Herbert Huse 9 BIGELOW


16315.2371          Herbert Huse 9 Bigelow, son of  Andrew Steele 8 ( Zelotes jr. 7, Zelotes 6,Daniel 5 , David 4, Lt. John 3, Joshua 2, John 1) BIGELOW and Celestia P. (HUSE) BIGELOW, was born at Brookfield, Orange co., VT on 18 May 1870.  He married (1) 1894 Nina Penny and (2) 1899 Mrs. Frances Gillette.  Herbert Huse Bigelow died at Bass Lake, MN 16 Sep 1934.  No death information on his marriages and neither marriage produced children. From web site on Herbert H. Bigelow by Don Bigelow:
Herbert H. Bigelow
          Founder of Brown & Bigelow

16315.2371          Herbert Huse 9 Bigelow, son of  Andrew Steele 8 ( Zelotes jr. 7, Zelotes 6,Daniel 5 , David 4, Lt. John 3, Joshua 2, John 1) BIGELOW and Celestia P. (HUSE) BIGELOW, was born 18 May 1870 in Brookfield, Orange County, Vermont, The oldest of three children, he was to lose his father while only four years of age. Some years later the family moved to Iowa. Herbert received his early education in Vermont and Iowa schools. He worked his way through Grinnell College in Iowa by selling, during vacations, the book "In Darkest Africa" by Henry Stanley, "Review of Review" magazine, and calendars for a company based in Red Oak, Iowa.
The year 1894 saw Bigelow married to Nina Penny of Fullerton, Nebraska, where Herbert briefly had an interest in a lumber yard. They went on a honeymoon to the Black Hill, but Bigelow prudently stocked up on calendars along the way.

He continued in this business until he met a St. Paul printer named Hiram Brown. The two men shortly came to a business agreement, and organized as Brown and Bigelow, with Brown investing $3000 and Bigelow investing $1500. Brown was never active in the business, and died in 1905. Bigelow's wife Nina having died in 1897, he then married Mrs. Frances Gillette, a widow, and her son Leon was adopted by Bigelow.

Brown and Bigelow expanded rapidly, constantly seeking larger quarters, until by 1904 it employed over 400 persons. It was shortly after this that Bigelow purchased Quality Park, and erected its modern building.

Other than purchasing a large farm, Bigelow continued to live abstemiously, plowing all the company profits back into the business. In its early days Brown and Bigelow was a model facility with large areas of glass and light, landscaped grounds and recreational facilities (both indoors and out) for its employees. It is said that Bigelow was a very paternalistic employer and admired Elbert Hubbard (the business man's philosopher), and wished to accomplish what Hubbard had done in his New York plant.

Herbert Bigelow was absolutely opposed to the unionization of any industry, for in his business there was no need of a union to protect the working-man's rights. He was equally outspoken on the subject of income tax. As early as 1905 Bigelow inveighed against taxes on either income or earnings. He considered such taxes an immoral penalty on initiative. Instead, he proposed a tax on what he considered unearned increments, that is, taxes on the property of landholders who merely sit back waiting for development to increase the value of their holdings.

Inevitably, Herbert Bigelow met head-on with the U.S. government, which was having difficulty enforcing its 1913 income tax law. The law W2S being widely ignored, and in the post Teapot Dome era, in the early 1920,s, the federal government chose to prosecute a few selected businessmen from each geographic area. One of these was Herbert Bigelow, who expected to be fined, but instead was sentenced to three years in prison. He served the minimum eight months at Leavenworth penitentiary, and it is typical of the man that while he was in prison he spent his time and money ameliorating the lot of his fellow-prisoners and their families. In particular, he became interested in one Charles Ward.

For many years after Bigelow's release from Leavenworth, the company followed the policy of employing ex-convicts whom they considered worth rehabilitating. Among these was Charles Ward who rose. first to general manager, and eventually company president after Bigelow's death.

