correspondence, 1920, 1922

Incoming correspondence, 1919-1920, 1922


Correspondence with Colt, 1919-1920

Production notes, 1920, 1923

Rebuilt machines, 1924


Legal papers, 1920-1922

Stockholder's papers, 1919-1922

Newspaper articles, 1921

Subgroup 12. Gatling Gun Company, 1865-1900

Dr. Richard J. Gatling was born in North Carolina


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in 1818. He gave up medicine to pursueinventions of a more mechanical nature. Tragically

naive from the vantage point of the nuclear age,Gatling believed that a weapon of sufficient

destructive capabilities, one that would result inan enormous loss of life, was sufficient to end

wars. That weapon, he believed, was his GatlingGun. It was the first hand-operated battery or

rapid fire machine gun.

Gatling began his work on the gun in Indianapolisin 1861-1862. In the fall of 1862, Gatling went toCincinnati, where the manufacture of six guns byMiles Greenwood and Company was negotiated.Beginning in 1865, and until coming to Hartford,the Cooper Fire Arms Manufacturing Company of

Philadelphia manufactured the Gatling Gun.

Manufacture in Indianapolis ended in 1874. TheGatling Gun Company of Connecticut was formedand purchased, for the sum of $25,000, all thestock, property, and assets of the Gatling Gun

Company of Indiana.

The Gatling Gun Company of Connecticut waslocated at, and the guns manufactured by, the

Colt Company of Hartford.

See the Gatling file in the History section ofAdministrative File.

Series 1. Accounts, 1872-1889, 7 folders 37

Contains accounts with retailers,inventories, financial report numbers of

guns manufactured, and accounts of laborand materials.


Account with Paget & Co., 1872

Guns manufactured, 1873-1874

Labor/Materials, 1873-1874

Account with Morgan & Co., 1875

Inventories, 1875, 1876, 1888, 1889


Cash liabilities , 1873-1874

Cash receipts and disbursements, 1889

Royalty statement, 1896

Series 2. Agents Records, 1869-1899, 8 folders

Contains the agreements, contracts,correspondence, and some accounts of theagents that represented the Gatling Gun

Company.

Folders with material on the agents arearranged in chronological order.


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L. Broadwell (Europe), 1869

J.H. Brown (Mexico), 1869-1871

Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 1871

B.H. Zerbe, 1873

C. Cramp (Philadelphia), 1886

E.H. Carmick & C. Colne (France), 1887

F. Penfield (Europe), 1888

Gatling Gun Limited, circa 1888-1899

Series 3. Incoming Correspondence, 1865-1898, 11folders

Contains the correspondence addressed tothe Gatling Gun Company in Hartford and

includes the correspondence from Colt tothe Gatling Gun Company. Also containedin this series are tests and reports on guns

sent to the cmmpany.

Arranged in chronological order andalphabetical within each year.

Tests and reports

1865

1873

undated

Incoming correspondence

1867-1873

1875

1876, 1877, 1879

1884-1885

1888-1889

1890, 1895, 1898

1892

1895

Series 4. Outgoing Correspondence, 1867-1895, 6 folders

Arranged in chrolological order.

1880-1884, 1 folder 38

Contains the outgoingcorrespondence from the Gatling

company to the Colt Company.

1867-1875, 1877-1878, 1889-1890, 1894-1895, 5folders


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Contains early outgoingcorrespondence from R.J. Gatling,

the Gatling Gun Company ofIndianapolis.

Series 5. Orders, 1866-1900

Contains orders placed to the ColtCompany for the manufacture of Gatling

Guns.

Arranged first by source of orders, i.e.Army Department, and within that it is

chronological.

Orders to Colt's, 4 folders 38

1874, 1877-1879

1880-1883

1885

1886-1890

Payment notices, 1877-1886, 1 folder

U.S. Government 39

Appropriations, 1874

Rules for inspection, 1875

Bureau of Ordnance

U.S. Army

1866

1873-1874

1875

1877

1878

1880, 1882

1889-1893

1889

1894-1895

1897

1899

U.S. Navy

1873-1884

1900

War Department, 1871-1890

U.S. Arsenals, 1873-1884


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National Guard, 1886-1890

U.S. Ordnance Agency, 1877-1878

Foreign Governments 40

Argentina, 1867

Dutch Government, 1867

Prussia, 1867

Bavarian Arsenals, 1868

Denmark, 1868

Russia, 1869-1870

Turkey, 1870

Italy, 1872

Spain, 1873

Japan, 1874

Tunisia, 1875

France, 1878

Series 6. Legal Records, 1866-1890, 13 folders

Contains agreements for sale and/ormanufacture, U.S. and foreign licenses for

production abroad, power of attorney,power of patentee, statements to

stockholders, proxies, a copy of thearticles of incorportion, some early board

meeting minutes, by-laws, and lists ofstockholders.

