Ashton Valve Company

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I just picked up a circa 1895 copy of an Ashton catalog. Only 12 pages! The one for 1896 had 75 pages.

 

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1895 catalog Pt 2

 

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Some of the old Ashton catalogs are now posted on archive.org

Ashton Valve Trade Catalogs : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

 

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A few more old advertisements

 

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n 1897 the Moran Bros. received a discounted price list of their products. Here are the prices they received.

 

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Part 2

 

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And the last page was one of the company's "mottos"

 

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In 1903 there was a bill before congress to shorten the work day for laborers on government work to 8 hours. Here was the Ashton Valve response.

Some background on this bill.

The Coal Strike of 1902: Turning Point in U.S. Policy | U.S. Department of Labor

The Federal Government, with the Commissioner of Labor in a fact finding role, acted as a 'neutral' for the first time in contributing to settlement of the bitter coal strike By Jonathan Grossman

www.dol.gov

 

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There were many companies producing and distributing whistles for locomotives, steamships, factories, and such. Here are a number of those companies.

 

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and more.

 

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part 3

 

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part 5

 

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part 6

 

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part 7

 

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part 8

 

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part 9

 

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part 10

 

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part 11

 

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part 12

 

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part 13