Early in 1934 Bigelow's adopted son Leon died. In August of the same year Herbert's wife Frances died after a long illness, and a month later Bigelow himself died by accidental drowning in Bass Lake, Minnesota. (Note Newspaper accounts of Herberts death put his death in 1933)

He left an estate of three million dollars. One third went to his sister Helen (Mrs. Robert Porter Galloway) whose husband had joined Brown and Bigelow, coming from National Cash Register Company. One third, plus the farm, went to Charles Ward. The remaining third was divided between Leon Bigelow and Leon's son Herbert Bigelow II. (The latter died at age 40 in a car accident ) There were numerous other bequests, both large and small, to employees and relatives, including Herbert's sister Gertrude, who never married. Sole family survivor at present is Helen's son Herbert Galloway, a plastics manufacturer.

Material for this article was contributed by a ranking company member who volunteered that these facts could be checked in any large public library and that he himself is undertaking a definitive study of the life of Herbert H. Bigelow. Our thanks to him for details on the life of an enigmatic and purposeful man.

The above information was current in 1974

from the South Bend Trib 9-21-1933
   BIGELOW'S BODY FOUND IN LAKE
                                                            Woman Also Dead in Canoe Trip in Minnesota.

Herbert H. Bigelow Chairman of the board of the Bigelow Press here and St. Paul, Minn., capitalist, evidently drowned in a northern Minnesota lake after a bitter struggle, according to searchers who recovered his body.

The bodies of Mr. Bigelow, aged 63, and Mrs. Ralph Mather, 39, also of St. Paul, were recovered late Wednesday from
Basswood lake, 20 miles north of Ely, Minn. Search was continued for Howard Schaeffer, woodsman guide of Ely.

The trio drowned last Saturday when their canoe, lashed by high wind and waves, overturned while they were returning from a fishing trip into Canada. Mrs. Mather's husband, returning in another canoe, escaped uninjured.

The body of Mr. Bigelow was found about 500 feet from Chicago island, near the spot where the overturned canoe of the party had been found. The news was flashed to Ely from a radio equipped launch aiding in the search. Basswood lake is in international body of water between the United States and Canada.

The searchers who found the bodies said it appeared that Mr. Bigelow fought against drowning for sometime, inasmuch as he had removed part of the heavy clothing which he wore. The clothing probably was removed after the canoe capsized and while he clung to its side.

The bodies were to be taken to St. Paul today.
 
 

                                            Second Article From the South Bend N. T. 9-22-1933
                                                     BIGELOW RITES TO BE SATURDAY
                                        C. J. Jackson, President of Local Branch, to Attend Funeral.

 Claude J. Jackson, president of Bigelow Press, Inc., of South Bend, will leave for St. Paul, Minn., Friday night to attend the funeral Saturday afternoon of Herbert H. Bigelow, chairman of the board of the printing company, who lost his life last Saturday while fishing on Basswood lake near Ely, Minn.

The funeral service will be held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday from the home of R. P. Galloway, treasurer of the Brown & Bigelow Co., of St. Paul.

Mr. Bigelow and two companions were in the fishing boat when it capsized on the lake during a storm' last Saturday. His companions who perished with him were Mrs. Ralph Mather, socially prominent of St. Paul, and Howard Schaeffer, a guide from Ely, Minn.

The bodies of Mr. Bigelow and Mrs. Mather were recovered from the lake on Wednesday but according to reports received by Mr. Jackson from St. Paul, Friday morning, the body of Schaeffer has not yet been found.

Mr. Bigelow went north for a rest and a vacation two weeks ago accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Mather. Mr. Mather was in another boat when the mishap overtook the Bigelow boat.

Mr. Bigelow was a St. Paul millionaire who held extensive investments in the printing business both in St. Paul and South Bend. He became interested in the printing business here three years ago and was a frequent visitor in this city.

