A Guide to the Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company Records, 1834-1992 Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company (Petersburg, Va.), Records, 1834-1992 42633

A Guide to the Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company Records, 1834-1992

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 42633

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Processed by: Jim Greve

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

42633

Title

Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company Records, 1834-1992

Physical Description

5 cubic feet (12 boxes) and 5 volumes

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company Records, 1834-1992. Accession 42633. Business records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Marvin T. Broyhill III, Petersburg, Virginia.

Historical Information

The Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company was founded in 1872 by Esek Steere and E. J. Armstrong, and was located in Petersburg, Virginia. In 1876, Esek Steere and his son Albert Lippett Steere (1872-1931) bought out Armstrong's interest. The company specialized in machinery for the peanut industry, including planters, harvesters, and shellers, and also tobacco industry equipment. The firm also manufactured household products, such as andirons, urns, and firebacks, and also produced bar iron, sheets and plates, and boiler tubes. The company also operated a sawmill, and employed iron and brass founders and machinists. The company ceased to exist in 1972, and the complex was sold to the Godley Land and Cattle Company of North Carolina, but was soon purchased from them by the Historic Petersburg Foundation. The Foundation soon sold it to Frank Peckinpaugh, a retired engineer. The complex was renovated into a living history museum and opened to the public in 1991 by real estate developers Marvin T. Broyhill III and George Pilarinos, but was severely damaged by a tornado that struck Petersburg in August 1993. In 1996, it was sold to the Center for Industrial Preservation.

Scope and Content

Records, 1834-1992, of the Appomattox Iron Works and Supply Company of Petersburg, Virginia, including correspondence, customer orders, receipts, credit reports, price sheets and supply catalogs, account ledgers, weekly time books, day book, and cash ledger. Also included are photocopies of diaries of company founder Esek Steere (1831-1908). The collection also contains files relating to the renovation of the company headquarters into a living history museum in the early 1990's. There is artwork, brochures, clippings, genealogical notes on the Armstrong and Steere families, photographs, proposals and specifications, reports, histories, and information relating to tax credits, grants, and urban enterprise zones.

Contents List

Accounts, 1900 .

Box 1 Folder 1

Accounts, 1923-1924 .

Box 1 Folder 2

Appleton Manufacturing Company (Batavia, IL) .

Box 1 Folder 3

Appomattox Basin .

Box 1 Folder 4

Artwork - Jerry W. Furr, Jr., 1991 .

Box 1 Folder 5

Bignall and Keeler Manufacturing Company (Edwardsville, IL) .

Box 1 Folder 6

Bloomer vs. McQuewan et. als. - Appeal, 1853 .

Box 1 Folder 7

Blueprint - Electric Starting Woodpeckers (Middletown Machine), 18 February 1913.

Box 11

Blueprint - Appomattox Iron Works Complex Preliminary Proposal, 11 December 1990 .

Box 4 Folder 4

Broadside, 10 August 1892 .

Box 11

Brochure .

Box 1 Folder 8

Building Profiles - Central Core Area .

Box 1 Folder 9

Cash Ledger, August 1910 - November 1913 .

Volume 1

Clippings .

Box 1 Folder 10

Continental Machinery Company (Chattanooga, TN) .

Box 1 Folder 11

Correspondence, 1914 (T-U-V) .

Box 1 Folder 12

Correspondence, 1915 (A) .

Box 1 Folder 13

Correspondence, 1915 (B) .

Box 1 Folder 14

Correspondence, 1915 (T-U-V) .

Box 1 Folder 15

Correspondence, 1916 (A) .

Box 1 Folder 16

Correspondence, 1916 (B) .

Box 1 Folder 17

Correspondence, 1916 (C) .

Box 1 Folder 18

Correspondence, 1916 (N-O) .

Box 1 Folder 19

Correspondence, 1916 (S) .

Box 1 Folder 20

Correspondence, 1917 (A) .

Box 1 Folder 21

Correspondence, 1917 (B) .

Box 1 Folder 22

Correspondence, 1917 (C) .

Box 1 Folder 23

Correspondence, 1917 (M) .

Box 1 Folder 24

Correspondence, 1917 (N-O) .

Box 1 Folder 25

Correspondence, 1917 (P-Q) .

