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Title: The History «of» Woodbury «and» Company

The History «of» Woodbury «and» Company

by Kent P. Ljungquist (Volume editor) James P. Hanlan (Volume editor) Rodney G. Obien (Volume editor)
©2007 Monographs XL, 192 Pages
History & Political Science
Series: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies) , Volume 24

Summary

This volume presents for the first time an edited version of Harold D. Woodbury’s «Notes on the History of Woodbury & Company, Inc.» This history offers a fascinating glimpse into the workings of a family firm that emerged as the largest commercial engraver in central New England in the 1890s. The company specialized in Bird’s-Eye-Views of factories and industrial buildings, large numbers of which graced the walls of boardrooms and executive suites in the Northeast and throughout North America. A notable success for the company, in addition to its excellence in engraved letterheads, was its series of First Day Covers, pictorial impressions of commemorative stamps. The introduction to this volume focuses on printing and printing-related businesses in Worcester, Massachusetts: their founders, contributions to technological innovation, and contributions to New England’s workforce.

Details

Pages
XL, 192
Year
2007
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820481081
Language
English
Keywords
Woodbury and Company Geschichte 1879-2002 Printing Industrial History Graphic Design Printing History Local History Regional History Engraving
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XL, 192 pp.

Biographical notes

Kent P. Ljungquist (Volume editor) James P. Hanlan (Volume editor) Rodney G. Obien (Volume editor)

The Editors: Kent P. Ljungquist, Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques (1984) and the editor of several reference works: The Facts on File Bibliography of American Fiction to 1865 (1994); Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Writers (1998); Antebellum Authors in the South (2001); and Antebellum Authors in the North (2002). James P. Hanlan, Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of The Working Population of Manchester New Hampshire, 1840 to 1886 (1981) and co-editor of Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor (2003). He has served as the Executive Secretary of the New England Historical Association. Rodney G. Obien, Curator of Special Collections & Archives at the Gordon Library at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, serves on the board of the New England Archivists.

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