                         FROM ARTICLE IN "Brown and Bigelow Remembrance Advertising", St. Paul, MN:
  Edmond B. Osborne and Norman d. Murphy were college chums in the 1880's.  Partners after graduation, operating a weekly paper at Red Oak, IA, the young men wanted to run a picture in their publicastion of a projected new court house.  Unable to pay for a "woodant" since this would use up the entire week's revenue from their paper, Osborne hit on an idea.  He outlined to his partner a plan for printing a wall calendar, surrounding it with advertising of local merchants.  About twenty-five businessmen went for the idea and the young advertising calendar pioneers netted $300.00 on the deal. They put out 1,000 calendars. Sensing the future in this field, Murphy and Osborne went on to form companies in Red oak, IA and Clifton, NJ, before splitting up to establish their separate firms.
     The man who was to found the largest calendar firm in the World today was their first salesman.  He was Herbert Huse Bigelow, who teamed up with a printer in 1896 to start Brown and Bigelow in St. Paul, MN.  In the first year of operation the firm had a total business of $13,000.
     Bigelow pumped life into the partnership through emphasis on quality and after three years, enlarged quarters were necessary.
     These six paragraphs are from an article on Vintage Calendars, Narrative and Illustrated provided through courtesy of Brown and Bigelow of St. Paul, MN.  This article was in the summer 1967 issue of Relics First Edition of Relics, Vol. I, No. I published by Western Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 3668, Austin Texas 78704.  Article originally sent by Ed and Pat Bigelow to Society and added to Bigelow data 08 June 1998.

Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol II, pg 503;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Brookfield vital records;
correspondence with descendants of Zelotes Bigelow, Jr.
historian/genealogist records [prior to 1995].no children. 
New Note2:
Name: Jim Gardner
E-Mail: jpgmn@earthlink.net
Date: 2004-03-18
Dear Mr. Bigelow:
I recently looked up Herbert Bigelow on Google while performing some genealogical research
I am not sure of the veracity of some of my facts but you may find my side of the story interesting
According to my mother, Roberta Bigelow Galloway Gardner(1908-1972), also present on the fatal fishing trip was Charles Ward.  He returned, Herbert didn’t.  You also did not mention what Charlie Ward was at Leavenworth for.  I believe it was a crime far more heinous than tax evasion.  Any way, those who are descended from the Galloways have always been somewhat suspicious of the circumstances of Herbert’s death, given the terms of who inherited what.
Additionally, my Grandfather, Robert P. Galloway,  was Treasurer of Brown & Bigelow at the time of Herbert’s death.  As I understand it, he was gradually “eased out of this position by the now 1/3 owner and CEO of the company and lost his board position as well.  During this same period, my uncle, Herbert R. Galloway also worked at Brown and Bigelow and being groomed to take over, however, after Herbert’s death, he also found it impossible to stay there and quit.
Herbert Bigelow, also hired a man by the name of Harry Huse to work at B&B.  Harry also became unemployed around that same time
Just for the sake of accuracy, Herbert’s unmarried sister was named Geneva, not Gertude.  I am also interested in the fact that you show my Grandmother as Sarah Ellen.  As far as I know, her name was Helen and that was what she was always called and her tombstone shows it as Helen Bigelow Galloway
I am most appreciative of the work you have done on what must be our joint relative. 
 I remember my grandmother always getting maple syrup from some relative in Vermont, but never knowing from whom or from where.
Thanks for your help and I hope my story was of interest.  Oh, yes,  Charlie Ward sent garish bouquets to Herbert’s mausoleum on the anniversary of his death every year.  My Grandmother had them removed as soon as they were placed.
I noticed that a post I had made in 1998 had an old email address.  The correct one should be jpgmn@earthlink.net
Also, if you would like to continue the genealogy of Andrew Steele’s line, I can help with the Minnesota branch.
Sincerely,
Jim Gardner

New Note 1:
Name: f harris
E-Mail: <  olibiam@yahoo.com >
Date: 2004-04-05

Dear Sir,
I purchased a set of book ends at a moving sale a few years ago.  They are covered with leather and pictures of a horseshoe creat on the top and a horse on the bottom.   
On the bottom of one of them reads: Brown & Bigelow, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55-379
One of them has a gold inscription on the front that reads: Charles A. Ward.
I was doing some research and found the following information regarding Charles Ward:(Inevitably, Herbert Bigelow met head-on with the U.S. government, which was having difficulty enforcing its 1913 income tax law. The law W2S being widely ignored, and in the post Teapot Dome era, in the early 1920,s, the federal government chose to prosecute a few selected businessmen from each geographic area. One of these was Herbert Bigelow, who expected to be fined, but instead was sentenced to three years in prison. He served the minimum eight months at Leavenworth penitentiary, and it is typical of the man that while he was in prison he spent his time and money ameliorating the lot of his fellow-prisoners and their families. In particular, he became interested in one Charles Ward.For many years after Bigelow's release from Leavenworth, the company followed the policy of employing ex-convicts whom they considered worth rehabilitating. Among these was Charles Ward who rose. first to general manager, and eventually company president after Bigelow's death.)I am trying to find out more information regarding Mr. Ward and possibly the value of the bookends.  They are in very good conditionCan you help. 
Please email me at olibiam@yahoo.com 

Forge, The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol 31; No 1; Jan 2002
see  http://bigelowsociety.com/ShoeBrush.html  for Don Bigelow article below:

From the Forge Volume 3, No. 2 page 25 comes the following information.

