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Weld, Colburn & Wilckens
| Name | Weld, Colburn & Wilckens |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 593 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Textilgroßhändler und -hersteller |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Importers of Men's Furnishing Goods, and Manufacturers of Neck-wear and Suspenders". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 270] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1844 |
Gründung durch "Witthaus & Co." |
| 1881 |
Ende der Firma "Topham, Weld & Co.", und D. C. Weld, N. A. Colburn und M. H. Wilckens treten als Teilhaber ein. |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Herstellung von Krawatten |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
"neckwear" |
| Hosenträger |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
"suspenders" |
| Import von Herrenausstattung |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
"men's furnishing goods" |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | If Americans are the most neatly and tastefully dressed men in the world it is in no small degree owing to the fact that the men's furnishing-goods trade has attained to such a remarkably high degree of perfection as compared with almost any other branch of mercantile activity. The wholesale trade has long been centred in New York, and it is here that we find large capital, vast practical experience and correct taste, united in a happy combination that has commanded success from the start. Such a house is that of Messrs. Weld, Colburn & Wilckens, of No. 593 Broadway. The business is a very old established one, the oldest of its kind in the metropolis, having been founded by Witthaus & Co. in 1844. They were succeeded by the old house of Topham, Weld & Co., which carried on the business up to 1881, when there was a dissolution, and Messrs. D. C. Weld, N. A. Colburn, and M. H. Wilckens entered into the existing co-partnership. They occupy unusually central and commodious premises, comprising two full floors, each thirty by two hundred feet in dimensions, and wherein can be found one of the finest and fullest stocks of men's furnishing goods in the city. They import full lines of these goods direct from the European markets, and likewise are large manufacturers of neckwear and suspenders, employing one hundred operatives, besides some twelve salesmen and porters, in their large establishment. Then- trade, which is a most extensive one (hundreds of old-time customers included), reaches throughout the United States, with special connections in the Southern and Eastern States, as also a fine local and near-by patronage, this being almost the only house left in this line of business where the dealer in strictly first-class goods can obtain them this side of the Atlantic. Some idea of the magnitude of the sales of this house may be gathered when it is stated that it has five men on the road, two being kept exclusively on fine city trade. Messrs. Weld and Wilckens are natives of New York City, and Mr. Colburn was born in New York State. All three are gentlemen of the highest standing in the mercantile community, whose executive abilities a,nd absolutely unexcelled knowledge of the requirements of the best classes of the trade enables them to distance all competition, and retain for their house its honorable distinction and prominence as the leading one of its kind in the country. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 270] |
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