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Directory of Corporate Archives
in the United States and Canada
 

Complete Entries Arranged Alphabetically
by Name of Corporation, N-O

Nalco Chemical Company
One Nalco Center
Naperville, IL 60563

Contact:  Ann Franczyk, Staff Assistant
Telephone:  708-305-1434
Fax:  708-305-2900
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Chemical manufacturing
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:00am-12:15pm

Conditions of Access:  Not open to the public. Requests for information should be submitted in writing to the corporate history and archives department.

Holdings:  1922-present
Total Volume:  250 cubic feet

Description: Photographs, annual reports, product literature, catalogs, salesmen's manuals, forms, employee handbooks, engineering diagrams and flow charts, advertisements, news releases, company newspaper, employee letters, organization charts, artifacts, correspondence, speeches, early payroll records and general ledgers, oral histories.

National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
1201 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.nahb.org

Contact:  Nancy Hunn, Director, Information Resources and Services ,National Housing Resource Center
Telephone:  202-266-8225
Fax:  202-266-8271
E-Mail: 
nhunn@nahb.org
Type of Business:  Trade association representing building industry.
Hours of Service:  9:00am - 5:30pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. Outside requests for information subject to approval by NAHB.

Total Volume:  380 linear feet

Description:  Holdings are comprised of reports, clippings, correspondence and biographies for NAHB executive officers. Also included in the collection are operating records for the association as well as articles, memorabilia and conference materials for state -level NAHB members.

Updated August 18, 2003

National Association of Realtors
430 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-4087

Contact:  Marilyn Heneghan, Archivist
Telephone:  312-329-8605
Fax:  312-329-5960
E-Mail:  MEL910@aol.com
Type of Business:  Trade association
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:00am-5:00pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. For staff use only.

Holdings:  1908-present
Total Volume:

National Cattleman's Beef Association
444 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Contact:  William D. Siarny, Jr., Information Center Director
Telephone:  312-467-5520, ex272
Fax:  312-467-9729
E-Mail:  siarny@meatboard.org
Type of Business:  Trade association
Hours of Service: M-F 8:30am-4:00pm, by appointment only

Conditions of Access:  Qualified researchers only

Holdings:  1922-present
Total Volume:  1600 cubic feet

Description: American Meat Science Association, meat science, meat industry.

National Education Association
1201 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Contact:  Olivia Aguilar Gattis, Archivist
Telephone:  703-451-9537
Fax:  703-644-3505
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Trade association
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access: Restricted. Outside requests for information subject to approval of archivist, executive office, or media relations department.

Holdings:
Total Volume:

National Hockey League Productions
183 Oak Tree Rd.
Tappan, NY 10983

Contact:  Mott Linn
Telephone:  914-365-6701, ex. 203
Fax:  914-365-6010
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Entertainment
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:  Restricted.

Holdings:  Early 20th century-present; bulk dates 1987-present
Total Volume:

Description: Moving image collection, mostly on Beta SP video tape, about ice hockey, mostly NHL games.

National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Contact:  Robert Robinson, Senior Librarian
Telephone:  202-414-2355
Fax:  202-414-3056
E-Mail:  rrobinson@npr.org
Type of Business:  Media/broadcasting
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:00am-7:00pm

Conditions of Access:  Appointment required.

Holdings:  1971-present
Total Volume:  80,000 audio tapes

Description: Sound archives of NPR produced and distributed programming. 1971-present. All programming is cataloged.

Nationwide Insurance
History and Archives Center
1-01-05
One Nationwide Plaza
Columbus, OH 43215-2220

Contact: Steve Hausfeld
Telephone: 614-249-0589
Fax: 614-249-2218
E-Mail: hausfes@nationwide.com
Type of Business: Insurance, Financial Services
Hours of Service: M-F 8:00am - 4:00 pm

Conditions of Access: Restricted

Holdings: ca 1900-present
Total Volume: Approx. 800 linear feet

Description: Company records and publications, marketing, advertising and corporate communications; personal papers of cooperative movement pioneer, Murray Lincoln; photographic records  

Updated December, 2006

Navistar International Transportation Corp.
29642 School House Road
Mokena, IL 60448-1700

Contact:  Greg Lennes, Secretary and Records Manager
Telephone:  312-836-2149
Fax:  312-836-2192
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Manufacturing, capital goods
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:30am-4:15pm

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:  1831-1950s; bulk dates, 1902-1950s
Total Volume:  2,000 linear feet

Description: The archives contains the business records of Navistar and its predecessor company, International Harvester Company, founded in 1902.

