Keywords: kalamazoo public library michigan history photography shakespeare products company factory manufacturing room reel winding patent assembling workers indoor Interior of Shakespeare Products Company. An unidentified man assembling a reel. Original photo caption reads, "William Shakespeare Jr. was the first to patent a level winding reel." Several other unidentified workers in the background. For more information on Shakespeare Products Company read: www.kpl.gov/local-history/business/shakespeare.aspx KPL catalogue number P-73. Interior of Shakespeare Products Company. An unidentified man assembling a reel. Original photo caption reads, "William Shakespeare Jr. was the first to patent a level winding reel." Several other unidentified workers in the background. For more information on Shakespeare Products Company read: www.kpl.gov/local-history/business/shakespeare.aspx KPL catalogue number P-73. |