Source: Swanson, Don. Rockford (Images of America). Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2012. Page 19.
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Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson in Various Newspaper Articles
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson’s Patents
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson with Johnson Pen Company
Source: Haugen, Doug. “The Johnson Pen Company.” The Pennant, Fall 2021, p. 28-35.
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Article is posted with the author, Doug Haugen’s, permission on October 28, 2022 via email.
Mechanics Furniture Company, postcard, August 1912; located at 1100 Seminary Street, the company was in business from 1890-1935
Postcard dated August 1912.
Gas tanks built by Rockford Gas Light & Coke Company on South Avon Street, built in 1928-1929, razed in 1962 by its successor, Central Illinois Electric and Gas Company
Source: Rockford Republic, May 29, 1928 and Rockford Register-Republic, January 5, 1962
Inventor Joseph A. Schlehr granted US Patent: 1,075,945 on his wrench design on October 14, 1913
Source: www.datamp.org/patents
ELLO Annual Furniture Sale
Source: Rockford Morning Star, May 31, 1998, p. 7A.
O. B. Solie Creates Mirrored Furniture For ELLO
Source: Fort Lauderdale News, May 14, 1977.
New Solie Designs for ELLO Furniture
Source: Chicago Tribune, Oct. 20, 1974.