Arranged by type of record and withinthat, in chronological order.

Agreements 40

1866

1870, 2 folders

1870, 1875, 1881

1871

1889

1890

U.S. Cartridge Co.

Licenses

1871

1879

Power of Attorney, 1875, 1888


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Power of Patentee, 1881

Stockholder's records, 1873-1874, 1876, 1880,1888-1889

Series 7. Production Records, 1873-1874, 2 folders

Contains one bound volume consisting of arecord of the component parts for the C.30

Gatling Gun. Also drawings of component

parts, made perhaps for patentapplications.

M1895 Gatling Gun, 1873-1874 40

Drawings

Series 8. Publications/Advertisements, 1865-1898, 2folders

Contains a mixed assortment ofnewsclippings, leaflets, price lists,

illustrations, advertisements, and briefcompany histories.

Subgroup 13. Railway Register Manufacturing Company,1873-1890, 7 folders

Located in Buffalo, New York, the Railway RegisterManufacturing Company produced punches for

railway use.

Correspondence is in chronological order by yearand alphabetical within that by the last name of

the correspondent.

Outgoing Correspondence, 1873-1874, 1877-1879, 1882-1890, 6 folders

41

Most of the correspondence is addressedto the Colt Company. These letters are

from agents and the main office in Buffaloconcerning manufacture and shipments.

Newsclippings

Subgroup 14. The Thorne Cylindrical Type-setting MachineCompany, 1 folder

As suggested by the company name, the ThorneCylindrical Type-setting Machine Company wasinvolved in the production of composing and

distributing machines. Manufactured in Hartford,presumably by Colt's.

Catalog, undated 42

Subgroup 15. The Universal Printing Press, 1874-1890

The Universal Printing Machine, patented byMerritt Gally in 1869, was manufactured by theColt Company under a contract made with three

licensees of the press in 1873. The licenseestraded under the name of E.V. Haughwout & Co.

This license was terminated in 1876 and Coltcontinued to manufacture the printing presses for


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the patentee, Merritt Gally.

In 1886, Gally's patent expired on the press andColt continued to produce them for the J.

Thomson Press Company. John Thomson had beenMerritt Gally's manager. A legal battle followed

between Gally and Thomson.

Outgoing Correspondence 42

Contains almost exclusively outgoingcorrespondence from either Gally or

Thomson to the Colt Company.


1874, 1877-1886, 4 folders

1886-1890, 5 folders 43

Incoming Correspondence

Legal

Contains the defendants brief to the

litigation between Gally and Thomson.

Catalogues

Contains an advertising circular and foursales catalogues from J. Thomson Press

Company.

Legal File, circa 1831-1943, Accession: T001481, 6.50 cubicfeet

Box

Series 1. Agreements and Contracts, 1849-1899, 20folders

Arranged chronologically by year. No index. Seeitem listing in first folder.

For contracts dealing with arms manufacture,

see Orders, Series 4, in Business File Also,Correspondence, Series 2 and 3 in Business File.

Agreements for Employment 44

1849

1852

1853

1859

1867

1878

1894

Undated

Agreements for Manufacture


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1870, 2 folders

1871

1883

1890

Agreements with Selling Firms

1859

1860

1865

1866

1868, 1870, 1873

1896-1897, 1899

Contract for Universal Printing Press, 1886

Series 2. Charter, 1836, 1 folder

The single item in this series is the charter forthe "Patent Arms Manufacturing Company" ofPaterson, New Jersey, 1836. Issued to SamuelColt, et.al. One printed copy, 1836, and one

photostatic copy, circa 1949.

Charter 44

Series 3. Complaints and Law Suits, 1851-1913

See also, Correspondence, Series 2 and 3 inBusiness File.

Bills of Complaint 44

Contains breach of contract cases andclaims on unsold arms.

Arranged chronologically by the date the

complaint was first filed. No index. Seeitem listing in first folder.

1884

1908

1911

Law Suits

Contains files of suits by and against theColt Company, in the U.S. and abroad.

Files contain depositions andcorrespondence pertaining to cases.

Law suits are arranged in chronologicalorder by year.

1851

1856


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1857

1870, 2 folders

1870 (German)

1873 45

1877

1879

1882, 2 folders

1884, 2 folders

1885-1886

1887

1889

1890

1900

1911

1913

Series 4. Patents, circa 1831-1943

By 1920, the Colt Company owned or waslicensed under 300 patents, 50 of which were

design patents.

The patent series contains information on bothindividual and company patents. Also includes

one box of oversized drawings.

Applications, 1844-1856, 6 folders 45

Contains the inventor's name anddescription of item a patent is requested

for.

Arranged chronologically by date filed.Item listing in first folder.