NBC News Archives
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Contact:  Michael Sosler, Director
Telephone: 212-664-3797
Fax:  212-703-8558
E-Mail:
Website:  nbcnewsarchives.com
Type of Business:  Newspaper and magazine publishing, broadcasting
Hours of Service:  M-F 9:00am-6:00pm. Other hours by appointment.

Conditions of Access:  Research, screening, duplication and royalty fees charged.

Holdings:  Mid-1930s-present; bulk dates, late 1950s-present
Total Volume:

Description: Stock shot and background material on every conceivable subject, historical and news events throughout the world, documentary and magazine show footage.

Updated July 25, 2002

NBC Universal
Archives & Collections
100 Universal City Plaza, Bldg. 2311-LL
Universal City, CA 91608

Contact: Jeff Pirtle, Manager, Archives & Collections
Telephone: (818) 777-9985
Fax: (818) 866-5120
E-Mail: jeff.pirtle@nbcuni.com
Type of Business: Media and Entertainment Hours of Service: M-F 8:00am-5:00pm Conditions of Access: Not open to external research


Holdings: 1912 - present
Total Volume: 10,000 cubic feet of print documentation and production artwork, 3,500 movie props, 3,000 pieces of wardrobe


Description: Collections include the significant production records, artwork, photography, props, and wardrobe of Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television productions. Historic company records about Universal City, Universal Studios Theme Parks, and NBC are also maintained.

Updated August 8, 2006

NBO Bancorp, Inc.
611 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226

Contact:  Susan E. Cherry, Vice President
Telephone:  313-225-3462
Fax:  313-225-2109
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Banking, financial services
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:00am-5:00pm

Conditions of Access:  With permission of the communications department

Holdings:
Total Volume:

Description: Newspaper clippings, oral histories, photographs, artifacts, financial records and personnel information. Many of the clippings are on microfilm.

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletics Association)
6201 College Boulevard
Overland Park, KS 66211

Contact:  Ellen L. Summers
Telephone:  913-339-1906
Fax:  913-339-0045
E-Mail:  esummers@ncaa.org
Type of Business:  Trade association for intercollegiate athletics
Hours of Service:  M-F 8:30am-5:00pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. By appointment only and requests for use of manuscript collections are subject to review by librarian and Public Affairs Department.

Holdings:  1906-present
Total Volume:

Description: Holdings consist of the papers of the two past Executive Directors, photographs from the association newspapers, NCAA championship programs, press guides and results, as well as convention proceedings dating back to 1906.

Nevada Bell Telephone Company
See:  SBC Communications Inc.

New England Life Insurance Company (New England Financial)
501 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02117

Contact: Phyllis E. Steele, Archivist
Telephone: 617-578-4312
Fax: 617-578-5523
E-Mail: psteele@NEFN.com
Type of Business: Insurance and investment services
Hours of Service: M-Th 9:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Conditions of Access: Company associates: Open in accordance with corporate policy on the confidentiality of information. General public: Written application to archivist stating nature of research project; access conditional upon approval by the archivist and the vice president of public relations.

Holdings: 1843-present; bulk dates, 1843-1999
Total Volume: 1,800 linear feet

Description: Records of the New England Life Insurance Company, and its predecessor company, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Records include: Annual reports and annual statements; Board of Directors’ minutes and files; correspondence and administrative files of company officers; marketing and advertising files; product information files; personnel directories; company publications (books, pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, manuals); research and planning reports; 19th century insurance applications, policies, policy registers, and policy ledgers from 1843-1890; 19th and early 20th century policy dividend, loan and valuation records; 19th and early 20th century financial records, including ledgers of accounts, cash books, and stock and bond registers; files about company agencies; departmental and subsidiary information files; scrapbooks; photographs and other audio-visual media; and company artifacts.

New York Life Insurance Company*
51 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
www.newyorklife.com

Contact:  Archival Services Department, The History Factory
14140 Parke Long Court
Chantilly, VA 20151-1649
www.historyfactory.com
Telephone:  703.631.0500
Fax:  703.631.1124
E-Mail:  nylic@historyfactory.com
Type of Business:  Life Insurance and Annuities; Financial Services
Hours of Service:  9:00am - 5:30pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. Outside requests for information subject to approval by the New York Life Insurance Company.

