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By Daniel Weddington and Malcolm Tabor
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Mason & Hanger Historical Records consist of company records that were in storage for many years and considered "historical" by the new parent company, Day & Zimmermann. As there was no order to the material, an order has been imposed that we believe is useful for access and which is essentially alphabetical by project. The projects include: Boston Traffic Tunnel, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Camp Zachary Taylor, Cannelton Locks and Dam, Carquinez Bridge, Fort Randall Dam, Gateway Army Ammunition Plant, Grand Coulee Dam, Harvey Canal Tunnel, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Kennedy Space Center, Lincoln Tunnel, Michoud Assembly Facility (for NASA), Pantex Ordnance Plant and the Van Wyck Expressway. There are also files relating to a number of other projects not listed here but which are listed in the finding aid. The company did major work for the Defense Department, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
The primary grouping is the "Project Files" which have been ordered alphabetically and which sometimes contain the full range of documents relating to each project from initial bid to completion, including agreements, correspondence, photographs, drawings & blueprints, construction logs, progress reports, payroll and legal documents. The next series is "Financial & Corporate Records" that include financial reports, audits, correspondence, income-tax returns, minutes, newsletters and statements. Loose photographs, oversize material and ephemera are found at the end of the finding aid and generally relate back to "Project Files."
The collection also contains detailed records for various farm enterprises owned by Silas and H.P Mason.
Collection Historical Note
Founded in Virginia in 1827 by Claiborne Rice Mason, the company was originally known as the Mason Syndicate. From its first contract to move dirt using a mule, a cart, a pick and a shovel, the company has been dedicated to exceeding customers' expectations. By 1885, the firm had re-located to Kentucky where it became renowned for its many noteworthy historical projects such as the C&O Railroad's main line extension into the Ohio Valley, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, and Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville. Today, as the nation's oldest continuously operating engineering and construction company, Mason & Hanger carries on the tradition of quality and customer service that C.R. Mason began with his pick and shovel 175 years ago.
In 1999, Mason & Hanger was acquired by the Day & Zimmermann Group. For more information please visit the Day & Zimmermann website.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Fitzsimmons, Robert J. (for Day & Zimmerman)
Related Publications:
Sons of Martha by Dixon Lanier Merritt is a history of the Mason and Hanger Company.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Project Files.],
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Series 2: Oversize Project Files],
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Series 3: Project Photographs],
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Series 4: Publications and Office Papers],
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Series 5: Financial & Corporate Records],
[Series 6: Office Files],
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Series 7: Financial Records (Ledgers)],
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Series 8: Agricultural Records, 1933-1974],
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Series 9: Oversize Material],
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Series 10: Artifacts and Memorabilia],
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- Series 6: Office Files
- Box 225
- Barcode: 31234014046104
- Folder 1: General Files
- Includes correspondence, several financial figures, newspaper articles, newsletters, and company reports.
- Folder 2: H.L. Myer
- Settlement of Estate - contains letters, telegrams, and certificates of stock transfer related to the estate.
- Folder 3: Horatio P. Mason
- Desk files - correspondence, magazine articles, and trust documents; Income Tax Information.
- Folder 4: Horatio P. Mason
- Cancelled checks and correspondence (Horatio P. Mason settlement).
- Box 226
- Corporate Records, Minutes - Mason & Hanger Co.
- Barcode: 31234014046112
- Folder 1: Mason Chamberlain Inc (MCI)
- Correspondence, fiscal records and figures
- Folder 2: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 3: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 4: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 5: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 6: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 7: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 8: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Box 227: Minutes
- Mason & Hanger and Silas Mason Co.
- Barcode: 31234014046120
- Box 228
- Barcode: 31234014045874
- Folder 1: Minutes
- Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 2: Minutes
- Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 3: Minutes
- Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 4: Minutes
- Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 5: Notes & Chattels
- Total Facility Services, Inc. correspondence, cost lists, mortgage settlements rates, property and material value estimates.
- Folder 6: Notes & Chattels
- Total Facility Services, Inc. correspondence, cost lists, mortgage settlements rates, property and material value estimates.
- Folder 7: Odor Farm Property
- Contracts and value estimates; General Files, correspondence, Insurance; Paul Semonia Company Files.
