Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Pedersen's Furniture Company
- Abstract:
- This collection contains the business records of Pedersen's Furniture Company, which was known as Santa Rosa's oldest family-owned store until its closure in 2019. The collection includes family photographs, advertisements, ledgers and ephemera documenting the history of the company. It was founded in 1892 by Jens Christian Pedersen, a Danish immigrant and cabinet maker. The collection also includes photos of the 1906 earthquake and several issues of the Santa Rosa High School Newsletter.
- Extent:
- 7 linear feet 3 record storage boxes, 13 oversized scrapbooks
- Language:
- Materials are in English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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Business records of Pedersen's Furniture Company, photos of the 1906 earthquake in Santa Rosa; and several issues of the Santa Rosa High School Newsletter, 1907-1917.
Arrangement of the collectionOrganized provisonally into four series:
- Photographs
- Newspaper advertisements and photos
- Cash ledgers
- Advertising tear sheet books
Series 1-2 in Boxes 1-2; series 3-4 in Box 3. The 13 advertising tear sheet books (series 4) are oversized
- Biographical / historical:
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J.C. Pedersen, a Danish immigrant and cabinet maker, opened the doors of to the Pedersen family's first furniture store at the corner of Fourth and A Streets in Santa Rosa, California in 1892. Since that time, four generations of the Pedersen family owned and operated the Pedersen Furniture Company. As brothers and co-owners Ken and Paul Pedersen faced retirement and with no other family members interested in continuing to operate the business, they decided to close the store in 2019.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift: Paul J. Pedersen and Kenneth J. Pedersen, Apr. 1, 2019
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition (DACS)
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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6135 State Farm DriveRohnert Park, CA 94928, US
- Contact:
- (707) 545-0831