Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Creation Date

1911-08-08

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Pamphlet for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Pamphlet advertising the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In particular, the pamphlet urges buyers to look for the Winchester ‘W,’ which signals uniformity in rifles, shotguns, and ammunition.

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Creation Date

1908

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Cartridge shipping form

A form recording the number of cartridges the Winchester Repeating Arms Company will pack, as well as how the cartridges will be arranged for shipment.

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Creation Date

1908-09-01

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company would like to know how the cartridges should be packed during the journey to Africa. Usually they put 1,000 cartridges to a case. In this case, they can put a few of each kind of cartridge in a case and any quantity that President Roosevelt wants. The cases that are shipped to Mombasa will be tin-lined to prevent water damage.

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Creation Date

1908-08-25

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

The Winchester Company is sending President Roosevelt the three new guns and the two samples that Roosevelt sent. 100 cartridges are also being shipped. The Company suggests that Roosevelt return the guns to them for repacking to Mombasa. They will pack them in tin-lined cases with excelsior.

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Creation Date

1908-11-25

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company does not understand how President Roosevelt’s issues with the .405 caliber Model ’95 rifle could have occurred. The gun is used “very generally and practically without complaint.” An order form is attached.

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Creation Date

1908-11-17

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to William Loeb

President Roosevelt’s concerns about gun sights and cleaning material for the guns will be addressed.

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Creation Date

1908-09-25

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Rudolph Forster

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company sends exact specifications on how they propose to pack each case of cartridges for shipment to Mombasa.

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Creation Date

1908-09-01

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Rudolph Forster

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company explains the misfire of a .45/70 cartridge. They will examine 10% of each item ordered for President Roosevelt to make sure it does not happen again.

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Creation Date

1908-08-29

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Rudolph Forster

President Roosevelt expects to carry his rifles for the Africa trip with him. Shipment will be made by Winchester representatives in London as efficiently as possible.

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Creation Date

1908-08-15

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company answers President Roosevelt’s questions about ammunition he will be taking to Africa and the shipment of goods from London to Mombasa. The Company also describes a hunt made by Ernest Solvay, the inventor of the Solvay sodium carbonate process. Solvay was successful hunting with a .32 Winchester Special Model ’94 rifle and a .405 caliber Model ’95 rifle.

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Creation Date

1908-08-11

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

Based on President Roosevelt’s .45-70 rifle, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company has prepared the Model ’95 rifle with the same trigger pull. They are still waiting on the “extra thickness silver” recoil pads to finish the work on the stocks of the Model ’95 rifle. For smaller game, the 1886 .45-70 rifle is sufficient.

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Creation Date

1908-08-03

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to William Loeb

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company shipped ten targets each for 100 and 200 yards, but had to order the 50 yard targets.

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Creation Date

1908-07-31

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to William Loeb

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company received William Loeb’s request for targets, pasters, and the gun for Kermit Roosevelt. All requests will be filled.

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Creation Date

1908-07-20

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to Theodore Roosevelt

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company has the model ’96 gun, belonging to Kermit Roosevelt. President Roosevelt’s Springfield rifle has already been returned to him. The Company is also working on finding the best shipping line from London to Mombasa; they will not ship the guns through Aden as was requested earlier because they have no agents they trust there. They will await Roosevelt’s reply in regard to the model ’95 rifle.

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Creation Date

1908-07-22

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Letter from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to William Loeb

The previous catalog mailed to Theodore Roosevelt “has gone astray.” The Winchester Repeating Arms Company sends out one of their leather bound catalogs.

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Creation Date

1908-06-24

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Truth will out

Winchester rifles and ammunition are the “invariable choice of experience-taught and discriminating big game hunters.” An endorsement from Theodore Roosevelt is included in the advertisement.

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Creation Date

1910

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Receipt #143118 from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Receipt for ammunition given to President Roosevelt from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company at no charge.

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Creation Date

1902-06-04

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