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Subseries 3. Administrative Records, 1871-1921
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Scope and Content Notes: The administrative records contain financial and legal materials relating to the H.C. Frick coke companies, allied companies, and other businesses. The materials consist of publications, balance sheets, meeting minutes, and financial statements concerning labor and production costs. However, the majority of information for this subseries can be found in the ledgers, journals, and daybooks of Frick & Company and H.C. Frick & Company. The volumes contain information about stocks, profits and losses, expenses, employee names and earnings, bank notes, accounts with coke customers, and daily financial operations.
The daybook and journal from March 20, 1876 to April 27, 1881 are for the Broad Ford and Valley Company stores contains records of daily purchases, listing of customer names, item, quantity purchased, and cost. The inflated price of products in the company stores would later become a point of contention for Frick’s striking workers. Also, the journals provide a log of coke output, number of cars, tonnage, cost, payroll, and rent for company houses. On the first pages of the Journal dated December 1, 1879 there is information regarding the company and its coal and coke property. Volumes are arranged in chronological order according by type of book.
This subseries also contains various annual reports for the H.C. Frick Coke Company, South West Connellsville Coke Company, and the McClure Coke Company, which was purchased by Frick in November 1895. These materials date from 1895 to 1898 and include basic information included in annual reports, such as profits and losses. H.C. Frick Coke Company maintained a detailed listing cars, tonnage, and rates for coke shipments to various locations in Pennsylvania, surrounding states, and Canada. In addition, the 1898 annual report provides a listing of coke shipments for 1882 to 1898. Also the South West Connellsville Coke Company’s 1895 annual report documents ethnicity of coke miners. In this report there is a detailed list of laborers by nationality according to their work site.
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Box 523
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Advertisements, Publications, Ephemera, 1874
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Allied Companies, 1895-1900
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Balance Sheets, 1876-1889
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Capital Stock Agreements, 1882-1887
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Chicago & Connellsville Coke Company, 1887
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1871-1876
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1874-1876
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1874-1876
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1876-1881
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1878-1880
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Excerpts from Journals and Daybooks, 1879-1881
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Hecla Coke Company, 1890
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Investments, 1886-1893
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Labor Costs, 1887
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Meeting Minutes, 1899-1900
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Stocks and Bonds, 1882-1900
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Box 524
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Stocks, Receipts, and Notes, 1889-1900
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Mortgages, 1888-1890
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Newspaper clippings, 1887, 1911
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North Rolling Mill Company, 1887
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1888
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Philadelphia Company, 1884
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Pleasant Unity Coal Company, 1886 and undated
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Production Costs, 1887-1896
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Promissory Notes, 1886
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South West Connellsville Coke Company, 1887-1897
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Statements, 1886-1900
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Stockholders v. H.C. Frick Coke Company, 1900
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William J. Rainey, 1884
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Production Binder, 1902-1904
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Card of Accounts, 1905
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Excelsior Journal, January 1, 1900-December 31, 1900
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Manuscript of Henry Clay Frick, undated
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South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, May 8, 1882
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Pigeon Creek Coal Field, March 1, 1898
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Box 525
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Annual Report, South West Connellsville Coke Company, 1895-1896
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Annual Report, McClure Coke Company, 1896-1898
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Annual Report, H.C. Frick Coke Company, 1895-1896, 1898
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Section: H.C. Frick Coke Company Record Books
Box 526
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Record Book, Memorandum of Conveyance, 1878-1890
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Record Book, Statement of Shares, 1889
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Record Book, Mortgage of H.C. Frick Coke Co. to Fidelity Title & Trust Co., 1889
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Invoice File, March 28, 1878-February 28, 1879
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Box 527
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Daybook, March 10, 1871-January 29, 1876
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Daybook, October 29, 1874-April 29, 1876
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528 |
Daybook, August 1, 1874-January 22, 1877
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529 |
Daybook and Journal, March 20, 1876-April 27, 1881
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530 |
Payroll Book, March 1871-January 1875
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Payroll Book, October 1872-March 1876
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532 |
Payroll Book, February-May 1874
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Journal, September 1, 1875-June 30, 1876
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Journal, March 1, 1878-January 20, 1881
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Journal, December 1, 1879-March 31, 1881
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Journal, April 1, 1881-December 31, 1921
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Box 537
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Ledger Index, undated
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Ledger “A,” March 10, 1871-1875
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538 |
Ledger “B,” May-December 1876
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Ledger, August 1879-December 1902
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