TY  - GEN
ED  - Alex. Brown & Sons.
TI  - Alex. Brown & Sons records,
KW  - Brown, Alexander,
KW  - Brown, George,
KW  - Brown, George Stewart,
KW  - Brown, James,
KW  - Brown, John A.,
KW  - Brown, Stewart,
KW  - Brown, William,
KW  - Falls, Moore.
KW  - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
KW  - Brown Brothers & Company
KW  - Brown, Shipley & Co
KW  - Falls & Brown
KW  - Stewart Brown (Firm)
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - Banks and banking, International
KW  - International finance
KW  - Linen industry
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Merchants
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Public utilities
KW  - Shipbuilding
KW  - Trading companies
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Open to research; Containers 125, 198, and 242 available on microfilm only; originals retained by the firm; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1954
N2  - Lettercopy and letterpress books, daybooks, cashbooks, ledgers, journals, salesbooks, wastebooks, accounts current, blotters, and other business records of the firm and its successor, subsidiary, and allied companies documenting its transition from a mercantile firm importing Irish linen to an international banking house with extensive import-export, shipbuilding, railroad, and public utility operations.  The correspondence reflects social, political, and military events as well as financial and economic trends of the nineteenth century.  Also includes records of Stewart Brown, Philadelphia, Pa., and Falls & Brown, Baltimore, Md.  Other firms represented include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Brown Brothers & Company, and Brown, Shipley & Co., its affiliate in Liverpool.  Persons represented include the firm's founder, Alexander Brown (1764-1834); his descendants. Alexander Brown (1858-1949), George Brown (1787-1859), George Stewart Brown (1834-1890), James Brown (1791-1877). John A. Brown (1788-1872), and Sir William Brown (1784-1864); and his brother, Stewart Brown, and Stewart Brown's business partner, Moore Falls
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013.3
ER  -