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Guide to the Keystone Picture Frame Company Records c1930s-2002 (bulk 1940s-1980s)
Metadata Details
- Title
- Keystone Picture Frame Company records 1930-2002 (bulk 1940-1980)
- Subject
- Semins, Leon, Keystone Picture Frame Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Picture frames and framing
- Description
- Keystone Picture Frame Company records consist primarily of financial information including ledgers, check stub books, invoices, and accounts. The first two boxes contain ledger books of sales and disbursements which record items ordered and prices (1935-2000). Box 1 also holds folders of accounts receivable and car expenses, a Lyday Line of Pictures catalog for sale by Keystone Picture Frame Company, photocopies of Prothonotary certificates (1948) and a CD of pictures of the Keystone Building on Liberty Avenue taken in 2002. Box 3 contains check stubs (1958-1987). Box 4 contains accounts which include client names, such as Pittsburgh Plate and Glass Company, US Steel, Fisher Scientific, Joseph Horne Company, and Westinghouse, and lists years, prices, and items ordered. Box 5 contains various company invoices from the 1960s and one selected month of receipts from 1974., Keystone Picture Frame Company Records, 1930-2002 (bulk 1940-1980), MSS 0778, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Leon Semins Gift 2006 2006.0278, The Keystone Picture Frame Company was founded in 1882 by Simon S. Braude in downtown Pittsburgh. The company focused on framing wholesale art prints which were then sold to various department stores including Macys in Los Angeles and Gimbels in Philadelphia, New York, and St. Louis. Simon S. Braude died in 1929 at which point the company accountant declared the business bankrupt. However, three employees bought Keystone out of bankruptcy: Sam Seminofsky, George Ross, and Bill Herzberg. In 1941, Leon Seminofsky (who changed his surname to Semins) owned the business and after the deaths of his father, Sam Seminofsky, and Bill Herzberg, and the retirement of George Ross, Keystone Frame Company was managed completely by Leon Semins. Clients of the Keystone Picture Frame Company have included Fisher Scientific, US Steel, and Westinghouse. Leon Semins retired in 2002 and the Keystone Picture Frame Company closed for good., Gift of Leon Semins, Processed MSS 0778 04/12 S. Ecklund, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Keystone Picture Frame Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1930-2002
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 5.0 linear feet
- Identifier
- oclc:795650430, pitt:US-QQS-mss778
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss778
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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