The building up of an industry : how it began and what it has accomplished in twenty-five years, 1888-1913.
A 1913 corporate history published by the Electric Storage Battery Company, recounting its first twenty-five years from 1888 for industry readers and shareholders. The photographs show the company's factory floors: a large workshop with machinery and workers at benches, a bright office-like room of clerks at desks under hanging lamps, rows of battery plates hung on racks, and a long conveyor table carrying flat plates past stacked supplies. For designers, the images offer a clear record of early twentieth-century industrial interiors, with strong repeated lines of columns, racks and conveyors.