1844

1849

1850

1851, 2 folders

1856

Assignments, 1836-1910, 7 folders

Contains information on the transfer orpurchase of patent rights from the

original holder to Sam Colt or the ColtCompany. Accompanying correspondence

and actual agreement are in the files.

Arranged chronologcally by date of


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transfer agreement. Item listing in firstfolder.

1836

1850

1871

1872

1880-1881

1884

1893

1910

Correspondence, 1835-1894, 15 folders

Contains mostly incoming letters frompatent attorneys concerning pending

patent applications and possibleinfringements. Most of this

correspondence is from John E. Earle, aNew Haven patent attorney. Also

contains letters requesting Colt Companysupport for adoption of a new invention.

Arranged chronologically by date ofcreation. Item listing in first folder.

1835-1856

1873-1919

1878

1880-1888

1881

1881, 1884

1884-1887

1885-1887

1886, 2 folders

1882-1889

1884-1886

1892

1893-1895

1894

Extensions, 1840-1871, 7 folders 46

Contains applications for andaccompanying documentation for an

extension for an existing patent at thetime of expiration. Also contains

Congressional reports on Samuel Colt's


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1848-1849 and 1857 patent extensioncases.

Arranged chronologically by date ofextension application. Item listing in first

folder.

1848

1840-1851

1855

1858, 3 folders

1871

Interferences/Infringements, 1859-1903, 14 folders

Contains claims and opinions concerningcases of patent interference relating tothe Colt Company, its contractors or

employees.

Arranged in chronological order. Item

listing in first folder.

1859

1869

1872

1882

1884, 4 folders

1885, 2 folders

1888

1893

1892, 1896

1903

Licenses, 1870-1889, 3 folders

Licenses were issued to the ColtCompany granting it the right to

manufacture, sell and use an inventionwithout fear of patent infringement.

Arranged in chronological order with anitem listing in the first folder.

1870

1872

1889

Lists, 1890-1907, 5 folders

Lists were compiled by the Colt Companyor the individual inventor on the patents

held by each.


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Contains lists of patents held by theGatling Gun Company, Fabrique

Nationale/John Browning and patentsassigned to E.K. Root.

In chronological order with an item listingin the first folder.

circa 1890

1898

1907

Undated, 2 folders

Opinions, 1867-1943, 9 folders 47

Patent opinions were issued in the form

of correspondence by patent attorneysand concerned whether new patent

application posed any problems.

Arranged in chronological order by date

of correspondence. See item listing infirst folder.

1867

1874

1877

1880

1884

1886

1901 July, October

1901 August

1943

Specifications, 1836-1920 48-53

Patent specifications detail the designelements of the new invention andgenerally include the drawings. Also

contains patent specifications presentedto numerous countries, including Austria,France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy,

with most presented to the United

States. Naturally, because of the numberof foreign countries represented, a

number of patent specifications are in aforeign language. No translations made.

Additional design drawings in oversizebox 53A. Patent specifications contain

information on the invention, theinventor, the date, and the country the

patent was requested form. Somehandwritten, some typewritten. ContainsPatent Gazette reprints and photostats.

Arranged by number assigned by patent


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office. Includes four itemized listsarranged by patent number,

chronological by date, alphabetical bycountry, and alphabetical by inventor.

A detailed listing is available at theHistory and Genealogy reference desk.

Drawings, circa 1831-1859 53Aoversize

Series 5. Power of Attorney, 1849-1894, 3 folders

Contains handwritten copies of the power ofattorney granted to Elisha Colt by Samuel Colt,1849, correspondence concerning a power ofattorney granted to J.D. Greene by V.A. King,and the power of attorney granted to Mexicanagent A.E. Combaluzier by the Colt Company.

Arranged in chronological order. See item list infirst folder.

1849 October 13 53

1884 July 8

1894 November 10

Miscellaneous, 1856, 1885, 2 folders

Administrative File, circa 1836-1980, Accession: T001481, 9 cubicfeet

Box

Diaries, 1865-1925

Evidence suggests that company administrators orprominent employees created these items. Thecontents of this series varies: Records of daily

appointments and other notes by companyofficials; notes on patents, and engineering and

mathematical computations, enclosures of articlesfromAmerican Machinist, and notes of excavation

work in South Meadows from 1895-1906.

Arranged by date of entry. W.B. Franklin's diary isindexed in the Index to Correspondence in this

File. There is also an index to a diary not included

in this record group, dated January-March 1871.No index for other items.

Daily Appointment Journals (handwritten withenclosures), 1893, 1902, 1905, 1908-1911, 4 volumes

(bound)

54

Diaries (handwritten), 2 diaries (bound)

W.B. Franklin , 1865-1867

Franklin was Vice President andGeneral Agent, 1866-1888.

S. Stone, 1925


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Stone was President, 1921-1944.

Personal Notebooks, 1883-1910

C.J. Ehbets, 1883-1910, 6 volumes (bound) +enclosures.

