Guide to the Johnston Family Papers and Photographs 1782-2013
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Title
Johnston Family papers and photographs 1782-1972
Subject
Johnston, William G, 1828-1913, Johnston, Samuel Reed, 1797-1854, Johnston, Stewart, 1865-1933, Johnston, Eleanor H, 1865-1939, Hartwell, Samuel A, 1892-1969, Hartwell, Samuel A, 1864-1926, Hartwell, Caroline A, Hogg, John T, William G. Johnston Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Johnston & Stockton Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corporation., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette., Printing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History, Steel castings industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History, Gold rushes--1840-1850, Paper mills--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Bookbinding industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Description
The Johnston Family papers and photographs are housed in fifteen archival boxes and are arranged in eleven series. Series have been designated for Samuel and Alice Hartwell, Samuel Hartwell Jr., Hogg Family, Johnston Family, Eleanor Johnston Genealogical Research, Paul Johnston, Stewart Johnston, William Johnston, The William G. Johnston Company, Photographs, and Oversized Material. The papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical charts, wills, William G. Johnston unfinished manuscripts, scrapbooks, and other related material. The bulk of the papers consist primarily of correspondence between family members. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, genealogical charts, and ephemera., Johnston Family papers and photographs, 1782-1972, MSS 387, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Charles Stewart III Gift 2001 2001.0143, Members of the Scotch Irish Johnston family have lived in the Pittsburgh region since 1787. Samuel Reed Johnston was a partner in an early printing house and bookbindery in Pittsburgh. His son, William G. Johnston, founded the printing house of William G. Johnston and Co. in 1857, which operated in Pittsburgh for nearly a century., Gift of Charles Stewart III, Processed MSS 0387 02/14 N. Hartley, Collection finding aid available.
Contributor
Johnston Family, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
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