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Formation | 1923 |
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Dissolved | 2007 |
Legal status | defunct |
Purpose | Business and industrial history |
Headquarters | Exton, PA |
Formerly called | The Newcomen Society in North America |
The Newcomen Society of the United States was a non-profit educational foundation for "the study and recognition of achievement in American business and the society it serves", active between 1923 and 2007. It was responsible for more than 1,600 individual histories of organizations, from corporations to colleges, which were distributed to libraries and its membership.