Ehbets was patent attorney.

RESTRICTED

The notebooks are in very fragilecondition. A use copy is available in

the box for researchers to use.

Includes information on variouspatents, mathematical notes, and a

sketchbook of fellowadministrators, 1872.

Stenographer's Notebooks, 4 notepads

Dictation not transcribed.

1901 January 21-1901 January 30

1901 January 31-1901 February 11

1901 February 11-1901 February 22

1901 October 18-1901 October 26

Company History, circa 1846-1979

Biographies (printed, typed and handwritten), 2 folders 55

Evidence suggest that the biographical fileson the individuals that comprised the

company were kept on record for publicuse.

Internal, Employees and Inventors (available forpublication)

J. Browning, M. Bulkeley, B.F.Conner, W.B. Franklin, R.J. Gatling,

R.W.H. Jarvis, W. Mason, C.L.F.Robinson, E.K. Root, W.C. Skinner,S.M. Stone, A.L. Ulrich. Also, 1890award presented to C.J. Ehbets by

Franklin Institute.

Samuel Colt, 1814-1862, 1 folder

Includes September 1, 1853certificate from C.H. Pondpresenting S. Colt as Major

Commandant; copy of 1855 speech

given at the Institute of CivilEngineers; newspaper clippings

and obituary notices; coat-of-arms;Colt family tree; items on murder

trial of brother, John Colt; and1914 articles on celebration of

100th anniversary of Colt's birth(photostat).


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Histories (handwritten and typed), 2 folders

Evidence suggest that the historical fileson the company were kept on record for

public use.

Internal

Synopsis of arms manufactured

over the years, 1830-1916; draft of

Arms Production, 1838-1911 (seeRecords of Colt Company

production for bound copy, 1838-1949); Development of Colt

Revolver; Development of MachineGuns, 1862-1943; and papers onthe Colt-Walker revolver, 1846-

1847 correspondence(photocopies) pertaining to the

contract with United StatesGovernment; (typed) copies ofcorrespondence and photos of

letters of S. Walker and S. Coltfrom same 1846-1847 period.

Originals of these photos wereloaned to Colt's by Walker's

daughter in 1939.

External

Items written about the ColtCompany and its history.

(Also see: PrintedMaterials/Periodicals).

Obituary Notices

Consists of press releases, newspaperclippings and official announcements bythe company related to employees and

Hartford notables.

Scrapbooks (bound and unbound) 56

Created by the Colt Company Museumstaff. Generally contains programs ofmiscellaneous United States events or

celebrations, Christmas cards, employeeobituary clippings, and shareholder's

reports. Two scrapbooks contain samplesof Colt Company stationery, includingblank letterheads, envelopes, shipping

labels and business cards.

Arranged internally by date of event orarticle. No index.

1850-1860

1877-1878

1880-1889

1900-1929


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1930-1931

1932-1933, 2 folders

1934 57

1935

Labor strike, 1935, 2 items

Arms probe, 1934 58

Arms probe, 1936

Flood, 1936, 2 folders

1937-1938, 2 folders

1938-1939 59

Colt's Hobby Shows, 1935-1939

1939-1940

1940-1941

1941 60

1942-1943

1944-1945

1944-1947

1949-1956

Miscellaneous

Stationery, circa 1850-1979, 1 folder 61

Includes blank letterheads, envelopes,shipping labels, and business cards. Also, 6stickers of the Seth Parker's Singing

School, 1929 (sponsored by Colt's), 2impressions of Company seal, a blank ColtCompany check, and 13 blank sheets ofInspector of Factories, E. Burrows Brown

letterhead.

In-House Communications, 1938-1971

Many of these items are between administratorsat the Firearms Division and Colt Industries, NYC.

Arranged chronologically by date written or

posted. No index.

In-house notices (plant publicity), 1938-1942 61

Inter-office correspondence, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1969-1971

Contains correspondence between Hartfordadministration and Colt Industris, NYC.

Also, telephone directory, 1969.

Records of the Colt Company Museum, 1887-1957


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numbers, and additional comments.

Arranged by factory model letter, thesereports appear to have been added to the

initial production folder of 1914, byMuseum Curator, C.H. Coles, and then

placed in one volume.

Payroll Records, 1851-1936, 13 folders 64

Lists of contractors and work completed.Occupation and political preference noted.Contractors' payroll and rent, change in

pay rates, lists of employees.

Arranged chronologically. No index.

Records of Colt Company Property, circa 1836-1980

South Meadows File, 1853-1867 62

South Meadows file contains documents reland purchases, circa 1853 and thefollowing pertaining to work on the

rebuilding of the factory after the fire:unbound daybook of expenditures andsmall leather bound volume account book(Old brick), 1866-1867. Fire took place in

1864.