- Folder 8: Odor Farm Property
- Contracts and value estimates; General Files, correspondence, Insurance; Paul Semonia Company Files.
- Box 229
- Barcode: 31234014045957
- Folder 1: Photographs
- Awards for different plants at different times in no particular order (as they were found). Most of these awards are for munitions plants. Nearly all are captioned or self-explanatory (i.e. a picture of the award itself).
- Folder 2: Photographs
- Excellence awards to Pantex plant, with emphasis on its nuclear program, 1990. Several photographs of the plaque awarded and the managers of the plant. Some photos bear a small caption.
- Folder 3: Photographs
- Photographs of unidentified people that appear to have no connection to the label originally given to this set of Photos by the company (unless one of the figures is Pares). Mostly secretaries and some electricians or electrical engineers.
- Folder 4: Photographs, 1993-1995
- Group, small group, and event photographs from Christmas celebrations and events. Some photographs include children and a Santa Claus, which may be a company goodwill community event (or just a family visit?). Labels and captions are few, if any. Most photographs center around banquets.
- Folder 5: Photographs
- Includes Mardi Gras, Habitat for Humanity, "Take our Daughters to Work Day", and the "Pantex Proposal Victory Party." Labels are nonexistent and years are unknown. The film and clothing indicate mid 1990's.
- Folder 6: Photographs
- Photos: a retirement party, 1996 ; Employment Law Seminar, RML 50th Birthday Party, 1996; Secretaries Day, 1995; Nevtech Celebration, Strategic Plan, 1996; a Golf Outing; and Dwight Hefflebower's Funeral.
- Folder 7: Dwight Heffelbower photographs
- From photos taken for the cover of "The Lane Report," Sep 1993. Also photographs from manager's meetings.
- Box 230
- Barcode: 31234014045940
- Folder 1: Photographs, 1970-1980
- Manager Meetings; Group Photographs, loose
- Folder 2: Photographs, 1960s-1979
- Manager Meetings; Group and small group photographs mostly from 1977 and 1979. Photographs of the awarding of a "Thirty-year service pin" and group photographs of the upper company officers. These are the familiar faces of the company from the 1950's through the 1970's. Most photographs contain a written year on their back and a few also have small captions.
- Folder 3: Photographs, 1980s-1990s
- Manager Meetings; Group and small group photographs. The photos from the 1990's meetings include events such as picnics and speeches. [Slowly shifting company hierarchy is evident from the positions of members in subsequent group photographs as some retire.] Most photographs have captions.
- Folder 4: Negatives, 1996
- Offices in Lexington, publicity projects, and "RML's Birthday"
- Folder 5: Negatives
- Long Historical Display by Telford.
- Folder 6: Photographs
- Photographs in several sizes of company leaders and officers, as well as other people important to recent company history (such as directors of ordnance plants, etc.) Some photographs have a name written on the back in pen, but not necessarily that person's position in the company.
- Folder 7: Slides
- From assorted projects, originally found in a folder labeled "94 Manager's Meeting." Most slides are from entirely different projects, many of which are written on the slides themselves. Kept in original order found, which may have been a presentation.
- Folder 8: Photographs
- Unidentified Employees
- Box 231
- Barcode: 31234014045932
- Folder 1: Renegotiation, Mar, 1960
- Correspondence regarding company finances.
- Folder 2: Sam Mason II Papers
- Correspondence; Income Tax Returns; Statement of Account, Eastman Dillon Company; Monthly Statements, Belden & Co.
- Folder 3: Sam Mason II Papers
- Correspondence; Income Tax Returns; Statement of Account, Eastman Dillon Company; Monthly Statements, Belden & Co.
- Folder 4: Sam Mason II Papers
- Correspondence; Income Tax Returns; Statement of Account, Eastman Dillon Company; Monthly Statements, Belden & Co.
- Folder 5: Sam Mason II Papers
- Correspondence; Income Tax Returns; Statement of Account, Eastman Dillon Company; Monthly Statements, Belden & Co.
- Folder 6: Silas Mason Co.
- Agency Agreement, 1934. Corporate Records - correspondence, figures on finances, cost estimates and expenditures.
- Folder 7: Silas Mason Co.
- Agency Agreement, 1934. Corporate Records - correspondence, figures on finances, cost estimates and expenditures.
