Albany Brush Factory

Albany Brush Factory
Albany Brush Factory
1858. J.B. Armour, Brush Manufacturer, keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of brushes of all kinds and descriptions. When I was growing up, brushes were still a big thing. There were still Fuller brush salesmen, going door to door. Today, even though we still use brushes for all sorts of things, it seems like they’ve gone underground, or aren’t thought of as a class of object. My shoe brush, bottle brush, toilet brush all came from different places (and, originally, from China). Not from Armour’s Albany Brush Factory.

 

Fuller Brush, by the way, had a Capital District presence. Its plastic bottle and toothbrush factory was in Philmont, Columbia County, and at some point Fuller bought out the Mohawk Brush Co., then in the Industrial Building at 1031 Broadway, which made hairbrushes and industrial floor brushes.

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