Westfield Athenaeum Library
Archives-Business
Please see the Ledger Collection for early Westfield Businesses.
Adams Nursery 1849-1974 catalogues, clippings, photos, company letterhead, misc
Advertising 1880-1900s Late 19th Century Business Cards
Agan Family & Businesses 1912-1924 account book, inventory, and genealogy, of Agans 1857-1910
Banks 1920s-1986 flyers and emphemera of early banks- Woronoco Bank, Hampden Bank
Barnes Airport 1930s-1980s Barnes Airport, Air National Guard
Bryant Box Company 1892-1938 Paper, Cigar, and Lunch Box Industry
Thelma Chambers Dance Studio 1920-1950s high school dance, minstrel shows, Westfield dance stars-photographs mainly
Chester Savings Bank 1891-1895 cash books
Cigar Industry 1880-1914 Westfield Cigar Industry
City Hall's Records of Business 1908-1948 City's note cards of existing businesses
Columbia Bicycle 1891-1991 Paper weights, pictures, clipping and other ephemera from the company
Crane Paper Company 1857-1910 Ledger
Foster Machines 1950s-1960s photographs and information relating to the company, textile machinery
Johnson Organ Company 1840s-1901 Lists of organs, photographs, and articles with some correspondence
Mechanical Tire Co. 1898 brochures on early Westfield cars
Railroad 1836-1849, 1897 Western Railroad Company, Railroad Map (1897)
Robinson's Reminders 1920s-19601 Westfield Pocket Reminder Booklet Industry
H. B. Smith Company 1850 - 1978 Westield Steam and Water Heating Industry, Boiler Industry, late 19th Century Cough Drops
Stanley Corporation 1931-1970 Home Product Industry
Country Club 1920-1960 includes Woronoco, Tekoa and other Country Clubs
Trolleys / Streetcar Railways 1894-1927 Pictures, Postcards, Pamphlets, Contracts, Newspaper Articles.
Truelove's Business circa 1850s-1980s memorablila for most Westfield businesses
Washington St. Hotel 1923-1935 register
Westfield General Goods Company-scrapbooks of the company's advertisements,photographs and ephemeral
Westfield Marble 1896-1950's newspaper clipping, geological report and a box of slides of the quary
Westfield Power Company 1879-1910 minutes and records
Westfield Theater 1855-1979 newclippings and photographs of early opera houses and theaters with some of Westfield native Chapin's sheet music
Whip Industry 1890-1930s Westfield Whip Companies
White's Quaint Shop 1920-1930s
Woronoco Savings Bank 1871-1875 accounts and receipt books
