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Most relevant, Bell Indian Trading Post were responsible for mass producing Fred Harvey era jewelry. Furthermore, they distribute these machine stamp jewelry and trinket pieces throughout tourist stops and trading posts across the West.

First of all, the Bell Indian Trading Post Company starts in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1932 by Jack Michelson and his wife Mildred. As a result, the Michelsons sell Native American Indian jewelry at various tourist locations throughout the southwestern United States until 1972.

Consequently, the Bell company name honors Jack’s wife, whose maiden name is Bell.

Especially relevant is that Bell’s main competitor was Maisel’s Indian Trading Post. Consequently, Maisel’s merged with Bell Trading Company in 1935.

Most noteworthy, the types of jewelry by Bell Indian Trading Post includes sterling silver, nickel silver, gold, and copper. A common belief is that nickel silver contains some silver content. Consequently, nickel silver contains absolutely no silver content at all.

Over the years numerous different hallmarks are used on items sold by Bell Trading Post. The hallmarks typically included the image of a bell or that of an arrow sign post with a bell sign hanging from it.

• Below is a complete original dealer’s wholesale jewelry catalog with corresponding pink price sheet. This is the packet which is sent to all the Bell Indian Trading Post dealers back in the day.
• Also, there is a picture of the original shipping envelope with graphics.
• Especially relevant, they manufacture an enormous amount of jewelry during the Fred Harvey era with typical stamped thunderbirds, arrowheads, and crossed arrows.

Finally, to view authentic sterling silver Bell Trading Company jewelry on this website, please click HERE

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Fred Harvey (1835 – 1901) was born in England and came to America at the age of fifteen.

• As soon as Harvey arrived, he got a job in a restaurant and started as a dishwasher.
• He learned the business from the ground up and in 1876 began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, through Charles Morris, the railroad’s superintendent.
• Fred Harvey was given exclusive rights to operate the lunchrooms, eating houses and hotels along the railway’s routes.
• Harvey opened eating houses along the railroad, and was not charged rent by Morse. 
• At their peak, there were 84 Harvey Houses, all of which catered to wealthy and middle-class visitors alike and Harvey became known as “the Civilizer of the West.”
• His attention to detail, quality and customer service changed the country’s rail travel industry.
• Fred Harvey is credited as the founder of America’s first restaurant chain!
• He created a legacy which was continued by his sons and remained in the family until the death of a grandson in 1965.

Who were the Harvey Girls?

The iconic Harvey Girls were famous for high standards and exceptional customer service.

• Single women were hired and sent to Vaughn, New Mexico, for a one month training class.
• After training, the women were sent to their assignments.
• In most cases, they lived in dorm rooms above the restaurants where they worked.
• Daily inspections were made to insure the girls were not wearing makeup and that they were wearing hair nets and girdles.
• Harvey Girls were closely chaperoned and dating was discouraged.
• He hired women between the ages of 18 and 30 and did not permit them to marry until they had put in a full year of work.
• When Fred Harvey died, there were 47 Harvey House restaurants, 15 hotels, and 30 dining cars operating on the Santa Fe Railway.
• Fred Harvey is also known for pioneering commercial cultural tourism.
• Fred’s “Indian Detours” were meant to provide an authentic Native American experience. Actors would stage a certain lifestyle in the desert in order to sell tickets to tourists.

What is Fred Harvey Jewelry?

Fred Harvey is credited with persuading Native American Indians to create non-traditional, inexpensive tourist jewelry. Designs would include crossed arrows, thunderbirds, swastikas, snakes, and similar motifs.  

• Fred Harvey did not manufacture jewelry himself.
• Manufactures in the Albuquerque area manufactured thinly stamped jewelry to be sold at Fred Harvey establishments, as well as trading posts and curio shops along Route 66.
• These manufactures include Bell Trading Co., Maisel’s, as well as other manufacturers.
• Often times, members of Navajo nation would be hired to run the stamping presses, with the sole purpose of the manufacturer being able to label the jewelry “Indian Made.”
• To view Fred Harvey Jewelry on this website, please click HERE!