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Title: Carrie Edwards to Nora Edwards, 1903-12-08
Date(s): 1903-12-08
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), C.H. Edwards (Firm) (associated name), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: In a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that no atlas has arrived at the office nor were any orders received from Mrs. Altman, Anna Miller, or the lady from Springfield. She states that she will copy down the list of orders for Nora if she has time before mailing this letter. She also remarks on personal matters, giving an update on her daughter, Mae, and mentioning receiving a letter from 'sister Augusta,' who is being treated for nervous frustration at a hospital...
Show moreIn a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that no atlas has arrived at the office nor were any orders received from Mrs. Altman, Anna Miller, or the lady from Springfield. She states that she will copy down the list of orders for Nora if she has time before mailing this letter. She also remarks on personal matters, giving an update on her daughter, Mae, and mentioning receiving a letter from 'sister Augusta,' who is being treated for nervous frustration at a hospital in Long Beach, California.
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_05_13
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Nellie Miller to Nora Edwards, 1904-05-25
Date(s): 1904-05-25
Contributor(s): Miller, Nellie (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Miller has received the supporters and has been taking orders for two days. She is optimistic that she will be able to earn more money canvassing than by working in her brother-in-law's store, and she plans to canvas in three other townships in addition to Afton, Iowa. She adds that she would like go to the exposition (likely the Louisiana Purchase Exposition) soon.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_06
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: The Edwards Skirt Supporter Co. to Nora Edwards, 1903-12-07
Date(s): 1903-12-07
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: List of orders taken by Carrie Edwards, sister-in-law of Nora Edwards, for the Edwards Skirt Supporter Co. Carrie Edwards mentions that four of orders were given and the money drawn from the till of her husband's, Charles H. Edwards, store in the hope that the women purchasing the supporters might become agents for the company.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_05_12
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: A.R. Lattimore to Nora C. Edwards, 1905-01-16
Date(s): 1905-01-16
Contributor(s): Lattimore, A. R. (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Lattimore writes that she had been unable to take up Edwards' offer before now as she was committed to a Chicago firm. She is now available to work for the Edwards Skirt Supporter Co. and asks if Jefferson City and the towns between St. Louis and Decatur, Ill. are available.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_07_01
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Sterling to Nora Edwards, 1903-10-08
Date(s): 1903-10-08
Contributor(s): Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: The writer describes her travels in California as well as the route she took through other states to get there. Among other details, she mentions the growth of Los Angeles and that electric lines in that city connect with all towns within a 25-mile radius. She tells Edwards that she received the supporters a few days ago and describes her satisfaction with her new firm.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_05_11
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mattie Choate to The Edwards Skirt Supporter Company, 1906-10-06
Date(s): 1906-10-06
Contributor(s): Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: Choate writes that she has received the shipment of supporters and will send the money as soon as she can. She plans to focus on selling the black and gray supporters for now, as she finds that ladies in the south prefer them to the white supporters, which are easily soiled.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_08_06
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mrs. T. J. Hubbard to The Edwards Skirt Supporter Company, 1907-02-12
Date(s): 1907-02-12
Contributor(s): Hubbard, T. J. (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: Hubbard reports from Pittsburgh that she has met with the K. Soloman Co. and that the buyer there liked the supporters but would not put them in stock without a demonstration. The buyer told her that in order to sell the supporters successfully they will need to demonstrate a few days in each store, and Hubbard states she will do what she can while she remains in that city. She encloses a list of recent orders she has taken along with the commission due to her.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_09_01
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Ellen L. Swann to Nora Edwards, 1908-01-31
Date(s): 1908-01-31
Contributor(s): Swann, Ellen L. (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Swann writes that she remains interested in selling skirt supporters and being chief agent in the area, and she wishes to know current prices and any other new relevant information. Swann also remarks on her children, the weather, and other company agents.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_10_02
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Florence Harvey to Nora Edwards, 1905-07-25
Date(s): 1905-07-25
Contributor(s): Harvey, Florence (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Among other business details, Harvey reports receiving a C.O.D. shipment from the Hamilton Cotton Co., and she decided not to accept the shipment until hearing from Edwards.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_07_09
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Lena Beunerman to Nora Edwards, 1908-10-03
Date(s): 1908-10-03
Contributor(s): Beunerman, Lena (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Beunerman writes that she has not yet heard from Edwards concerning the skirt supporters, but she hopes Edwards will make a good proposition since Beunerman has not been doing much with lace work recently.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_10_07
