Brüder Böhm Company Collection

The Brüder Böhm Company Collection includes materials documenting the operations of the company that was involved in the production of hats and had plants in Vienna, Austria and Neutitschein, Czechoslovakia (now Nový Jicín, Czeck Republic),. There is also a small amount of personal materials pertaining to the lives of the owners of the company, brothers Joseph and Victor Böhm and their cousin Richard Böhm, as well as some other members of the Böhm family.

The collection includes blueprints, correspondence, financial documents, reports, notes, photographs, and printed materials. The bulk of the collection consists of business correspondence of both Brüder Böhm Company and Frank Allaire Co., Inc. (the company that was incorporated in to the Brüder Böhm Company in about 1940) and includes correspondence with business partners, lawyers, and some government institutions. Most of the pre-war correspondence (Series II; Business, Subsubseries 1: Brüder Böhm Company, Pre-War) documents Richard, Victor, and Joseph Böhm's attempts to collect payments form the foreign customers after their plants in Europe were lost. There is an abundance of correspondence dealing with patents and disputes about them; extensive correspondence between the owners of the company, namely Joseph, Richard, and Victor Böhm, and the managerial stuff at the Vienna factory (Subseries II: Business, Subseries 2: Brüder Böhm, Post-War, Subsubseries A: Correspondence.)

There is a wealth of financial, legal, and technical documents, such as agreements, annual reports, blueprints, declarations of trust, ledgers and expense books, invoices, letters of credit, property reports, registries, reports, lists, charts, notes, and patents certificates.

Additionally, there are personal documents, such as affidavits of support, immigration documents, passports, and visa applications.

Other personal materials include correspondence with friends and family; American consulates and other organizations regarding immigration; lawyers and personal financial advisers regarding immigration, personal accounts, taxes, and restitution. There also is correspondence concerning the estate of Rudolph Bach.

Furthermore there are personal materials concerning Henry Landesmann, Richard and Victor Bohm’s cousin, consisting of personal and business correspondence, immigration and restitution documents and correspondence concerning the estate of Eduard Landesmann.