Scrapbook, 1971

File — Box: 14, Folder: 2

Identifier: Folder 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Filling twenty-two boxes, records of the American Hospital Supply Corporation (AHSC) date from 1920 to 1986. Records include the following principal categories: advertising; marketing; corporate correspondence; divisional records for acquisitions and subsidiaries; mergers; scrapbooks; stocks and securities; legal records.

Advertising Records detail the early efforts of the AHSC and include journal advertisements, export advertisements, and institutional advertisements. Corporate correspondence including correspondence between Foster G. McGaw and Neal Ball, Karl Bays, Charles F. Hough, Mackay A. Calder, and others. Division records include many of the AHSC's acquisitions and subsidiaries.

The scrapbooks contain news clippings, correspondence, speeches, greeting cards, awards, and photocopies of newspaper articles among other things. The scrapbooks illustrate the blurred distinction between Foster G. McGaw's career as president, and his later position of honorary chairman of the board, of the AHSC and his personal life.

Dates

1971

Creator

From the Collection: American Hospital Supply Corporation (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

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