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Re: Manufacturing Company



Valerie:

I'd suggest checking with the excellent American manufacturing catalogue
collections at the Smithsonian and at Winterthur/Eleutherian Mills Library
in Delaware.

Kevin V. Bunker
Student Assistant
CA State Archives

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> From:         Valerie Elliott[SMTP:elliotva@OPLIN.LIB.OH.US]
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> Sent:         Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:44 AM
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> Subject:      Manufacturing Company
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> We have been asked about a company that began as the SCHUETZ CHURCH
> FURNITURE CO and changed its name to MANITOWOC (Wisconsin) MANUFACTURING
> COMPANY in 1888. It was destroyed by fire in the 1890s, rebuilt in 1893
> and became the MANTOWIC SEATING COMPANY. It was later know as the AMERICAN
> SCHOOL FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO. and produced church pews and school
> desks. Later the company merged with a firm in Ohio--and here's where we
> come in. The metal work on the desks has the word "Oxford" spelled out.
>
> We cannot find any info on such a company in Oxford, Ohio. Can anyone
> out there provide any help? The question came to us from Massachusetts
> (where there is such a desk) and had already been through some Wisconsin
> sources, which provided the above early history of the company.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Valerie E. Elliott, Head                   Phone (513) 523-3035
> Smith Library of Regional History          Fax (513) 523-6661
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