Companies, products, documents, workplaces and trusts belong to one history.
Start with the name or detail you remember. These collections connect corporate history, historical products and trade names, original records, work settings and bankruptcy-trust research without collapsing those different kinds of evidence into one category.
Not sure where to begin? Start with what you remember →
Five developed historical collections
Johns-Manville
Products, manufacturing, historical records and the Manville trust research path.
Owens-Illinois / Owens Corning · Kaylo
Kaylo product history, corporate timeline, manufacturing, packaging, workplaces, court records and original documents.
Pittsburgh Corning · Unibestos
Unibestos products, manufacturing, Navy and industrial work history, packaging and historical records.
Armstrong World Industries
Corporate timeline, insulation and flooring product histories, contracting history and original historical documents.
Eagle-Picher
Company history, insulating cements, product schedules, manufacturing, workplaces, work processes and original records.
Go directly to original historical documents
These documentary indexes provide a direct route to the underlying historical record without requiring a visitor to move through bankruptcy-trust research first.
Johns-Manville documents
Selected historical product and fabrication records.
Kaylo / Owens documents
Original-document research associated with the Kaylo historical collection.
Unibestos / Pittsburgh Corning records
Historical records associated with the Unibestos collection.
Armstrong documents
Original historical records underlying the Armstrong collection.
Eagle-Picher documents
Original records underlying the Eagle-Picher historical collection.
Follow the kind of memory you have
Manufacturers & suppliers
Resolve company identities, aliases and trust relationships.
Products & trade names
Use remembered product names as research leads.
Source documents
Explore public records and source families beneath the research.
Workplaces
Start with a remembered New York workplace or location.
Bankruptcy Trust Research Center
Move from historical company identity to current governing trust materials and claim research.
The architecture underneath the collection
Company → corporate history → products and trade names → original documents → workplaces and work processes → bankruptcy history → trust → governing claim resources.
Not every source proves every link. The purpose of the architecture is to make the relationships visible while preserving the distinction between historical context, documentary evidence and an individual exposure evaluation.