J. Wiss & Sons - A Story of Shears and Scissors: 1848-1948

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A Story of Shears and Scissors: 1848-1948

Their origin and growth in the Old World and the New, with particular emphasis on the development of the arts of making and selling fine quality shears and scissors in America, which parallels the first hundred years of J. Wiss & Sons Co., 1848-1948.

Published by J. Wiss & Sons Co., Newark, NJ, 1948. The book was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company. The ghostwriter for the book is presumed to be Arlene R. Sayer, an historian in Trenton, NJ. 40 unnumbered pages, plus covers. Exists in both hard cover and paperback. Book availability: Amazon and WorldCat Libraries. It also shows up on eBay a couple times a year (for not much).

Related Materials:

This Letter from B.E. Bostwick accompanied the book when copies were sent to its dealers on November 23, 1948.
A local newspaper clip on its release.
A 15-minute radio program. Presumed to have been broadcast around the book's release.
Some copies have the signatures of Robert Wiss (President) and Norman Wiss (Vice President).

Each page is available in jpegs in two sizes:

A web-sized image that is mostly 790 × 1020 pixels and can be deep-linked to. You can scroll from one web-sized image to the next.
A full-size 300 DPI image that is usually 2528 × 3264 pixels.

Also in PDF (18.4 MB). Has corrected text recognition.

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