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Manuscript Group 1041, Charles H. Pell (1853-1906), Lawyer
Papers, 1853 - 1906, 2 linear feet
Call Number: MG 1041
Chiefly business correspondence and legal papers of Charles H. Pell, a patent lawyer with the Newark firm of Drake and Company. Included are:
1. Papers relating to litigation between Hannibal Goodwin and Eastman Kodak Company over the invention of flexible celluloid photographic film. Among these papers are Goodwin's descriptions of his inventions, patents, and records concerning the litigation.
2. Papers of Charles H. Pell regarding the development of Branch Brook Park in Essex County, 1886-98.
3. Papers read by Pell at meetings of the Matrimonic Circle in Newark.
4. Lobbying correspondence of Ethelwyn A. Pell on behalf of the College Women's Club of Essex County, 1906-1907.
5. Business correspondence of Drake and Company, 1890-1910.
6. High school and normal school composition books of Ida E. Drake, 1879.
7. Estate papers of Oliver Drake, 1896-1910.
8. George C Vogel's Jersey City District...Survey,1923 - an illustrated account of Methodist churches and missions in the Jersey City area.
Pell represented Rev. Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900), Rector of The (Episcopal) House of Prayer, in litigation with the Eastman Kodak Company. Goodwin's chemical experimentation had culminated in 1887 in the invention of flexible, celluloid photographic film. He applied for the patent in that year, but it was not granted until 1893. Meanwhile, Henry M. Reichenbach, an Eastman Kodak chemist, filed successfully for a patent on a similar film. Goodwin's heirs brought suit through Charles H. Pell in 1902. The suit was successful, and, after years of litigation, the primacy of Goodwin's patent received posthumous recognition in 1914.
Gift of Mrs. Harold Deming Clark, Jr., Mrs. James A. Lyons, Jr., and Pell Hollingshead, 1958.
Manuscript Group 1073, The House of Prayer Episcopal Church Records
| Box | Folder | Title | Dates |
| Charles H. Pell | |||
| 1 | 1 | Papers Pertaining to the Development of Branch Brook Park | 1880-1890 |
| 1 | 2 | Papers Pertaining to the Development of Branch Brook Park | 1880-1890 |
| 1 | 3 | Genealogy of Henry Alward | 1820-1942 |
| 1 | 4 | Letters Regarding the Removal of Billboards from Orange Street, Newark | 1906-1907 |
| 1 | 5 | North Third Street Property Papers | 1887 |
| 1 | 6 | Property Boundary Dispute with Morris and Essex Railroad | June - August 1891 |
| 1 | 7 | Papers Read at Meeting of Matrimonic Circle | 1890 |
| 1 | 8 | Estate Papers | 1906-1914 |
| 1 | 9 | Bills Due, Estate of Charles H. Pell | 1906 |
| 1 | 10 | Receipts | 1914-1920 |
| 1 | 11 | Ethelwyn A. Pell. College Women's Club of Essex County | 1907-1908 |
| 1 | 12 | Papers Written By Eliza Ward Pell | n. d. |
| 1 | 13 | Business correspondence | 1896-1898 |
| 1 | 14 | Business correspondence | 1899 |
| 1 | 15 | Business correspondence | 1900-1903 |
| 2 | 1 | Business correspondence | 1904-1908 |
| 2 | 2 | Miscellaneous | 1892-1959 |
| 2 | 3 | Miscellaneous | n. d. |
| Oliver Drake | |||
| 2 | 4 | Drake and Company Business Correspondence | 1906-1908 |
| 2 | 5 | Drake-Cowell Suit | 1890 |
| 2 | 6 | Drake and Company Papers | 1892-1910 |
| 2 | 7 | Incorporation of Drake and Company and First Stockholders Meeting | 1906 |
| 2 | 8 | Drake and Company Correspondence with A.A.H. | 1895 |
| 2 | 9 | Drake and Company Accounts | 1891 |
| 2 | 10 | Printed Business and Calling Cards | ca. 1890 |
| 2 | 11 | Supreme Court of New Jersey, Drake-Cromwell Litigation | 1877 |
| 2 | 12 | Estimates, Specifications and Contracts for Two Fairmont Avenue Houses | 1888 |
| 2 | 13 | Receipts | 1888-1894 |
| 2 | 14 | Correspondence | 1888-1894 |
| 2 | 15 | Estate and Inventory Appraisal Papers | 1896 |
| 3 | 1 | Bank Book | 1892 |
| 3 | 2 | Estate Papers | 1871-1896 |
| 3 | 3 | Estate Papers | 1896-1906 |
| 3 | 4 | Estate Papers | 1909-1910 |
| 3 | 5 | Legal/Estate Papers | 1879 |
| 3 | 6 | National Saw Company | 1898 |
| 3 | 7 | Transparent Film Cartridge Box | 1908 |
| 3 | 8 | Patent Law | ca. 1891-1910 |
| 3 | 9 | Cauera Work | 1904 |
| 3 | 10 | Ida Drake High School Notebook | 1876 |
| 3 | 11 | Ida Drake High School Graduation | 1878 |
| Hannibal Goodwin | |||
| 3 | 12 | Reichenbach-Goodwin Patent Suit | 1889-1892 |
| 3 | 13 | Reichenbach-Goodwin patent Suit | 1889-1892 |
| 3 | 14 | Letters pertinent to Patent | 1893 |
| 3 | 15 | Patent Applications | 1893 |
| 3 | 16 | Correspondence | 1892-1893 |
| 3 | 17 | Sunday Call Newspaper Interview on Granting of Patent for Flexible Film | n. d. |
| 3 | 18 | Eastman-Goodwin Suit | 1889 |
| 4 | 1 | Description of Invention for Flexible Photographic Film | 1891 |
| 4 | 2 | Early Patents for Photographic Film | 1859-1896 |
| 4 | 3 | Patent Applications for Flexible Film | 1887-1889 |
| 4 | 4 | Description of Chemical Engraving for Metal Plates | 1892 |
| 4 | 5 | Photograph of Goodwin Memorial Plaque | 1914 |
| 4 | 6 | Notes at Time of Appeal | 1898 |
| 4 | 7 | Statement | ca. 1890 |
| 4 | 8 | Hales Camera Photograph | ca. 1895 |
| 4 | 9 | George G. Vogel, District Superintendent for Methodist Missions. Jersey District Survey | 1923 |
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