BROWN AND BIGELOW

Halfway between Minneapolis and St. Paul is a forty acre tract of land originally called Quality Park by its owner. It houses a three story building of brick, granite, and glass built in 1913, and is the home of Brown and Bigelow, the worlds largest company manufacturing advertising specialities.

Although founded as early as 1896 by a Vermont - born Bigelow, the company did not achieve world-wide fame until its
printing of a calendar featuring an unclothed movie starlet named Marilyn Monroe (who received $50 as a modeling fee from the photographer).

Millions of copies of that calendar were sold in a decade, but it was not Brown and Bigelow's first pin-up calendar. Their first art calendar was in 1913 and featured "Colette", a portrait painting by Angelo Asti. The craze for pin-up calendars has long passed, and a company spokesman, in a recent news interview, commented that scenic, and wildlife calendars are their best sellers.

Brown and Bigelow is not limited to calendar printing. They produce a full line of advertising specialities. For instance, Bigelow Society has a small  lady's purse-mirror imprinted by Brown and Bigelow, and Mrs. Robert Dibble (Faye Bigelow) of Grand Rapids, Michigan donated two plotters with 1935 calendars, also labeled Brown & Bigelow. We also note that the company holds U.S. and Canadian patents for a desk-memorandum device, among other things.

The company's founder and chief officer until his death in 1934 was Herbert 9 Huse Bigelow, a man of frugal tastes and hard-working habits who is said to have worn twenty-five dollar suits when he was three times a millionaire.
(see below) for another owner
He was born 18 May 1870 in Blooksfield, Orange county, Vermont, the son of Andrew Steele 8 ( Zelotes jr. 7 , Zelotes 6,Daniel 5 , David 4, Lt. John 3, Joshua 2, John1) BIGELOW and Celestia P. (HUSE) BIGELOW. The oldest of three children, he was to lose his father while only four years of age. Some years later the family moved to Iowa. Herbert received his early education in Vermont and Iowa schools. He worked his way through Grinnell College in Iowa by selling, during vacations, the book "In Darkest Africa" by Henry Stanley, "Review of Review" magazine, and calendars for a company based in Red Oak, Iowa.

The year 1894 saw Bigelow married to Nina Penny of Fullerton, Nebraska, where Herbert briefly had an interest in a lumber yard. They went on a honeymoon to the Black Hill, but Bigelow prudently stocked up on calendars along the way.

He continued in this business until he met a St. Paul printer named Hiram Brown. The two men shortly came to a business agreement, and organized as Brown and Bigelow, with Brown investing $3000 and Bigelow investing $1500. Brown was never active in the business, and died in 1905. Bigelow's wife Nina having died in 1897, he then married Mrs. Frances Gillette, a widow, and her son Leon was adopted by Bigelow.

Brown and Bigelow expanded rapidly, constantly seeking larger quarters, until by 1904 it employed over 400 persons. It was shortly after this that Bigelow purchased Quality Park, and erected its modern building.

Other than purchasing a large farm, Bigelow continued to live abstemiously, plowing all the company profits back into the business. In its early days Brown and Bigelow was a model facility with large areas of glass and light, landscaped grounds and recreational facilities (both indoors and out) for its employees. It is said that Bigelow was a very paternalistic employer and admired Elbert Hubbard (the business man's philosopher), and wished to accomplish what Hubbard had done in his New York plant.

Herbert Bigelow was absolutely opposed to the unionization of any industry, for in his business there was no need of a union to protect the working-man's rights. He was equally outspoken on the subject of income tax. As early as 1905 Bigelow inveighed against taxes on either income or earnings. He considered such taxes an immoral penalty on initiative. Instead, he proposed a tax on what he considered unearned increments, that is, taxes on the property of landholders who merely sit back waiting for development to increase the value of their holdings.

