Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 25, Folder 1-3
Box 24, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
1916
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 23, Folder 18
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Artifacts, unidentified, possibly used in bowling pin manufacture
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 24, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 24, Folder 4
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Collection is open for research.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Administrative history and chronology of the company
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 2, Folder 4
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
May 1, 1879-April 30, 1880
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
These records include documents relating to John Hyatt and include legal documents, 1871-1966; bank books; patents; patent certificates; patent assignments; memoranda and articles of association; union contracts; balance sheets; profit and loss accounts; journals and cash books; ledgers; time books; invoices; photographs; and correspondence to and from the company.
Scope and Contents:
The records include documents relating to John Hyatt and consist of articles of agreement; articles of association; contracts; bills of sale; by laws; deeds; licenses to manufacture; memoranda; bank books; patents; patent certificates; patent assignments; union contracts; balance sheets; profit and loss accounts; journals and cash books; ledgers; time books; invoices; minutes; photographs; and correspondence to and from the company, 1870-1974.
Biographical / Historical:
The Albany Billiard Ball Company is possibly the earliest successful plastics firm and certainly one of the oldest plastics companies in the world. The business was started in 1868 on Albany's South End. The company was renamed in September, 1977 the Albany-Hyatt Billiard Ball Company. John Wesley Hyatt was one of the company's founders and the American inventor of celluloid. Celluloid, besides being the base of photographic film, was a substitute for ivory, long the prime substance in billiard ball manufacture. The Hyatt "composition" ball, with a celluloid base, dominated the sport until the 1960s.
Related Materials:
New York State Library
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, 1894-1944, bulk 1914-1944
The records of the Albany Billiard Ball Company consist chiefly of account books detailing its finances. The cash journals detail the quantity and cost of goods sold to various firms and individuals. Costs and fees for shipping and handling are also noted. The journals of income and disbursements provide a more detailed record of administrative and production costs of the company as well as income derived from sales. Principle expenditures include labor, raw materials, maintenance of equipment and facilities, and taxes.
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Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
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Collection is open for research.
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Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Composition Billiard Ball Supply Company, Limited (of London) with Albany Billiard Ball Company
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
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Collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: an agreement between Alexander Thomas Hough and the Composition Billiard Ball Company, 1935; an agreement between Composition Billiard Ball Company and Kenneth Luke Emler, 1935; an agreement between Niagara Insul-Bake Specialty Company and th...
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 22, Folder 5
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: a lease between William Barton and the Composition Billiard Ball Company, 1945; a bond and mortgage document between Jean W. Harrig and Albany Billiard Ball Company, 1948; memorandum of insurance, 1948; a lease of a service station with the T...
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 22, Folder 6
Type:
Archival materials
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Collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: legal and other related documents pertaining to a dispute with William C. Mason, Engineer.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 22, Folder 7
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1948 - 1950
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: an agreement between Albany Billiard Ball Company and Jacob Michael, regarding a parcel of land, 1951; official statement made by Ellis M. Faulkner regarding a failed device developed by William Mason, 1951; an official statement made by Will...
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 22, Folder 8
Type:
Archival materials
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Collection is open for research.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1870 - 1973
Collection Restrictions:
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Bank books and savings account books from several Albany banks
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1912-1949
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1887 - 1973
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: patent issued to George Phelan for billiard ball, 1887; to George Burt for pool-ball, 1893; issued to George Burt for billiard ball, 1894; to William H. Hoyt for game balls, 1902; to William H. Hoyt for manufacturing of game balls, 1902; to B...
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 23, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes: several patents issued to Leo Baekeland and others. None of these relate to Albany Billiard Ball Co., but were included because they concern plastic composition.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 23, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1906 - 1916
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Includes patent issued to Otto Kadzik for a machine for the spherical grinding of billiard balls and other blanks; other patents in this file do not relate to Albany Billiard Ball Co., but they were included because they concern plastic composition.
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Albany Billiard Ball Company (Albany, New York) Search this
Container:
Box 23, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1917 - 1936
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