Box 1 Folder 26

Correspondence, 1917 (R) .

Box 1 Folder 27

Correspondence, 1917 (S) .

Box 1 Folder 28

Correspondence, 1917 (T-U-V) .

Box 1 Folder 29

Correspondence, 1917 (W-X-Y-Z) .

Box 1 Folder 30

Correspondence, 1918 (A) .

Box 1 Folder 31

Correspondence, 1918 (B) .

Box 1 Folder 32

Correspondence, 1918 (C) .

Box 1 Folder 33

Correspondence, 1918 (R) .

Box 1 Folder 34

Correspondence, 1918 (T-U-V) .

Box 1 Folder 35

Correspondence, 1919 (H) .

Box 1 Folder 36

Correspondence, 1920 (A) .

Box 1 Folder 37

Correspondence, 1920 (B) .

Box 1 Folder 38

Correspondence, 1920 (C) .

Box 1 Folder 39

Correspondence, 1920 (D) .

Box 1 Folder 40

Correspondence, 1920 (E-F) .

Box 2 Folder 1

Correspondence, 1920 (G) .

Box 2 Folder 2

Correspondence, 1920 (H-I-J) .

Box 2 Folder 3

Correspondence, 1920 (K-L) .

Box 2 Folder 4

Correspondence, 1920 (M) .

Box 2 Folder 5

Correspondence, 1920 (N-O) .

Box 2 Folder 6

Correspondence, 1920 (P-Q) .

Box 2 Folder 7

Correspondence, 1920 (R) .

Box 2 Folder 8

Correspondence, 1920 (S) .

Box 2 Folder 9

Correspondence, 1920 (T-U-V) .

Box 2 Folder 10

Correspondence, 1920 (W-X-Y-Z) .

Box 2 Folder 11

Correspondence, 1922 (B) .

Box 2 Folder 12

Correspondence, 1922 (S) .

Box 2 Folder 13

Correspondence, 1923 (A) .

Box 2 Folder 14

Correspondence, 1923 (B) .

Box 2 Folder 15

Correspondence, 1923 (C) .

Box 2 Folder 16

Correspondence, 1923 (D) .

Box 2 Folder 17

Correspondence, 1923 (G) .

Box 2 Folder 18

Correspondence, 1923 (H-I-J) .

Box 2 Folder 19

Correspondence, 1923 (R) .

Box 2 Folder 20

Correspondence, 1924 (A) .

Box 2 Folder 21

Correspondence, 1924 (B) .

Box 2 Folder 22

Correspondence, 1924 (C) .

Box 2 Folder 23

Correspondence, 1924 (D) .

Box 2 Folder 24

Correspondence, 1924 (E-F) .

Box 2 Folder 25

Correspondence, 1924 (G) .

Box 2 Folder 26

Correspondence, 1924 (H-I-J) .

Box 2 Folder 27

Correspondence, 1924 (K-L) .

Box 2 Folder 28

Correspondence, 1924 (M) .

Box 2 Folder 29

Correspondence, 1924 (N-O) .

Box 2 Folder 30

Correspondence, 1924 (P-Q) .

Box 2 Folder 31

Correspondence, 1924 (R) .

Box 2 Folder 32

Correspondence, 1924 (S) .

Box 2 Folder 33

Correspondence, 1924 (T-U-V) .

Box 2 Folder 34

Correspondence, 1924 (W-X-Y-Z) .

Box 2 Folder 35

Correspondence, 1929 (D) .

Box 2 Folder 36

Customer Accounts Ledger, 1883-1894 .

Volume 2

Customer Accounts Ledger, 1894-1902 .

Volume 3

Customer Accounts Ledger, 1901-1904 .

Volume 4

Day Book (Journal "B"), 12 April 1879 - 3 September 1890 .

Volume 5

Description and Preliminary Financial Anaylsis, 1989 .

Box 2 Folder 37

Diary of Esek Steere, 1852 .

Box 3 Folder 1

Diary of Esek Steere, 1864 .

Box 3 Folder 2

Diary of Esek Steere, 1865 .

Box 3 Folder 3

Diary of Esek Steere, 1870 .

Box 3 Folder 4

Diary of Esek Steere, 1874 .

Box 3 Folder 5

Diary of Esek Steere, 1876 .