Inevitably, Herbert Bigelow met head-on with the U.S. government, which was having difficulty enforcing its 1913 income tax law. The law was being widely ignored, and in the post Teapot Dome era, in the early 1920,s, the federal government chose to prosecute a few selected businessmen from each geographic area. One of these was Herbert Bigelow, who expected to be fined, but instead was sentenced to three years in prison. He served the minimum eight months at Leavenworth penitentiary, and it is typical of the man that while he was in prison he spent his time and money ameliorating the lot of his fellow-prisoners and their families. In particular, he became interested in one Charles Ward.

For many years after Bigelow's release from Leavenworth, the company followed the policy of employing ex-convicts whom they considered worth rehabilitating. Among these was Charles Ward who rose. first to general manager, and eventually company president after Bigelow's death.

Early in 1934 Bigelow's adopted son Leon died. In August of the same year Herbert's wife Frances died after a long illness, and a month later Bigelow himself died by accidental drowning in Bass Lake, Minnesota.

He left an estate of three million dollars. One third went to his sister Helen (Mrs. Robert Porter Galloway) whose husband had joined Brown and Bigelow, coming from National Cash Register Company. One third, plus the farm, went to Charles Ward. The remaining third was divided between Leon Bigelow and Leon's son Herbert Bigelow II. (The latter died at age 40 in a car accident ) There were numerous other bequests, both large and small, to employees and relatives, including Herbert's sister Gertrude, who never married. Sole family survivor at present is Helen's son Herbert Galloway, a plastics manufacturer.

Ward's presidency of the company saw much increase of business volume because of the end of the great Depression; and the beginning of post-war prosperity. Little improvement, however, was made in the physical plant during Ward's lifetime, a period which saw great technological changes in the printing industry.

Shortly after Ward's death in 1959, Brown and Bigelow became part of a conglomerate, and today is a subsidiary of Saxon Industries. At its height, it has employed five thousand employees, and is at present undertaking long needed improvements, according to a company representative.

Material for this article was contributed by a ranking company member who volunteered that these facts could be checked in any large public library and that he himself is undertaking a definitive study of the life of Herbert H. Bigelow. Our thanks to him for details on the life of an enigmatic and purposeful man.

The above information was current in 1974 -- Have something to add please E-mail me, and I'll include everything in this section

Note:
Subject: Herbert H Bigelow
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:44:09 -0600
From: <  jholmgre@uswest.net  >
Hello, I am interested in getting a hold of the person from Brown and Bigelow who is interested in Herbert Bigelow's
life.  They (Ward and Bigelow) had a cabin on the same lake in Northern Minnesota as ours.  My mother, and uncle, and
many locals knew these two, and we have their old wooden cabin cruiser, the "Dodge Water Car".  I have collected a
lot of personal history on these two, as I am doing a history of reminiscences of the original settlers of Cook County, and in particular, Lake Caribou.  I would love to share information.  jholmgre@pop.mpls.uswest.net
Note2:
Subject: Co founder of Brown & Bigelow
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:55:19 -0700
From: Lynn Glocker Condley <   condley@pacbell.net   >
Dear Mr. Bigelow,
 I came across your web site and am curious to know if you know of all the founders of Brown & Bigelow. My great grandfather was George Linton Swift.  Co-founder of Brown & Bigelow.  He was listed as in charge of all manufacturing in 1908. His obituary reads in part....."He was one of the founders of the institution.  Mr. Swift was well known in manufacturing circle of the northwest."
 George L. Swift had a son named after Herbert Bigelow.  His name was Herbert Bigelow Swift. In turn Herbert B. Swift had a son Herbert B. Swift Jr.  Known as "Bud".  Bud Swift passed away June 10, 1999 at the age of 70.
 All of his children have passed on, but he does have 3 grandchildren still living, my Uncle Clarke Taube, who was born and raised in Mpls, MN.  He is 85 years of age and now resides in Tryon, North Carolina, (Clarke's sister Janet was my mother, she passed on March 22,1 998.).  Also there is Peggy Swift Smith and Marlyn Swift Landgren.  Peggy resides in Arizona and Lyn resides in California.  As do I.
 I would be happy to keep digging for information for you.
You can visit my web page at http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/GlockerCondley
or just go to the page that has a photo of George L. Swift: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/GlockerCondley/GeorgeLintonSwift.htm
I would love to be able to have our web sites linked together for further information.
 I look forward to hearing from you.
Lynn Glocker Condley
Other Notes for Brown and Bigelow:
Subject: Hello
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:22:55 -0500
From:  "Roger Gadient" <  ramjet@powernet.org  >
 A friend of mine was given a picture it is a print from Brown & Bigelow from St Paul Minn. Printed in the USA.  it is a 1929 print of a Parrot with a flower base with it. The print is called
"Rememberance" then it also says Marion, Mfg.Co.
 Can you give us any information on the print, it is in real good shape now fadding it has beautiful colors in it.     Thank you Jean
Note3:
Subject: Brown & Bigelow
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:27:26 EDT
From: Evan Goranson      Swchrch@aol.com
 Good Morning.  Yesterday at my local thrift store I purchased a beautiful framed display of 4 Brown & Bigelow prints..."Great American Documents"...including the preamble to the constitution; the Star Spangled Banner, The Gettysburg Address and The American's Creed.   I found your site while looking up Brown & Bigelow and have been interested to learn a little about the company.   Do you know when these were likely produced?  Is the company still extant?  Thanks for any direction you can give me.
Evan Goranson.
see
http://www.brownandbigelow.com/

