Welch, Bigelow and Company Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the printing business of Welch, Bigelow, and Company from 1867-1879 and also that of John Wilson and Son, University Printers, from 1879-1886. Correspondents include other printing and publishing companies and individual authors either sending or requesting proof sheets and corrections, as well as other queries about printing and production.
Dates
- 1867-86
- Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1969
Creator
- Welsh, Bigelow and Company (Organization)
- John Wilson and Son, University Press (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Welch, Bigelow, and Company was established in 1859 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1859-1879, Welch, Bigelow printed for the James R. Osgood Company who published such authors as Richard Henry Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson and for Harvard University. When the company failed in 1879, John Wilson bought the building and started John Wilson and Son, University Press. This company lasted until 1894 when it became a corporation.
Extent
1.50 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Source of Acquisition
Purchase
Method of Acquisition
Goodspeed's Book Shop
Processing Information
Finding aid written by the Rare Books and Manuscripts staff.
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
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- Authors and publishers – United States – History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Welch, Bigelow and Company Collection
- Date
- 04/00/2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2015-03: Updated by Anna Lawrence, March 2015.
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