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Gift of Frank Weberman on March 14, 1966.
The Colonial Art Furniture Company was a furniture business that operated in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., from 1903 to 1976 and specialized in hand-crafted, Colonial-style furniture pieces.
In 1903, the business was founded in Pittsburgh by Isaac Weberman, a graduate of the Philadelphia Institute of Textiles. The Colonial Art Furniture Company was located on Fifth Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh until 1960, when the business moved to Centre Avenue, in the Shadyside neighborhood.
In 1942, Isaac Weberman's son, Frank Weberman, alongside his wife, Ruth Weberman, took over the family business and ran operations until the business' closure.
In 1943, the Colonial Art Furniture Company was commissioned by Pennsylvania Governor, Edward Martin, to refurnish the governor's residence, which at the time was located at Fort Indiantown Gap, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
The Colonial Art Furniture Company closed in 1976.
Colonial Art Furniture Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Archives of Industrial Society, University of Pittsburgh, MP 1.
Colonial Art Furniture Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Archives of Industrial Society, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, 66.4.
Colonial Art Furniture Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Payroll Register, 1922-1924, AIS.1966.04, Archives of Industrial Society, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Records processed by Caroline E. Berry on June 8, 2022.
Records consist of a single payroll register, dated 1922 to 1924, which contains the names and weekly wages of the company's employees, in addition to some of their residential addresses. For some employees, employment statuses are also written alongside their weekly wages and recorded as either "quit" or "fired."
Included within the payroll register are also some loose pages containing additional employee wages and addresses.
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