Sign, Trade
- Title:
- Allen and Hall Inc.
- Object Name:
- Sign, Trade
- Object ID:
- 2012.052.01
- Date:
- circa 1940
- Description:
- Sign, from a rack truck. Painted wood, two pieces. Long horizontal rectangle with rounded corners. Yellow lettering on red: "ALLEN AND HALL INC. / WOOD AND FIBRE SHIPPING CASES / PLANTS AT / PROVIDENCE, R.I. ROCHESTER, N.H."
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-15 W-72 D-0.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Established in the early 1920s by Leroy E. Allen (1883-1958) of Dudley, MA, Allen & Hall were contract lumber dealers and manufacturers who moved to Rochester, NH. The business was eventually taken over by Leroy Allen's son, Kenneth L. Allen (1916-2002), around 1950. The company purchased trees on private lots, cut the timber, and contracted to make lumber into crates and boxes for product packaging and shipping. They also operated a commercial lumber yard on Allen Street in Rochester.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ann Lindner
- Subjects:
- Signs, Lumberyards, Box industry, Lumber industry
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