Silversmiths

Abstract

George Rapp was the head silversmith for The Stieff Company and a native Baltimorean. In this oral history interview, he discusses: Childhood in St. Denis, now Arbutus, Maryland; first employment at Schultz Silver Company and Scofield Company for eighteen years; radar equipment work for Stieff during World War II; mechanization of silversmith processes; manufacture of Williamsburg reproduction silver; working at the Smithsonian Institution Craft Fair in Washington, D.C.

Abstract

This collection consists of 18 negatives of photographs of silverware used in Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830, by J. Hall Pleasants and Howard Sill, published in 1930.

Abstract This collection consists of Board of Directors' meeting minutes (1896-1966), financial data (1902-1979), production records (1868-1978), employee records (1890-1957), material on the various real estate properties of the company (1892-1963), legal papers 91896-1971), retail data (1834-1974), Kirk publications 91914-1959), and Kirk family material (1844-1970). Also included are the records of the Kirk Silver Traveling Exhibition (1940-1979) and the Kirk Realty Company, a subsidiary...

Abstract

This collection consists of 44 negative photostatic copies of papers relating to the estate of William Faris. These include inventories of goods, sales of the estate and final accounts, patents for improvement in propelling carriages, and a "water elevator."