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James L. Libby & Co.
| Name | James L. Libby & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 497 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hemdenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Ursprünglich in der Worth Street, als Papierkragenfabrik. Fabrik in Glens Falls, N.Y. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 88] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1877 |
Gründung |
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Kommentar |
| Hemden |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Manufacturers of White and Colored Shirts. |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Few departments of industrial and commercial activity have attained greater perfection or more deserved reputation in New York, than that of the manufacture of shirts, collars, and cuffs. The competition has naturally been very great, but the result has been correspondingly satisfactory to the general public, as a higher standard of perfection has been attained. In this connection the attention of readers is directed to the well known and popular house of Messrs. James L. Libby & Co., No. 497 Broadway, which was established originally in Worth Street, as a paper collar manufactory. Eventually, in 1877, the present firm was organized, and has since obtained through the energy and enterprise of its promoters one of the most extensive and increasing trades in the United States. The firm has branch houses at Nos. 237-239 1/2 Monroe Street, Chicago, No. 631 Market Street, Philadelphia, and No. 68 Mercer Street, New York, while its factories and laundries are located at Glens Falls, N. Y. With the vast increase of population, the increased demand for shirts, collars, etc., has necessarily caused their manufacture to grow in importance, until it has reached its present immense proportions. Following the demand, the inventive brain has given to the manufacturer new and improved machinery that facilitates the production of these articles, at a lower price than at first seems possible, and to-day manufacturers are enabled through the instrumentality of splendid machinery, and perhaps through a more complete knowledge of construction and a thorough adaptation to the business, to furnish better shirts at less than one half their cost a few years ago. The factories and laundries at Glens Falls are very spacious and commodious buildings, arranged with the greatest skill and equipped with all the latest improved machinery and appliances known to the trade, employment being given to about fifteen hundred skilled and experienced operatives. This battalion of workers is supplemented by ten travelling salesmen, who prosecute the business of the house throughout the whole of this vast country from Canada to Texas and from Maine to California. Only the best linen and muslin are used in the manufacture of these unsurpassed shirts and collars, which are quite equal in style, quality, fit and workmanship to those made by custom shirtmakers to order. The individual members of this enterprising firm are Messrs. James L. and Charles Libby, Charles A. Gilbert and Theo. Franklin, gentlemen of the greatest ability and integrity, and who are thoroughly conversant with every detail of the business and the requirements of the markets. The characteristics which regulate the business policy of this house are such as to entitle it to general respect and con- sideration, and the great extent of its operations has made this firm a very prominent one in the city, while the inducements offered to the trade and purchasers hare added largely to the sum total of New York's commercial transactions. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 88] |
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