Trade catalogs, 1928-1932.

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Trade catalogs, 1928-1932.

Item : Reducing the weight of car flooring; Johns-Manville service to railroads, 1928. Item : Transite pipe; transite ventilators; transite leaders and gutters, 1932.

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Johns-Manville Corporation

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The H.W. Johns Manufacturing Company (New York, N.Y.) was founded in 1858 for the use of asbestos as a fire resistant roofing material. The Manville Covering Company (Milwaukee, Wis.) was founded in 1886 for the use of asbestos as a heat insulating material. They merged in 1901 to form the H.W. Johns-Manville Company (New York, N.Y.). The company was reincorporated as Johns-Manville Corporation in 1926, but was temporarily named Manville Corporation between 1981 and 1997. Now Johns-Manville, hea...