Welch, Bigelow & Co.

LC Name Authority record no.: n85303696

LC Heading: Welch, Bigelow & Co.

From Welch, Bigelow and Company Collection, 1867-86 finding aid (http://archon.bpl.org/?p=collections/findingaid&id=131, accessed on 7/11/2017 by S. Salvaggio):

Welch, Bigelow, and Company was established in 1859 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1859-1879, Welch, Bigelow printed for the James R. Osgood Company who published such authors as Richard Henry Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson and for Harvard University. When the company failed in 1879, John Wilson bought the building and started John Wilson and Son, University Press. This company lasted until 1894 when it became a corporation.