Reeling wallpaper at the Allen-Higgins Company, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Title
Reeling wallpaper at the Allen-Higgins Company, Worcester, Massachusetts
Subject
Wallpaper industry--Massachusetts--Worcester; Allen-Higgins Co.; Woman employees--Pictorial works
Description
Woman workers roll wallpaper onto reels at the Allen-Higgins wallpaper factory in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1902. Notice how there are two women at each station; one women doubles the cut end of the paper and cuts it and the other watches for the measurement mark on the margin and severs the wallpaper at the proper length. Started in 1898 the Allen-Higgins Wall Paper Company was the second wallpaper manufacturing firm to exist in New England and specialized in the manufacture of medium to high-grade wall paper.
Source
Image from page 89 of the Worcester Magazine, March, 1902 (Vol. III No. 3) in the article "The Making of Wall-Paper". Published by the Worcester Board of Trade.
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1902-03
Relation
In the collections of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass. http://www.worcpublib.org/
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
Image
Files
Collection
Citation
“Reeling wallpaper at the Allen-Higgins Company, Worcester, Massachusetts,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 22, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1581.
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