Pedersen's Furniture Company records, 1903-2017

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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 .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pedersen's Furniture Company records, SPC.00085, History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

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 collection

Organized provisonally into four series:

  1. Photographs
  2. Newspaper advertisements and photos
  3. Cash ledgers
  4. 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:

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

Restrictions:

This collection is partially processed. Please contact the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library for access; for contact info and current hours, see https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library

Terms of access:

Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pedersen's Furniture Company records, SPC.00085, History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Location of this collection:
6135 State Farm Drive
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 545-0831
digital@sonomalibrary.org
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