T206 Factories

[SetBuilder]

Could this be what the lithography machines looked like?

[t206blogcom]

For those who are interested, here are some modern day images of the ALC building in NYC (taken from Google Maps):

[steve B]

Yes, although I think those are somewhat newer.

Steve B

Originally Posted by SetBuilder

Could this be what the lithography machines looked like?

[mrvster]

Great input everyone.....

This is facinating to me.....makes me almost want to go to the lithographic building......that's where more than likely my "freaks" evolved.....just awesome.....thanks for everyones research....i'm lazy

peace

v

[atx840]

Similar to these Steve?

[SetBuilder]

Imagine how many employees it took to operate those machines, print, and cut millions of T206 cards!

I wonder how many cards the employees took home.

They were very popular with kids and I'm sure many of them had eager relatives asking for cards.

When the order from upper management came to destroy all the Wagner cards, I'm sure several pocketed some.

[steve B]

Those presses are closer, and very early for printing from plates.

The ones printing from stones were more like this one from
http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/499...der-jobbing-m/



Making them wouldn't have taken long. Figuring an unlikely but for math convenient 10x10 sheet,
100cards x 1000 sheets an hour =100,000 cards/hour.
x10 hours of production /day = 1,000,000 cards/day.

Figure 10 colors counting the back, so they could easily turn out 100,000 a day, probably more if the sheet was bigger as was likely, or if they used more than one press.

Add in a couple days for cutting, and a million cards probably took around two weeks.

Steve B

[vintagechris]

I found this postcard online of several tobacco warehouses and factories in Wilson NC. Maybe some of these distributed the cards.
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set333/card00270_fr.jpg

[vintagechris]

Here is another cool site. I believe some of these photos may show factory 42

http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com...e-factory.html