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Manufacturing

A. Schoenhut Company Newspaper Advertisement

This advertisement for the A. Schoenhut Company appeared in 1912, the year of founder Albert Schoenhut’s death. It featured two…

Advertisement for American Flint Glass manufactured by Henry William Stiegal [sic.], Pennsylvania Packet

Advertisement for American Flint Glass manufactured by Henry William Stiegal [sic.], Pennsylvania Packet, October 28, 1771

Advertisement for Keuffel & Esser Co. in the program of the Hoboken Academy Fair

The Hoboken Academy was a private German school founded by Saxon immigrant Adolf Douai in 1860. Keuffel served as president…

Bill of sale to Mrs. Reynolds of Hoosick, New York, for a Singer Patent Perpendicular-Acting Sewing Machine in a black-walnut folding case

An 1860 bill of sale to Mrs. Reynolds of Hoosick, New York, for a Singer Patent Perpendicular-Acting Sewing Machine in…

Catalogue cover and illustration of a large Singer sewing machine for use in industry

Catalogue cover and illustration of a large Singer sewing machine for use in industry. From Henry J. Miller’s The Singer…

Constant-Angle Arch Dam of Concrete

“Constant-Angle Arch Dam of Concrete,” Engineering Magazine, vol. 49 (1915), p. 282.

Contract of Indenture for Land on which the Rittenhouse Paper Mill was built

Cover page of the catalog of Keuffel & Esser Co., New York, 35th edition

Keuffel & Esser published their first catalog, a twenty-four-page booklet, in 1868. Five years later, their catalog was 123 pages…

Cramer, Charlotte's patent for “Combined key and flashlight”

Charlotte Cramer’s patent for “Combined key and flashlight”

Diagram for Ordering Parts to Repair a “Dietrich Gruen” Pocket Watch

Each Gruen watch had parts that were especially fitted to it. Watch repairmen could order these parts from the company.…

Diagrams of the VeriThin and Ultra-VeriThin Watches

Introduced in 1904, Gruen’s VeriThin (also spelled Verithin) was about one-third thinner than conventional movements. It became one of the…

Dickert, Jacob inventory

Jacob Dickert inventory of his goods and chattels, 1822, Page 1-6

Directions for using Singer's Patent Straight-Needle, Transverse Shuttle Sewing Machines

Directions for using Singer's Patent Straight-Needle, Transverse Shuttle Sewing Machines. The instructions note that the machine must be oiled three…

Elmer, Roswell Jr.'s editorial on Bechtler's earliest coining efforts

Editor Roswell Elmer Jr. writes an editorial “Gold Pieces” describing Bechtler’s earliest coining efforts and praising the minter’s integrity and…

Expanded notice to gold miners and others gives a description of Bechtler’s assaying and minting procedure

An expanded notice to gold miners and others gives a description of Bechtler’s assaying and minting procedure, North Carolina Spectator…

Fey, Charles August, patent for a coin-operated weighing scale

Charles August Fey, patent for a coin-operated weighing scale. Patented November 4, 1913

Floor plan for a gunmaker’s shop with a smithy

Floor plan for a gunmaker’s shop with a smithy, circa 1763, pen on paper, 8”x7”

Gaertner & Regennas Advertisement

Advertisement for Gaertner & Regennas in The Journal of Applied Microscopy 1 (1898).

Gebelein, George Christian, U.S. Patent for a Design for a Dolphin Paper Weight and Pen Rest

George Christian Gebelein, U.S. patent for a design for a dolphin paper weight and pen rest, April 9, 1912

Gebelein, George Christian, U.S. Patent for a Design for a Door Knocker

George Christian Gebelein, U.S. patent for a design for a door knocker, July 14, 1914.

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