Archival Fonds ➔ The John Bertram & Sons Co. fonds
Document
Identifier:
F.0016
Description
The fonds contains records created by The John Bertram & Sons Company along with some of the records of its predecessors including McKechnie & Bertram. It also contains records received by or about John Bertram & Sons that were created by others, including publications and material added by Bertram family members.
Additional Information
The fonds consists of correspondence, cancelled cheques, tax assessments and receipts, price lists, catalogues, sales orders, purchase receipts, articles of agreement, legal records (including copies of court records, subpoenas and writ of summons), stockholder records (lists of members and amounts of stocks held), indentures, wage and time records, documents relating to the history of the company, articles of apprenticeship, pension plan records, employee, shop, and machine photographs, personal correspondence, copies of contracts and negotiations, patent records, blueprints for machines and for the factories, lists of machines, employees, sales, purchases, costs, hours, pay, published materials by the company (catalogues, company histories, materials for employees), records relating to artillery shell production, records relating to business trips, property records (including mortgages, tax assessments, indentures, deeds of land, court documents, ), maps, technical specifications for machines, printing plates, company brochures, company ribbons, logbooks, notebooks, and company bylaws.
Physical Description
2.2m of textual records
ca. 180 photographs
29 negatives
35 maps
2 architectural drawings
ca. 100 technical drawings
12 ribbons
2 printing plates
Date:
1807-1987, predominant 1866-1930
Date:
1807 – 1987
Creator:
John Bertram & Sons Co. Ltd.