Note:
Subject: history
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:18:13 -0500
From: "Bob Ricci" <    maxx0623@concentric.net>

I found one of the old catalogs -Kickapoo Indian Life and Scenes in Grandmas attic-a bit torn up -but legible-is the company still in some kind of business?
Robert V. Ricci
Systems Manager


Note:
Subject: Old times
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:16:46 -0700
From: David & Anne Sievers <   x7rranch@wic.net   >
I have been trying to place a piece of art dated 1916 and copyrighted by Brown & Bigelow and printed by them. Do you have any suggestions? It is titled "Maid from o'er the sea".

Subject: Brown & Bigelow antiquities
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:42:10 +0100
From: "Olatz Pujana" <  olatzpujana@eresmas.com  >

 Hi, I need help. I write from spain. I have a "Rowsom Lither", and i woul like to know more information about othe objects of Brown & Bigelow, their antique , if is posible to catalogue them , etc.  Its trademark is Remembrance Brown & Bigelow. St. Paul. Minesota. USA
 Thank you, for all.


Subject: Painting/print/lithograph...
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:42:37 -0600
From: "conrows" <  conrows@hartwick.edu  >
My mother has a beautiful piece of framed art - it is of the Cathedral of Amiens, and it is signed, the
signature is difficult to decipher.  It looks like Al Wettel?  The piece has Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul,
Minnesota on it also.  If you can shed any light on this, and if you know of anyone who might be interested in buying it,
please contact me. Thank you.
Also: Sheley Brown  < sheleybrown2000@yahoo.com >
Mr. Bigelow, 
I own a framed print of the Cathedral of Amiens with the artists' signature.   The piece has Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota on it also. 
Can you shed any light on this print, I would like to have it reframed, but I am afraid if it has value it may be damaged during the process. Thank you for your time.
Sheley Brown 
Reece & Nichols Realtors Kearney 
Subject: Calender
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:26:58 EST
From:Deb Holbrook     Eedlh@aol.com
Dear Mr. Bigelow,
We have come across calendar pages (May is missing) that list Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minn.  at the top of the
pages.  We are not sure but think they are from 1948.  There is not a year printed on the pages but someone penciled in
48 on one of the pages.
We are remodeling my husband's grandfather's camp and when he tore out the walls in the kitchen these pages were
hanging there.  Some are in good shape and some aren't.
Would there be any way of finding out when these are from?
Thank you,
Deb Holbrook

Subject:  In Scottish Highlands (print/art)
Date:  Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:24:29 EST
From:        igonz3732@aol.com
I have in my home a print of a picture which I have a question on. The title is "In
Scottish Highlands" by Wm Dories I belive. There was print number 8095 on the left
lower side of the picture. Other information on the picture mentions Brown & Bigelow
and address. My question to you is, is this beautiful print a collectors item? Can you
give me some back ground on such print? Please return my E-mail.
Thank You
Subject: Brown & Bigelow etchings
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:42:07 -0500
From: "Grace Flodquist" <auntgrace@msn.com>

