Henry Hall Fishing Line Company Records
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Content Description
A collection of mostly correspondence and business records of the Henry Hall fishing line company. Included are about 100 orders and invoices from customers and suppliers in the 1880s. The collection also includes about 75 pieces of correspondence written in 1900 by D. D. Anderson of the New York sales office to company president Alexander G. Hall at Highland Mills.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1939
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1880-1900
Creator
- Hall Line Corporation (Highland Mills, NY) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
The Henry Hall fishing line company traces its origins to the years before for the Civil War when Henry Hall (1821-1892), an Irish immigrant flax spinner from Belfast, began manufacturing and selling fishing line in New York Ciy as early as the 1840s and 1850s. After manufacturing in several places on Long Island, Hall established a factory at Highland Mills in Orange County, New York, where the company would stay headquartered for many years. By the late nineteenth century, the Henry Hall company also manufcatured and solf rods, reels, and other fishing equipment. The elder Hall's sons,Henry J. "Harry" Hall (1843-1904) Alexander Gordon Hall (1863-1934) took over the company in the late nineteenth century. The company reportedly remained in the family until the 1930s, and the Hall brand continued to be produced for many years after that. Over the years, the company went by different names, including Henry Hall & Sons, Henry Hall's Sons Co., and the Hall Line Corporation.
Sources:
"Henry Hall," Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County New York (New York, Chapman Publishing, 1895): 823-25.
Extent
0.22 Cubic Feet (1 half document case (legal))
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
Topical
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- February 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository