Pedersen's Furniture Company records, 1903-2017
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Published Dec. 20, 2019
Pedersen's Furniture Company records, 1903-2017
Sonoma County Library
Creator:
Pedersen's Furniture Company
Title: Pedersen's Furniture Company records
Date (inclusive): 1903-2017
Identification: SPC.00085
Physical Description:
7 linear feet
3 record storage boxes, 13 oversized scrapbooks
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Repository:
Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library
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.
Included title: Santa Rosa High School newsletter,1907-1917
Biography/Organization History
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.
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.
Organized 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
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Pedersen's Furniture Company
Pedersen family
Furniture industry and trade--California--Santa Rosa
Earthquakes--California--Santa Rosa--1906--Photographs
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Advertisements
Ledgers (account books)
Archival materials
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[Identification of item], Pedersen's Furniture Company records, SPC.00085, History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library,
Santa Rosa, CA.
Gift: Paul J. Pedersen and Kenneth J. Pedersen,
Apr. 1, 2019