William B. Tilghman Company records
25 cartons (30 linear feet)
(1870 – 1975)
Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland
| Identifier | 1989.003 |
|---|---|
| Creator(s) | William B. Tilghman Company |
| Acquisition | See Nabb Center Staff |
| Language(s) | English |
| Use | Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use." |
| Preferred Citation | "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland." |
| Attribution | Finding aid written by Jared Kreiner, 2008. |
| Related Materials |
Marasco Family Farm Photographic Prints (1935 – 1942) Wye Plantation Architecture Collection (1948 – 1979) |
| Separated Materials | See Nabb Center Staff |
The W.B. Tilghman Fertilizer Company Collection contains a vast array of items and business records pertaining to the W.B. Tilghman Company. These include such items as company photographs, ink stamps, and a stock certificate seal press. There are also stock certificate books from throughout the 20th century. Another portion of the W.B. Tilghman Fertilizer Company Collection is "The Tiller" newsletter. The collection contains a near complete compilation of the newsletter covering the years 1943 to the 1960s. Inside the newsletters, there are articles on historic homes, buildings, and plantations from Delmarva. On the business side of the collection, there is an assortment of meeting minute books for shareholders and directors meetings, ledgers, journals, crop books, company records. There are also historical records such as the Wm. B. Tilghman Company charter, Governor’s citation of the 100th Anniversary of the Wm. B. Tilghman Company, and the Enlistment Certificate of William B. Tilghman, 1912.
William B. Tilghman (1839-1907), was pivotal in Salisbury’s commercial life during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the mid-1860s, Tilghman went into a union with Dr. Cathell Humphreys, and General Humphrey Humphreys and established the firm of Humphreys and Tilghman. The original business was dissolved when Dr. Humphreys died in 1866, and in 1882, General Humphreys sold his stake in the business to his son, Randolph. Humphreys and Tilghman became one of the leading businesses on the Eastern Shore with dealings in lumber and building materials, coal, and manufacturing high-grade fertilizer for all crops. By the late 1890s, the company situated on the Wicomico River was known as the William B. Tilghman Company. In addition to the manufacturing of building goods and fertilizer, Tilghman produced and sold roofing materials including Florida cypress and cedar shingles. Former Salisburian, Noah Tilghman started William B. Tilghman Company plants in Cedar Keys and Palatka, Florida.
Materials are not arranged; materials are listed by the location in each box, any given subject can be found throughout the entirety of the collection.
Subject Terms
- Topical Terms
- Agriculture
- Business
- Business
- Corporate Names
- William B. Tilghman Company
- Location Terms
- Salisbury (Md.)
Inventory List
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Box 1
1 | 1 Tilghman Fertilizer Company Stocks, 1950s-1980s
1 | 2 M-O (Leases/Deeds/Resolutions) (1 of 2)
1 | 3 M-O (Leases/Deeds/Resolutions) (2 of 2)
1 | 4 Surveys/Notes/Inspections/Reserve Accounts
1 | 5 Quality Products
1 | 6 Import Paper Categories- Agreements
1 | 7 Important Papers- Categories Assets-Contracts-Deed of Easements
1 | 8 Employee/Employer Management Relations
Box 2
2 | 1 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter, Vol. 1 Nr. 1-10, (March, 1943- Dec. 1943)
2 | 2 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 1, Nr. 11-12; (January-February, 1944). Vol. 2, NB 3 & 8 (Mar, Oct. 1944)
2 | 3 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 2, Nr. 13, Nr. 2, 4-10 (March-December, 1944)
2 | 4 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: (Jan.-Dec., 1945) Vol. 2, Nrs 11-12; Vol. 3, Nrs. 1-10, March-Dec., 1945
2 | 5 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: (Jan-Dec, 1946); Vol. 3, Nrs 11-12; Jan-Feb 1946; Vol. 4, Nr. 1-10, march-Dec. 1946)
2 | 6 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: (Jan-Dec., 1947); Vol. 4, Nrs 11-12; Jan-Feb., 1947); Nrs 1-9, Mar-Dec, 1947)
2 | 7 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: (Jan-Dec., 1948), Vol. 5, Nrs 10-11; Vol. 6, Nr. 2-5, May-Dec, 1948)
2 | 8 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: (Jan-Dec. 1949), vol. 6, Nr. 6, Jan.-Feb, 1949; vol. 7, Nrs 1-5 mar-Dec, 1949
2 | 9 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. (Jan-Aug, Nov-Dec 1950), [Vol. 7, Nr. 6, Jan.-Feb., 1950]: Vol. 8, Nrs. 1-5, Mar-Dec., 1950
2 | 10 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 8 No. 6 (Jan-Feb., 1951); Vol. 9 No. 1-5, Mar-Dec., 1951.
