Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Textile Dyeing Company |
Object Name |
Drawing |
Collection |
Business Archives Collection |
Description |
Aerial perspective of the Textile Dyeing Company. |
Context |
Founded in 1879, Woodbury and Company, pioneering printers of Worcester, Massachusetts, succumbed to competition from electronic technology in the late 1990’s and closed their doors after 125 years in business. Drawn for early advertising and corporate identity functions by draftsmen and engineers and then reproduced as precise photo-engraved prints by technical methods invented by Woodbury itself, these unique Industrial Plant Aerial-View drawings are now, a century after their creation, an extraordinary artistic record of lost, industrial, America. Created at a time in history when smoke-belching chimneys meant progress and success, these extraordinary, large-scale drawings were miniaturized onto company letterheads to promote and sell pipe, linen, hides, bearings, carpet, and every conceivable product of American economic might at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. |
Catalog Number |
2025.3.11 |
Area / Region |
Hawthorne, NJ |
Building Information |
Drawing Number: 21 |
Creator |
Woodbury and Company |
Year |
c. 1920 |
Medium |
rag paper, ink, gouache |
Dimension |
45.25 x 24 |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Objects |