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Narragansett Machine Company
An early Providence, Rhode Island manufacturer, this company left behind practical catalogs that open a window into the worlds of bowling, gymnasiums, and physical training in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its books feel less like traditional reading and more like a tour through the equipment, design, and ambitions of their era.
1 Audiobook
Bowling Catalog E
by Narragansett Machine Company
About the author
Narragansett Machine Company was a Providence, Rhode Island firm known for producing catalogs and manuals tied to athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment. Surviving records show it published works on subjects including bowling, gymnastic apparatus, and medical or anthropometric equipment, which suggests the company served schools, gyms, clubs, and other institutions interested in physical culture.
Listings from library and public-domain sources connect the company to a range of historical trade publications rather than a single literary work. Those books are especially interesting today because they document how sports and exercise spaces were outfitted, marketed, and imagined in their time.
Because this is a company author rather than an individual person, a standard author portrait does not appear to be available from the sources reviewed.