2 | 11 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 9 No. 6, Jan-Feb., 1952; Vol. 10, No. 1-5, Mar-Dec., 1952.
2 | 12 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 10 No. 6, Jan-Feb., 1953; Vol. 11, No. 1-5, Mar-Dec., 1953.
2 | 13 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 11, No. 6, Jan-Feb., 1954; Vol. 12, No. 1=5, Mar-Dec., 1954.
2 | 14 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 13, No. 1-7, Mar, 1955-Feb., 1956.
2 | 15 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 14, No. 1-6, Mar-Oct. 1956; Vol. 15, No. 7, Dec., 1956.
2 | 16 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 16, No. 8-9, Feb-Mar, 1957; Vol. 15 No. 7, 10-14, Apr-Oct., Dec., 1957.
2 | 17 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 15, No. 8-9, Jan-Feb, 1958; Vol. 16 No. 1, 5 (Apr., Oct. 1958).
2 | 18 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: Vol. 16, No. 7, Jan. 1959; Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 4, Mar-Apr., Sept., 1959
2 | 19 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. The Tiller Monthly Newsletter: 1960-1965.
2 | 20 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company. The Tiller Newsletter. Index of Volumes 1-15.
2 | 21 The Tilghman Fertilizer company, Salisbury, MD. Charter of Wm. B. Tilghman Company, Inc.
2 | 22 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. Minutes of Tilghman Co. Stockholders, Inc. Jan. 1915- Apr. 1921.
2 | 23 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. By-laws of Quality Products, Incorporated.
2 | 24 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. Minutes of Directors of Quality Products, Inc. 1928-1972.
2 | 25 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. Certificates & Shares.
2 | 26 The Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Salisbury, MD. Quality Products. Stocks & Shares, 1928-
2 | 27 Tilghman Collection. Stockholders Ledger, 1941-1972.
2 | 28 Tilghman Collection. Stockholders, c. 1961-1988. (RESTRICTED).
2 | 29 Tilghman Collection. Licenses, 1947-1986.
2 | 30 Tilghman Fertilizer Company Collection. Minutes of Monthly and Annual Board of Directors, 1953-1958.
2 | 31 Tilghman Fertilizer Company: Board of Directors Minutes, 1959-1963.
2 | 32 Tilghman Fertilizer Company: Board of Directors Minutes, 1964-1968.
2 | 33 Tilghman Fertilizer Company: Board of Directors Minutes, 1969-1973.
2 | 34 Tilghman Fertilizer Company: Board of Directors Minutes, 1974-1978.
2 | 35 Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Board of Directors Minutes, 1979-1985.
2 | 36 Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Board of Directors Minutes, 1986-1988.
2 | 37 Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Special Board Minutes, 1979-1989.
2 | 38 Tilghman Fertilizer Company, Ephemera.
2 | 39 Wm. B. Tilghman Collection. Miscellaneous Correspondence of Tilghman Fertilizers Co. 1930
Box 3
3 | 1 Enlistment Certificate William B. Tilghman, 1912
3 | 2 Judgments Filed Tilghman Fertilizer Co., 1920s
3 | 3 Tilghman Fertilizer Letter Book, 1870s
Box 4
4 | 1 Account Book
Box 5
5 | 1 Architectural drawings
5 | 2 Insurance Report, 1959
5 | 3 Appraisal, 1954
Box 6
6 | 1 Ledger (Stock Certificates) 1930s
6 | 2 Ledger, Balance Book, 1941-1946
6 | 3 Ledger, Purchase Book, 1937-1947
6 | 4 Ledger, Account Book Trial Quality, 1966-1972
Box 7
7 | 1 Quality Products Crops Ledger, 1932-3
7 | 2 Trial Balances, 1937-1940
7 | 3 Ledger, Quality Products Inc. Account Book, 1942-1946
7 | 4 Ledger Account Book, 1959-1964
7 | 5 Ledger, Account Book, 1954-1965
Box 8 (missing)
8 | 1 Tilghman Fertilizer Co. Financial Book
8 | 2 Ledger, Tilghman Co. Day Records, 1887-1888
Box 9
9 | 1 Manuscript, Educators Guide to Free Films, 1952 (12th Annual Edition)
9 | 2 Crop Information Folder (Tilghman Co.)
9 | 3 Binder- Tilghman Co. Business Papers, 1960s
9 | 4 Magazine, Better Farming Methods. Nov. 1952.
