National Stamping & Electric Works was a company founded in Chicago in 1897 by Frank Kohlhase. The company manufactured kerosene lamps and irons as well as electrical appliances, until being acquired in 1948 by the Eureka-Williams Corporation absorbed in 1951. Originally called The National Stamping Works; Electric was added to the name in 1903. In 1922, the business expanded and they built a new headquarters.
White Cross White Cross was a brand of household electrical products sold starting in 1907. The brand was first used by the Lindstrom, Smith Company. The Lindstrom, Smith Company was a manufacturer of electrical appliances in the early 1900s located in Chicago. The company first started advertising their products in 1907, and was bought out by the National Stamping & Electric Works in 1921, which continued the use of the White Cross brand name until the 1950s. https://www.google.com/books/edition/MacRae_s_Blue_Book_and_Hendricks_Commerc/g-98eKl3mukC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22lindstrom+smith%22&pg=PA174&printsec=frontcover White Cross is notable for being one of the earliest brands of Vibrator, which they advertised mainly as a medical device, but sold with "applicators" for many purposes.
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