Seymour Specialty Wire Company Records

The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, maps, notes, publications, preliminary sketches, blueprints, and microfilm from the Seymour Manufacturing Company and the Seymour Specialty Wire Company. The collection contains materials from the company's founding until the records were donated in 1993. Among the many subjects discussed in the collection there are materials related to company equipment and the mills, job descriptions, production, personnel, taxes, use and occupancy insurance, LIFO, trademarks, stock transfers, the United States Department of Labor, profit and loss analysis, insurance claims (accidents), labor and compensations, social security, lawsuits, pensions, and the United States War Department.

The Seymour Manufacturing Company and the Seymour Specialty Wire Company dealt with many other manufacturing firms during their history. Included in the collection are materials related to the Connecticut Hospital Service Inc., Diamond Silver Company, Guanajuato Reduction & Mines Company, International Lock and Products Company, American Brass Company, Seymour Water Company, Bankers Life Company, Batiscan Company, Bay State Mining Company, Phosphor Bronze Company, the Benedict Manufacturing Company and many more.