New Home Sewing Machine Co.'s manufactories in 1871

Title:: New Home Sewing Machine Co.'s manufactories in 1871
Description:: View of early New Home Sewing Machine Company manufacturing building with workers posed in front, in windows and on the roof. The business began in 1860 as Clark & Barker. At the time of this photo the company manufactured the "Home" sewing machine. The company name was changed in 1882 to the New Home Sewing Machine Company. The new officers were President, John W. Wheeler; Vice President, Andrew J. Clark; Secretary and Treasurer, William L. Grout (former superintendent).
Date:: 1871
Format:: Photographs
Location:: Wheeler Memorial Library
Collection (local):: Wheeler Memorial Library Collection
Subjects:: New Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange (Mass)--History
Mills (Buildings)--Massachusetts--Orange
Sewing-machine industry--Massachusetts--Orange
Places:: Massachusetts > Franklin (county) > Orange
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Notes:: In the collections of the Wheeler Memorial Library, Orange, Mass. http://www.orangelib.org/
Notes (publications):: Image from souvenir booklet "Orange Massachusetts"
Identifier:: new_home_sewing_machines_cos_manufactories_in_1871

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