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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Box SHOP

A shop in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 5 atlases between 1893 and 1910.

The line reading Box SHOP in the 1893 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1893 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1893Box SHOPthe scanned index
1896Davis, C. D., Box Shopthe scanned index
1898Hyde, A., Box Shopthe scanned index
1910Box SHOPthe scanned index
1910M't'g Co., Box Shopthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Box SHOP
Davis, C. D., Box Shop
Hyde, A., Box Shop
M't'g Co., Box Shop

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 4 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

77*6 Leicester Wire Company had its origin in 1871. At this time Mr. Cyrus D. Howard, an experienced workman, set up machines and began the drawing of ' 4 wire for cards in the building which had been used by successive firms as a card manufactory, and later as a box shop. Thomas Shaw was afterward associated with him for a short time as the firm of Cyrus D. Howard & Co. David Bemis went into company with Howard in 1876, as the firm of Howard & Bemis. In 1880 J. Bradford Sargent joined the firm, which became Howard, Bemis & Co. Mr. Howard retired in 1884, and the Leicester Wire Company was organized. Harry E. Sargent came into the firm in 1885, and Mr. Bemis retired. Of this firm H. E. Sargent is president, and J. B. Sargent treasurer.

Read the chapter on Leicester Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 41 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from. See all 41 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1893 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1893 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Lincoln Hotel in the 1893 atlasLincoln Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1893 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1893 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1893 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Woolen Mills in the 1893 atlasWoolen Millsmill1893
The index line reading Allan, G.,Cotton Mill in the 1896 atlasAllan, G, Cotton Millmill1896
The index line reading Catholie Church in the 1896 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1896 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Goodspeed, G. N., Machine Shop in the 1896 atlasGoodspeed, G. N., Machine Shopmachine shop1896
The index line reading Hill & Bosley's Foundry in the 1896 atlasHill & Bosley, Foundryfoundry1896
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1896 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1896
The index line reading Kauffman, W. H., Woolen Mill in the 1896 atlasKauffman, W. H., Woolen Millmill1896
The index line reading Lafayette Hotel in the 1896 atlasLafayette Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1896 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1896
The index line reading North Brookfield Journal Printing in the 1896 atlasNorth Brookfield Journal Printingprinting1896
The index line reading Opera House in the 1896 atlasOpera Houseopera house1896
The index line reading Publie School in the 1896 atlasPublic Schoolschool1896
The index line reading Summit Hotel in the 1896 atlasSummit Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Union Oongreg. Church in the 1896 atlasUnion Congreg. Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1896 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Wachusett Hotel in the 1896 atlasWachusett Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Wheelwright Paper Mill in the 1896 atlasWheelwright Paper Millmill1896

Other shops in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Worcester County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Worcester County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.