Photographs - Commercial Jobs, 2016 - 2017

The Independent Awning Company Business Records contain account and order/contract records, as well as photographs of commercial and residential jobs, for a local awning manufacturing company founded in the early 20th century and operational until the early 2000s.

Series I: Orders and Accounts, contains records of awning jobs completed for customers. Items marked as "Order" or "Contracts" typically include the specifics of a particular job, usually including a sketch of the product; these books/records usually include some type of index to customer names or are arranged in roughly alphabetical order to begin with (i.e. with subdivisions for the letters of the alphabet). "Account" books are generally more summary in nature and do not included sketches; they may not be indexed or alphabetically arranged either. All bound ledger books (sewn binding) were retained; these are mostly 1940 and earlier. For later records, only a sampling of approximately 1 volume every 5 or 10 years was retained, in order to show trends in styles, prices, etc., over time. (See Processing Information note for details of how the sampling was applied.) Materials in this series date from 1919 to 2010.

Series II: Photographs, contains photographs of jobs completed by the company for customers. They are separated according to commercial jobs and residential jobs. Sampling was also applied to this series; see Processing Information note for details. Materials in this series date from 2001 to 2017.