The Sarah Moore Breneman Papers contain documents from the Steinman Hardware Company, the Kirk Johnson Company, and the Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc. The collection includes minutes of stockholders meetings and board of director meetings, financial reports, the election of officers, letters to stockholders, presidents' reports, company by-laws and minutes of the meetings organizing the companies.
200 Year Anniversary of Steinman Hardware Co. (SH-01-01-04)
View of south side of East King Street (SH-01-01-05)
View of south side of West King Street (SH-01-01-06)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-01)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-02)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-03)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-04)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-05)
Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-06)
Framed receipt (SH-01-03-01)
Image of account book (SH-01-03-02)
Image of a print of the old courthouse (SH-01-03-03)
Image of a print of East King Street (SH-01-03-04)
Image of account book (SH-01-03-05)
Map of Lancaster (SH-01-03-06)
Five men in front of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-07)
Man looking at account book (SH-01-03-08)
Close-up of Steinman Hardware Co. sign (SH-01-03-09)
First block of East King Street (SH-01-03-10)
Man examining shotgun shells (SH-01-03-11)
Conestoga wagon jacks (SH-01-03-12)
Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-13)
Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-14)
Archery equipment at Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-15)
Man taking inventory of horseshoes (SH-01-03-16)
See the Curatorial Collection:
Commemorative saw, "Two Hundred Years of Hardware Service 1744-1944, The Steinman Hardware Company Lancaster PA" (2005.006.1)
Eyeglasses and case with label on one side "Steiman Hardware Company Lancaster PA", other side marked with printing "Arundel Tinted, Edw. J. Zahm, Jeweler, Zahm's Corner, Lancaster PA" (2005.006.2)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
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RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records
Description
The RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records contain items from Radio Corporation of America and Thomson Consumer Electronics. The collection includes histories of the facility, publicity, corporate and local plant newsletters, employee policies and programs, personnel directories and organizational charts, 1980 information on the color picture tube, and correspondence and information about the Zero Defects program. The newsletters contain a wealth of information about, and pictures of, employees of the Lancaster plant, as well as the activities of the company.
Admin/Biographical History
A 90-acre cornfield purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1942 led to the most modern electron tube plant in the world. The U.S. Navy produced radar tubes in Lancaster during World War II. Radio Corporation of America purchased the plant in 1946 and converted it over to television tube production. The Lancaster plant primarily manufactured color picture tubes until 1972. The following years were devoted to support other facilities. Thomson Consumer Electronics, a French company, bought the rights to RCA's consumer electronics in 1986 and closed the Lancaster plant in 2006.
System of Arrangement
This collection is divided into three series based on the donors.
Series 1 RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records
Series 2 RCA History and Newsletters
Series 3 Zero-Defects Program, George A. DeLong Papers
Series 1 Gift of RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant), 10 April 2010
Series 2 Gift of Keith Bechtold, 5 April 2006
Series 3 Gift of Jeanne S. DeLong, in memory of George A. DeLong, 20 November 2008.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records (MG0398), Series #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Engineering Department at RCA, c. 1942 - 1943. Front row, left to right: Mary Jane Hambright, Doris Miller, Ethel Winer, Mary Louise Mylin, Natalie Steinbrecher, Kitty Myers, Harry Seelen, Dr. Dayton Ulrey, Mildred Maysilles, Dorothy Lane, Louise Logan, Paulin Goodman and Lousie Rankin. Second row, left to right: Charles Poet, Ray Carter, Matthew Nesbit, Harry Sheffy, Alan Hollinger, Julius Forman, Linwood Lessig, Howard Shekels, Richard Stoudenheimer, Dr. George Briggs, Stanley Horrocks, Wellsley Dodds and Irwin Boak. Third row, left to right: Lester Harnish, Donald Loomis, Charles Yost, James Quinn, Watson Kintner, Arnold Rose, Carl Greeff, Charles Quarnstrom, Ed Bialecki, Richard Handle, Lloyd Swedlund, Delos Wamsley, Harold Jacobs, Walter Mutter, Howard Zachariason and James Dugan.
Engineering Department at RCA. Front row, left to right: Lovett, Angelia Kissinger, Amy Engle, Betty Washburn, Watson Kintner, Louise Rankin, Bertha Hogentogler, Dorothy Keller, Jane Hershey, Coble. Back row, left to right: Bizler, Ed Koerkle, Bucher, Brackbill, Rudy, Glover, Fulk, Dietzel.
Written on back: "About 1930 just before radio tube section went to Harrison for RCA Manufacturing Co. At Broomfield." Everyone is identified by last name only. Top row: Kintner, Macintosh, Colvin, Watrous, Atwater, Cunliffe, Grabiec, Jacobus, Hansen, Coughlin, Dano, Birdsall, Henry, Lederer, Boardman. Third row: Reneau, Roth, Dart, Lovatt, Power, Cone, Gibson, Shackelford, Nelson, Geosieffi, Eddison, Dodge, Perkins, Weaver, Sidney. Second row: Sinden, Moran, Lester, Jopling, Seelen, Hagemann, Collinson, Kronbitter, Walker, Ault, Bain, Stewart, Aucock, Hickok. First row: Hamvas, Turner, McCurdy, Jones, Higgins, Schmieg, Higgins, Myers, Ritchie, Olsen, Dreyer.
Ingenious space age electronic components - pretty Donna Loar exhibits some of the Space Age electron Tubes made at RCA's manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pa. The company has just announced a $11.6 million expansion program for this plant. Some of these conversion tubes shown help outer space vehicles "see" and make complex measurements of distant planets. Others are used in military equipment and TV cameras as well as specialized industrial and scientific instruments. Miss Loar holds an osillograph tube which is widely used in electronic test equipment.
RCA expansion at Lancaster, Pa. - This airview of the RCA Electronic Components and Devices plant at Lancaster, Pa., shows where two new buildings will be constructed as part of a new $11.6 million expansion program. At left is a 154,000 square foot expansion for conversion tube manufacturing operations. The new building on the right is a 46,000 square foot area that will be utilized for color TV picture tube design and application, as well as chemical and physics engineering.
RCA expansion plans for RCA tubes - With a color TV picture tube and typical industrial and military tubes in foreground, executives of RCA Electronic Components and Devices discuss a new $11.6 million expansion program for these products at the company's plant in Lancaster, Pa. Douglas Y. Smith, left, Vice President of the Components and Devices organization points out on airview photo the location of a new 154,000 square foot manufacturing building. At right are John B. Farese, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Television Picture Tube Division and C. E. Burnett, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Industrial Tube and Semiconductor Division.
$11.6 million planning session - executives of RCA Electronic Components and Devices review plans for a $11.6 million expansion of the company's plant at Lancaster, Pa. The appropriation will be spent on two new buildings, providing 200,000 additional square feet of space for color picture tube engineering, industrial and military tube manufacturing. Shown, left to right, are: D. Y. Smith, Vice President, RCA Electronic Components and Devices; J. B. Farese, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Television Picture Tube Division; and C. E. Burnett, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Industrial and Semiconductor Division.
