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  2. Trunk (luggage) - Wikipedia

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    A steamer trunk dating from the late 1890s to early 1900s. Steamer trunks (named after their location of storage in the cabin of a steam ship, or "steamer") which are sometimes referred to as flat-tops, first appeared in the late 1870s, although the greater bulk of them date from the 1880–1920 period. They are distinguished by either their ...

  3. Martin Mathias Secor - Wikipedia

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    Martin Mathias Secor (February 4, 1841 – January 5, 1911) was a Bohemian American immigrant and businessman. He was the founder and proprietor of the Northwestern Trunk and Traveling Bag Manufactory and the M. M. Secor Trunk Company, and was the 28th and 31st mayor of Racine, Wisconsin.

  4. Seward Trunk Co. - Wikipedia

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    Seward Trunk and Bag was founded in 1878 by Simon Seward. He died in 1912 and his sons took over the business until it was sold to Mercury Luggage. [1] In 1967, Seward was purchased by the Dayco Corporation, the former Dayton Rubber Company, of Dayton, Ohio. In 1970, Seward manufactured the trunks that carried the NASA's moon rocks across the ...

  5. Martin Maier - Wikipedia

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    Martin Maier (January 20, 1840 – November 9, 1893) was the founder and proprietor of Martin Maier Trunk and Bag Company (est. 1865), which specialized in making specialty and sample trunks. His company, based in Detroit , Michigan, was one of the largest luggage and leather goods distributors in the Midwestern United States .

  6. Great Lakes passenger steamers - Wikipedia

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    SS Milwaukee Clipper. The history of commercial passenger shipping on the Great Lakes is long but uneven. It reached its zenith between the mid-19th century and the 1950s. As early as 1844, palace steamers carried passengers and cargo around the Great Lakes.

  7. Eagle Lock Company - Wikipedia

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    Products included trunk and cabinet locks, as well as high quality security-grade padlocks, and, in the early twentieth century, screw-machine products. The company experienced precipitous growth with the onset of the First World War , and even greater expansion during the Second World War , nearly doubling the number of employees to 800.

  8. Steamer trunk - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 July 2006, at 03:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Trunk deck ship - Wikipedia

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    A trunk deck ship is a type of merchant ship with a hull that was stepped inward in order to obtain more favourable treatment under canal toll rules then in effect. As those tolls were set by net tonnage , a measure of volume, and as the tonnage rules did not account for all of the cargo space of such vessels, trunk deck ships incurred lower ...

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