Highland Embroidery Works was organized in November 1880 by Johann Rusch. Rusch was trained in Switzerland, on a Heilman Embroidery Machine, that had been invented in 1838. He immigrated to Highland ...
Employees of Highland Embroidery Works gather outside the building 1917. Lorna (wife of Roland) Harris’ great uncle, William Buettner, one of the stitchers, is second from the left in the photo in ...