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It began to manufacture a full line of industrial valves and fittings in cast iron, malleable iron and brass. [3] By 1870, when it employed about 160 people, it was making elevators as well. After the Chicago Fire of 1871, the company decided to expand its operations. Just after the firm became Crane Bros. Manufacturing Co. in 1872, it employed ...
This was the first type foundry to operate in Chicago. In 1863 the firm was purchased by John Marder, a bookkeeper for the firm, David Scofield, and John Collins Marder’s father-in-law who was also an employee of the foundry. The new company provided foundry type, electrotypes, stereotypes and letterpress printer's supplies. A. P.
The foundry was closed in 1919, transferring all of its equipment and holdings to Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1919. [1] Over its lifetime, the foundry issued four specimen books, in 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1917. The Western Type Foundry is not to be confused with the Great Western Type Foundry which later became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler.
Founded in 1865 as the Seldon and Griswold Manufacturing Company, the Griswold company became known as the premier manufacturer of high-quality cast-iron kitchen items in the United States. The Griswold cast iron foundry was based in Erie, Pennsylvania; and until the early 1900s, cast-iron items from this company were marked with an "ERIE" logo.
In 1869, the brothers Alson E., Arthur Middleton, George W., and Warren Barnhart purchased the Great Western Type Foundry. [1] They subsequently incorporated as Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs.
Inland Steel's main office building in East Chicago, Indiana, completed in 1930, was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White [2]. Inland Steel was founded in 1893 through the purchase of a small failed Chicago Heights steel mill, Chicago Steel Works.
Founded in 1872, the company was founded by Charles W. Shumway in response to a need for castings due to the destruction of the Great Chicago Fire the year before. After taking on A.N. Merrill as a partner, who then soon retired, he soon partnered with Charles Osgood to form the Osgood and Shumway Foundry Co.. Over the years, various partners ...
Cast iron was also taken up by some architects in the early 19th century where smaller supports or larger spans were required (and where wrought iron was too expensive), notably in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, designed by John Nash and built between 1816 and 1823, where cast iron columns were used within the walls, as well as cast iron beams ...