Plimpton Press

active Boston and Norwood, Massachusetts, 1882-1963

Biographyhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82116635 found: NUCMC data from Norwood Historical Society for Plimpton Press papers, 1905-1981 (Plimpton Press; orig. estab. 1882 by Herbert M. Plimpton in Boston; moved to Norwood, Mass., 1897; by 1920 the bindery part of the plant was capable of producing 50,000 v. daily; by 1936 employed over 600 men and women; produced textbooks but expanded into religious books, fiction, and deluxe editions; by 1950s had over 1200 employees; in 1924 opened subsidiary plant in LaPorte, Ind.; purchased by McCall Printing Co. [no publs. in LC data base] in 1964 and in 1970 by Murray Traub Acquiring Corp. [no publs. in LC data base] which ran it until it closed Oct. 1973)
found: NUCMC data from Norwood Historical Society for Holliston Mills records, 1935-1985 (Holliston Mills estab. 1893 when Herbert M. and Howard E. Plimpton estab. a company called Security Manufacturing Company on site of what would become Plimpton Press; name Holliston Mills adopted in 1895; engaged in the making of bookbinding glue as an adjunct to next-door press company; by 1900 company began making bookbinding cloth which would become its primary product; in 1920 Holliston Mills was formally incorporated as a separate company from its parent, Plimpton Press; later Holliston Mills plants were built in Tenn.)

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