A file print of the Heywood-Wakefield Company school furniture and auditorium setting display at the April 5, 1952 Boston NEA exhibition. The photograph shows Heywood-Wakefield school desks and chairs in front of a wall depicting the furniture in use. Started in 1826, the Heywood-Wakefield Company was the largest furniture manufacturing companies in America by 1926. In addition to their chairs and household furniture, Heywood-Wakefield produced seats for trains, airplanes, buses, baseball parks, schools and municipal auditoriums.
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Is part of the W. Joseph Carr Collection, LaChance Library, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts, http://www.mwcc.edu/Html/Library/index.html. For further information, see the Greater Gardner Furniture History Documentary Project website, http://www.mwcc.edu/gardnerfurniture/default.html.