Box 3 Folder 6

Diary of Esek Steere, 1878, 1884 .

Box 3 Folder 7

Diary of Esek Steere, 1890 .

Box 3 Folder 8

Diary of Esek Steere, 1893 .

Box 3 Folder 9

Diary of Esek Steere, 1895 (January 1 - April 15) .

Box 3 Folder 10

"Early Development of the Steam Engine" by Marvin T. Broyhill, 1991 .

Box 4 Folder 1

Economic and Social Benefits of the AIW Visitor Complex, 1990 .

Box 4 Folder 2

Equipment Advertisements .

Box 4 Folder 3

Estate of Albert Lippett Steere .

Box 4 Folder 4

Estate of Albert Lippett Steere .

Box 11

Facade Incentive Grants Program .

Box 4 Folder 5

Farquhar Machinery (York, PA) .

Box 4 Folder 6

Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credits .

Box 4 Folder 7

Genealogical Notes - Armstrong .

Box 4 Folder 8

Genealogical Notes - Steere .

Box 4 Folder 9

Historic Petersburg Foundation .

Box 4 Folder 10

History .

Box 4 Folder 11

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site .

Box 4 Folder 12

Introduction to the Appomattox Iron Works, 1989 .

Box 4 Folder 13

Knight Foundry (Sutter Creek, CA) 1990 .

Box 4 Folder 14

Mechanics' Magazine, 12 April 1834 .

Box 4 Folder 15

National Recovery Administration, 1935 .

Box 4 Folder 16

Orders from Customers, July-October 1938 (A-O) .

Box 5 Folder 1-15

Orders from Customers, July-October 1938 (P-Z) .

Box 6 Folder 1-6

Petersburg's Commercial Souvenir (copy), 1907? .

Box 6 Folder 7

Petersburg Iron Works - Receipt, 1889 .

Box 6 Folder 8

Petersburg Urban Enterprise Zone Program .

Box 6 Folder 9

Photographs .

Box 9-10

Photograph - Petersburg Street Scene .

Box 11

Photos and Commentary .

Box 6 Folder 10

Postcards .

Box 6 Folder 11

Price Sheets, 1955-1956 (A) .

Box 6 Folder 12

Price Sheets, 1955-1956 (M) .

Box 6 Folder 13

Price Sheets, 1955-1956 (S) .

Box 6 Folder 14-15

Price Sheets, 1955-1956 (T-U-V) .

Box 6 Folder 16

Price Sheets, 1955-1956 (W) .

Box 6 Folder 17

Progress-Index Article, 15 June 1958 .

Box 6 Folder 18

Project Plans and Specifications, 1990 .

Box 6 Folder 19

Projected Income and Expenses, 1990 .

Box 6 Folder 20

Proposed Development, 1990 .

Box 6 Folder 21

Receipts, 1938-1939 (A-Z) .

Box 7 Folder 1-19

Report on Nos. 20-28 West Old Street, 1964, 1990 .

Box 8 Folder 1

Reports (The Mercantile Agency credit reports), 1912-1918 (A-Z) .

Box 8 Folder 2-16

Sloss Furnaces (Birmingham, AL) .

Box 8 Folder 17

"The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution" by George Pilarinos, 1992 .

Box 8 Folder 18

Steam Engine Projects From "The Young Mechanic" .

Box 8 Folder 19

Steel and Alexander (Petersburg, Va.) - Receipts, 1896, 1900 .

Box 8 Folder 20

Tappey and Steel (Petersburg, Va.) - Receipt, 1887 .

Box 8 Folder 21

Taxes, 1968-1970 .

Box 8 Folder 22

Titus Iron Works - Pattern Numbering Book .

Box 8 Folder 23

Videotape (Beta) - Project Overview Footage, February 1992 .

Box 11

Videotape (Beta) - "Thursday at the Works" - Fat Ammons Band .

Box 11

Weekly Time Book, 13 May 1932 - 15 March 1935 .

Box 12 Folder 1

Weekly Time Book, 22 March 1935 - 31 December 1937 .

Box 12 Folder 2

Weekly Time Book, 7 January 1938 - 15 November 1940 .

Box 12 Folder 3

Weekly Time Book, 27 November 1940 - 10 September 1943 .

Box 12 Folder 4