Archive Record
| Catalog Number | 2006.024.022 |
| Object Name | Invoice |
| Scope & Content | Invoice for the sale of a half dozen heavy blue coats from the Carhartt Overall Company of Detroit, Michigan to G.S. Ketter and Company of Wilmont, Ohio for $10.23, dated October 21, 1926. The invoice is printed on Carhartt Overall Company letterhead bearing lithographs of the Detroit Plant Hamilton Carhartt, and South Carolina Cotton Mills Number One, as well as Hamilton Carhartt, the company's founder and president. "My business was not started to do the gainful thing alone, but the just and honest thing, gainful if possible - H.C." is printed in red along the bottom of the invoice. "Paid, 6569, 1120," is handwritten in ink at the bottom of the invoice. A map of the United States, and the southern edge of Canada is printed on the verso. The Hamilton Carhartt Plantation and Cotton Mills in South Carolina are labeled, as are the company's Detroit, Toronto, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Vancouver factories, the Montreal and Winnipeg ware rooms, and the Elberton cotton mills, each connected by a dotted line from the South Carolina mills. Lines also extend off the edge of the map toward the Atlantic labeled as the Liverpool and Paris factories. Terms for orders are listed above the map, beneath the header, "To Our Friends, 'Let us do business together so that it will be a pleasure as well as a profit.'" |
| Date | 1926 |
| People |
Carhartt, Hamiliton |
| Extent of Description | 8.25" x 10.875" |
| Collection | Business/Stores/Retail |
| Search Terms |
Carhartt Factories |