A tree-framed photograph of Factory A, International Silver Co., identified in the caption as Meriden Silver Plate Co.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Photograph date unknown; published 1906. Selected crop; complete page is available at the original source. Historical book scan; minor source clipping, uneven margins and halftone texture retained. Full page preserved separately. Selected image visually inspected; objects and principal reading text upright. No generated, colorized, or reconstructed content.
Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; Journal Publishing Co., Meriden; A Century of Meriden: The Silver City, part III; New York Public Library; digitized by Google; Internet Archive
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MANUFACTORIES. 39 municated with the floor above. Among the articles disposed of by him were such as cloth of different kinds, glass tumblers, stockings, whips and yarns. These goods were undoubt- edly taken by Mr. (Iriswold in ex- change for his wares. His merchan- dise was sold mainly by peddlers, who antl undoubtedly the exchange was a profitable one for the peddler. Bar- ter was the usual method of dealing, and as one of the early manufactur- ers expressed it recently, "Money was a mighty scarce article." As there \Verc no railroads until 1838 if any shii)mcnts were made direct to pur- FACTOKV A. IXTEF^X ATlO.NAf- .SILVKK (O. (.MKKIDEN SIIA'KU I'l.ATE CO.) penetrated to all parts of \ew I'-ng- land and frequently journeyed South. We learn of one such itinerant who returned with nothing but goose feathers in exchange for the wares he had taken out ; but feathers were a valuable commoditv in those davs chasers at a distance, it was neces- sary to carl them to Middletown or New Haven and ship by boat. Tin was brought in the same way, and in the account book in question, mention is made of purchases of Spanish and hulia tin. The j)rice paid was usually Digitized by Google
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Silver, SGC-MS-008, MS-001, “Factory A: Meriden Silver Plate Company.” Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; Journal Publishing Co., Meriden; A Century of Meriden: The Silver City, part III; New York Public Library; digitized by Google; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-zQWAAAAYAAJ/page/n1097/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.