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Big Game Industry Investment Auditors of CaliforniaABAA

Report on Horne Zoological Corporation

1929Best.-Nr. 302295Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent." The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets. The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska. The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark. Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future. Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown books

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New York Association for the Protection of American Industry. Butler George; Cooper Peter et al.ABAA

Proceedings of the Mass Meeting held at Cooper Institute New York February 1st 1883: addresses of Peter Cooper William E. Dodge William M. Evarts Dexter A. Hawkins and Cyrus Hamlin: Addresses and resolutions adopted by the meeting.

1883Best.-Nr. 27291New York: New York Association for the Protection of American Industry 1883. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with nicks on the spine small chips to the wrappers some edgewear mildly creased leaves clean. 70 pp. 8vo. New York Association for the Protection of American Industry Document no. 2. Peter Cooper's opening remarks could have been written today: "The advocates of free trade . are trying to persuade . people that it is for our interest to buy from other countries all the manufactures that they have to offer. These advocates of free trade propose that our mechanics shall either work at the starvation wages of foreign laborers or be forced to abandon their trades." Other speeches on free trade including William Dodge William Evarts Dexter Hawkins and Cyrus Hamlin President of Middlebury College on the blight of free trade. The ojectives of the New York Association for the Protection of American Industry was: "1. To disseminate ideas favorable to just protection of manufactures. 2. The development protection and advancement of the various industries of the United States. 3. The restoration and development of ocean navigation in American-built ships sufficient for the exigencies of trade commerce and manufactures and for the advantage and safety of the country. 4. The security of the comfort and improvement of workmen and-by encouraging allowances or pensions after long-continued service in important establishments-of their support in old age." New York Association for the Protection of American Industry unknown books

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Ledger. Shoe Industry. Dudley WatrousABAA

Cooper and Shoemaker's Account Book. "Dudley Watrous Book Castharhorst D. 1817

1833Best.-Nr. 768Glastonbury CT. 1833. Square 8vo. 195 x 160 mm. 7 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches. 300 manuscript pages in ink written in a legible hand including an index on the front free endpaper. Bound in contemporary leather backed marbled paper boards and tips; binding showing some wear marbled paper edges of lined paper is brown with age but in good condition. Very good and attractive account book. Unusually interesting book of accounts that graphically reflect the barter economy of early 19th century in New England. Skilled labor Yankee ingenuity and willingness to do take on all kinds of work is traded for food and household goods and finally reconciled for the exchange of small cash payments. These accounts show a brisk business in the making of powder kegs hoops and all types of barrels soap cider oyster etc. There are accounts recording payment to Waltrous's son Elijah who worked for him for six months in 1817 and was paid $96.00. The ledger shows the cost of "Taping" or mending shoes cost anywhere from twenty to fifty cents and the crafting of a new pair about two dollars. It also shows the costs of purchasing wood and other supplies to make his barrels and the differing cost for white oak red oak willow chestnut and pine are recorded. Most citizens of the town are named in his accounts including Moses Ensign Levi Smith Isabella Post Capt. Daniel W. Griswold Samuel Pitkin Leverett and Lucius Talcott John Moseley Jonathan Welles and Stephen Bell. There are also a number of detailed of accounts for some women of Glastonbury including Isabella Post ff. 128 133 Eunice Mosley ff. 49 140 and Dorance Wells ff. 119. Also mentioned as a client is the Eagle Factory. Watrous settled his accounts periodically and often these notations contain the signatures of the debtor if the accounts were found owing. His own purchases are included and range from food staples to shoe leather a sealskin cap an almanack. and an English reader a sley sic to W. Hartford and various goods for "Mrs. Watrous". Dudley Watrous or Waterhouse was born in 1790 in Hebron Connecticut of Jonathan and Abiah Webster Watrous. Dudley's father served in the Revolutionary War at times under his grandfather Lieutenant Nathaniel Waterhouse. His mother was a descendant of Gov. John Webster of Connecticut. Dudley worked as a cooper and also as a shoemaker and shoe repairer. He married Prudence S. Nichols and lived most of his life in Glastonbury outside Hartford. He died at the age of 77 in Hebron. unknown books

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Shoe Industry. Allen FreemanABAA

Allen Harris & Potter Company Boot Shoe and Leather Dealers. Accounts

1846Best.-Nr. 769Boston 1846. 8vo. 230 x 185 mm. 7 ¼ x 9 inches. 114 pp. Contemporary boards leather tips. Spine broken with some signatures sprung. Written in a legible hand in ink. One of the more detailed account books that documents not only the personal business transactions of a Boston Brahmin but also his payments to dozens of local churches societies poor houses and libraries including his membership dues in the Boston Athenaeum. Freeman Allen was born in 1800 and according to the Abner Forbes in his Book Rich Men of Massachusetts was worth over $ 300000 in 1852. "He began poor. Became of shoe dealer one of the largest in Boston." The business accounts cover personal investments loans income and expenditures of the partnership of Allen Harris & Potter Company Boot Shoe and Leather dealers. The company was listed in the Boot and Shoe Recorder as ". one of Boston's largest and most successful houses in the shoe trade" Allen Harris & Potter was organized in 1846 and continued until 1853 when Allen's stack was purchased by John Cheney Potter and a new partnership. The account book records the initial investments in Allen Harris and Potter and the terms of the partnership. Among the many transactions listed are a "Store 55-57 Pearl St bought of Dowley for $5500 pd for in cash" "Nov 12 1852 1 share Boston Athenaeum cost $151" stock in third municipality New Orleans many bank and railroad shares and a lot at Mt Auburn. In 1850 he bought two tickets to a Jenny Lind concert. Allen's business brought him wealth and he contributed to the Newton Whig Campaign and bought a piano forte from Chickering. The household kept servants and for his daughter Harriet Elizabeth Allen he paid tuition at Emerson School and for French Lessons and Riding School. For son Henry Freeman Allen he purchased skates a sleigh ride paid for "Mr. Sullivan School" eye glass congress boots and Chess men and board. In 1857 he was paying tuition for his son at Harvard. Freeman Allen married Harriet Reed moved to Newton and had children Henry Freeman Allen and Harriet Elizabeth Allen. His son Henry Freeman Allen 1838-1914 became an Episcopal priest and married Georgiana May Stowe 1843-1890 the youngest daughter of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvin E. Stowe in 1865. He had estates in Newton and in Boston at 29 Pemberton Square. Another address was 37 1/2 Beacon Street. A humorous anecdote appeared about the firm summing up the partnership Allen Harris & Potter in the Shoe and Leather Reporter 1890. "Of the firm for instance Allen Harris & Potter Mr. Potter was the principal sales man when I knew him. . . . Mr. Harris took care of the counting room; I never saw him out of it except in the street on his way to and from dinner. Mr. Allen did what he had a mind to." Forbes Abner. Rich Men of Massachusetts Boston 1852 pp. 10 148. Boot and Shoe Recorder 1890. Volume 33 pp. 75. Shoe and Leather Reporter 1890. p. 1021. unknown books

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