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 Eisler Engineering Company Records,
1885-1988 (bulk 1920-1950s)

Extent and Forms of Material: 30 cubic feet, including photographs and blueprints (49 boxes, 25 oversize folders)
Creator: Eisler Engineering Company
Abstract: Records document Charles Eisler, a Hungarian immigrant who was a skilled mechanic and engineer and his company, Eisler Engineering Company of Newark, New Jersey, which manufactured equipment for producing electric lamps, television and radio tubes, welding equipment and laboratory equipment.
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; archivescenter@si.edu; 202-633-3270; www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Collection Number: AC0734
Processing Note: Processed by John Mask, intern, and Alison Oswald, archivist, December 2006.
© 2008 by the Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.

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Information for users of the collection

Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for research use. Series 3, Employee Records, personnel files are restricted; see repository for details.
Physical Access: Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: fees for commercial use.
Preferred Citation: [Title and date of item], Eisler Engineering Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box number X, folder number XX, digital file number XXXXXXXX

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Container listing: series 1, 2

Series 1 ::: Series 2 ::: Series 3 ::: Series 4 ::: Series 5 ::: Series 6 ::: Series 7 ::: Series 8 ::: Series 9

Box Folder  
    SERIES 1, PERSONAL MATERIALS, 1910-1970s
1 1A Subseries 1, Passports and Naturalization Certificate, 1910-1970s
  1B Subseries 2, Photographs, 1912
    Subseries 3, Chronological Correspondence, 1946-1970
1 1 1946-1948, undated
  2 1955-1959
  3 1960
  4 1961
  5 1962
  6 1963
  7 1964-1965
  8 1966-1967
  9 1968-1970, undated
  10 Charles Eisler (about his boat), 1960-1963
    Subseries 4, Alphabetical Correspondence, 1941-1969
  11 Engle, Ignac, 1944-1946
  12 Grunberger, Alexander and Gerle, 1947
  13 Hannoch, Weisman, Myers, Stern & Besser (law firm), 1960-1965
  14 Hannoch, Weisman, Myers, Stern & Besser (law firm), 1966-1969
  15 Help Suffering Hungarians, 1956-1961
  16 Istvan, Biro, 1946-1951
  17 Ivanhoe by the Sea (Lobby Gift Shoppe), 1956-1962
  18 Kadelburger, Joska, 1946
  19 Mapletoft, Robert S., 1960-1965
  20 Mars Travel Bureau, 1957
  20A Pirani, M., 1957
  21 Public Safety, Department of, 1941-1944, undated (for Newark, NJ)
  22 Raritan Yacht Club, 1963-1964
  23 Zilahy, Lajos, 1955-1962
    Subseries 5, Family and friends correspondence, 1956-1966
  24 1956-1966, undated
  25 Undated
  26 Subseries 6, Vacation information (Miami and Europe), 1951
1
2		 27-28
1-2		 Subseries 7, Financial information, 1960-1967
2 3 Subseries 8, Medical Bills and Information, 1963-1967
    SERIES 2, BUSINESS MATERIALS, 1885, 1931-1985
    Subseries 1, Correspondence, 1946-1971
2 4 Jordan Baris, Inc. 1968 (realty)
  5 Besser and Company, 1946-1947, 1961
  6 General Electric, 1956-1957
  7 David T. Houston, 1962-1963
  8 Charles Jennings, 1960-1964
  10 Kuthe Laboratories, 1957-1959
  11 Kuthe Laboratories, 1960-1965, undated
  12 The Morris Agency, 1960
  13 Richard Roemheld, 1960-1965
  14 Frederick Rohatyn, 1958-1964
  15-16 Martin Roth, 1952-1970
  17 Anna and John Sedlacsik: Scientific Electric, 1959-1971
  18 Louis Schlesinger, Co., 1960
  19 Harry L. Schwartz, 1962-1969
  20 Albert and Harvey Siegelman, 1960-1965
  21 C.B. Snyder Realty, 1963-1965
  22 Arthur Tuttle, 1964-1967
  23 United Billiard, Inc., 1967
