Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Postcard - 1912This picture of the Burroughs Factory in Detroit, Michigan was taken in 1912, some 8 years after construction. It also shows the American Arithmometer Company locations in St. Louis.
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Postcard - 1913"BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE COMPANY, FACTORY, AND GENERAL OFFICES, DETROIT, MICH." "The Burroughs Adding Machine Company is located at Second Avenue, the Boulevard and Burroughs Avenue. Occupies 2 City Blocks 7 1/2 Acres of floor space. This is the largest adding machine factory in the world and its products go to every country on the Globe."
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Postcard - 1919"Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit, Michigan, is the largest manufacturer of its kind in the world, building a complete line of adding, bookkeeping, billing, and calculating machines. It was first organized as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, in 1886, by William Seward Burroughs and his associates to produce and market the first practical adding machine, the invention of Burroughs."
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