- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Weber, Orlando F. (Orlando Franklin), 1879-1945
- Title:
- Orlando F. Weber Collection, 1791-1903
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m613mx65z
- Dates:
- 1791-1903 (mostly 1820-1832)
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of mostly nineteenth-century material collected by Orlando F. Weber, a prominent industrialist with an interest in the history of corporate practices and economics.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of letters, with typed transcripts, of 19th-century economists, philosophers, and others, including Mathew Carey, Henry C. Carey, Edward Everett, John Stuart Mill, T. A. Robinson, and Isaiah Thomas, as well as deeds and invoices of Mathew Carey, which were collected by Weber, a prominent industrialist with an interest in the history of corporate practices and economics.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Weber, Orlando F. (Orlando Franklin), 1879-1945
Orlando F. Weber (was head of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation from 1920 until his retirement in 1935. He gathered his library as a basis for his studies of managerial methods, and as part of a research program which aimed to present the complexities of economic theory in simple terms to the average citizen.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM14105
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Orlando F. Weber Collection, 1791-1903; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m613mx65z
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Commerce -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Economic history -- 1750-1918.
Economists -- England -- 19th century.
Economists -- United States -- 19th century.
Tariff -- United States -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Deeds -- 19th century.
Letters -- 19th century. - Names:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
- Places:
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
