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BOX 60-68 Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1892-1979
Records kept by Rosenwald relating to Sears, Roebuck and Co., including corporate and customer correspondence, memoranda, financial and legal documents, administrative papers, printed matter, and miscellany.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 60 Advertising
Circulars, 1892-1902, 1908, 1931
Contest, undated
American Retail Federation, 1935-1938, undated
"And the Pursuit of Happiness"
Correspondence, 1936
(2 folders)
BOX 61 Miscellany, 1936, undated
Chain stores, 1933, undated
Consumer Cooperative Movement, 1935-1938, undated
Correspondence
1928-1963, Jan.
(3 folders)
BOX 62 1963, Feb.-1978, undated
Customer mail, "freak file"
1896-1939
(4 folders)
BOX 63 1940-1950, undated
(2 folders)
Emmet, Boris, and John E. Jeuck, Catalogues and Counters, 1950
Finance
Credit policies, 1934-1937
Financial planning, 1937, undated
Foreign stockholders, 1937
BOX 64 Profit sharing, 1934-1940, 1951-1953, undated
Stock offerings, 1936-1938
Taxes, 1934-1937
German merchandise, 1935-1939
Hawaii, 1935-1936, undated
Hercules Life Insurance Co., 1936-1938
Labor
Labor Relations Associates
Correspondence, 1938-1939
BOX 65 Dinner, 1938
Miscellany, 1938, undated
Wood, Robert Elkington, dinner, 1938
National Labor Relations Board
Correspondence, 1935-1937, undated
Miscellany, 1933-1935
Union, 1933-1937, undated
Legal papers
Dobie v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1935
Jamaica Truck Tire Service v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1934
BOX 66 Varanelli v. Wood, 1948-1950, undated
Macy's, 1930, 1938
Mail order, 1929, 1938-1939
Management and organization, 1929-1931, undated
Miscellany, 1897-1908, 1933-1942, 1952-1978, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 67 Modern Homes Department, 1932-1935
New York, N.Y., office, 1935-1937, undated
Newspaper clippings, 1906, 1928-1941. 1968, 1979, undated
Personnel, 1931-1939
Reports, 1946-1947, undated
Rosenwald, Lessing J., retirement, 1938-1939
Sachs, Josef, and Albin Johansson, dinner, 1938
Correspondence
Invitations
Acceptances
BOX 68 Regrets
Miscellany
"Sears: A National Institution Serving the Nation," 1934
Sears International, 1936-1937
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934-1938, undated
Woodward (author), history of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1936
BOX 68-74 Speeches and Writings File, 1931-1976
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, correspondence, printed copies, notes and working papers, proofs, and miscellany relating to articles, books, and speeches written by Rosenwald.
Organized alphabetically by type of material. Articles and books are arranged alphabetically by title; speeches are arranged chronologically.
BOX 68 Articles and other writings
Annual report, extract, 1933
"A Business Man Thinks about Hospitals," Bulletin of the American Hospital Association, 1935
"The Formation of the Rosenwald Collection," Library of Congress Quarterly Journal, 1945
Letter to the editor, New York Times, 1955
BOX 69 "Memoirs," 1974-1975
"Reminiscences of a Print Collector," American Scholar, 1973
Rosenbach, A. S. W., seventieth birthday, 1946
Scrap metal, untitled article, 1942
Terence, Comoediae
Correspondence, 1940-1942, 1949, 1963
Drafts, undated
Notes and working papers, 1940-1941, 1963, undated
Books
The Florentine Fior di Virtu of 1491, 1953
Book reviews, 1954
Correspondence, 1951-1954, undated
BOX 70 Distribution
Letters of acknowledgment, 1953-1954
(2 folders)
Mailing lists, 1953-1954, undated
Drafts, 1953, undated
Miscellany, 1947-1954, undated
Notes and work sheets, undated
Production material, undated
BOX 71 Proofs, undated
The Nineteenth Book, 1961
Correspondence, 1957-1961, 1975
Drafts, 1959, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 72 (1 folder)
Miscellany, undated
Notes and working papers, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 73 Proofs, 1960
(4 folders)
BOX 74 Recollections of a Collector, 1976
Speeches, 1931-1971, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 74-81 Miscellany, 1819-1979
Correspondence between others, address books, appointment calendars, printed matter, notes, cards and invitations, and speeches and writings by others.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 74 Address book and notes, undated
Appointment books, 1978-1979
(2 folders)
BOX 75 Appointment calendars
1940-1963
(3 folders)
BOX 76 1964-1977
(3 folders)
Awards and certificates, 1940-1945, 1974-1975, undated
Biographical data, undated
Cards and invitations, 1913, 1921, 1930-1979, undated
(1 folder)
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