| Subject |
Records of the Marietta Manufacturing Company include correspondence, reports, production files, personnel files, legal documents, financial records, engineering drawings, and photographic images. Personnel files contain employee records from the 1930s to the late 1960s, joint committee minutes that document union negotiations, employee manuals, and employee directories from the 1940s through the 1960s. Legal documents consist of contracts, by-laws, and financial records, with some of the earliest materials pertaining to Marietta's move from Ohio to West Virginia. Financial records include stockholder reports and tax returns. Also includes correspondence, with the bulk of the letters from the 1950s through the 1960s; product working files; drawings and blueprints of all phases of construction; engineering manuals; printed materials, including publications from the 1950s and 1960s related to the shipping industry and printing plates used in company advertising; photographs and negatives of Marietta employees and products; records of the sales department, including lists of customers and sales reports; and materials related to the Windsor family, including a scrapbook. |
| Access restriction | Restrictions exist on select items in Series 1, 3, and 5. These select items are restricted until 2046. |
| Cite as |
Marietta Manufacturing Company Records (#742), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mr. Charles T. Jones. |
| Biographical note | The Marietta Manufacturing Company began in 1852 as W. F. Robertson & Sons Company in Beverly, Ohio. The company, which built stoves, capstans, boiler feed pumps, and other steamboat equipment, moved to Marietta, Ohio, following a fire in 1881. After the Robertson family sold their company interest in 1892, the Marietta Manufacturing Company was formed by Alla Windsor, J. D. Lashley, and James H. McConnell. Following a 1913 flood, the company moved to Point Pleasant, W.Va., where it built steam engines and water vessels, some of which were built to fulfill government contracts during World Wars I and II. Before ceasing operation in February 1970, Marietta had expanded its offerings to carbon black plants, natural gasoline plants, coal mining machines, and watercraft repairs. The company briefly reopened under Amherst Industries, Inc. as Point Pleasant Marine Company, but closed in 1984 after labor trouble and a strike by employees. |