 Hi! I was wondering if you could help me. I found an etching of Babe Ruth by Reinhold H. Palenske, the printers were Brown & Bigelow. I know that he worked for them doing advertising and he did some original etchings that they gave away. Do you know what years he worked for them? It would help in dating my etching. Thank you.
Grace Flodquist
also renee augusta < rmaugusta@yahoo.com >

Subject: Claire Frye art director
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:49:14 -0600
 From: "Shandine Tyler" <artanion@netins.net>

Hello Mr. Bigelow, I'm attempting to find information on Claire Frye who served as art director at Brown and Bigelow for many years. I had the
pleasure to meet him many years ago. Any info you may have would be most welcome.
Thanks, Tim Tyler
http://www.timothyctylerfineart.homestead.com


Subject: Brown & Bigelow Prints
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 07:29:25 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Vera Spitzer <vlspitzer@yahoo.com>
I have the following prints with Brown and Bigelow printed on them:
River in Flanders by Al Wettel
End of Day by Roland Clark
Dropping In by J. D. Knap
Are these of any value?  They are not framed.
I also have 3 Cathedral prints by Al Wettel.  Have you
any idea where I might find more information on these?
Thank you very much for any information you can give me.
Vera L. Spitzer
also Beth Risley < brisley1@cox.net > wrote:
Hi,
I found your web page and saw some other questions re: prints by Al Wettel.  Do you have any information re: this artist? 
Thanks SO MUCH for yourtime!
Beth     auntbee


Subject: Al Wettel - Brown and Bigelow Print
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:18:04 -0500
From: "David S. Schultz" <d-schultz3@northwestern.edu>
I just purchased a beautiful print "Mission Delores" signed by Mr.
Wettel.  It appears that it was printed through Brown and Bigelow.  I was wondering if you had any
information on the artist and if you knew when this was done?  Mr. Wettel is / was? a
very talented artist and I am enjoying his talents very much!
Thanks in advance!
Dave
Note:
Subject: Etchings
From: Beth Rice   BRice5623@AOL.com
Date: 05/15/04
Dear Rod-You may not know anything about these etchings-They were given to me 
in 1957 by a Dr. in Wichita Kansas-He received them at Christmas time from a 
funeral home. There are 4 etchings and  at the top in very small printing is 
Brown & Bigelow.St.Paul,Minn. Printed in U.S.A. It states inside the folder 
that Lionel Barrymore authorized that they could be reproduced in Talio-Chrome. 
There are 4 etchings all done on the island of Nantucket-which was Lionel's 
favorite place to sketch. It states that he surprised everyone when they 
discovered he had this other talent. Those originals are collectors's items. I don't 
know much about etchings but they are lovely! But I am wondering if someone in 
your family has some originals. It has taken me all this time to finally frame 
them. It was ironic that the Dr. gave me these and cautioned me that they 
were not junk(I was only 20 years old at the time)and the ironic part is that my 
g-grandfather and 6 of his siblings were all born on that island. 
Sincerely, Beth Rice   BRice5623@AOL.com

From: HAROLD LORENTZSON   SONDOGL@msn.com 
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: Brown & Bigelow Print

I have a  framed print (not dated) "Canal in Venice" by Al Wettel.  It was my grandmother's and she was born in 1891 and died in 1992.  Could you please, give me any information re: the print and the artist?  When I looked in the internet all I could find re: Wettel was your web site.  I would really appreciate anything you could share with me.
 
Thank you so much,
Bev in MN
From: Millie Delaune  mrd1932@bellsouth.net
Dear Mr. B.
I stumbled across your web site while researching an old print entitled "The Old Mill" by artist Al Wettel.  Not sure of the Wettel spelling, because it is a signed print and it's difficult to make out the signature.  This print came from an old hotel  here on the Mississipp Gulf Coast, which is no longer standing.  That applies to the Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as the hotel.  However, the hotel has been long gone, whereas the Coast was just devastated by Ms Katrina.
I would appreciate any info you might be able to share with me.  
Millie Delaune
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