Arnold, Constable & Co.
Arnold, Constable & Co. was a clothing company based in Paris and New York .
history
The company was founded in 1825 or 1827 and was initially called Arnold & Hearn. The founders were Aaron Arnold and his nephew George A. Hearn. They resided on Canal Street in New York. In 1842, Hearn teamed up with his brother James. The two now operated as Hearn Bros. on Broadway , while Aaron Arnold continued to work with his son-in-law James M. Constable as A. Arnold & Co. In 1853, his son Richard Arnold and Joseph P. Baker entered the business as partners. From then on the company was called Arnold, Constable & Co.
307-311 Canal Street was built in 1856 and the business moved to in 1862. The company address changed frequently, however, from 1869 on Broadway , Fifth Avenue and nineteenth Street were given. The business remained at this location until 1915.
In the 1880s there was a scandal involving long-time employees: Herbert Seymour and Henry C. Pedder, who had already worked for the company as a young man, were convicted of fraud. Estimates of the amount Pedder embezzled ranged from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000. Pedder had a luxurious Queen Anne-style house built by Henry Hudson Holly in Llewellyn Park , Orange, New Jersey , which had been furnished by Pottier & Stymus . A comment in the New York Times claimed the interior design of this expensive home was unmatched by any other residence in the country. The property was valued at about $ 200,000. After the fraud was discovered, Pedder and his wife gave this house and the rest of their New Jersey property for a symbolic price of one dollar to James M. Constable, Richard Arnold, FA Constable and Hicks Arnold. The property in Orange soon passed into the possession of Thomas Alva Edison .
To mark the company's centenary, Ruth Elder and George Haldeman received a message of greeting to the clothing industry in Europe and America. However, your plane crashed into the sea on this flight. Elder and Haldeman were rescued by the crew of an oil tanker.
Arnold, Constable & Co. existed until 1975.
Special products and prominent customers
The estate of Herter Brothers contained numerous invoices from Arnold, Constable & Co.
In addition to everyday clothing of superior quality, the company also manufactured special clothing. For example, Amelia Earhart's aviator dress came from Arnold, Constable & Co.
Eleanor Roosevelt was one of Arnold, Constable & Co.'s customers .
The white bear
A curiosity occurred around 1905. Arnold, Constable & Co. were also trading polar bear skins at the time, and taxidermy specialist Frederic S. Webster from the Carnegie Museum dealt with a pile of these skins. He noticed one specimen that he immediately recognized as the fur of another bear species. Although the head of the animal was preserved and the black color of the nose irritated him, at first he thought he had the fur of an albino black bear in front of him, stuffed it out, put it in a display case and did not care any more about it. Years later, the director of the Bronx Zoo , Wm. T. Hornaday, described the hitherto little known white Ursus kermodei . It turned out that the fur prepared by Webster came from such an animal and had been incorrectly declared to the buyer of Arnold, Constable & Co. The fur mistakenly bought as polar bear fur probably became the only prepared specimen of the Ursus americanus kermodei.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Richard Edwards, New York's Great Industries , p. 299, online
- ↑ http://www.oldandsold.com/articles14/new-york-34.shtml
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C03E2DE1E3BE033A2575AC1A9619C94659FD7CF
- ↑ a b http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=17062
- ↑ http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0093.htm
- ^ Henry R. Beasley and Holly Cowan Shulman, The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia , Greenwood Pub Group Inc 2000, ISBN 0-313-30181-6 , pp. 98 ff.
- ↑ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_66.djvu/485
