INVENTORY OF THE F. WEBER & COMPANY, INC. RECORDS, 1865-1973

Series I. Trade catalogs and price lists, 1876-1962, undated

Physical Description: ca. 78 items

Scope and Content Note

Series I. contains an incomplete collection of F. Weber trade catalogs and price lists produced 1876-1962, some with paint chip samples. Arranged chronologically.

Box 1, Folder 1

Janentzky & Co. Catalogue and Price List of Wax and Paper-Flower Materials, 1886

Physical Description: 2 copies

Box 1, Folder 2

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials, September 1888

Physical Description: 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 1, Folder 3

List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 100, undated

Physical Description: 2 copies

Box 1, Folder 4

Illustrated Price List of Architecture, Engineering, and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 110, December 1895

Physical Description: 259 pp., 2 copies

Box 1, Folder 5

Illustrated Price List of Architecture, Engineering, and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 110, December 1895-1896

Physical Description: 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

259 pp., annotated. Includes errata.

Box 2, Folder 1

Illustrated Price List of Artists Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 170, annotated, 440pp., 1895

Scope and Content Note

2 copies, one complete, one incomplete.

Box 2, Folder 2

Illustrated Price List of Artists Materials Comprising a Complete List of Mathematical Instruments: Painting and Drawing Material for Artists , 1896

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 2, Folder 3

Price List of Sketching Materials, no. 168: title page only, undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Price List of Sketching Materials, no. 175, 1899

Box 2, Folder 3

Price List of Sketching Materials, vol. 187, Spring Season 1900

Scope and Content Note

8 pp., 2 copies, 1 copy annotated.

Box 2, Folder 3

Price List of Sketching Materials, no. 195, Spring Season 1901

Box 2, Folder 3

Price List of Sketching Materials, Spring Season 1904

Box 2, Folder 4

Illustrated Price List of Artist Materials and Draughtmen's Supplies, vol. 192, undated

Physical Description: 446. pp.

Box 2, Folder 5

Catalogue of Engineering Instruments, vol. 196, undated

Physical Description: 40 pp.

Box 2, Folder 6

Revised Price List of Mathematical Instruments, vol. 228, July 1903

Scope and Content Note

First page only.

Box 2, Folder 7

Revised Price List of Convex Glasses for Photo-chromatic Painting, vol. 252, December 1904

Physical Description: 4 pp.

Box 3

Illustrated Price List of Artist Materials and Draughtmen's Supplies, vol. 260,

Physical Description: 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Annotated, 437 pp. Enclosures in front.

Box 4, Folder 1

Catalogue and Price-List, vol. 300, undated

Physical Description: 280 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 4, Folder 2

Catalogue and Price-List, vol. 300, undated

Physical Description: 280 pp. 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 4, Folder 3

Catalogue and Price-List, vol. 300, undated

Physical Description: 280 pp. 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 5, Folder 1

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 325, undated

Physical Description: 356 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 5, Folder 2

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 325, undated

Physical Description: 356 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated, incomplete.

Box 5, Folder 3

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies , vol. 325, undated

Physical Description: 356 pp.

Box 6

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 385, undated

Physical Description: 558 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Enclosures in front and tissue samples.

Box 7

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 385, undated

Physical Description: 558 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Enclosures in front and tissue samples.

Box 8

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 385, undated

Physical Description: 558 pp. 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Enclosures in front and tissue samples.

Box 9, Folder 1

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 385, undated

Physical Description: 558 pp.

Box 9, Folder 2

Illustrated Price List of Artists' Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, vol. 385, undated

Physical Description: 558 pp.

Box 9, Folder 3

Permanent Colours for Artists, December 1907

Physical Description: 24 pp.

Box 9, Folder 4

Price List of Weber Artists Colors, vol. 461, undated

Physical Description: 2 copies

Box 9, Folder 5

Form 471, 1922

Scope and Content Note

Extensively annotated Weber price list of artists supplies.

Box 9, Folder 6

Illustrated Catalogue of Artists' Materials, Drawing Materials, Drawing Instruments of Precision for Draftsmen and Engineers, vol. 500, January 1923

Physical Description: 354 pp.

Box 9, Folder 7

Price List Applying to Catalogue, vol. 500, Forms 500-4 and 500-7, 1925-1927

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 10, Folder 1

Catalogue: Artist and Drawing Materials, vol. 550, undated

Physical Description: 159 pp. 2 copies

Box 10, Folder 2

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Fall 1927

Physical Description: 128 pp.

Box 10, Folder 3

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Spring 1928

Box 10, Folder 4

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Winter 1928-1929

Box 10, Folder 5

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Summer 1929

Box 10, Folder 6

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Winter 1932-1933

Physical Description: 2 copies

Box 10, Folder 7

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, Winter 1933-1934

Physical Description: 2 copies

Box 10, Folder 8

Catalogue: Artist & Drawing Materials, Form 575, 1934

Physical Description: 3 copies

Scope and Content Note

1934 edition, annotated with enclosures.