Production Projects 62A-62C

Contains files of production projectsundertaken by Colt Industries in the period

1960-1980, including files re theestablishment of manufacturing plants in

Indonesia, Singapore, Korea and thePhilippines, transferred during the 1981

company move to West Hartford.

Newspaper Clippings 63

Also newspaper clippings of earlyadvancements and improvements. Taken

from old binder in February 1944 andreworked by H. Hart.

1836 February-1852 June

1852 August-1858 April

1858 May-1861 January

1852-1858

1853-1858

Lamar, Texas

Includes correspondence to Colt's fromHarry Traylor, 1942, with typed copies ofdeeds, and a map of the purchased area,

1856-1870.

Miscellaneous, 1871-1872


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Includes insurance statement under Mrs.E.H. Colt's name, 1871-1872, for land on

South Meadows.

See also map and picture flat filingdrawers for the following: original lease of

Samuel Colt to first factory in Hartford,

1847; Samuel Colt's Lands, 1852 (2 largemaps encapsulated).

Index to Correspondence

Incomplete file of incoming and outgoingcorrespondence, 1847-1888. Cross-referenced bysender, by receiver and by subject. Prepared by L.

Heffner, undated. Contains index to W.B.Franklin's diary of 1865-1867, with additional

summaries of January-March, 1871 diary, whichwas not transferred to the State Library. Dates of

correspondence covered are as follows: April-December 1847; August, October-December1850; September, October, December 1851;

January, February, April-June, October-December1852; 1853, except August; January 1854;

November 1856; August 1862, and February,March 1888.

Arranged by date of item, or by entry, and cross-referenced throughout with name of sender, or

receiver, and by subject.

Index to Correspondence

Publications File, circa 1850-1980, Accession: T001481, 6.75cubic feet

Box

Advertising and Marketing Departments, circa 1850-1980

These materials vary depending upon the target

group. In selling to the general public, securityand protection of the home was stressed, whileendorsements from satisfied police officers were

presented for possible sales to police departments.Promotional aids such as advertising cuts and

displays for use by dealers were distributed by theColt Company. Some include fold-outs, press kits

and duplicate copies. All of these materials differin size, type of paper, style of print and number of

pages. For trade abroad, items were printed inforeign languages, i.e., French, Spanish, Russian

and Chinese. Advertising materials from the1960s-1970s were accessioned in the spring of

1981. These items were collected from theadvertising closet at Colt's Armory. During the

company's move to West Hartford, the Curators ofthe Museum of Connecticut History were allowed

to go through and take any of the advertisingmaterials left.

Files are arranged chronologically by date or item,or by period of production (model of firearm). No

index.


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Firearms 65

Includes press releases, Consumeranalysis, original and printed copies of

advertising lay-outs (oversize, Box 65A),promotional packets, and dealer handouts.

Also, purchase orders to/from Colt's

(1942; 1970). Also, a description of armsdisplayed in 1926 Sesqui-CentennialCelebration called Evolution of the

Revolver.

Accessories

Historical Prints, 1943, 8 items (7 prints + 1duplicate)

Distributed by the Small ArmsDivision, these sets of 6 prints

were quite popular and sold verywell. (1943 April-1943 December

31 = 20,000 sets sold)

Commemorative Series of firearms, 1961, 2

folders

Celebrating anniversaries ofstatehoods, the lives of well-known

people in history, and depictingcelebrated battles from a century

of wars.

Archery Divison, 1962

Includes samples ofadvertisements used in various

magazines.

Gun Oil Project, 1969-1970

With background from 1965.

Holsters, 1970

Jewelry, 1970

Security Equipment, 1970

Includes material on bomb disposalsystems and handcuffs.

Advertisements 66

Advertisements from various publications, 1 folder

Includes an original and photocopy

of 1860 publication,TheKnickerbocker, with testimonials ofColt's pistols (last 8 pages); a 1889

October full-page ad in Leslie'sIllustrated Newspaper(oversize,

Box 65A); 1909 ad fromEverybody's Magazine, p. 79;

Scribner's, 1917-1918 back cover.

Outing, 1919 April-September, volume 72, bound


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volume

Broadsides and Circulars, 5 folders

Distributed by the Colt Company. Theseare published with the target group inmind: for dealers, advertising cuts anddisplay ideas are included; for police

department, specific arms are highlighted,and for the public, operation and correct

use of whatever gun purchased isstressed.

Catalogues 67

1888, paper cover-bound

1890 January, 2nd ed., c.1, leather cover-bound

1890 January, 2nd ed., c.2, paper cover-bound

1890 January, 2nd ed., c.3, leather cover-bound

1892 January, 3rd ed., c.1, paper cover-bound

1898 January, c.2, leather cover-bound

1898 January, c.3, leather cover-bound

1899 September, c.1, paper cover-bound

1902, c.2, paper cover-bound

1905, c.1, leather cover-bound



circa 1900 68

1903-1916, 1919-1923

undated

Romance of a Colt

Makers of History/F. Romer Evolution of the Colt,1926 November, c.2

Double Action Handbook

Colt's Fire Arms Sales Manual

Colt's Police Revolver Handbook, 1913,





Different edition.

