Linked Archives

Old Colony History Museum

More than 200 manufactured objects as well as diaries, newspaper articles, correspondences, company records, and catalogs. 1824 through 2017.
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Special Collections at RISD Fleet Library

Catalogs, books, and magazines as well as over 15,000 blueprints, renderings, production, design and technical drawings. 1897 through 1989.
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Harvard Baker Business Library

Two collections, transferred from Reed and Barton in in 1940 and 2016, with 464 linear feet of business, administrative, operational, and employment records, inventories, illustrated catalogs, scrapbooks, original patents, and employee newsletters. 1828 through 2015.
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Winterthur Library

Approximately 9,000 design drawings, advertisements, orders, and photographs of flatware, holloware, trophies and bronze tablets. 1831 through 1947.
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Attleboro Area Industrial Museum

Yale University Art Museum

398 large-format glass-plate negatives
Estimated 1870s through 1904
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More than 100 items including manufactured objects, catalogs, and 1950s design documents created by Robert H. Ramp.
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Rauner Rare Books Library of Dartmouth College

Patents filed by Reed & Barton

The Sinclair Weeks papers contain financial records, personal and business correspondence, notes and contracts related to Reed & Barton, saved in the personal collection of Weeks who was president of Reed & Barton from 1923 to 1971, as well as US Senator, MA, and US Secretary of Commerce under Eisenhower.
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Freeman’s Auctions

Between 1860 and 1984, over 300 US patents and trademarks were assigned to Reed & Barton. Many original patent filings live in the collection at the Harvard Baker Business Library, most are available digitally online.
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Freeman’s Auctions in Philadelphia was contracted to sell objects still in the Reed & Barton collection when the factory closed in 2015.. Their website contains useful information about this sale.
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