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Box 13

 Container

Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2
Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence between Miessner and various companies, organizations, and individuals. Correspondents whose letters are present in the collection include but are not limited to members of Miessner’s family, including his brother William Otto Miessner, his father, and his two daughters; piano manufacturers, including but not limited to the Wurlitzer company, Story and Clark Piano Company, and Baldwin Company; his patent lawyers, especially Edward H. Loftin and Charles T....
Dates: 1906 - 1978

Obtaining Equipment and Materials, 1928 - 1930

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence between Miessner and various companies, organizations, and individuals. Correspondents whose letters are present in the collection include but are not limited to members of Miessner’s family, including his brother William Otto Miessner, his father, and his two daughters; piano manufacturers, including but not limited to the Wurlitzer company, Story and Clark Piano Company, and Baldwin Company; his patent lawyers, especially Edward H. Loftin and Charles T....
Dates: 1928 - 1930

Organ and Piano Company Inquiries, 1934 - 1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence between Miessner and various companies, organizations, and individuals. Correspondents whose letters are present in the collection include but are not limited to members of Miessner’s family, including his brother William Otto Miessner, his father, and his two daughters; piano manufacturers, including but not limited to the Wurlitzer company, Story and Clark Piano Company, and Baldwin Company; his patent lawyers, especially Edward H. Loftin and Charles T....
Dates: 1934 - 1939

Remy Langloys, Musical Instrument Patents, 1871 - 1954

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence between Miessner and various companies, organizations, and individuals. Correspondents whose letters are present in the collection include but are not limited to members of Miessner’s family, including his brother William Otto Miessner, his father, and his two daughters; piano manufacturers, including but not limited to the Wurlitzer company, Story and Clark Piano Company, and Baldwin Company; his patent lawyers, especially Edward H. Loftin and Charles T....
Dates: 1871 - 1954; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Personal Correspondence, 1910 - 1961

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents This sub-series contains correspondence of a personal nature. It consists primarily of letters between Benjamin Miessner and members of his family or friends. Subjects of the letters include Miessner’s time stationed in Europe while in the United States Navy, paintings that Miessner made and gifted to friends, and his daughter Janie. Also included is a letter from the Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien (Royal Swedish Academy of Music) thanking Miessner for the donation of some of his publications.
Dates: 1910 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1956

Business Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 2, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence between Miessner and various companies, organizations, and individuals. Correspondents whose letters are present in the collection include but are not limited to members of Miessner’s family, including his brother William Otto Miessner, his father, and his two daughters; piano manufacturers, including but not limited to the Wurlitzer company, Story and Clark Piano Company, and Baldwin Company; his patent lawyers, especially Edward H. Loftin and Charles T....
Dates: 1906 - 1978

Benjamin F. Miessner papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2
Scope and Contents The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1906 - 1978