Catalogues and Brochures 69


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Catalogue/Embossed rampant colt and "Colt

Firearms" in green with blue cover , 1941 July

Catalogue/Colt Automatic Gun/Browning's Patent;beige outer cover, undated

Catalogue/Colt Automatic Gun/Browning's Patent;grey cover with red writing and red rampant colt ,

undated

Catalogue/Colt Automatic Gun/Browning's Patent;brown cover with black writing and black rampant

colt, undated

Catalogue/Colt's Automatic Gun/Browning'sPatent; battle scence in blues, undated

Catalogue/Colt's Automatic Gun/Browning'sPatent; battle scene in greens , undated

Catalogue/M1919 Automatic MachineGun/Rifle/Aircraft Machine Gun - brown cover

"A60"

Catalogue/M1919 Automatic MachineGun/Rifle/Aircraft Machine Gun - brown cover"A60-R"

Handbook for Automatic Machine Gun and AircraftMachine Gun; M1924 , undated

Automatic Machine Guns and Rifles "HDF" withdiagrams, c.15, 1932

Thompson Submachine Gun, undated

Thompson Submachine Gun M1921-23 , undated

Foreign Materials/Colt's

Advertisements

Catalogues, pamphlets, and handouts

Price lists

Trade letters, circa 1930

Foreign Materials/non-Colt's 70

Schulhof, 1887

M1886/Webley (Government arms)

M1889/Webley

M1892/instructions for use; Paris Minister of War,1893

M1892/instructions for use; Paris Minister of War,1897

Fabrique Nationale, 1899




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Revue d'armee Belgue, 1907

Steyr-N. Pieper system/West Germany, 1909

Frommer c.7.65 pistol/Budapest (with enclosures),1910

Royal/Cuba, 1911

Martian/Cuba, 1911

Star/Cuba, 1911

Novelty/2-page pamphlet advertising N. Pieperpocket 6-shot revolver, 1911 July

Westley-Richards & Co. "Instanter", 1912

Received from Australia, 1912

Victoria/Cuba, 1913

Swiss industrial Company/Vetterli breech-loadingrepeating military and sporting rifles, undated

Webley & Scott-handout, undated

Webley & Son-advertisement, undated

Bayard baby automatic pistol-Liege, undated

Abadie-Belgium, undated

Catalogue describing the Light Automatic Gun-Vicker's, Sons & Maxim, Ltd. (with photos and

handwritten enclosure; Also, 1913 sketch by F.T.Moore), undated

Price Lists/non-Colt's

Liege manufactured firearms, 1852, 1886, 1890

Melbourne, Australia, undated

Westley-richards prices, undated

Operation of firearms/Instructions for use

Includes various circulars and handouts,such as an early 1850s page with

"directions for loading and managing Colt'spistols" (from Beware of Counterfeits

advertisement), and a typed sheet giving

loading directions and taking apart

revolvers.

Colt Manual on Target and Defense Shooting

How to Shoot

What Every Parent Should know...

Handgunning and Winning

The Handgun Manual

Shooting Suggestions


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Special Instructions

Do all safety devices really safeguard?

More Fun with Your .22 Rifle

Handling the Handgun (2 different versions)

How to Organize and Conduct a Revolver Club

Instructions and Operation of Colt AutomaticMachine Gun (MG 50) 1940 October Vol. II (4

copies) Vol. IIIa (2 copies) Vol. IIIa-1 (3 copies)Vol. IIIb (4 copies) Vol. IIIb-1 (3 copies) Vol. IVa

(1 copy) Vol. IV (2 copies)

Instructions for Automatic Machine Guns andRifles (MG 38/MG 38B) (4 copies) 1939 March

Browning Machine Gun Technical Manual 1942April

Contractor's Operations Manual-Colt AR-15

Technical Manual M-16 (2 copies) 1966 August

Technical Manual M-16 (2 copies) 1974 March

Elementary Instructions for Operations of ColtAutomatic Gun M1914 Mod "R"

The Colt Cap and Ball Revolver (Haven and Belden1940-reprint)

Description and Nomenclature of Colt AutomaticGun

Description of Colt Automatic Gun (2 copies)

Price lists

Retail, 1855-1972

Wholesale, 1899-1980

Proofs and Drafts

Includes drawings, sketches, photos andfirst proofs of woodcuts of Colt's arms foruse in catalogues, advertisements, and

price lists. In-original folder, dated 1889.

Some items are also dated individually.

