Description
This postcard features the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in Detroit, Michigan. It highlights the large manufacturing facility known for adding machines. The postcard is undated.
Front Text (verbatim):
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Back Text (verbatim):
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO.
Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit, Michigan, is the largest manufacturer of its kind in the world, building a complete line of adding, bookkeeping, billing, and calculating machines. It was first organized as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, in 1886, by William Seward Burroughs and his associates to produce and market the first practical adding machine, the invention of Burroughs.
