Location:
- Works and General Offices, Canton, Ohio; Branch offices
in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Louis, San Francisco,
Chicago, Cincinnati.
- The Berger Mfg. Co. of MA: 160-166 Broadway Extension, So. Boston
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| Factory cut · 1897 |
Factory cut · 1906 |
Undated postcard |
Timeline:
Brass Sidewalk Marker:
"Berger's Raydiant™ Sidewalk Lights"
Oval dimensions: 7 7⁄8" ×
3 ¾"
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- 1886 - Founded by John and Wilson Berger of Canton, Ohio
- 1888 - Incorporated as "Berger Manufacturing Company"
- 1900 - Moved to present Belden Avenue address in Canton
(5 moves in 10 years)
- 1906 - Alloy steel production starts
- 1921 - Merges with United Furnace Company and United Alloy Steel
- 1930 - Republic Steel Corporation founded, Berger and Central Alloy
as divisions
- 1936 - Sales and administration offices combined at Republic Building
in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1937 - Berger Division Plant No.2 in Louisville, Ohio startup
- 1940 - Present 3-story brick HQ built at 1038 Belden Avenue in Canton
- 1941 - Shift to wartime production: ammunition boxes, steel ship
furniture, shelving etc. Plant No. 2 makes bomb bay doors and
wing flaps
- 1946 - Postwar production: shelving, lockers, storage cabinets,
desks, bookcases and steel kitchen cabinets
- 1962 - Republic consolidates Berger and three other divisions
forming the Manufacturing Division of Youngstown, Ohio
- 1973 - Administrative re-org returns "Berger" to Canton as the
Industrial Products Division of Republic Steel
- 1983 - Name change: Industrial Products Division becomes Republic
Storage Systems
- 1984 - LTV (Dallas) buys Republic Steel and forms LTV Steel
- 1986 - LTV sells manufacturing divisions; Republic Storage Systems
purchased by employees
- Currently operating
History:
- See this Republic Storage Systems
history page.
Berger was primarily a metals company; presumably they jobbed out the
glasswork.
Paper:
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| Scott · 1890 (PNG) |
G. & W. Hess · 1897 (PNG) |
Doyle Bros. · 1906 (PNG) |
Hunter · 1917 |
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Berger's Perfection Luminous Sidewalk
and Vault Light Construction
Berger Mfg Co, Canton OH, 1905, 18p
JPG ~48MB: tar|zip|pdf
PNG ~253MB: tar|zip|pdf |
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Catalogue No 10:
Sheet Metal Products
Berger Manufacturing Co,
New York, NY, 1913, 181p
MBJ collection
via The Internet Archive
~125MB: pdf |
Metal Building Materials
(Raydiant sidewalk lights)
Berger Manufacturing Co,
Canton, OH, 1914, 22p
JPG ~7MB: tar|zip|pdf
PNG ~62MB: tar|zip|pdf |
Berger's Raydiant Sidewalk Lights
(Bulletin No 13)
Berger Mfg Co, Canton, 1916, 39p
JPG ~40MB: tar|zip|pdf
PNG ~440MB: tar|zip|pdf |
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