NEW BRITAIN BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1900
These are a sampling of the businesses based in New Britain. Which are familiar to you? Which are still in the city? This directory and those for other years are to be found in the Local History Room.
These are not all the companies in New Britain, but . . .
1. Of those included, how many are metal-based? How many produce
small
metal products?
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2. Of the non-metal manufacturers, what are the products?
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3. Which companies have the largest capital? Why? Which have the smallest capital? Why?
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4. Study the organization dates of the companies. Do they fall into any patterns?
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5. Study the names of the incorporators and officers. Where do you recognize them from in the city?
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6. How many of the officers carry over from one company to another? Is there a pattern?
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7. Just for fun look at the list of mayors in your
Centennial Book
p. 92. What names are familiar?
8. Which companies had out of town offices? What does this tell you?
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An interesting statistic on American marketing: In the U. S. the numbers of traveling salesmen or “drummers” was as follows:
186O-1,000
1870-7,000
1880-28,000
What was happening? (From Lance E. Davis et al.,
Economic Growth
; 1972)