Construction industry

Abstract Contains check protector (check writing machine) which was created in 1917 by the Checkometer Sales Company owned by Theodore Hirschberg in Chicago, Illinois. It was developed in Chicago because check fraud was rampent there in the early 1900s. The machine was designed to punch, print, and watermark paychecks that forgers could not duplicate. It became the paymaster machine in the 1950s. The paymaster machines are still currently sold. On the cover of the machine: "F and E Check Protector."...

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(19) file folders #30-48 and (1) binder of job/financial information. File folders include: correspondence, job files, clippings, photos, ephemera. (10) of the files are on Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, include: Meeting minutes, correspondence, administrative.

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Box contains two hats used by Sam Stoole in his construction company. One is a tin construction hat with "Sam Stoole" in black letters. Inside the hat is a leather band and with plastic frame. The other hat is a pith helmet with air holes and made of felt. Brown leather band inside which can be sized with a ribbon.

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(23) File folders #76-99: all job files.

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(23) File folders # 100-123 include: Job files, labor contracts, financial, correspondence.

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Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks and photobooks, clippings, newsletters, Perlmutter Enterprise information, certificates and proclamations, memorials and scrapbooks.

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(18) File folders #124-142 include: correspondence regarding advertising, job files, correspondence and financial.

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(23) File folders #143-166 include: job files and correspondence.

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(13) File folders #167-180 include: job files and correspondence.

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(17) File folders #181-198 include: job files, correspondence, and (1) legal & financial regarding profitsharing plan.