subject: Manufactures
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Ross Wyman Mill, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Wyman Mill, located off Main Circle, west of Ward Hill, Shrewsbury (Mass.). Built early 1800's. Ross Wyman was also a skilledgun maker. He is recognized as having made General Artemas Ward a gun"of sufficient strength to pitch an Englishman over his head."
- – Gunsmiths -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Firearms -- Manufactures -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Mills -- Massachusetts
- – Ross Wyman Mill, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Bailey Brothers Store, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Bailey Brothers Store, corner of South Street and Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.). In this brick building, local women werehired to work in the shop. It was where the first ready-made clothes, possibly first in the United States, were made. Later, the building wasused as a market and in the mid-twentieth century, was the site of Julio's Market. A horse-drawn sled is in front of the building.
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Clothing -- Manufactures -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Bailey Brothers store, corner of South Street and Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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View of Chicopee dam
description- – View of the dam in Chicopee Falls. The dam was built in the 1820s as a power source for burgeoning industries. On the left isa cluster of buildings which was the Belcher and Taylor Agricultural Tool Company. After the Civil War they supplied agriculturalimplements for the settlement of the American West.
- – Belcher and Taylor Agricultural Tool Company
- – Manufactures -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee
- – Dams -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee
- – Chicopee River (Mass.)
- – ca. 1919
- – Is part of the Russ H. Gilbert photographic collection, 1917-1922. Chicopee History Room, Chicopee Public Library, Chicopee, Mass. http://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/
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Front gates of A.G. Spalding&Bros.
description- – Gatekeeper and watchman, John Sullivan, is seated on the right next to another individual at the entrance of A.G. Spalding&Bros., a manufacturer of sporting goods. Located in Chicopee center onthe banks of the Chicopee River, Spalding had a metal foundry at this location.
- – Manufactures -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee
- – A.G. Spalding&Bros.
- – Sporting goods industry -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee
- – ca. 1921
- – Is part of the Russ H. Gilbert photographic collection, 1917-1922. Chicopee History Room, Chicopee Public Library, Chicopee, Mass. http://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/
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Athol Machine Company, Athol, Mass.
description- – View of the larger plant of the Athol Machine Co. located along the original foundry on South Street. Laroy S. Starrett began his industrial enterprises with the manufacturing of a household chopping machine called"the hasher".
- – Manufactures--Massachusetts-- Athol.
- – Industries--Massachusetts--Athol
- – Athol (Mass)--Athol Machine Co.
- – From the postcard collection of the Athol Public Library, Athol, Massachusetts. http://www.athollibrary.org/
Lee's Shoe Factory, Athol, Mass.
description- – Lee Brothers Shoe Company began in 1850. The company moved to the white wood building at the corner of Main and Exchange Streets, left, in 1858. Expansion to company buildings continued and ended with the brick building, shown, in 1910.
- – Manufactures--Massachusetts--Athol
- – Athol (Mass)--History--Pictorial works
- – Industries--Massachusetts--Athol
- – Shoe Industry
- – 1940's
- – From the postcard collection of the Athol Public Library, Athol, Massachusetts. http://www.athollibrary.org/
Lee Shoe Factories, Athol Mass.
description- – Artists drawing of the complex of buildings belonging to C. M. Lee Shoe Manufactory located from Main Street to South Street. Started by Charles M. Lee and his brothers in 1850 and grew into a block of buildings by 1869.
- – Manufactures--Massachusetts--Athol
- – Athol (Mass)--History--Pictorial works
- – Industries--Massachusetts--Athol
- – Shoe Industry
- – early 1880's
- – L.C. Herrick; Athol, Mass
- – From the postcard collection of the Athol Public Library, Athol, Massachusetts. http://www.athollibrary.org/
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