![]() The northern section of the complex housed the city museum at one point. What was left was eventually rebuilt into housing units, while another part became a police station. A huge fire in 1971 destroyed much of the Newmarket factory. The 1950's were not kind to the company, which declined through the decade and was finally sold in 1961. ![]() Newmarket Era and Express (Newmarket, ON), At that time, they took an order for the largest conference table ever made in Canada: 29 feet long, capable of seating 42 people! ![]() Whatever the American ownership situation, the Canadian company soldiered on and by the late 1940's had three plant divisions (Metal, Wood and "Paper" (presumably veneer)) and was employing 600 people in Newmarket plus a cadre of salespeople in 12 company retail stores across the country. Reportedly, in 1943 the Rochester owners of the company declared bankruptcy, and a workers cooperative bought the firm at public auction. Over the next few decades, they introduced a line of aluminum "Super Chairs," "Herbarium Cabinets" for storing dried plants, and the Ferris Wheel-like Diebold Power Files. Hard to believe, but this was a revolutionary concept at the time, as the ad below from one of their competitors indicates: Under the new company name, the initial product was a filing device to facilitate the collection of invoices and other records. ![]() It seems that the company changed its name to the Office Specialty Manufacturing Company in the early 1880's, although the Yawman & Erbe name may also have been retained for use on other products. Along with the Globe-Wernicke Company of Cincinnati, Ohio and the Art Metal Construction Company of Jamestown, New York, Yawman & Erbe were among the first American manufacturers of vertical filing cabinets. Yawman and Gustave Erbe, two former employees of Bausch & Lomb. ![]() The Yawman & Erbe Company of Rochester New York was founded in the 1870's by Philip H. 1, Office Specialty Manufacturing Company, Rochester, New York, 1897." An earlier clip under the "Shannon" name was patented in 1878 by the Yawman & Erbe Company of Rochester, New York and advertised as the "Shannon Single Arch File No. Above, the head of a 2-hole hanging clipboard I picked up years ago. ![]()
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