Box 11, Folder 1

Illustrated Catalogue Artists' Materials, Drawing Materials, Drawing Instruments, Instruments of Precision for Draftsmen and Engineers, School Supplies , vol. 600, 1929

Physical Description: 408 pp.

Box 11, Folder 2

Illustrated Catalogue Artists' Materials, Drawing Materials, Drawing Instruments, Instruments of Precision for Draftsmen and Engineers, School Supplies , vol. 600, 1931

Physical Description: 408 pp.

Box 11, Folder 3

Illustrated Catalogue: Artists Materials, Fine Artists Colors, Oil, Water, Tempera, Pastel Prepared Canvases, Artists Brushes, Studio, School and Drafting Room Furniture , vol. 700, 1936

Physical Description: 224 pp.

Box 11, Folder 4

Illustrated Catalogue: Artists' Materials, Fine Artists' Colors, vol. 700 11th ed., 1949

Physical Description: 160 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Includes inserts.

Box 11, Folder 5

Illustrated Catalogue: Artists' Materials, Fine Artists' Colors, vol. 700 11th ed., 1952

Physical Description: 160 pp.

Box 11, Folder 6

Illustrated Catalogue: Artists' Materials, Fine Artists' Colors, vol. 700 11th ed., 1958

Physical Description: 160 pp.

Box 12, Folder 1

Illustrated Catalogue Artists' Materials Fine Artists' Colors, vol. 700 11th ed., 1960

Physical Description: 160 pp. 2 copies

Box 12, Folder 2

Price Book for Weber Artist and Drawing Materials, vol. 700, 11th ed., 1953

Physical Description: 22 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 12, Folder 3

Price Book for Weber Artist and Drawing Materials, Catalog 700, 11th ed., 1961-1962

Physical Description: 22 pp. 3 copies

Box 12, Folder 4

Illustrated Catalogue Drawing Materials, Drawing Instruments, Instruments of Precision for Draftsmen and Engineers School and Drafting Room Furniture , vol. 800, 1936

Physical Description: 208 pp.

Box 12, Folder 5

Illustrated Catalogue Drawing Materials, Drawing Instruments, Instruments of Precision for Draftsmen and Engineers School and Drafting Room Furniture , vol. 800, 1936

Scope and Content Note

Softcover edition of above catalogue in folder 4.

Box 12, Folder 6

Supplementary Catalogue of Drawing Instruments and Materials for Engineering Drawings, vol. 854, 1954

Physical Description: 48 pp. 3 copies

Scope and Content Note

Includes price list.

Box 12, Folder 7

Ott Planimeters & Pantographs, Price Lists No. 312 & No. 412

Physical Description: 36 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Illustrated, with 4 page typed instructions insert.

Box 12, Folder 8

Price List of Artists Material and Draughtsmen's Supplies, undated

Physical Description: 58 pp.

Box 12, Folder 9

Illustrated Price List of Artists Materials and Draughtsmen's Supplies, undated

Physical Description: 58 pp.

Series II. Paint formula books, ca. 1865-1967, undated

Physical Description: ca. 30 items

Scope and Content Note

Series contains paint formula books, ca. 1865-1967, and ledgers covering the period ca. 1900-1960. Ledgers document aspects of paint manufacture and sales to customers.

Box 12, Folder 10

Recepten-Buch, (Idstein), 1865

Physical Description: 1 vol. 133 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten ledger with technical receipes.

Box 13, Folder 1

Paint formula book, undated

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 13, Folder 2

Paint formula book, 1924

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 13, Folder 3

Paint formula book, 1925-1928

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 13, Folder 4

Paint formula book: artists oils, 1938

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 14

Paint formula book: Aqua, school art, soft, liquid, transparent, water color, charcoal, ca. 1951-1960

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 15

Artists oil colors, ca. 1951-1957

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With many inserts.

Box 16

Paint formula book, ca. 1944-1950

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

Without cover; very fragile.

Box 17

Paint formula book, ca. 1936-1963

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With inserts; very fragile.

Box 18, Folder 1

Artists water color book, ca. 1950-1966

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With paint sample inserts.

Box 18, Folder 2

Dry colors, ca. 1936-1960

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 18, Folder 3

Dry colors, ca. 1934-1948

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 18, Folder 4

Aquaprint & printers' inks, ca. 1942-1963,

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With inserts; very brittle pages.

Box 19, Folder 1

Latex polymer colors, ca. 1964-1966

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With inserts.

Box 19, Folder 2

Malfa water color, ca. 1948-1966

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 20

Malfa oil book, ca. 1957-1967

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With many formula card inserts.