- Folder 8: Stock
- Mason, Hanger, and Coleman Co. - stock certificates and receipts.
- Folder 9: Stock
- Mason & Hanger Co. - inserts from Stock Book
- Folder 10: Stock
- Silas Mason Co. - Common and Preferred Stock.
- Box 232
- Barcode: 31234014046161
- Folder 1: Stock Certificates
- Stock holdings of company leaders with correspondence.
- Folder 2: Stock Correspondence
- Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 3: Stock Purchases
- Ackerman, R.H.
- Folder 4: Stock Purchases
- Drummond, J.C.
- Folder 5: Stock Purchases
- Gorsline, Gene W.
- Folder 6: Stock Purchases
- Ihne, Richard J.
- Folder 7: Stock Purchases
- Noel, Claude
- Folder 8: Stock Purchases
- Sackett Jr., G.W.
- Box 233
- Barcode: 31234014046153
- Folder 1: Stock Purchases
- Smith, J.P.
- Folder 2: Stock Purchases
- Walsh, J.M.
- Folder 3: Stock Purchases
- Watts, John J.
- Folder 4: Stock Redemption
- Tax Out - stock taxation correspondence and reports.
- Folder 5: Taxes
- General - correspondence, small reports and lists.
- Folder 6: Taxes
- General - correspondence, small reports and lists.
- Box 234
- Barcode: 31234014046138
- Folder 1: Audits, Tax
- Combined Companies (Mason & Hanger, Silas Mason Co., Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc.), 1940-1950's.
- Folder 2: Bank Statement
- Mason & Hanger Co., The Mechanics & Metals National Bank, 1920's.
- Folder 3: California, Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall
- Los Angeles Financial Material and Correspondence - includes figures for taxation, profits, and correspondence.
- Folder 4: California, Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall
- Los Angeles Financial Material and Correspondence - includes figures for taxation, profits, and correspondence.
- Folder 5: Eskew and Gresham
- (re: Stephen Watkins) - notes, correspondence, and figures.
- Folder 6: H.L. Meyer
- Settlement of Estate and Wills.
- Folder 7: Lexington Office Lease.
- Folder 8: Mason & Hanger Co.
- Minute Book and Stock Transfer Book [1].
- Folder 9: Mason & Hanger Co.
- Minute Book and Stock Transfer Book [2].
- Box 235
- Barcode: 31234014046146
- Folder 1: Merger documents.
- Folder 2: Name change documents
- Mason, Hanger and Coleman Co. to Mason & Hanger Co., also charter permit to work within the state of New York.
- Folder 3: Notes and Chattels of Total Facility Services, Inc.
- Lists and figures for the sale of company equipment.
- Folder 4: Sam Mason II Personal Papers.
- Folder 5: Silas Mason Co. and Johnson N. Camden, 1933
- Contract File
- Folder 6: Stock
- Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc. - Stock Book Inserts from bound volumes; Stock Transfer Sheets - Mason & Hanger Securities Co.-Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 7: Stock Book
- Mason & Hanger Co.
- Folder 8: Stock Book
- Silas Mason Co.
- Folder 9: Unidentified correspondence.
- Box 236
- Barcode: 31234014046070
- Folder 1: Mason and Taylor, 1948
- (Register); H.P. Mason personal checking register.
- Folder 2: Mason & Hanger
- Register for Account with The Mechanics & Metals National Bank.
- Folder 3: Eastman Dillon Company
- Long and short accounts.
- Box 237
- Sam A. Mason II, Checks and Registers. Box contains registers and cancelled checks from Chemical Bank and Trust Co., The Corn Exchange Bank, and The Philadelphia National Bank, 1926-32. Also includes receipts from the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company and a "Cash Book" for an unidentified account which may or may not be related to Sam A. Mason II
- Barcode: 31234014046013
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Series 1: Project Files.],
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Series 2: Oversize Project Files],
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Series 3: Project Photographs],
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Series 4: Publications and Office Papers],
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Series 5: Financial & Corporate Records],
[Series 6: Office Files],
[
Series 7: Financial Records (Ledgers)],
[
Series 8: Agricultural Records, 1933-1974],
[
Series 9: Oversize Material],
[
Series 10: Artifacts and Memorabilia],
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