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Shethar, Nichols & Co.
| Name | Shethar, Nichols & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 548 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hutfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Frühere Firmensitze: 65 Broadway, und dann 265 Canal Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 502] |
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| 1861 |
Auflösung von "Swift, Hurlbut & Co.". "Shethar & Nichols" tritt die Nachfolge an, welche ein Geschäft am Broadway 65 betreiben. |
| 1866 |
Anmietung eines Grundstücks am Broadway, das durch Dr. Chapin's Church belegt ist, und Bau eines geräumigeren großartigen Geschäfts, das je für den Hutverkauf vorgesehen wurde. |
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1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | The original and we believe the only commission house for the gale of Hats in the United States. This firm are the successors of Swift, Hurlbut & Co., who for many years held a leading position in the trade. Mr. Shethar entered this house as a lad and displayed such aptitude for the calling, that, after passing through the successive grades of commercial advancement, he became a partner. Mr. Nichols has the advantage of being a practical hatter, and was also a member of the firm of Swift, Hurlbut & Co. In 1861 this firm was dissolved and was succeeded by that of Shethar & Nichols, who commenced business at 65 Broadway, from which they removed to 265 Canal street. It had been the practice of their predecessors to employ Hat manufacturers in Newark, New Jersey, and in Connecticut, to work up mate- rials and stock, which they supplied to them, but Messrs. Shethar & Nichols revolutionized the business by establishing a house for the sale of Hats on commission, the first house of the kind in the United States, and, we believe, there is none like it in Europe. They also formed connections with traders who procure Buffalo Robes direct from the Indians on the Western Plains, and effected arrangements by which they could secure regularly consignments of Hatters' furs, from France and Germany. These far-reaching plans, and their popular style of dealing, were attended with great commercial prosperity, and, in 1866, they leased the ground on Broadway, occupied by Dr. Chapin's church, and erected, on the site, the most spacious and magnificent store ever provided for the sale of Hats. The building has a front of white marble five stories in height, with arched windows, and extends back, at a uniform width of thirty feet, for one hundred feet, where it connects with another building on the rear one hundred feet square, making the total length of the store-room two hundred feet. The first floor, which is seventeen feet in the clear, and contains an area of thirteen thousand square feet, is appropriated to the sale of Hats, while the basement, which is of equal dimensions, is filled with Hatters' Furs and Buffalo Robes. The store is, no doubt, the largest and the finest ever erected by any firm in the Hat Trade. The enterprise of Messrs. Shethar, Nichols & Co. has been felt in all the ramifications of the trade with which they are connected. Adopting in part the system which has been found to operate beneficially in the Dry Goods Trade, in establishing an agency through which manufacturers can dispose of their products, they have added to it a great depot for the supply of Hatters' materials, thus accommodating both sellers and buyers, merchants and manufacturers. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 502] |
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