This set of eight postcards show the Hard Manufacturing Company, known
mainly for their beds and cribs. The backs read "Souvenir Postal Card
from the Buffalo Industrial Exposition. A view of one of Buffalo's large
industries. The home of unbreakable beds." The Exposition ran from
October 3-15, 1910 at the Broadway arsenal in Buffalo. There are at least
three more cards in the series which I don't have—"Applying the
Porcelain Enamel before Baking", "Sewing Ticks for Mattresses", and
"Accounting and Credit Department."
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Making Felt from Pure White Cotton |
Weaving 700 Woven Wire Fabrics a Day |
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Stretching up the Springs |
Every Casting gets 20-ton Pressure |
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A Corner of the Punch Room |
Side Stitching and Tufting is Careful Work |
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Inspecting, Brassing and Packing Beds |
Factory Office of the Hard Mfg. Co. |
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