Box 21

Malfa oil colors, ca. 1947-1960

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With inserts.

Box 22

Malfa water colors, ca. 1934-1941

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With many color sample inserts.

Box 23

Malfa water color, ca. 1947-1959

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With many inserts.

Box 24

Matte water color, ca. 1946-1966

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With many color sample inserts.

Box 25

Moist, ca. 1940-1958.

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 26

Permo color: gray & white, black, 1963-1966

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With inserted pages.

Box 27

Pigment and transparent inks, ca. 1947-1964

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 28

Printers' and etchers' aqua inks, undated

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 29

School art, pastel, undated

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 30

School colors/ liquid transparent water colors/ yale colors, undated

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 31

Show card colors, ca. 1943-1957

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 32, Folder 1

Show card colors, ca. 1951-1967

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 32, Folder 2

Special colors, ca. 1944-1964

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With color sample inserts.

Box 32, Folder 3

Special colors, ca. 1938-1961

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With color sample inserts

Box 33, Folder 1

Student colors and designer colors, ca. 1924-1935

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 33, Folder 2

U.S. Government Water Colors, undated

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 33, Folder 3

Chemical and physical properties of artists colors, undated

Physical Description: 3 copies

Scope and Content Note

Printed booklet published and distributed by Weber; annotated.

Series III. Sample books, 1925-1951

Physical Description: ca. 30 items

Scope and Content Note

Series contains books, cards, and brochures showing samples of artists’ materials for sale by Weber & Co.

Box 33, Folder 4

Sample cards of pastel colors, F. Weber & Co.

Scope and Content Note

A boxed set of printed cards.

Box 33, Folder 5

Weber artists canvas, counter sample book, undated

Box 34, Folder 1

Sample book: Weber artist canvas, undated

Box 34, Folder 2

Sample book: Weber artists canvases, papers and boards, undated

Box 34, Folder 3

F. Weber sample brochures and cards, undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes samples of colored tissues, artists watercolors, colored pencils, drawing inks, binding papers, artists oil colors. With 14 folded cards of sample colors for tempura, 1 sheet with uncut labels.

Box 34, Folder 4

F. Weber sample brochures and cards, undated

Scope and Content Note

10 brochures with sample chips of oil and watercolors.

Box 34, Folder 5

Paint sample book, undated

Scope and Content Note

Pages have painted samples in various colors, includes a few loose pages with paint samples.

Series IV. Business papers, 1870-1973, undated

Physical Description: 2.5 lin. ft.

Scope and Content Note

Series comprises papers, correspondence, and other materials documenting various Weber & Co. business matters, including incorporation, the building, inventory, wages, expenses, and participation in trade shows. Also included are items related to Mr. F. Weber's lectures about artists' materials, delivered ca. 1922-1935.

Box 35, Folder 1

Specifications and contract for F. Weber factory building, 1917

Scope and Content Note

2 typed documents.

Box 35, Folder 2

Plans for factory building, Herman Miller, Architect, undated

Scope and Content Note

12 blueprints, 1 pencil on tracing paper.

Box 35, Folder 3

Contracts for sprinklers for Weber building, 1921

Scope and Content Note

Includes handwritten notes.

Box 35, Folder 4

Pricing and discount sheets for cloth tracing sheets, 1922-1923

Box 35, Folder 5

Assorted price sheets, 1897, 1912, undated

Scope and Content Note

Typed and handwritten, 6 items.

Box 35, Folder 6

By-laws and incorporation papers, 1920-1921

Box 35, Folder 7

Annotated printed material and notes, mostly parts of catalogues, brochures, undated

Box 35, Folder 8

Trade agreements and tariffs, 1938

Physical Description: ca. 50 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Printed material, correspondence, 1 typed report.

Box 35, Folder 9

Flashpoints: typed list of flashpoints in degrees Farenheit, 1952

Scope and Content Note

For varnishes and paints, affixed to board with string for hanging on the wall.

Box 35, Folder 10

Labor provisions poster, 1935

Box 35, Folder 11

Memorandum of goods shipped, 1921-1935

Scope and Content Note

Small notebook with handwritten notations. Pages loose and brittle.

Box 35, Folder 12

Factory expense book, 1870-1976

Scope and Content Note

Small notebook with handwritten annotations.

Box 35, Folder 13

Factory wage book, 1870

Scope and Content Note

Small notebook with handwritten notations.

Box 35, Folder 14

Postage and stamp account books, 1870

Scope and Content Note

2 small notebooks with handwritten notations.

Box 36*

Ledger book of F. Weber stock on hand, 1897

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Scope and Content Note

With a few papers inserted.

Box 36

Books of stock certificates, 1921-1961, 1921-1963

Physical Description: 3 vols.

Scope and Content Note

Two books have F. Weber certificates, both with correspondence inserted.