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mrs. D. Garrett (Jessie Ward) to Nora Edwards, 1906-12-13
Date(s): 1906-12-13
Contributor(s): Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Letter from a newly married friend, in which Garrett asks Edwards to visit if she has a chance. Garrett writes that she has about 9 dozen supporters on hand and asks Edwards what to do with them. Garrett had planned on trying to sell them if she had time, but her husband disapproved. She remarks that she had enjoyed the work and mentions a salesman stopping by selling 'those 'teeth' things,' which Garrett finds to be inferior to the Edwards Skirt Supporter.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_08_08
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mrs. T. J. Hubbard to The Edwards Skirt Supporter Company, 1906-10-26
Date(s): 1906-10-26
Contributor(s): Hubbard, T. J. (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: Hubbard writes that she will be able to appoint agents in Detroit next week if Edwards wishes to advertise in the Detroit papers. From there, she will go to Saginaw. She reports that customers speak highly of the Edwards Skirt Supporter and writes that she encloses a testimonial that a woman wrote for her.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_08_07
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Walter Ames to Nora Edwards, 1908-06-17
Date(s): 1908-06-17
Contributor(s): Ames, Walter (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Ames, a die and special machinery maker, asks for Edwards' reply to the prices he quoted on die and stamping for skirt supporters. He asks that Edwards place an order soon as they are about to get in a large order for a new fan box from the street railway.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_10_04
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mrs. Sander to Nora Edwards
Date(s): 1903/1917, 1903, 1917
Contributor(s): Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: One of Edwards' agents for the Edwards Skirt Supporter Company reports on her progress selling skirt supporters in Canada.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_14_01
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: American Mills Company to The Edwards Skirt Supporter Company, 1904-04-28
Date(s): 1904-04-28
Contributor(s): American Mills Company (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Meier, George (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: Letter acknowledges receipt of purchase. Invoice enclosed.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_04
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Carrie Edwards to Nora Edwards, 1904-05-03
Date(s): 1904-05-03
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), C.H. Edwards (Firm) (associated name), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: In a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards agrees to Nora Edwards' offer of a wage rate of $5.00 per thousand supporters made plus 10% of the mail orders received, and she asks to retain the retail business as it was before. She also relays advice from her husband, Charles, who believes that if Nora Edwards wishes to make her brother, David Edwards, a partner in the company, it would be better to make him a silent partner as it will be easier to achieve a rating for the company with...
Show moreIn a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards agrees to Nora Edwards' offer of a wage rate of $5.00 per thousand supporters made plus 10% of the mail orders received, and she asks to retain the retail business as it was before. She also relays advice from her husband, Charles, who believes that if Nora Edwards wishes to make her brother, David Edwards, a partner in the company, it would be better to make him a silent partner as it will be easier to achieve a rating for the company with fewer partners without collateral.
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_05
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Avon, U.S. Small Business Administration honor America's self-employed women
Date(s): 1987-05
Contributor(s): United States. Small Business Administration (associated name)
Description: Press release regarding Avon's Women of Enterprise Awards.
Hagley ID: WOE_LeadRelease_20101119_198705
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Marketing pictures (October 1968)
Date(s): 1968
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Benedict, Bette (depicted), Creative playthings, Inc. (associated name), Branchini, Caesar (depicted), Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (associated name), Burnham, Virginia (Schroeder), 1908-1997 (depicted), Connecticut Manufacturing Company, Inc. (associated name)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_014_12_001
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Black Women Entrepreneurs : Past and Present Conditions of Black Women's Business Ownership
Date(s): 2016
Contributor(s): Walker's Legacy (author), National Women's Business Council (U.S.) (sponsor), United States. Small Business Administration. Office of Advocacy (sponsor)
Description: "This report begins with an historical analysis of Black business ownership in the U.S. as well as a depiction of the history of Black women, labor, and entrepreneurship in the U.S. It then explores the current landscape of Black female entrepreneurship, details the methodology used to investigate this population, and discusses the findings from conversations held with Black women entrepreneurs. Building upon these components, the report concludes with recommendations to further support and...
Show more"This report begins with an historical analysis of Black business ownership in the U.S. as well as a depiction of the history of Black women, labor, and entrepreneurship in the U.S. It then explores the current landscape of Black female entrepreneurship, details the methodology used to investigate this population, and discusses the findings from conversations held with Black women entrepreneurs. Building upon these components, the report concludes with recommendations to further support and develop Black women-owned businesses."--Introduction, page 11.
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Collection ID: Ebook 2021.0044
Hagley ID: Ebook_20210044
Collection: Born digital publications

