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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency records, 1853-1999

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Administrative File, 1857-1999 (continued)
Order 233, Pinkerton's store service, 1932
Order 234, hotel service inspection, 1934
Order 235, food poisoning and foreign substances, 1937
Order 237, repossession work, 1958
BOX 52 Orders 250-252, life, accident, and health insurance, 1935, 1944
Order 253, casualty insurance, 1936, 1944
Order 255, suretyship, 1949
Order 257, burglary, robbery, and theft, 1949
Order 260, fire investigation, 1940
Order 263, general disability claims, surveillance and motion pictures, 1947-1955
Order 411, plant property protection, 1942
Protective Patrol
Order nos. 401-416, 1904
Order nos. 401-429 with index, 1905
Patrol forms, undated
BOX 53 Topical files
Agency history, 1926, 1936
Investigations, civil and criminal, 1935-1941
Miscellaneous, 1921-1947
(2 folders)
Pretexts and shadowing, 1929-1940
War work, 1941-1942
“Digest” of civil and criminal law, 1932, 1939, undated
Index
Articles 1-7, introductory-confessions
Articles 9-16, private wrongs-burglary
Articles 25-35, receiving stolen goods-locating persons
Articles 36-50, civil actions-law terms and maxims
BOX 54 “General Principles and Rules,” and related policy statements, 1873-1881, 1916, 1945, 1960, undated
Handbooks, 1956-1959, 1974, undated
Photographs of safe burglary by blowing, burning, and ripping, undated
Training manuals, 1950s
Vol. 1, “Agency History and Policies, Employees' Responsibility, Civics, Operations . . . .”
Vol. 2, “Operating Methods of Procedure, Investigations: Open and Direct, Use of Pretext, Roping, Undercover, Surveillance”
Vol. 2A, “Operating Methods of Procedure: Secret Investigations”
Vol. 3, “Operating: Reports, Lawful Procedure” (section missing on “Informants and Sources of Information,” pp. 92-105)
Vol. 4, “Operating: Witnesses, Evidence, Criminal Investigations”
Vol 4A, supplement, “How to Open Locks Without Keys or Picks”
Vol. 5, “Operating: Civil Investigations, Protection”
Vol. 6, “Operating: Case Histories”
BOX 55 Vol. 7, “Arson Investigators Manual”
Public relations and promotional material
Agency histories, 1902, undated
Branch manager's press kit, 1951, 1961-1964, undated
Sales literature
“Hands Up,” 1923-1925, 1948, undated
Miscellaneous, 1924-1935, 1949-1953
Reward books
American Bankers Association photographs, undated
“Book 7, Hartford Office,” Hartford, Conn., 1932-1957, undated See also Oversize
(2 folders)
BOX 56 “Book 8, Denver Office,” Denver, Colo., 1914-1915, undated See also Oversize
(4 folders)
“Book 9, New Orleans Office,” New Orleans, La., 1926-1948, undated See also Oversize
(1 folder)
BOX 57 (1 folder)
“Book 11,” 1926-1939, undated See also Oversize
(4 folders)
“Book 13, St. Louis,” St. Louis, Mo., 1933, 1949-1956, undated See also Oversize
(2 folders)
BOX 58 “Book 100,” 1947-1955
“Kansas City Office,” Kansas City, Kans.
Circulars
1926-1937 See also Oversize
(3 folders)
BOX 59 1938-1947, 1958, undated
(3 folders)
Photographs, 1923-1930
BOX 60 Miscellaneous reward notices and wanted posters, 1867-1937, undated
(2 folders)
Pinkerton's Bank and Banker's Protection bulletins, 1914-1934
(6 folders)
BOX 61 Siringo, Charles A., lawsuits
Correspondence and legal documents, 1911, 1923, 1950, undated
Disputed publications
Pinkerton's Cowboy Detective, A True Story of Twenty-Two Years with Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1910
Riata and Spurs, 1919
Two Evil Isms: Pinkertonism and Anarchism, 1915
Subject file of collected material
Abbot, Henry L., Civil War army engineer, circa 1865, 1955, 1964, undated
BOX 62 Collective bargaining, 1949
Communism, 1934-1936, 1947, 1956, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 63 Detective agents, advertisements, 1893-1910, undated
(2 folders)
Horan, James D., book on Mathew B. Brady, 1955
Philadelphia, Pa., poison ring, 1922, 1939-1940, 1949
(2 folders)
Stader, Phoebe, murder of, 1931, 1950
William J. Burns International Detective Agency, investigations of improper conduct
Correspondence, 1917-1920, undated
Criminal case material
Bourdon, Oswin, 1909, 1917-1918, undated
BOX 64 Burns, Walter J., 1917, undated
De Corompa, Edwin Joseph Brunswick, 1914-1917, undated
Hanson, Thomas G., 1914-1917, undated
Kitzelman, Frank and William, 1912-1917, undated
Knox, Daisy, 1913-1917, undated
Landers, Tony, 1919, undated
Lillegren, Arthur, 1917, undated
Means, Gaston B., 1917-1919, undated
Miscellaneous, 1900, 1912-1918, undated
(2 folders)
Nott, Charles E., 1912-1917, undated
BOX 65 Pickard, Frank, 1914-1917, undated
Rawley, Frederick, 1917, undated
Rosene, Harry, 1917, 1924, undated
Russell, Walter H., 1917, undated
Wilson, Elmer L., 1916, undated
In re the Revocation of the Private Detective License of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, New York State Comptroller's hearing
Briefs, undated
Transcripts
1917
Apr.-Aug.
(4 folders)
BOX 66 Nov.-Dec.
1918-1919
(5 folders)
BOX 67 Newspaper and magazine articles
1911
(6 folders)
BOX 68 1912-1919, undated
(2 folders)
Notes and memoranda, 1911-1920, undated
(3 folders)
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