Box 36

Book of stock certificates for Braquette, Inc., 1938-1939

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Box 37*, Folder 1

F. Weber lecture (typescript): “The Craftsmanship of fine arts painting,” ca. 1934-1935, undated

Physical Description: 8 pp. 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten notes on history of painting.

Box 37*, Folder 2

F. Weber lecture: “The Chemistry and physics of fine arts painting,” undated

Physical Description: 2 copies

Scope and Content Note

Typescript.

Box 38*

Scrapbook with pasted in photo, clippings, announcements, and brochures of F. Weber lectures, ca. 1930s

Scope and Content Note

With 1 folder of loose inserts for the scrapbook.

Box 39, Folder 1

Exhibition photographs, 1922

Scope and Content Note

b&w photograph of display with clipping pasted on reverse.

Box 39, Folder 2

Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1925-1926

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence (11 letters), rules and regulations for exhibitors, lists and other printed material.

Box 39, Folder 3

Golden Gate International Exposition, 1936

Scope and Content Note

One negative, rules and regulations, printed booklet/catalogue.

Box 39, Folder 4

Exhibitions, assorted and unidentified, 1929-1941, undated

Scope and Content Note

13 b&w photos.

Series V. Other companies' trade catalogs and sample books, 1870-1951, undated

Physical Description: ca. 40 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes catalogs and price lists of artists’ materials sold by Weber & Co. competitors.

Box 39, Folder 5

W. L. R. Balston's J. Whatman paper sample book, 1931?

Box 39, Folder 6

Favor, Ruhl & Co. catalogue: Artists materials, and typed list, 1927

Scope and Content Note

Includes inserted advertisement, additions and revised prices.

Box 39, Folder 7

Assorted ads, brochures, sheets from various companies, undated

Physical Description: 6 items

Box 39, Folder 8

Hillman brushes, catalogues, 1937 rev. June 1951

Box 39, Folder 9

Janentzky & Co., June 1876, 1881

Physical Description: 2 catalogs

Scope and Content Note

Loose pages without covers. See also Box 1, folder 1 for Janentzky & Weber catalogue, 1886.

Box 39, Folder 10

Janentzky & Co., Illustrated trade catalog..., 1882

Box 39, Folder 11

Racher & Co., Zurich, Katalog 861, undated (1961?)

Box 40, Folder 1

E. O. Richter & Co. catalog, 1911

Box 40, Folder 2

Richter precision instruments, undated

Physical Description: 3 catalogs

Scope and Content Note

Catalogs issued by other companies, one from F. Weber.

Box 40, Folder 3

Ripka & Co. catalog, undated

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 40, Folder 4

Ripka & Co. catalog, undated

Scope and Content Note

Annotated.

Box 40, Folder 5

George Rowney & Co. Watercolors, undated

Scope and Content Note

With inserted watercolor sample swatches.

Box 40, Folder 6

George Rowney & Co. General catalog, 17th ed., undated (1940?)

Box 41, Folder 1

Vouga fine art publications catalogue, undated, stamped 1959

Scope and Content Note

Issued by F. Weber & Co. 34 pp. Includes inserts.

Box 41, Folder 2

B. Westerman & Co., List of Illustrated works and photographs...German art and literature, 1870

Physical Description: 10 pp.

Box 41, Folder 3

Winsor and Newton, Ltd., Artists' Colours and Trade Catalogue, ca. 1900-1910

Physical Description: 64 pp.

Scope and Content Note

Includes samples of speciman tints of watercolors.

Box 41, Folder 4

Winsor and Newton, Permanence of Water Colour Pigments (reprint), 1915

Physical Description: 16 pp.

Box 41, Folder 5

Winsor and Newton, Notes on the composition and permanence of artists' colours, undated

Box 41, Folder 6

F. Weber, D iscourse on the chemistry of artists' paints, vehicles and varnishes, 1922-1923

Physical Description: 16pp. 2 copies

Box 41, Folder 7

Technical facts for the artist, 1929-1952

Scope and Content Note

Pamphlets published by F. Weber (4 pp ea.): v.I, #1-7, v.II. #1.

Box 41, Folder 8

Story of shellac, William Zinsser & Co., N.Y. & Chicago, undated

Physical Description: 16pp.

Box 41, Folder 9

W. H. Clifford, Heraldry and heraldric painting, undated

Physical Description: 8 pp.

Scope and Content Note

includes the catalog of Herald Co. Painting.

Box 41, Folder 10

Artists oil painting, published by U.S. Gov't Documents, 1962

Physical Description: 1 pamphlet

Box 41, Folder 10

German Artists' Colours Manufacturers, ca. 1946

Physical Description: 1 pamphlet

Box 41, Folder 10

Pocket Guide to Color Mixing, Waitt Publishers, 1951

Physical Description: 1 pamphlet

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