Wilbur M. Ressler photographs, 1983-1993.

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Wilbur M. Ressler photographs, 1983-1993.

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The collection consists of two binders of black & white and color photographs and two folders of proof sheets and negatives dating from 1983 to 1993, taken by amateur photographer Wilbur Ressler. He documented the Bullard plant demolition and the subsequent construction of a retail store and cinema on the site.

2 binders.

Fairfield Historical Society Library

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Ressler, Wilbur M.

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Wilbur Ressler, a lifelong Fairfield resident, started working at the Bullard Company while a student at the University of Bridgeport. He and a colleague alternated semesters working and studying. In total, Ressler worked for the company for thirty-two years in the engineering department. His father had worked in the sheet metal department during World War II.The Bullard Company was founded in 1880 by Edward Payson Bullard as the Bridgeport Machine Tool Works in a loft in Bridgeport, Connecticut...

Bullard Company

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In 1880 Edward Payson Bullard founded the Bridgeport Machine Tool Works in a loft in Bridgeport, Conn. The company produced vertical lathes, machine tools used in other industries such as transportation and construction. By 1890 the company had grown and was producing lathes, boring and turning mills, turret machines, standard box tools, die holders and dies, pointing tools, stop gauges. In 1894 the company name changed to Bullard Machine Tool Works. It moved its plant to Black Rock in 1917. On ...