Holdings:  1837-present
Total Volume:  2,193 linear feet

Description:  Holdings of the New York Life Insurance Company Archives document the Home Office and Field operations of the company, its antecedents, and subsidiaries. The collection is comprised of various material including, but not limited to: clippings and articles; artifacts and memorabilia; reports; advertisements; biographical files of presidents and executive officers; press releases; manuals and other training materials; sales aids; policies and policy forms; newsletters and bulletins; correspondence and memoranda; annual reports; subject files; directories; minutes; speeches; and photographs.

Updated August 18, 2003

New York State Nurses Association
The foundation of the New York State Nurses Association
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History
2113 Western Avenue
Guilderland, NY  12084
http://www.foundationnysnurses.org

Contact:  Amalia K. Gossen, Archivist
Telephone:  518-456-7858 x24
Fax:  518-452-3760
E-Mail:  agossen@foundationnysnurses.org
Type of Business:  Trade association
Hours of Service:  By appointment only.

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. Some records require approval of executive director.

Holdings:  1901-present
Total Volume:  800 linear feet

Description: Records document the work of the oldest and largest state membership organization of registered nurses. Included are voting body, board and committee records; publications and memorabilia; administrative and programmatic records; photographs and other audio visual materials. Program records pertain to the legislative, educational, nursing practice, and collective bargaining components of association activities.

New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
11 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005

Contact:  Janet Linde, Archivist
Telephone:  212-656-2442
Fax:  212-656-5629
E-Mail: jlinde@nyse.com
Type of Business:  Securities exchange
Hours of Service:  M-F 9:00am-5:00pm, by appointment only

Conditions of Access:  Reference requests must be submitted by letter or e-mail.

Holdings:  1792-present; bulk dates, 1817-present
Total Volume:  3,500 cubic feet

Description: Administrative records of the New York Stock Exchange and its affiliates, information on listed companies, members and member firms, records of stock sale prices, NYSE publications, books on the history of the stock market, photographs, films, videotapes and artifacts.

Updated December 27, 2005

New York Times Company
New York Times Archives
122 E. 42nd St., 14th Fl.
New York, NY 10168-0002

Contact:  Charles St. Vil
Telephone:  212-499-3581
Fax:  212-499-3382
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Newspaper and magazine publishing, broadcasting
Hours of Service: M-F 9:00am-5:00pm, by appointment only

Conditions of Access:  Authorization may be required. Some files are restricted.

Holdings:  1851-present; bulk dates, 1920s-1970s
Total Volume:  500 cubic feet

Description: Financial, legal, and historical records of the New York Times Company and newspaper; personal and business papers of the publishers, other major executives, editors, writers; correspondence with business associates, persons in the news and readers; maps; blueprints, diagrams, photos, awards, memorabilia; a few films, video and audio tapes.

Norfolk Southern Corporation
185 Spring Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30303

Contact:  Roger D. Powers
Telephone:  404-529-2326
Fax:
E-Mail:
Type of Business:
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:
Total Volume:

North Shore-LIJ Health System
David S. Taylor Archives
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021

Contact:  Daniel Sokolow, Corporate Archivist
Telephone:  516-465-8109
Fax:  516-465-8086
E-Mail:  dsokolow@nshs.edu
Type of Business:  Health Care
Hours of Service:  8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST), M-Th

Conditions of Access:  The Archives can be contacted in writing, by telephone or e-mail, or in person.  Interested scholars may conduct research at the Archives through prior arrangement with the Corporate Archivist.  Access is subject to approval of the Corporate Archivist.

Holdings:  1920s-present
Total Volume: Approximately 1000 linear feet

Description:  Collection consists of:  Materials related to the founding, development, and operations of the 15-hospital Health System and its constituent members.  The collections help trace the development of health care on Long Island and the New York metropolitan area, as well as the development of Long Island's suburban communities.  The collections include hospital board minutes; medical board materials; photographs; video; advertising and promotional materials; oral histories; scrapbooks; news clippings.

Updated August 12, 2006

Northwest Airlines*
2700 Lone Oak Parkway A4285
Eagan, MN 55121

Contact:  Kyle F. Hjelmstad, Administrator-Corp. Records
Telephone:  612-727-7348
Fax:  612-726-4721
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Airline
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:
Total Volume:

Northwestern Mutual
720 East Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
www.northwesternmutual.com

Contact: Stephanie Williams
Telephone: 414-665-4839
Fax: 414-665-2463
E-mail: stephanieawilliams@northwesternmutual.com
Type of Business:  Insurance and insurance-related services
Hours of Business:

  Conditions of Access: Outside requests subject to approval by Northwestern Mutual

  Holdings: 1857-present
Total Volume: 620 cubic feet

Description: Historical and business records of Northwestern Mutual (formerly Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company).  The collections include annual reports, annual statements, advertising materials, marketing materials, publications (history books, periodicals, pamphlets, bulletins, etc.), policy forms, biographical files, board of trustees minutes, speeches, news clippings, photographs, audio-visual materials and artifacts.  The holdings also contain materials on the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a great lakes ship owned by the company, which sank off the coast of Whitefish Bay, Michigan in November 1975.

