Details

Subject(s)

• Bridges—19th century—Design and construction [Browse]
• Civil engineers—19th century—Correspondence—New Jersey [Browse]
• Industrialists—19th century—Correspondence—New Jersey [Browse]
• Suspension bridges—19th century—Design and construction [Browse]
• Wire industry—19th century—Sources—History—New Jersey [Browse]
• Wire-rope industry—19th century—Sources—History—New Jersey [Browse]
• Trenton (N.J.)—19th century—Sources—History [Browse]
• John A. Roebling's Sons Company,. [Browse]
• Roebling, John Augustus [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Address books—19th century [Browse]
• Administrative records—20th century [Browse]
• Ledgers (account books)—19th century [Browse]
• Minutes (administrative records).—20th century [Browse]
• Product specifications—20th century [Browse]
• Scrapbooks—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1821-1936

Restrictions note

The collection is open for research.

Summary note

• The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.
• The collection consists of 10 bound volumes of administrative records, financial ledgers, meeting minutes, professional correspondence, product specifications, and clippings of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey. Materials include three volumes of typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence from 1831 to 1865 with Ferdinand Baehr, Charles Swan, and others, including some translations from the German. Also present are a company address book documenting the company's business relationships and contacts in the 1890s; a 1920 company manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, with two related pamphlets, inscribed by Siegfried Roebling; Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger of price estimates and product specifications for various orders and projects in the early 1900s; a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company (1899-1915) with related correspondence regarding its incorporation and dissolution; a volume of Monnot and Prior U.S. Patents for Compound Conductors (1821-1914), with correspondence interleaved regarding John A. Roebling's Sons Company's potential purchase of patents for wire rope manufacture; and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard, with clippings in German covering his activities from 1896 to 1934.

OCLC

1402189747

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