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Joseph Carter founded Carter Machine & Tool Company January 1, 1940 in Rockford Illinois, and began to build dies and special machines. In 1945...

Tootsietoy is claimed to be America's oldest toy company, with roots starting in 1890 when the founders were making buttons and cuff links for the ...

These amazing mirrors are reproductions from a Czechoslovakian artist named Alphonse Mucha, who lived from 1860-1939. He was one of the most impor...

Roy Jones was a very talented artist, yet little known. He was commissioned by the Ford Motor Company historian, Lorin Sorensen for Lorin’s many pu...

Oscar Landstrom came to the United States from Sweden at 14 years old, and started working at the Skandia Furniture Company in Rockford, Illinois. ...

You may have heard of Packard cars, which were the elite American cars during their era- surpassing the reputation of Cadillac, Lasalle, Lincoln, a...

WLS started in the 1920's by Sears & Roebuck to advertise their mail order catalogs to rural farmers via radio. They called it WLS starting in ...

E & J Burke, who were Edward and John Burke- Irish brewers, distillers, and importers based in New York. They were bottlers and importers of Gu...

In 1914, sixteen year old Antonio Pasin departed Venice, Italy, bound for the freedoms found in the U.S.A. He started with odd jobs in Chicago, wor...

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