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Nine men in three rows pose outside a door marked with the "W" of Westinghouse Electric. A note with the photo identifies the men as the "tool and die" department at Westinghouse. Seven of the men wear oily aprons. The two standing in back wear…

The Mansfield Hay and Grain Company was located at 195 East Fourth St. In the image a man and woman stand in front of the store while a child crawls into a wagon below them.

The entire Baxter family would move to Mansfield to work for the new Baxter Stove Company, which was incorporated on May 31, 1883, with a capital stock of $60,000. In August of 1883, the company sent its first shipment, containing 62 stoves, to Fort…

The plant was originally built in 1908-09 and formally opened in June of 1909 as the National Sheet Steel Co. A few months later, the company was reorganized as the National Rolling Mill Co. In 1914, the plant was bought by the Davey Brothers and…

Workers in a large workroom inspecting newly made tires. None of the men are identified.

A huge machine for mixing and kneading rubber compounds. Toothed rolls inside the big cylinder stir and mix the “batch.” Used principally for black stocks to keep the light, blick pigment enclosed while mixing.

A complete machine shop – Boring Mills, Lathes, Milling Machines, Presses, everything needed for making repairs – keeps up the equipment to keep the factory running night and day.

A view of the Mansfield Tire Co. warehouse. Circa 1920

The larger sizes of fabric Tires are made wholly by hand. Here the fabric is laid and stretched, ply by ply, over iron cores.

Un-vulcanized rubber in long sheets is rolled four plies thick – laminated – on poles of burnished steel wrapped with tape and “cured” in big cylinders