Album containing __ photographs showcasing a variety of new photo-mechanical reproduction and routing equipment available for purchase from the John Royle & Sons Company. Also included in the album are "heritage views" depicting outdated-yet-indestructable machinery that was still "in operation" but had been superseded by newer models.

John Royle, an American success story, emigrated to the United States in 1830, a boy of 8 years old. He came with his father following some dissension within their family. They settled in Patterson, New Jersey, where Jeremiah, John's father, soon found work as a laborer with the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor machine shops. This company would later become the Rogers Locomotive Works where John would undergo an apprenticeship in 1839, the same year his father suffered a fatal accident while working for the company. It was here that John learned to understand metal turning and machine tools. Following this, Royle worked for the Watson Company (later the Watson-Stillman Co.), before founding his own company, John Royle & Sons, in 1855. The company were specialist builders of photoengraving machinery, a newly desirable technology following the explosion of Photography in the latter 19th century. They also produced machinery for Jacquard card-cutting and extrusion and straining of rubbers and plastics.

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