Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1678
Putnam Nail advertisement from The Youth’s Companion, Jan. 9, 1902.
Silas Putnam made his first fortune with curtain rollers. Then he invented a method of producing machine-made horseshoe nails. For fifty years his factories on Port Norfolk produced the majority of horseshoe nails in the country.
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