A Century of Toledo Scale

Caption on reverse reads: "Scale Employees 48 yrs. ago: Jack Rittenhouse seated on curb."

Toledo Scale Advertisement

1926 Industrial League.

1930 City Champs.

Caption for the 1930 City Champs photo (previous)

A cover from the "Toledo System" newsletter extoling good personal habits for the company's salesmen.

Mr. Hugh Bennett and Sir Percy Mills (England) outside the Toledo Scale factory.

Bomber being weighed on a Toledo Scale

Toledo Scales ad sign on Broadway, New York

Toledo Scale Advertisement

The American Shell Co. letter of appreciation to Toledo Scale, 1919.

A Toledo Scale clerk with growing account books, ca. 1930s.

Color print of an early scale, n.d.

An unidentified Toledo Scale dinner party.

An unidentified Toledo Scale dinner, n.d.

Allen DeVilbiss, The Second, n.d..

Small Machinery Dept., Dec. 20, 1926.

Workers 1919 - Joe Klemp is the boy second from right.

Packing Dept., 1926-1939.

Workers at bench, 1926-1939.

Unidentified workers (and child laborer), 1926-1939.

Unidentified workers, 1926-1939.

Unidentified workers, 1926-1939.

Old Bldg. Inspection Dept., 2nd. floor, 1926-1939.

Unidentified workers, n.d..

Unidentified workers, n.d..

C.C. Faylor (on LaChance painting)

Field servicemen at Toledo to study the printweigh, Dec. 1931.

Scale in freezer of Almac's Supermarket, Sukonk, Mass.

The Toledo Trophy, 1935.

Advertising correspondence regarding the Toledo Trophy, 1935.

Blueprint of the Toledo Trophy.

Letter regarding the Toledo Trophy.

Presentation of the Toledo Trophy.

The Toledo Trophy.

Toledo Trophy certificate.

Memo regarding the Toledo trophy.

Installation of prize scale at Univ. of Minnesota, n.d. (L-R: Julie Alphonse, team captain; Bernie Brennan, coach; Frank McCormick, Athletic Director.)

Dave Garn (on LaChance painting)

Henry Theobald, founder of Toledo Scale Company

J. P. Huntzinger (on LaChance painting)

Literary Digest for August 28, 1926, page 21

Lloyd J. Colenback, n.d.

Fred E. Metz (on LaChance painting)

 A.W. Meyer (on LaChance painting)

Scales in use in milling operation.

Scales in use in paper mill.

A Toledo Scale Office, n.d. (probably 1930s).

Walter Palmer (on LaChance painting)

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Toledo Plaskon Duplex Scale Catalog

Employees of Toledo Precision Devices, Inc., Sept. 1932.

Protesters

Protesters

Protesters

Boy holding up protest sign

Letter regarding prize for solving the rebus

Jack Rittenhouse (on LaChance painting)

Certificate of Safety awarded to Toledo Scale by the Industrial Commission of Ohio, 1938.

The Toledo Scale clearinghouse for salesmen.

Correspondence related to sales history, page 1, May 31, 1938

Sales History, page 2

Sales History, page 3

Scale in use in San Antonio, Texas, butcher shop.

Scales in use in Schmidt's Butcher Shop. City unknown.

Earliest photo of a retail Toledo Scale in use.

A Toledo Scale showroom in Omaha, Neb., 1943.

A Toledo Scale showroom in Miami, Florida, 1943

A Toledo Scale showroom in Trenton, New Jersey, 1943.

A Toledo Scale showroom in Akron, Ohio, 1947.

A Toledo Scale showroom in Cleveland, n.d..

A Toledo Scale showroom in Buffalo, New York, n.d..

'Heinz Display, Philadelphia, Pa., 1922'

Otto Teall (on LaChance painting)

A salesman's trunk from the early years.

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

Unidentified Person (on LaChance painting)

A Toledo Scale float in the Navy Relief Parade, Jul. 14, 1942.

Unidentified workers, n.d..

Women at work

Parcel Post Scale. Shipping Dept. W.W. II.