CHO
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company Collection
mixed material
sound recordings
oral histories (document genres)
correspondence
clippings (information artifacts)
photographic prints
1869
2001
5.5
reformatted digital
<a href=https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/881 show="New" actuate="OnRequest">Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company Collection finding aid </a>. The collection contains a broad range of materials documenting building history, union strikes, and employee memoirs at the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company in Stamford, Connecticut, including correspondence, newspaper articles, magazine articles, oral history audio tapes, photographs, video tapes, maps and artifacts.
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company was established in 1868 by Linus Yale and Henry Towne in Stamford, Connecticut. Yale & Towne Manufacturing was the leading employer in the Stamford, Connecticut, area for many years.
Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company was established in 1868 by Linus Yale and Henry Towne in Stamford, Connecticut. Linus Yale was the inventor of the tumbler lock. He died in New York on December 24, 1868, never knowing that his company would become the leading manufacturer of locks in the world. Henry Towne expanded the company from locks to materials handling in 1875. Yale & Towne Manufacturing was the leading employer in the Stamford, Connecticut, area.
Collected by the Yale & Towne Project and University of Connecticut--Stamford students and presented to the Jeremy Richard Library in July 2002. Transferred to Arcvhives & Special Collections by Jeremy Richard Library in December 2015.
Stamford (inhabited place)
Connecticut (state)
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
MSS 2002.0113
In Copyright
University of Connecticut Libraries
eng
These Materials are provided for educational and research purposes only.
The collection is open and available for research.
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:20020113