Dieterich-Post Nr. 3060 Front Scale 10in A [ B, CI, C ] D, K \\ 25cm

The founders of our Company, James Dieterich, Sr. and Rudolf Post, began operations in 1917, with a slogan that we still believe in and maintain today, "Builders of Goodwill."

With that slogan, Mr. Dieterich and Mr. Post launched what has become the finest distributor of drafting and engineering supplies in all the United States. We hope you too will realize the contribution we make to all facets of the drafting, engineering, architectural, reprographics, desktop publishing, and large format printing industries.

Mr. Dieterich, Sr. was born in South Portland, Maine, reared in Boston, and began his career at the age 14 as an errand boy in the blueprint shop run by Bertrand L. Makepeace. It was there that he met Nellie E. Wilson (abt 1918-?), the bookkeeper, who later became Mrs. Dieterich. From the 1940 census, they had two sons James W. Dieterich (b1918) and Robert E. Dieterich (b1922) and lived in Contra Costa, California .

In her memoirs, Nell recalls that, prior to their meeting, Jim's principal ambition in those early boston days was to become a billiards champion(in the footsteps of Willie Hoppe). Thus, to polish his craft and to achieve this goal, he spent most of his evenings in a local pool hall. Obviously, she changed that!

Jim came West in 1910, stopping first to visit with a cousin in Clancy, Montana. Moving on to San Francisco, he became a traveling salesman, then assistant manager for Keuffel & Esser. After a number of years at K & E, he went to work for Victor Post and his brother, Rudolph, who ran the San Francisco branch of the Chicago-based Frederick Post Company. In 1917 Rudolph and Jim bought out Victor's share of the firm, and the Dieterich-Post Company was formed.

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