9 | 5 Loose Papers, Pamphlets
9 | 6 Photograph of Salisbury, MD 1984
9 | 7 Newspaper Articles on Tilghman Company, 1963
9 | 8 Governor’s Citation for Tilghman Company’s 100th Anniversary
Box 10
10 | 1 Ledger, Old Prices c. 1971
10 | 2 Tilghman Co. Bank Book for Salisbury National Book, Salisbury, MD, 1909-1937
10 | 3 Tilghman Company Day records
10 | 4 Tilghman Trial Balance Ledger, 1948
10 | 5 Ledger, Day Gas Book, 1968-1977
10 | 6 Tilghman Fertilizer Co. Air Applicators, 1974-5
Box 11
11 | 1 Stock Certificates, 1974
11 | 2 Examination Reports: 1931-1944, 1946
11 | 3 Debt Book, 1930s
11 | 4 Minutes Book 5/3/24 to 12/31/27
11 | 5 Minutes Book 12/31/38 to 12/31/52
11 | 6 Minutes Book 10/29/21 to 4/26/24
11 | 7 Drawings of Equipment Arrangements
11 | 8 Minutes Book of the Stockholders & Directors Meetings Wm. B. Tilghman Co. 1928-1937
Box 12
12 | 1 Business Records
12 | 2 Drawings
12 | 3 Mechanical Instruction Manuals
12 | 4 Drawings
12 | 5 Drawings
12 | 6 Drawings and Business Records
Box 13
(Box 13 Housed in Artifact Storage)
13 | 1 Tilghman Seal Stamp
13 | 2 Tilghman Editor of The Tiller Ink Stamp, 1929
13 | 3 2x “William B. Tilghman Company Fertilizer & Chemical” Ink Stamp
13 | 4 Tilghman Fish Logo Ink Stamp
13 | 5 Community Cannery Ink Stamp
13 | 6 Tilghman Fertilizers “Your Pointer To Superior Crops Ink Stamp”
13 | 7 3x “The Tiller: A Journal For the Country Home” Ink Stamps
13 | 8 Copper printed Photograph
13 | 9 2x “Wm. B. Tilghman Co. Pocomoke City, Md. 21851” Ink Stamp
13 | 10 Soil Test Ink Stamp
Box 14
14 | 1 WIB-A 16mm-Color Sound. Property of Wm. B. Tilghman Co. “What’s in the Bag”
14 | 2 Film.
Box 15
15 | 1 Tilghman Check Stubs
15 | 2 Tilghman Fertilizer Co. Letters About Farming
15 | 3 Invoices
15 | 4 Check Stubs
Box 16
16 | 1 Insurance Policies, 1952
16 | 2 Note to C.A. Hausen from L.A. Andrew re: North State changed to freight
16 | 3 Herbert A. Travers Fire Insurance, 1952
16 | 4 Settlements for Power Boats, 1951-1954
16 | 5 Business and Insurance Records, 1950s
16 | 6 Check Stubs and Insurance Records
16 | 7 Stock Certificate, 1918
16 | 8 American Casualty Co. (Insurance), 1951
16 | 9 Townshend, Kane and Co., 1950
16 | 10 Herbert A. Travers General Insurance, 1951
16 | 11 Townshend, Kane and Co., 1951
16 | 12 Power Boat North State, 1952
16 | 13 American Casualty Liability Policy, 1953-4
16 | 14 Power Boat North State Bank Statement, 1950-2
16 | 15 Bills of Sale of Enrolled Vessels, 1950
16 | 16 Memorandum of Sale of the Power Barge, ‘North State’, 1950
16 | 17 Townshend, Kane and Co., 1952
Box 17
17 | 1 Stock Certificates, 1918
17 | 2 Stock Certificate Book
17 | 3 Stock Certificate Book
17 | 4 Preferred Stock Book #7
Box 18
18 | 1 Drawings
18 | 2 Journal, 1931-2
18 | 3 Journal, 1935
18 | 4 Pocomoke Quality Products, Inc. #4, 1937
18 | 5 Q.P. Inc., 1935
18 | 6 Journal, 1930-2
Box 19
19 | 1 Photographs
Box 20
20 | 1 Photographs and Album Copies
20 | 2 Tilghman Photographs
20 | 3 Photograph Negatives
20 | 4 Photograph of Tilghman Co. Plant Salisbury, MD, 1967-8
20 | 5 Photograph of William B. Tilghman, Jr., 1912
20 | 6 Photograph of Tilghman Co. Plant Salisbury, MD circa 1935
20 | 7 Photographs
20 | 8 Photographs
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