Pedersen's Furniture Company records
Scope and Contents
Business records of Pedersen's Furniture Company, photos of the 1906 earthquake in Santa Rosa; and several issues of the Santa Rosa High School Newsletter, 1907-1917.
Dates
- Creation: 1903-2017
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is partially processed. Please contact the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library for access; for contact info and current hours, see link
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is partially processed. Please contact the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library for access; for contact info and current hours, see link
Conditions Governing Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
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Biographical / Historical
J.C. Pedersen, a Danish immigrant and cabinet maker, opened the doors of to the Pedersen family's first furniture store at the corner of Fourth and A Streets in Santa Rosa, California in 1892. Since that time, four generations of the Pedersen family owned and operated the Pedersen Furniture Company. As brothers and co-owners Ken and Paul Pedersen faced retirement and with no other family members interested in continuing to operate the business, they decided to close the store in 2019.
Extent
7 linear feet (3 record storage boxes, 13 oversized scrapbooks)
Abstract
This collection contains the business records of Pedersen's Furniture Company, which was known as Santa Rosa's oldest family-owned store until its closure in 2019. The collection includes family photographs, advertisements, ledgers and ephemera documenting the history of the company. It was founded in 1892 by Jens Christian Pedersen, a Danish immigrant and cabinet maker. The collection also includes photos of the 1906 earthquake and several issues of the Santa Rosa High School Newsletter.
Arrangement of the collection
Organized provisonally into four series:
- Photographs
- Newspaper advertisements and photos
- Cash ledgers
- Advertising tear sheet books
Series 1-2 in Boxes 1-2; series 3-4 in Box 3. The 13 advertising tear sheet books (series 4) are oversized
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift: Paul J. Pedersen and Kenneth J. Pedersen, Apr. 1, 2019
- Title
- Pedersen's Furniture Company records, 1903-2017
- Author
- Processed by Sonoma County Library staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Geoffrey Skinner.
- Date
- Published Dec. 20, 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library Repository
725 Third Street
Santa Rosa CA 95404 United States
(707) 308-3212
history@sonomalibrary.org