Barber Asphalt Paving Co.

Barber Asphalt Paving Co., also known as the Barber Asphalt Company, was an American corporation best known for producing and laying asphalt pavement. It was closely associated with businessman Amzi Lorenzo Barber, whose name became strongly linked with the company and its growth.

For audiobook and book readers, the company is remembered today because Project Gutenberg lists it as the author of The Wonderland of Trinidad. That makes it an unusual entry in an author catalog: not an individual writer, but a commercial firm whose name appears on a surviving travel-themed work.

Because the available sources identify the company more clearly than any specific in-house writer, it is best understood as a corporate author. In that sense, its literary footprint is small, but distinctive: a paving company that also helped leave behind a snapshot of place, promotion, and period style.