Educational Supply Company
founded 1886
The Educational Supply Company of Boston had a listing in the 1889 edition of Illustrated Boston: The Metropolis of New England Containing Also Reviews of Its Principal Environs, where it was described as the "Publishers, Manufacturers and Importers of Microscopes, Chemical, and Physical Apparatus; [and] Agents for the Papyrograph."
It was established In 1886 by the consolidation of several houses in this line of trade and was incorporated under the present name. George A. Smith was the treasurer and general manager.
The company boasted that it was the "American agent for several leading European manufacturers [of microscopes] and...the only company in this country that carries in stock a line of these goods." It also specialized in "Minot's Automatic Microtome" and other microtomes.
It was established In 1886 by the consolidation of several houses in this line of trade and was incorporated under the present name. George A. Smith was the treasurer and general manager.
The company boasted that it was the "American agent for several leading European manufacturers [of microscopes] and...the only company in this country that carries in stock a line of these goods." It also specialized in "Minot's Automatic Microtome" and other microtomes.
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<i>Illustrated Boston: The Metropolis of New England Containing Also Reviews of Its Principal Environs</I>, 2nd ed. (New York: American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1889), 129.