Updated August 21, 2001

NSP (Northern States Power)*
414 Nicollet Mall
Systems Operations
Minneapolis, MN 55401-1993

Contact:  Elizabeth Nordlin
Telephone:  612-330-5500
Fax:
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Utilities
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:
Total Volume:

John Nuveen & Co., Inc.
333 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606

Contact:  Melinda Kwedar
Telephone:  312-917-8352
Fax:  312-917-8304
E-Mail:  kwedarm@nuveen.com
Type of Business:  Financial/Municipal Bonds and Bond Funds
Hours of Service:  T-Th 9:30am-4:30pm

Conditions of Access:  Outside requests subject to approval

Holdings:  1898-present
Total Volume:  200 cubic feet now; anticipating 3,600

Description: Opening was in April 1996, and present holdings consist of 1948-1971 legal files; 1898-1969 financial records; papers of the recently retired CEO and CFO; photographs; marketing literature and other company publications. Records with permanent designations from all departments, currently in records storage, are marked for possible acquisition.

NYNEX Corporation
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Contact:  Kerry G. McDonald
Telephone:  212-395-2121
Fax:
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Communications
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:
Total Volume:

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
One Ocean Spray Drive
Lakeville-Middleboro, MA 02349

Contact:  Christine Hormell, CRM, Corporate Records and Archives Manager
Telephone:  508-946-1000
Fax:  508-946-7704
E-Mail:
Type of Business:  Agriculture
Hours of Service:  M-F 9:00am-5:00pm

Conditions of Access:  For business use and restricted internally by collection

Holdings:  1900-present; bulk dates, 1930-present
Total Volume:  700 linear feet

Description: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is an agricultural marketing cooperative responsible for developing and marketing products derived from the crops grown by our grower-owners. Collections include print advertisements, packaging samples, film and commercial reels, publications, minutes of board meetings, financial statements and annual reports, legal, marketing and consumer correspondence, research and development documents, organizational charts and photographs.

Ontario Medical Association
Toronto, ON
Canada

Contact:  Kim Cooke, Manager, Corporate Information
Telephone:
Fax:
E-Mail:  kim_cooke@oma.org
Type of Business:
Hours of Service:

Conditions of Access:

Holdings:
Total Volume:

Owens Corning, Inc.
1 Owens Corning Pkwy.
Toledo, OH 43659 
www.owenscorning.com

Contact:  Eugenia Brumm, Records Administration
Telephone:  419-248-8000
Fax:  419-248-5337
E-Mail: 
eugenia.brumm@owenscorning.com
Type of Business:  Fiberglass and composite materials manufacturer
Hours of Service:  9:00am-5:30 pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. Outside requests for information subject to approval by Owens Corning.

Holdings:  1918-1990s
Total Volume:  120 linear feet

Description:  Holdings include executive papers, HR, advertising records, plant/facility records, publications, scrapbooks, printed material (brochures, booklets, etc.) audiovisual material including a large collection of film and video.

Updated August 18, 2003

Owens-Illinois, Inc.*
1 SeaGate
Toledo, OH 43666 

www.o-i.com

Contact:  Archival Services Department, The History Factory
14140 Parke Long Court, Chantilly, VA 20151-1649
www.historyfactory.com
Telephone:  703.631.0500
Fax:  703.631.1124
E-Mail:  owens_ill@historyfactory.com
Type of Business:  Glass and plastics manufacturer
Hours of Service:  9:00am - 5:30pm

Conditions of Access:  Restricted. Outside requests for information subject to approval by Owens-Illinois.

Holdings:  c. 1890-present
Total Volume:  290 linear feet

Description:  Holdings of the Owens-Illinois Archives are comprised of annual reports, bound product advertisements, corporate films, glass bottle product samples, facility and product photography, memorabilia, corporate historical files, product brochures, and assorted corporate newsletters and publications.

Updated August 18, 2003

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