Manuscript Group 1089 Joseph M. Jonas (1885 – 1975) COLLECTION 1907 – 1928

 

Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs

 

MG 1089 JOSEPH M. JONAS (1885-1975) COLLECTION 1907-1928

 

0.75
linear feet

 

 

 

FINDING
AID

 

 

 

New
Jersey Historical Society

 

Manuscript
Collection

 

 

 

 Processed by:   Robert Lasner,
April, 1999

 

Introduction

 

 The papers of Joseph M. Jonas span the years
1907-1928, and total 0.75 linear feet. They were processed by
Robert Lasner in April of 1999.

 

 

 

 

Provenance

 

 

 

The papers of Joseph M. Jonas were donated
on November 10, 1978 by Mrs.
Ralph Rogers, daughter of Joseph M. Jonas.

 

 

 

 

Biographical
Sketch

 

Joseph M. Jonas, engraver and inventor, was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1885. In 1902, he moved to Newark,
New Jersey, where he married Maude Russell, of New Haven, CT., in
1907. He is first listed in the directories of the Broad
Engraving Co. in 1917. In 1919 or 1920, he set up his own
company, Joseph M. Jonas, Engraver, and soon thereafter seems to
have acquired a partner, as the business went under the name of
Jonas and Baebi, located at 359 Mulberry Street. The business
apparently went under around 1929 or 1930, and from 1930-1935,
Jonas worked in the research department of J.R. Potter Stockton,
working with radio, victrolas, and remote controls. At Stockton,
he helped patent the trip switch. From 1938-1952, he worked for
Weston as a works developer, helping to develop the aerial
thermometer. His private residence was at 141 Leslie Street.
Jonas died in 1975.

 

 

Scope
and Content Note

 

 

 

The Joseph M. Jonas Collection spans the
years 1907-1928. It consists primarily of business records
related to Joseph M. Jonas, Engraver, and Jonas and Baebi, Ring
Manufacturers. These business records include: check stubs and
bank deposit records, general business account ledgers, and
records of dealings with other Newark-based businesses. Also
included in the Collection are a small amount of correspondence
between Joseph M. Jonas and the Department of Commerce and Labor,
and with the Post Office Department. Additional parts of the
collection deal with artistic drawings made by Mr. Jonas, many of
which turned out to be sketches for advertising flyers. There are
also a few newspaper cutouts, presumably cut out by Mr. Jonas,
related to his artistic work. An additional item in the
collection is a technical pamphlet from the United States
Department of the Interior.

 

 

 

Separated Materials

 

Broadside 50, Jonas Manufacturing

 

 

 

MG
1089

 

Joseph
M. Jonas (1885-1975)

 

Collection,
1907-1928

 

Series
Descriptions and Container List

 

 

 

Series Title: General Correspondence

 

Box #/ Folder #: 1/1

 

Date: 1907-1926

 

Description: Correspondence between
Joseph M. Jonas and the Department of Commerce and Labor, the
Post Office Department, and various ring manufacturers.

 

Blank business letterheads of J.M. Jonas,
Engraver.

 

 

 

Series Title: Art and Drawings

 

Box #/ Folder #:1/2

 

Date: N.D.

 

Description: Drawings done by Joseph
M. Jonas, many of which later developed into advertising flyers;
newspaper cutouts.

 

 

Series Title: Advertising

 

Box #/ Folder #:1/3

 

Date: N.D.

 

Description: Flyers advertising Jonas
and Baebi Rings, Inside Clothes Lines, and Eagle

 

Hand Suction Cleaner.

 

 

Series Title: Miscellaneous Technical
Pamphlet

 

Box #/ Folder #:1/4

 

Date: 1924

 

Description: Technical Pamphlet from
the U.S. Department of Interior-Methods For the Recovery of
Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, and Silver From
Jewelers’ Waste

 

 

Series Title: Business Records

 

 

General Business Records

 

Box #/ Folder #:1/5

 

Date: 1916

 

Description: Various business Records

 

 

Account Ledger with Ziruth Kaiser, Co.

 

Box #/ Folder #:1/6

 

Date: 1923

 

Description: Account ledger book

 

 

 

 

Records Dealing With Other Newark Businesses

 

Box #/Folder #:1/7

 

Date: 1924-1926

 

Description: Records dealing with
other Newark-based businesses, including Robert E. Lee and Co.,
W.J. Patton Co., S. Massh, Bishop and Bishop, and Newark Smelting
and Refining

 

 

General Business Ledgers

 

Box #/ Folder #:2/1, 2/2, 2/3

 

Date: 1924-1928

 

Description: Hard bound ledger books.

 

 

Check Stubs

 

Box #/ Folder #:2/4, 2/5

 

Date: 1925-1927

 

Description: Payment records and bank
deposit records.

 

 

 
1089. JONAS, JOSEPH M. (1885-1975), engraver, inventor.

 
Papers, 1911-1929. 3/4 ft.

 

 
Correspondence, 1911-1913, checkbooks, ledgers and other
financial records, advertisements, ink drawings and engraving
patterns of a Newark based inventor and engraver. Jonas
manufactured wedding rings with the firm Jonas & Baebi while
also inventing domestic devices such as the “Eagle Hand
Suction Cleaner” and an “inside clothes line
pulley.”

 
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Rogers, 1978.

 

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