Ithaca Organ and Piano Factory/Stanford-Crowell Sign Works/GLF

"The Ithaca Sign Works, owned by the Stanford-Crowell Company manufactures signs of all sizes, from the small million so commonly secreted in a ladies handbag to a flying machine that does not fly. The Ithaca Sign Works makes more of a specialty of small novelties, such as match strikers, fans direct from Japan, drinking cups, fly killers, calendars, etc. A carload of drinking cups, about 100,000 a month, are shipped out of Ithaca. They sell pictures which are handled ten times in the coloring and varnishing, and yardsticks--they sell them by the hundreds of thousands. If you have ever attended a county or state fair, of course you know where some of them go. The output this year will aggregate over a million and a half. They are all cut, printed with advertising and varnished right here in Ithaca. The calendar trade for this Christmas was shipped out last May, but some calendars for local merchants are still being made.
The most novel signs of the factory are the huge wooden ones which are made in all sizes and shapes. The airship previously mentioned is a large board sign cut to the shape of a dirigible balloon, with advertising on the imitation gas bag. Others represent automobiles, phonographs, street cars, etc. Some days, Mr. Crowell says, the shipments made will go to twenty-five or thirty states."

"Among the new and enterprising business establishments of Ithaca, The Swiss Organ Company promises to be one of the leading.
The new organization consists of Hon. Wm. L. Bostwick, President; P.F. Session, Secretary and Treasurer; J. H. Hintermeister, General Agent; and H. Wegman, Superintendent of Works. The company commenced operations yesterday in their new building at the Inlet, which is 120x36 ft and two stories high; this building is situated conveniently near the planing mill owned by the same parties, and in which the machinery is placed that is used for dressing the material used. The new building is divided into compartments for the several purposes of an office, which is very nicely furnished, construction, storage, tuning etc., and in its arrangement is a model of convenience. The company has in its employ a force of twenty-five men, who are all skilled and experienced in the art of organ making, some of them being real Swiss workmen. The establishment will make about twenty-five organs a week, for which the proprietors claim an excellence in workmanship and style of finish, equal to that of any other organ factory. Both parlor and church organs will be made, all in the cabinet style. The organs will retail at prices ranging from $100 to $300, depending upon the number of reeds, still of case and finish, number of stops, etc. The proprietors can reasonably claim considerable degree of excellence for their work, for everything about the factory is in first class order; the steam facilities for running the machinery have already done good work, and the technical part is in the hands of men who understand their business."

"The Swiss Organ Company," Ithaca Daily Journal, May 15, 1877, 4.

Ithaca Organ Co., office and factory, S bank Inlet

1878 Ithaca Directory, 151.

Ithaca Organ Co., W of Inlet, W.L. Bostwick, Press's; P.F. Session, Sec'y and Treas'r; J.H. Hinterminster, General Agent; H. Wegman, Sup't

1880-1881 Ithaca Directory, 152

"The Ithaca Organ Company, (Successors to the Swiss Organ Company) Manufacturers of First-Class Parlor and Church Organs...
Factory and Ware Rooms at the Inlet, Ithaca, N.Y."

Advertisement for the Ithaca Organ Company, May 29, 1877, 1.