1913 antique WINCHESTER SHOE CO buffalo ny MINUTE BOOK LIQUIDATION archive
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Substantial and historically important corporate archive consisting of an original Winchester Shoe Company minute book from Buffalo, New York, covering approximately 1913–1919, together with related loose corporate documents including a certified corporate resolution. The bound volume contains roughly 200 numbered pages, with a significant number of pages used for official stockholder and director meetings and many remaining blank pages as issued.
The book records meetings held at the company\'s offices on Washington Street in Buffalo and names numerous company officers and stockholders, including JACOB P. STEFFAN, JOHN J. STEFFAN, GEORGE E. STEFFAN, A.J. STEFFAN, and secretary FRANK M. BUCHHEIT. Entries document routine corporate governance, property transactions, mortgage obligations, inventories, banking arrangements, shareholder actions, and increasingly serious financial concerns facing the company.
Of particular interest are the extensive entries relating to the decline and liquidation of the business. Minutes from 1915 discuss closing the books of the Winchester Shoe Company, discontinuing sales activity, banking transfers, settlement of accounts, and legal actions required to wind up company affairs. Later entries record inventories, asset valuations, machinery, accounts receivable, real estate holdings, indebtedness, and resolutions authorizing the transfer of company assets.
Included with the archive is an original typed certified corporate resolution concerning the sale of company real estate in West Seneca, Erie County, New York. Secretary FRANK M. BUCHHEIT certifies that the document is a true transcription from the official company minute book, directly linking the loose document to the corporate records. This certification transforms the archive from a simple minute book into a documented corporate liquidation and real-estate transaction record.
Additional loose papers include meeting notes, draft resolutions, correspondence fragments, and related business documents retained with the company records.
An exceptional research archive for collectors of Buffalo history, New York business records, early American manufacturing, footwear industry history, corporate law, insolvency and liquidation records, and genealogists researching the STEFFAN family or FRANK M. BUCHHEIT.
Condition is consistent with age and office use. Binding shows wear, loose documents exhibit folds and handling, and pages display normal age toning and occasional marks. Please examine all photographs carefully for complete condition details.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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