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BANC MSS 2003/159 c
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Macaulay Foundry records
creator:
Macaulay Foundry, Inc.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2003/159 c
Physical Description:
29 linear feet
(14 cartons, 19 volumes, 7 oversize boxes, 7 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1906-2000
Date (bulk): 1910-1960
Abstract: Records of the Macaulay Foundry of Berkeley, California, including administrative materials, financial records, records of
the pattern shop, and other assorted materials.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
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of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.
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the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor
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Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000.
[Identification of item], Macaulay Foundry records, BANC MSS 2003/159 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs and pictorial materials have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
The Macaulay Foundry records were gifted to the Bancroft Library by the Macaulay Foundry in 2003.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2013.
The Macaulay Foundry was founded in San Francisco, California in 1896 by Henry Clayton Macaulay, who had come to California
in 1891. During his first five years in California, Macaulay worked as s molder at the National Iron Works and then as foundry
foreman for the Byron Jackson Machine Works. In 1896, Byron Jackson, faced with a foundry that was an economic liability during
the depression of the 1890s, sold his foundry to Macaulay. The foundry was located on Bluxome Street, in the center of the
city's manufacturing district, and it started making castings primarily for Byron Jackson's Machine Shop and soliciting for
whatever other business was available. Macaulay's early partners in this venture were John Lauffner, Philip McHale and Daniel
Molander. In 1906, the foundry was destroyed in the great earthquake and fire that consumed San Francisco's business and manufacturing
districts. H.C. Macaulay, like many other San Francisco manufacturers at the time, decided to move across the bay. The Macaulay
Foundry was rebuilt on Carleton Street in Berkeley, California. The company was formally incorporated as the H.C. Macaulay
Foundry in 1906. From 1896 until 1937, the Macaulay Foundry's largest customer was the Byron Jackson Machine Works, the largest
pump manufacturer in the West. Other prominent early customers included the Hall-Scott Motor Car Company, the Union Gas Engine
Company, and the American Can Company. Later customers included Pacific Gas and Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore
International, and Solar Turbines.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists of the administrative and financial records of the Macaulay Foundry as well as the records of the company's
Pattern Shop. The records date from 1906 to circa 2000, with the bulk of materials dating from 1910 to 1960. Notable among
the administrative records are minutes of the Board of Directors and the Management Committee from 1906 to 1988 and various
company histories and oral histories. The collection includes only a small amount of scattered correspondence. Among the financial
records are annual financial statements, cashbooks and journals from 1906 to 1944, and volumes documenting the purchasing
of raw and other materials and the costs of labor in the foundry. The Pattern Shop records consist of account books (1907-1949),
pattern shop order books (1907-1954), time books (1910-1944), and pattern books for various customers (1910-1966). In addition,
the collection includes a small amount of material documenting H.C. Macaulay's other business interests, including the Wildwood
Dairy Company and the Reynolds Manufacturing Company.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Macaulay Foundry, Inc.
Molander, Daniel
Macaulay Foundry, Inc.--Archives
American Foundrymen's Association. Northern California Chapter
Wildwood Dairy Company
Reynold's Manufacturing Company
Union Paper Company
Foundries--California--Berkeley
Foundries--California--San Francisco
Founding--California--Berkeley
Foundry workers--California--Berkeley--Interviews
Financial records
Articles of incorporation
Pattern books
Interviews