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1. K. Straus and Company Inc. account book, 1893-1894.
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The company was founded by Karl Straus born in 1845 who was a Jewish German immigrant. Straus arrived in Philadelphia in 1867 and he began a wholesale liquor business. In 1888 he became a tobacco merchant opening his own company named K. Straus & Co. Straus died in 1920 leaving the business to his nephew Adolf Loeb who incorporated the company in 1922.
Corporate Name:
K. Straus and Company Inc.
Date:
1893-1894
Language:
English
Physical Location:
MS 56, Codex 036.1