Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
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id: CT068-S01
title: Preservation Connecticut: Yale and Towne works
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Locks, hoists and a changing factory complex connect invention with the industrial growth of Stamford’s South End.
url: https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/yale-and-towne-mfg.-co
credit: Preservation Connecticut
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT068-P01
title: Factory of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut, 1873
kind: Illustrations
date: Depicts 1873; published 1908
institution: Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
summary: Historical illustration of the Yale Lock factory in Stamford, depicting 1873; reproduced in a 1908 genealogy.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Factory_of_Yale_%26_Towne_Mfg._Co.,_Stamford,_Connecticut,_1873.jpg
credit: Unknown illustrator / Rodney Horace Yale, Yale Genealogy (1908) / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States: copyright expired (Commons PD-US-expired license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Historical illustration. Do not label or count as a photograph. Media type corrected: printed factory illustration, not a photograph.
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id: CT068-P02
title: Factory of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut, 1903
kind: Illustrations
date: Depicts 1903; published 1908
institution: Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
summary: Historical bird’s-eye illustration of the Yale & Towne factory in Stamford, depicting 1903; reproduced in a 1908 genealogy.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Factory_of_Yale_%26_Towne_Mfg._Co.,_Stamford,_Connecticut,_1903.jpg
credit: Unknown illustrator / Rodney Horace Yale, Yale Genealogy (1908) / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States: copyright expired (Commons PD-US-expired license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Historical illustration. Do not label or count as a photograph. Media type corrected: printed factory illustration, not a photograph.
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id: ED-P37043011
title: Yale & Towne Manufactoring Co, The Tool Room, 1897.jpg
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1897; exposure date not independently established
institution: Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
summary: Workers at benches in Yale & Towne's tool room. Tool Room of Yale & Towne Manufactoring Co,  1897
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yale_%26_Towne_Manufactoring_Co,_The_Tool_Room,_1897.jpg
credit: Henry Roland (Horace Lucian Arnold) / "Six examples of successful shop management." Engineering Magazine 12. 1897
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. A real interior photograph reproduced in print, unlike the company's factory bird's-eye drawings. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
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id: ED-P36922980
title: Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co, 1897.jpg
kind: Illustrations
date: 1897
institution: Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
summary: Bird's-eye factory illustration of Yale & Towne, published 1897. Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co, 1897
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yale_%26_Towne_Manufacturing_Co,_1897.jpg
credit: Henry Roland (aka Horace Lucian Arnold) / . "Six examples of successful shop management." Engineering Magazine 12. 1897
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Visually distinct layout/view from existing 1873 and 1903 illustrations. Do not count as an additional photograph. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
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