Alex. Brown & Sons. mixed material monographic eng 80,000 266 51 Lettercopy and letterpress books, daybooks, cashbooks, ledgers, journals, salesbooks, wastebooks, accounts current, blotters, and other business records of the firm and its successor, subsidiary, and allied companies documenting its transition from a mercantile firm importing Irish linen to an international banking house with extensive import-export, shipbuilding, railroad, and public utility operations. The correspondence reflects social, political, and military events as well as financial and economic trends of the nineteenth century. Also includes records of Stewart Brown, Philadelphia, Pa., and Falls & Brown, Baltimore, Md. Other firms represented include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Brown Brothers & Company, and Brown, Shipley & Co., its affiliate in Liverpool. Persons represented include the firm's founder, Alexander Brown (1764-1834); his descendants. Alexander Brown (1858-1949), George Brown (1787-1859), George Stewart Brown (1834-1890), James Brown (1791-1877). John A. Brown (1788-1872), and Sir William Brown (1784-1864); and his brother, Stewart Brown, and Stewart Brown's business partner, Moore Falls. Open to research. Containers 125, 198, and 242 available on microfilm only; originals retained by the firm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1954. Gift, Alex. Brown & Sons via Benjamin H. Griswold III, 1954. Firm founded in 1800 in Baltimore, Md., that evolved from a mercantile business into an international banking house. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013 Brown, Alexander, 1764-1834 Brown, Alexander, 1858-1949 Brown, George, 1787-1859 Brown, George Stewart, 1834-1890 Brown, James, 1791-1877 Brown, John A., 1788-1872 Brown, Stewart, 1769- Brown, William, Sir, 1784-1864 Falls, Moore. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Brown Brothers & Company. Brown, Shipley & Co. Falls & Brown. Stewart Brown (Firm) Banks and banking Maryland Baltimore Banks and banking, International International finance Linen industry Ireland Merchants Maryland Baltimore Merchants Pennsylvania Philadelphia Public utilities Shipbuilding Trading companies United States Economic conditions 19th century United States History 19th century United States Politics and government 19th century United States Social life and customs 19th century Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home MSS14019 mm 81014019 mm 80075771 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013.3 dacs DLC 811116 20250607224942.6 5808436 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng