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After twelve years in business, in 1883, McElswain sold his company to a partnership formed by the firm's bookkeeper, Charles Macklin, and John C. Newcomb. The partners relocated their business to Chicago, Illinois, where the company's production plant occupied a full city block at 400-408 N. State Street in the city's near north side.
The company employed about 130 people in Chicago in the late 1980s. [5] Collectors provide a market for resale of the statues, but they are not generally valued highly in monetary terms. [6] In 1996, the company was owned by B. Paul Brueggemeier and was having to leave its factory at 850 North Ogden to make way for a town house development. [7]
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It was dedicated on June 25, 1893, after a march from Chicago. The inscription on the steps read, "1887", the year of the executions. Also, there is a quote attributed to Spies, recorded just before his execution by hanging: "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voice you are throttling today."
The company was founded in 1883 [1] in Chicago as a lumber company by Albert Blake Dick (1856 – 1934). It soon expanded into office supplies and, after licensing key autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison, became the world's largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment (Albert Dick coined the word "mimeograph"). [3]
The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [7] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City. [4] [5]
The Curt Teich and Company Building is a historic building at 1733-55 W. Irving Park Road in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was the headquarters and printing press of Curt Teich and Company, one of the first postcard companies and a major influence on the form's development. While the original building's ...
The company was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1917 by Harry Fellowes and Walter Nickel as the Bankers Box Company, producing the Bankers Box line of record storage boxes. [4] [5] Sons Folger and John Fellowes joined the business in 1934 and 1938, respectively, [4] [6] and grandson James Fellowes joined in 1969 and was named president in 1983 ...