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Parker Metal Company
Parker Metal Corporation was incorporated in 1922. Jordan Levy owned the company in Worcester. Parker Metal Corporation was located at 150 Grove Street, and then was relocated to 143 Stafford Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The company was…
Morgan Co./ Siemens Building
Morgan Construction was a family owned business that was opened right here in Worcester in 1888. The company was sold to Siemens in 2008, but the original factory is still operated in Worcester on Crescent St. Morgan Construction Company designs,…
Tags: buildings, business, factories, Machine Shop, Morgan, Morgan Co., Rolling Mill, Siemens
Royal Worcester Corset Company
The photo is of the employees and officers gathered on the front grasses in front of the Royal Worcester Corset Company factory. David Hale Fanning, founder of the Royal Worcester Corset Company, opened the doors in 1861, located at 45 Grand Street.…
Washburn-Moen Building, Northworks
This building was built in 1831 as the manufactory of the Washburn and Moen Wire Company. The company was one of the largest employers in the city of Worcester for over one hundred years. When the company was acquired by US Steel, Andrew Carnegie had…
Tags: Andrew Carnegie, buildings, factories, US Steel, Washburn and Moen, wire
Former Coes Knife Factory
The Coes Knife Factory was built in 1841. It was set on the corner of Coes Street and Mill Street across the dam from the Worcester Housing Authority. It was built to make wrenches and to provide the other thriving mills built along the Tatnuck Brook…
Private Branch Telephone Exchange
In this ad, the back cover of Worcester Magazine Illustrated in June 1909, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company advertises its "private branch exchange" service. Using this service, all the departments of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works…
Tags: advertising, AT&T, Bell, business, factories, looms, operator, switchboard, telephone
Norton Company, November 1909
Article, with photographs, describing the Norton Grinding Company in Worcester MA as "the nation's largest and most modern grinding wheel manufacturing plant in the country." The plant made grinding wheels from 3/4-inch to six feet in diameter; some…
Corner of Union and Foster Streets
Photograph depicts a brick factory building at the corner of Union and Foster Streets in the early 20th century. The building has "Builders Finish" painted above the second story windows.
Tags: brick, buildings, carriages, cars, dirt roads, factories, lampposts, photographs
Made in Worcester
"Some of Worcester's Most Prominent Manufacturers" who advertised in the Worcester Magazine Illustrated, July 1909 issue. This image is the issue's back cover.