  24 John Vaughan and Henry Fitts, 1961-1965
  25 Well Built Manufacturing Company, 1956-1957
  26 Receipts and orders for (utilities and repairs), 1966-1967, undated
  27 Miscellaneous, undated
    Subseries 2, General Files, 1929-1985
42 1A Eisler Electric Corporation Report, 1929-December 31
  1 Advertisements for General Electric Solar Power
  2 Incandescent lamp information
  3 Incandescent Manufacturers Association (letterhead), Undated
  4 Invention, Inc., Weekly Patent Report, 1950
  5 Mercury Vapor Lamp, Undated
  6 NASA Proposal for Energy Monitoring System, 1985
  7 Vacuum Flask Manufacturing information, 1931-1950
    Subseries 3, Financial Information, 1931-1945
2 28 Corporate Income and Excess Profits Tax Returns, 1931-1934, 1937-1944
  29 Franchise Tax Return, 1943
  30 Internal Revenue Service correspondence, 1945
49   Purchases, January 1944 to December 1945 (bound volume)
2 31 Subseries 4, World War II Boards and Regulations, 1942-1946
  32 National War Labor Board, 1943-1944
  33 War Manpower Commission-Ratings and Regulations, 1944-1945, Undated
  34 War Production Board-Plant operations, 1942-1946, Undated
  35 War Production Board-Inventory of used equipment and machinery, 1943-1944
  36 War Department (Plant Protection Division) Inspection, 1942
  37 War Savings Bonds, 1944-1945
  38 Selective Service, 1945
  39 Subseries 5, Real Estate Holdings and Investments, 1932-1980
  40 Record of Real Estate-Ledger Sheets, 1952-1974
  41 Avenue L Factory Building-Bills (A-F), 1933-1935
  42 Avenue L Factory Building-Correspondence (Samuel Simon), 1932-1934
  43 Electro Glass Company-Franchise tax return, 1940 and Capital stock tax returns, 1940-1941
  44 Electronics Machine Company-Corporation Income and Excess Profits tax returns, 1936-1941
  45 Electronics Machine Company-Franchise Tax returns, 1940-1941
  46 Metal Manufacturing Company-Franchise tax Returns, 1934-1937, 1940-1941
  47 Metal Manufacturing Company-Capital Stock Returns, 1934, 1940, 1941
  48 Metal Manufacturing Company-Corporation Income and Excess Profits Tax Returns, 1936-1944
  49 Oil Burner Division Capital Stock Returns, 1935, 1937-1944
  50 Pitney-Bowes, Inc.-Rental contracts (mail meters), 1955-1956
  51 Unity Machine Corporation-Franchise tax return, 1939
    Urban Development action grant application and procedures, 1980
    Wyoming Heights, Inc., Corporation-Income excess profits tax return, 1941
3 1 Canceled notes-Gustaf Hultin, 1938-1940
  2 Canceled notes-Edward Losch, 1939-1945
  3 Canceled notes-Nat Mains, 1939-1940
  4 Canceled notes-Raytod Corporation (Raymond and T.J. Pitchell), 1937-1938
  5 Canceled notes-Joseph Schreiner, 1937-1944
  6 Canceled notes-Tibor Robert Stein, 1939-1940
  7 Canceled notes-George Szekely, 1943
  8 Canceled notes-Julius Szoke, 1932-1937
  9 Canceled notes-George Zisch, 1938-1943
    Subseries 6, Articles, 1885-1962
42 8 Thomas Edison, Radio Address of Albert L. Vreeland of New Jersey, 1940
    Van De Poele System of Electric Lighting, [1885?]
    Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, 1933 February
  9 Gardinier, H.W.B., Machines for Electric Lamp Manufacture, 1962
    Subseries 7, Kahle Engineering, 1960-1982
2 9 Kahle Engineering Analytical Reports, 1960-1964
42 10 I-280 Information on Orange, NJ Armory Building, 1979-1980
  11 I-280 Urban Renewal Corporation lease agreements, 1980-1982
  12 I-280 Rental proposal for professional subpoena service, 1982
  13 I-280 Rental proposal for W.M. Industries of NJ, 1982
  14 I-280 Rental proposal for Royal Oxford, 1982

Series 1 ::: Series 2 ::: Series 3 ::: Series 4 ::: Series 5 ::: Series 6 ::: Series 7 ::: Series 8 ::: Series 9

 
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