The History "of" Woodbury "and" Company

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.

Auteur

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.