Also, proofs for Lightning Magazine Rifle(13 copies) and (5 copies) proofs foradvertising copy (also see Advertising andMarketing/Lay-outs (oversize). Blueprints

for special grip for 38c. pistol (No.540,275-1933 April 4)

Also, drafts of printed material:A Century of Achievement, A. L. Ulrich,

1937 (2 copies)Combat Shooting for Police, P. B. Weston,

1960 (copy)Crime Prevention, 1927-1931


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Makers of History, F. Romer, 1924-25Yankee Arms Maker, J. Rohan (uncorrected

proofs)

Publisher's Advertising (book promotions)

The History of The Colt Revolver, Haven & Belden,1937

A Century of Achievement, A.L. Ulrich, 1937

Printed Materials (Company-Related), 1851-1970

Includes illustrations collected by the ColtCompany of both Colt and non-Colt items, 1851-1964. Publications are also included,in this series.These are internally published: The Rampant Colt,

1929-1941, and The Coltsman, 1942-1944.

Also contained in these files are stock certificatesof the Colt Company. No dates (however, includes"Colt's Manufacturing Company"/1947). No index.

Illustrations/Colt's 70

Also see Pinted Materials/Newspapers.

1964 calendar with 1879 Colt's Ferry reproduction

L. Paeth's illustration of the history of the ColtRevolver

London Armory, 2 copies

"1851, Great Exibition" from the IllustratedLondon News, oversize

CT Exhibits at the International Exhibition, Paris,1878, oversize

Illustrations/non-Colt's

Engraving of last steamer to run the ConnecticutRiver above Hartford (C. Dexter), 1866

The Old State House

Aetna Life Home Office

Comparigraph of arms period/wheellock, flintlock,matchlock

Cabin yacht "Mascot" with 'disc' type engine, 1881

Publications/Internal (Colt Company publications)

The Rampant Colt, (Electrical Division)1929September-1941 September

The Coltsman, 1942 September-1944 March

Publications/External

Articles written about the Colt Companyand its product line.

Broadcasts/Lectures


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Arranged by date presented.

Royal United Service Institution, "MagazineRifles & Repeaters", Lt. Col. G.V. Fosbery,

1883 June 23

WDRC/Hartford radio 6:00-6:05 p.m.; "ANewcomer's Impression of Hartford", B.

Rufe - Manager of Goodyear Service, 1934November 15

Address delivered at 17th Annual meetingof Army Ordnance Association -

"Guaranties of Peace". (see ArmyOrdnance-articles), 1935 October

Talk delivered at Ogden Industrial Clubmeeting and broadcast over WKLO; "John

Browning and his Achievements", G.L.Becker, 1937 March 29

Address delivered at 13th Annual AmericanDinner of the Newcomer Society for theStudy of the History of Engineering and

Technology; "InterchangeableManufacture", J.W. Roe of New York

University, 1937 April 21

WTIC/Hartford radio 7:45 p.m., on Colt's;The Spotlight, sponsored by The HartfordElectric Light Company, 1937 October 21

WABC/New York radio 6:45-7:00 p.m.;"Guns and Gangsters", Honorable E. Celler& Honorable B. McMahon, 1937 December

11

Great Lakes Regional Conference of theNational Association of Real Estate Boards

in Cincinatti, "Colt Village", AubreyMaddock, 1939 March 20

"Walker-Colt" Repeating pistol", Capt. J.E.Hicks, 1940

TV program, "The Arm of Law and Order",with Al Marsters of Colt's, 1953

"The Hawken Shop", C.L. Quick, undated

Lecture presented by G. Vander Haeghen,"The Automatic Pistol", (copy of the French

translation), undated

Periodicals 70A

Arranged alphabetically.

Africana Notes & News

"The Introduction of the Revolverinto South Africa", G. Tylden, 1953

September, p. 122.

American Archivist, The


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"The Evaluation & Presentation ofBusiness Archives", O.W. Holmes,

vol. 1:14, 1938 October, p. 171.

American Collector, The

"The Metal Flask", G. Coopernail,1937 November, p. 10.

American Mercury, The

"The First Munitions King", J.Rohan, 1936 March, p. 351.

American Rifleman

"Hand-Gun History", R. McHenry,1923 August, p. 129.

"Johnny Colt", R. McHenry, vol.LXXI, No. 6, 1938 October, p. 168.

(part 2)

"Some Spark Photographs, Recoil

and Pressure Curves of the 45Caliber Colt Automatic Pistol", P.P.

Quayle, 1926 February.

"The Old Colt Revolving Rifles", P.Jenkins, 1928 June. (photocopy)

"Pistol Progress - 1871", Major J.S.Hatcher, 1931 May, p. 31.

"Forgotten Guns of the Early 70's",P. Jenkins, 1931 May, p. 33.

"The Invention of the Central-FirePrimer", Major J. Clark, 1931 May.

"Colt's Arms in the '70's", A.L.Ulrich, 1931 May, p. 42.

