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Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
Stamford, Connecticut

Hardware Catalogs & Publications

This page contains purchase links for the Catalogs and Publications issued by the Yale & Towne Manufactoring Company of Stamford, CT. While the company that became Yale & Towne began with Linus Yale's lock business in 1868, Henry Towne's business and marketing skills led to perhaps some of the best American builder's hardware produced in the 1890s and afterward. You will be purchasing high-resolution digital copies of these catalogs for your use. Books and Catalogs are available for purchase as PDF downloads only.

Bibliographical information about books and catalogs are provided when known, including title (in italics), date of publication, pagination, and page size (height x width). Catalogs are complete unless otherwise noted. In most cases, PDFs are color scans of complete catalogs. Note: Downloads of these catalogs are sold with the understanding that they are for the personal or business use of those purchasing them, and are not for public distribution without permission from the ADCA.

A lower-resolution free Preview of selected pages from each catalog is available by clicking the "Catalog Preview" button and downloading or opening that PDF file. Each PDF includes the title page, index (if the catalog contains one), and several pages of designs, which will give you a sample of what the entire catalog contains.


To Purchase Books and Catalogs:
  1. Click the "Add to Cart" button for each item that you wish to purchase. The same cart will be used for all pages of the website. If you add 10 or more books and catalogs to your shopping cart and complete the purchase of 10 or more items, you will receive a 10% discount when you checkout (the price of each item will be reduced 10%).
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Yale Lock Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Price List of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Co. . . . No. 3
February 1871  
31 pp., 10 x 6¾.
$3.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Conn.
Catalogue (And Price List) No. 7.
1880.
132 pp., 11 x 7½

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$11.00
 
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Yale Lock Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Catalogue No. 8
1881                
72 pp., 11 x 8.
$6.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Conn.
Catalogue No. 10.
1884.  
384 pp., 11 x 7 ½.

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$30.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Catalogue No. 11
1885                                                    
100 pp., 10¾ x 7¾.
$8.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalogue No. 12.
1889.  
564 pp., 11 x 8.

CATALOG PREVIEW
$42.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Catalogue No. 13
1890
128 pp., 11½ x 8.
$11.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalogue No. 14.
1893.  
xxiv, 299 pp., 7 ½ x 5.

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$25.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalogue No. 15, Supplementary to Catalogue No. 14.
1894.
xv, 200 pp., 7½ x 5.

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$17.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Art Metal Work: Catalogue No. 16.
July, 1897.  
xv, 200 pp., 7 ½ x 5.

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$16.00
 
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Henry Towne
[Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.]
Locks and Builders’ Hardware: A Handbook for Architects
1904
1117 pp., 6½ x 4.
$84.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Trade Catalogue of Locks & Hardware No. 18: Handy Edition.
1905.
206 pp., 9 x 6.

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$16.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalogue No. 20.
1910.  
915 pp., 12 x 11.
Lacking pp. 59–90, as issued.

CATALOG PREVIEW
$67.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Yale Cabinet and Trunk Locks: Catalogue No. 20F
1912                
219 pp., 12½ x 11.
$16.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalog No. 21: Locks and Latches, Builders’ Hardware and Chain Blocks
1913
494 pp., 9 x 6.
Includes Price Book No. 1 to Catalogue No. 21 (99 pp.).

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$45.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Album of Special Hardware
1907–1914
Album of 210 blueprints of special hardware manufactured by Yale & Towne from 1907 to 1914; most items interleaved with a page of descriptive text.
412 pp., 10½ x 7½.
Note: original Album is in the Lock Museum of America.
$31.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
A Collection of Catalogues showing some of the leading Yale Products.
ca. 1915.
[6], 98, [2]; 61; 38; 45; 54 pp., 8¾ x 6.

CATALOG PREVIEW
$24.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Locks and Hardware Catalog No. 22.
1917.
353 pp., 12 x 8¾.

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$26.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Yale Padlocks, Night Latches, Cabinet Locks, Dead Locks,
Trunk Locks, Door Closers: Catalog No. 24                            
1917                
515 pp., 9 x 6.
$38.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalog No. 25.
1921.
450 pp., 10½ x 7.  

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$35.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Cerraduras y Herraje Especiales para Construcciones.
1923.
31 pp., 10½ x 7½.

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$3.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalog No. 26.
1929.  
xlviii, 517 pp., 10 ½ x 7 ½.

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$48.00
 
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Album of Special Hardware
ca. 1920–38     
278 blueprints of special hardware manufactured by Yale & Towne.
Includes 49 leaves of index pages describing the blueprints.
Note: original Album is in the Lock Museum of America.
$25.00
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Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Catalog No. 29: Builders’ Locks and Hardware; Door Closers.
ca. 1937.  
[4], xxxv, 401, 45 pp., 11 x 8.

CATALOG PREVIEW
$37.00
 
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