The general office of the Woodbury-Carlton Company
The general office of the Woodbury-Carlton Company
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The general office of the Woodbury-Carlton Company
Description:
Employees at work in the offices of the Woodbury-Carlton Company, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1903. The Woodbury-Carlton Company was started by John Woodbury three years after graduating from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute as the Woodbury & Company, Inc. It specialized in engraving business stationary, cards and sky photography until it finally closed in 2002, after once again adopting its original name. Woodbury & Company, Inc. was especially well-known for creating First Day Covers (individually engraved envelopes for first-issue stamps) such as the nearly million that they produced in 1963 in honor of John F. Kennedy after his death.
In the collections of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass. http://www.worcpublib.org/
Notes (publications):
Image from page 133 of the Worcester Magazine, October, 1903 (Vol. VI No. 4) in the article "The Making of Half-tone Engravings--Woodbury-Carlton Company". Published by the Worcester Board of Trade.
