Record Group 19

Hamilton Rifle Company Finding Aid

Entry1: Company documents

Postcard from United States Coal Co.

Copy of Profit and Loss Statement for fiscal year ending June 30, 1945

Copy of Balance Sheet for June 30, 1945

Copy of partnership agreement between Clarence and Coello Hamilton on April 24, 1907 (2 copies)

Copies of Federal licenses for the manufacture of firearms for 1940, 1941, 1942

Price list of parts for Hamilton Rifles

List of rifles sales in 1900 (2 copies)

List of parts for Hamilton Rifle No. 51 (2 copies)

Copy of the articles of Agreement in 1897 (Acc. #207.039.04)

Copy of leter from C. j. Hamilton to Coello Hamilton, 1896 (Acc. #2007.039.02)

Entry 2: Pictures

Boy with Hamilton rifle (Acc. #96.89.2)

Hamilton rifle taken March, 1996 (3 pictures)

Pencil sketch of factory

Copy of photo of factory in 1905

Copy of photo of boy on horse with gun (2 copies)

Copy of factory photo (2 copies)

See photos in Scrapbook #10

Entry 3: Product drawing and patents

Drawing and patent for air gun on July 14, 1891

Drawing and patent for rifle on Nov. 20, 1900

Patent for firearm on Sept. 22, 1903

Rifle patent on Sept. 11, 1906

Patent for Rifle Construction on August 13, 1907

Drawing for rifle patented on August 13, 1907 

Entry 4: Hamilton Rifle ads

Entry 5: Newspaper and magazine articles

“Show Me the Daisies-Clarence Hamilton’s great-granddaughter ponders Plymouth, new and old,” The Ledger, May, 2005

“Plymouth firm celebrates 40 years in business,” Observer & Eccentric, August 16, 1998

“Hamilton rifles were Plymouth products,” Observer & Eccentric, December 2, 1974

“Windmill Company changed name to ‘Daisy’ in 1895,” Observer & Eccentric

“Plymouth was ‘air rifle capital’,” Observer & Eccentric (2 copies)

“Hamilton-the boys’ rifle with the 7-inch bayonet,” Observer & Eccentric, March 16, 1987

“Plymouth, the Home of the Air-Gun Industry,” Michigan Manufacturer, November 18, 1911 (2 copies)

Article about Hamilton rifles, Salem Historical Society, January, 1995

“The Hamilton Rifle Company,” The Gun Report, January, 2002 (Acc. #2002.025.01)

“Hamilton Rifle,” by Stanton O. Berg

“The Hamilton Rifle Company,” American Boys “Rifles, 1976 (3 copies)

“Severe Loss to Plymouth,” Plymouth Mail, 1902 (Hamilton obituary) (3 copies)

“Bustling little ‘rifle town’ packs immense interest in its history and in its present-day charm” May 1945 (3 copies)

“Plymouth,” Motor News May, 1945 (3 copies)

Entry 6: Miscellaneous informational list of Museum’s Hamilton collection

Packet of pictures of various models of Hamilton products (2 copies)

Pictures and descriptions of various models of Hamilton products from internet

Museum’s collection on Hamilton rifles

Compiled by Lena Packer, 12 January 2006

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