Reese's Interlocking Adjustable Stencils

According to Reese's New Patent Adjustable Stencil Letters, official credit for the first "settable-unit stencils" goes to Edwin Allen, who filed his U.S. patent in 1840.  Samuel Widdows Reese was a veteran of the American Civil War, who settled in Chicago after the conflict.  His first stencil patent was filed in 1873, 

and then a second patent was applied for three years later for stencils with an S-fold on one edge to lock the stencils together.  In that same year, 1876, he opened his firm, S.W. Reese & Company, in Chicago.  Reese left the Chicago company under the management of his partner, Christian Hanson, and established a second business, Reese & Company, in Manhattan.  

Popular Gardening, 1887

The New Wonder Book Cyclopedia of World Knowledge.  Philadelphia & Toronto:  International Press, 1954.

The Chicago company became C.H. Hanson in 1866, and remains today a family-owned concern.  They still manufacture interlocking brass stencils, but no longer under the Reese name.  In 2013 they acquired the Palmgren Tool Business, a famous maker of rotary tables and drill-press vices.

Popular Science, October 1948

Popular Mechanics, February 1951

Brand Names, 1923

David N. Martin.  Romancing the Brand.  New York:  Amacom, 1989.

I only recognize half of them.

Bakelite Synthetic resins

Crop duster

John J. Floherty, Aviation From the Ground up, Lippincott 1960

The business end 

The Machine: A Poem by Mary Elizabeth Colman

C.T. Fyfe & Lorne Pierce.  Our Heritage.  The Ryerson Press/The Macmillans in Canada.  Published 1930.  Revised 1932, 1936, 1941 & 1948.  20th Printing, 1952.

Save waste fat for explosives!

Austin.  An Illustrated History.  David C. Humphrey, 1985.

Planes in formation; Douglas Dauntless

Barrett Tillman, the dauntless dive bomber of world war two, United States Naval Institute Press, 1976

Arnold Ferret tractor

Looks interesting and homemade but apparently was manufactured by N.P. Arnold of Pengilly, Minnesota in the early seventies.

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Fbk Marketplace ad 2023

Tractor maintenance at night

Songs of the Commonwealth, 1945

George Roy Fenwick (1889-1970) became Supervisor and, between 1935 and 1959, Director of Music for the Ontario Department of Education.  

Imagine, a time in which music was considered so important that the provincial government actually paid someone to be director of such studies!  Among his accomplishments were the school broadcasts, "Music for Young Folk" that were produced and carried by CBC between 1946 and 1964.  With the use of supplementary notes, these were intended to help music teachers in their classrooms.

Gordon V. Thompson Ltd. was a music publishing, distributing and retailing firm that operated between 1932 and 1990, when it became a division of the Warner/Chappell Music Canada enterprise. Thompson was a canny businessman, and acquired the copyright for Robert Stanley Weir's English version of 'O Canada.' He generously permitted other publishers to use this copyrighted text in their own songbooks, and in 1968 offered the copyright to the Government of Canada for $1.