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Heywood-Wakefield, 50-year Employees 50-year employees of the Heywood-Wakefield Company in 1928. Front row, from left: Andrew Anderson, Mary McCann, John Foley, Henry DeRoche. Back row, from left: Napoleon Munier, James Coleman, Patrick Maloney, Patrick Finneran, Cornelius O'Leary.
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Heywwood-Wakefield cabinet A cabinet made by the Heywood-Wakefield Company at its Wakefield, Massachusetts factory around the turn of the 20th century.
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Heywood-Wakefield showroom An early Heywood-Wakefield wicker furniture showroom - Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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Heywood-Wakefield showroom A furniture showroom at the Heywood-Wakefield Company - Wakefield, Masssachusetts, in the early 20th century.
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Heywood-Wakefield chair An early wicker chair made by the Heywood-Wakefield Company.
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Rattan Furniture in truck A truck loaded with 250 chairs from the Wakefield rattan factory, driven by Paul DiDonato, Dec. 4, 1917.
Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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Heywood-Wakefield Chair An early wicker chair made by the Heywood-Wakefield Company, located in Wakefield , Massachusetts. From the early 20th century factory showroom.
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Cyrus Wakefield Note that the identifications inscribed under the two Cyrus Wakefield photos are reversed. The first Cyrus Wakefield, the man who founded the Wakefield Rattan Company around 1855 and who lent his name to the town in 1868, is actually on the right. The man on the left is his nephew, Cyrus Wakefield II, who took over the company in 1873 following his uncle's death. The business eventually became the Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company.
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Wakefield's Rattan Factory - 1866 The Wakefield Factory, around 1866.
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Wakefield Factory Earliest known depiction of The Wakefield Factory, around 1856.
Founded by Cyrus Wakefield in what was then South Reading, Massachusetts, the business would eventually become the Heywood-Wakefield Company, one of the foremost furniture maufacturers in the country. South Reading changed its name to "Wakefield" in 1868, after Cyrus donated money and land for a new Town Hall.
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RattanMachineShop An 1870 photo shows the rattan machine shop from east.
Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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Old Wakefield factory An 1865 view of WAKEFIELD'S RATTAN MANUFACTORY.
Founded by Cyrus Wakefield in what was then South Reading, Massachusetts, the business would eventually become the Heywood-Wakefield Company. South Reading changed its name to Wakefield in 1868, after Cyrus donated money and land for a new Town Hall.
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Hoogly An undated illustration of the "Wakefield Clipper Ship Hoogly discharging a cargo of rattans at Constitution Warf, Boston.
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Heywood-Wakefield Company A load of rugs upon a horse-drawn truck outside the rattan factory in 1894. The driver is identified as Andy Dulong.
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Heywood-Wakefield workers Workers at the Heywood-Wakefield rattan furniture factories in Wakefield, Massachusetts - 1897.
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RattanWood&MachineShop An 1880 exterior of the rattan wood and machine shop.
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Wakefield Factory A view of the rattan factories from 1926.
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Wakefield rattan factories on Water St. A 1905 view from the east side of the Wakefield rattan factories, when Water St. ran through the factory yard. Land in foreground was once cow pasture and is now Nasella Park. The top of the Lincoln School can be seen in background, right.