M. Werthan and Company was founded by Meier Werthan in 1895. He was originally in the business of buying, reconditioning, and selling used burlap bags. By 1913, the business expanded into the manufacture of new textile bags, made of cotton fabric...
Pictured: A circus man making a horseshoe, with the Ringling Brothers Circus at Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.