GEIB CASE REVIEW
things being made, and smoking the cigars his wife would not allow him to smoke at home. Ambrose was the operator: planning production, meeting with department foremen, taking out customers for lunch—” somebody from the Harmony company or Kay, Sears or Wards,” recalled his son John— and occasionally sitting down at a vacant sewing machine himself when a worker called in sick. He was known for hiring people
left: Vintage Geib & Schaefer Aeroplane Cloth“ Tweed” case, produced from approximately 1934 to 1942.
below: The Geib & Shaefer Factory Shop Floor, 1906. Photo courtesy of Greg Bowers
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