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Robert Rutter
| Name | Robert Rutter |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | East 14th Street 116+118 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Buchbinder |
| Anmerkungen | Rutter ist Präsident der "Bookbinders' Provident Association of New York". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 263] |
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Ereignis |
| 1837 |
Gründung der Vorgängerfirma |
| 1850 |
Gründung: Übernahme durch Mr. Butter |
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Kommentar |
| Buchbinderarbeiten |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| gebundene Bücher |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The metropolis has long been noted as the leading centre of the bookbinding trade on the continent, and publishers, as well as the public at large, have reason to feel proud of the superior excellence of workmanship, and the very reasonable rates at which all orders are filled. Prominent among the representative proprietors of binderies in this city is Mr. Robert Rutter, of Nos. 116 and 118 East 14th Street. Mr. Rutter began in business in 1850, though the concern is older still, dating back to 1837. When Mr. Butter succeeded to the. proprietorship in 1850 he was located at Nos. 82 and 84 Beekman Street, and where, it may well be added, he remained permanently for upwards of twenty-seven years, building up one of the finest and largest trades in the city, permanently retaining the. custom of many of the largest publishing houses in the city, and which he had developed from next to nothing at the beginning of his career. His is now one of the most centrally located and finely equipped binderies in the city, and occupies part of the third and the fourth and fifth floors of the fine double-front building Nos. 110 and 118 East 14th Street. He possesses a full outfit of the latest modern appliances, and gives employment to an average force of seventy-five hands, many of them the most skilful finishers and toolers in the trade, competent to turn out the finest specimens of the art. Mr. Rutter devotes close personal attention to the workings of his large establishment, and being a thoroughly practical man himself, is fully conversant with the wants of his numerous patrons Mr. Rutter is a thoroughly public spirited citizen, and has labored disinterestedly on behalf of the bookbinding fraternity generally. He is at present the esteemed president of that widely useful institution, the " Bookbinders Provident Association," and which has since its organization in 1868, been ably and prudently managed, and nov, has an average membership of one thousand, while it has paid to the heirs of two hundred and fourteen deceased members the large aggregate of two hundred and three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars, assessments proving small in proportion to the ultimate vast amount of benefit conferred-on the orphaned families of those who have wisely made such an honorable provision for their future. Mr. Rutter ably and faithfully discharges the onerous duties devolving upon him as president of the association, and is very popular among the members. He is likewise the treasurer of the Library Committee of the Apprentices' Free Library, an institution so prominently known of in our midst that further comment upon our part would be superfluous. It is sufficient to add that Mr. Rutter is noted for his sterling integrity and watchful management, and his self-sacrificing exerions have not been overlooked by an appreciative community. In business, as well as in social, circles his great merits are fully recognized, and he well merits the large measure of success which has attended his honorable mercantile career in the city of New York. Mr. Rutter, it may not be uninteresting to say, is a member of the American Institute and Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 263] |
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