Minutes, 1939-1945

Board of Directors meeting minutes which include by-laws and certificate of incorporation. Documents financial and business transactions as well as general details regarding the production and development of tape recorders. Includes: minutes with four special reports documenting the activities of ". . . present management as distinguished from management of Vogel Fonda regarding 'the Fonda Recorder'" (April 1942); letters to stockholders like an annual report (January 1943); negotiations with Jefferson Travis (January 1943); discussion of the boom in business resulting from war demand for radio equipment for military requirements (1943-1944); needs for invention and development of sound recording machines for peacetime market (November 1944); engineering department development of model AV-2 recorder (February 1945). Does not include research and development files.