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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02764 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1870s |
| Title | Philo Remington to Edward Clark about debt to Singer Company and manufacturing sewing machines |
| Date | 4 December 1877 |
| Author | Remington, Philo (1816-1889) |
| Recipient | Clark, Edward |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Signed as President of the Remington Company. Discusses debt owed to the Singer Company which he is not able to pay at this time. Remarks on why he entered into the manufacture of sewing machines, "It was not primarily to make money; ... the impelling motive which drove me into it, was to give my people, ... more especially our skilled labor, - to keep them with us contented in the intervals -- in the periods when we should be without military work." Clark was President of the Singer Company. Singer held Remington's sewing machine division debt. Typed on stationary from the Office of Remingtons Armory, Ilion, N.Y. |
| Subjects | Science and Technology Debt Finance Military History Labor Invention Inventor Industry |
| People | Remington, Philo (1816-1889) Clark, Edward (fl. 1877) |
| Place written | Ilion, New York |
| Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Science, Technology, Invention; Industry |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Remington was an American inventor and businessman who designed the breech-loading rifle that is named after him. He also began manufacturing typewriters in 1873, using the patent of Christopher Sholes, and made improvements that resulted five years later in the first machine with a shift key, thus providing lower-case letters as well as capital letters. This letter is typed in all capital letters. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |