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Geo. W. Alexander
| Firmenname | Geo. W. Alexander |
| Ortssitz | New York (N.Y.) |
| Straße | Astor Place 10-20 |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): Nos. 10, 12, 14 16, 18 und 20 Astor Place, Ecke Lafayette Place. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 353] |
| Hinweise | General Book-Binder |
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Ereignis |
| 1814 |
Gründung |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Few departments of industrial activity have attained greater perfection or a more deserved reputation in New York than that of booE-binding and its kindred branches. The competition has necessarily been great, but the result has been correspondingly satisfactory to the public, as a higher standard of perfection has been attained. One of the best equipped establishments in New York demoted to the book-bidding trade is that of Mr. Geo. W. Alexander, Nos. 10 to 20 Astor Place, which was originally founded in 1814, and since its inception at that date has always occupied a foremost position in the metropolis as the leading house in the trade in the United States. The premises occupied are very spacious and commodious, and comprise three immense floors, one hundred and fifty by three hundred and seventy-five feet in dimensions, admirably arranged and equipped with all the latest improved machinery and appliances, including gilding and cutting machines, by means of which the work produced is accomplished with despatch and in the best possible manner. About two hundred skilled and experienced operatives are employed, and the machinery is operated by an engine of one hundred and twenty horsepower, and the whole of the equipment is unique and unsurpassed by any similar establishment at home or abroad. The system which prevails throughout this large factory indicates the most careful supervision, while the judgment and taste displayed in the binding of books proclaim the proprietor to be thoroughly experienced in the business, and acquainted with the wants of a critical trade. Mr. Alexander is a native of New York, and is held in the highest estimation by the community as an honorable business man and upright private citizen, and is closely allied and interested in the manufacturing industry of the metropolis. The enterprise of this house has been fully illustrated by the superior character of the work produced at this establishment, and the beneficial influence exerted upon the community by this industry entitles its proprietor to the consideration and esteem with which he is so widely regarded. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 353] |
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