"What Made the Spark-Notes onthe history of gun-locks", C. Haven,

1937 December, p. 4.

"Federal Firearms Registration",C.B. Lister, 1938 January, 2 copies

"Colt Service Model Ace", Lt. Col. J.S. Hatcher, 1938 January.

"Henry Aston & His Pistols", L.D.

Antwerp, 1942 January. (reprint)

"Lightweight Colt Automatics",staff, 1949 September, p. 34.

"Early Snub-Nosed Colt's", J.DuMont, 1956 August, p. 22.

"Production & Purchases of CivilWar Revolvers", J. Baentali, 1956

December.

"Colt Mark III Passes Shooting


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Tests", staff, 1969 October, p. 70.

Arms and the Man

"The Paterson & the Walker Colts",December 1917, p. 205, 'sniper'.

"The Peacemaker", S.J. Fort, 1922February, p. 9.

Army & Navy Journal

"Colt's Automatic Pistol Adopted",1911 April, p. 922, 3 copies

Army Ordnance

"Facts About 'Munitions Makers'",1934 May-June, p. 361.

"Organization for Defense", Brig.Gen. B. Crowell, 1935 November.

"The Art of Victory", B. Baruch,1935 November.

"Peace, War and Munitions", N.Baker, 1935 November.

"Origins of Our Modern Guns", Col.R. Birnie, 1935 November.

"Our Lines of Defense", R.E.Flanders, 1935 November.

"The Adams Revolver", S.B. Haw,1938 January-February, p. 219.

"The Machine Gun", Lt. Col. C.

Goddard, 1942 May-December,1943 January-February.(reprint)

"Machine Guns of the UnitedStates, 1895-1944", Major B.R.Lewis, 1945 July-August, 1946

March-April.

Art Journal

"Homes of America-Armsmear",VII, 1876 November, p. 321.

Bookbinding & Book Promotion

"Bookvertising", Review of ACentury of Achievement.

Chamber's Edinburgh Journal

"What is a Revolver?", W. & R.Chambers, 1853 December, p. 3.

The Christian Century

"Profits From Blood-How Long?", P.Hutchinson, 1937 May.


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Collector-Dealer

"The Rim-Fire Peacemaker", 1957July, p. 6.

Collier's

"Goose Killers", G. Creel, 1937January, p. 26, 2 copies

Collier's Weekly

"How to Train Defense Workers",H.F. Pringle, 1941 January, p. 23.

Connecticut Circle

"What the Growth of AviationMeans to Connecticut", H.L.

Williams, 1939 September, p. 6.(on Pratt & Whitney Co.)

Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin

"Colt-Walker Contract", J.E.

Parsons, 1948 April, p. 9.

Connecticut Industry, 1939 February.

Copper & Brass Research AssociationBulletin, 1937 December.

Detective Fiction Weekly

"A Mystery of the Tombs-murderconviction of John Colt", M. Abbott,

1930 February, p. 683.

Dictionary of American History

"The Colt Six-Shooter". (typed

copy)

DuPont Magazine, The

"The Course of Empire", B.Darlington, vol. 96, No. 6-7, p.

168., 2 copies

"Arms and Two Men-Remingtonand Rifles; Hartley and Cartridges",

1932 May, p. 5.

Engineering

"Clyde Shipbuilding and MarineEngineering, 1882", 1883

February. (extract)

Factory Management & Maintenance

"Industry and the Next War", L.C.Morrow, 1938 May, p. 46.

Field & Stream

"Makers of Famous Guns", E.O.


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Perrin, 1922 July, p. 289, 2 copies

Financial Survey, The

"Colt's Enters a New Epoch", E.Newmarker, 1929, p. 40.

Fortune

"Cadillac", 1938 December.

"Company Collections", 1953January, p. 94.

Freehold

"$6.66 per room per month", 1937October, Real Estate News and

Comments, (Colt Village).

Gun & Cartridge Record

"Who's Who...Charles Coles", J.Murphy, 1953 March, p. 1.

"The Winchester Story", staff, 1953March, p. 4.

Gun Collecting

"Paterson & Walker Colts", J.DuMont.

Gun Report, The

"Arms of the Russo-Turkish War",

1939.

"Keep Your Powder Dry", F.Braucher, 1941 June, p. 1.

"Facts About Flasks", J. Serven,1941 July.

"More Facts About Flasks", J.Serven, 1941 August.

Guns

"White House and Midwest Cops",1962 February, p. 32.

Guns and Ammo

"The Living Legend that was Sam'lColt", A. Chernoff, 1962 November.

"Commemorative Guns", W.

Beinfield, 1970 March. (reprint)

Guns & Hunting

"A Look at the Varmint-Handguns",1963 July, p. 25.

Harper's Monthly

"Slaughter for Sale", J. Gunther,


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