Title: Interview with Lori Clough, 2016 February 4
Date(s): 2016-02-04
Contributor(s): Clough, Lori (interviewee), Hargreaves, Gregory (interviewer)
Description: This interview took place in the taproom of 3rd Wave Brewing Company in Delmar, Delaware. Clough offers perspective on the processes of opening and running a craft brewery in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Collection ID: Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews (Accession 2016.287)
Hagley ID: Lori_Clough_2_4_16
Collection: Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews

Title: A. Amundsen to Nora Edwards, 1904-04-28
Date(s): 1904-04-28
Contributor(s): Amundsen, Andrew (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Amundsen informs Edwards that he has received the brass for the supporters and is punching them out to be ready for delivery to Harris & Knight by tomorrow. Amundsen notes having had trouble with the dies and needing to spend extra time on them to produce a better result.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_03
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: W. L. Campbell to Nora Edwards, 1905-02
Date(s): 1905-02
Contributor(s): Campbell, W. L. (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: The Canadian representative of the American Machinist responds to Edwards' inquiry concerning suitable die makers who would be equipped to handle the work Edwards' requires. He encloses the card of Walter Ames of Toronto and also recommends Brown & Boggs Co. of Hamilton, Ontario.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_07_04
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: The Kirchmaier Book of Cross-Stitch and Crochet in Color
Date(s): 1914
Creator: Kirchmaier, Hugo W. (Hugo William), 1869-, Kirchmaier, Cora
Contributor(s): Hadley, Sara (seller)
Collection ID: Pam 2010.209
Hagley ID: PAM_2010_209
Collection: Women's Handicraft in the 19th Century gallery

Title: [Mary E. Russell Patterns]
Date(s): 1912
Contributor(s): Russell, Mary E. (copyright holder), Hurm, Inc. (seller)
Collection ID: Imprints Department Pamphlet File
Hagley ID: PAM_E_08182263_b
Collection: Women's Handicraft in the 19th Century gallery

Title: [Greta DuPont Brown, Needlepoint Patterns]
Date(s): 1910, 1915
Contributor(s): Jenny Brooks Co. (Salem, Mass.) (copyright holder), Brown, Greta du Pont (Barksdale), 1891-1965 (former owner), Du Pont, Alice Hounsfeld (du Pont), 1863-1937 (associated name), Du Pont, Louisa (Gerhard), 1816-1900 (associated name), Du Pont, Margaretta Lammot, 1807-1898 (associated name), Du Pont, Mary van Dyke, 1826-1909 (associated name)
Collection ID: Embroidery Patterns
Hagley ID: LMSS_2093_10
Collection: Women's Handicraft in the 19th Century gallery

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