J. Wiss & Sons Company records, 1921-1925; 1948.

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J. Wiss & Sons Company records, 1921-1925; 1948.

J. Wiss & Sons Company (creator).

J. Wiss & Sons Company records, 1921-1925; 1948.

Phy. Description:

0.3 cu. ft.: 1 document box.

Bio / His Notes:

J. Wiss & Sons Company was founded in 1848 by Jacob Wiss, a thirty-one-year-old immigrant from Switzerland who was an experienced cutler and gunsmith. The company, headed by Wiss and his descendants in Newark, N.J., emphasized high quality in its products which became known world-wide and sold to the U.S. Government in the Civil War and the two World Wars. In 1914, Wiss acquired the manufacturing facilities of a competitor and became the largest producer of fine scissors and shears in the world. Following World War I, Wiss weathered a severe depression in scissors markets, partly caused by dumping of European products. Increased U.S. help remedied this situation. Recently, the Wiss Company became a subsidiary of Cooper Industries.

Scope and Content:

Catalog and Salesman's Fact Book, 1921-1925, and "A Story of Shears and Scissors". The book includes a 1925 Wiss Catalog of scissors, snips, and shears and a 1925 catalog of Kraeuter and Company Inc., Newark,manufacturers of pliers, wrenches, chisels, automobile and machinists' tools and ticket punches. Also, numerous price lists and advertisements for the tools, apparently clipped from publications.

Container List.

J. Wiss & Sons Company Records, 1921-1925, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Subject-Topical:

Mechanical engineering and technology

Cutlers -- 1920-1950

Subject - Geographical:

Cooper Industries

Business records -- 1910-1930

Repository Loc:

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History : Archives Center. P.O. Box 37012, Suite 1100, MRC 601, Constitution Ave., between 12th and 14th Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20013-7012. Call 202-633-3270 for appointment. Fax: 202-786-2453.

Kraeuter & Company, Inc. (publisher).

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