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Advertisements for Knights of Labor Products

Date: 11 29 1888
Description: Advertisements for co-operative companies including Co-operative Collar and Cuff Company, Solidarity Watch Case Company and a tailoring company. They appea...
Photograph

Cananea Consolidated Copper Company

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Description: The interior of Cananea Consolidated Copper Company is shown. The company was founded in 1899 in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Photograph published by Humphri...
Photograph

Armour and Company Packard Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A 1915 Packard Truck owned by Armour and Company. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
Photograph

Simmon's Company Packard Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A 1915 Packard Truck owned by the Simmons Manufacturing Company. The body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
Photograph

American Locomotive Company

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Description: The erecting department at Brooks Works of the American Locomotive Company, founded in 1901. Photograph published by Skinner's News Company.
Photograph

American Thread Company

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Description: Mill Number Two of the American Tread Company. The English Sewing Company purchased the Willimantic Linen Company England mills in 1898 and formed the Amer...
Photograph

Marathon Paper Mills Company

Date: 1930
Description: View of the Marathon Paper Mills Company in winter. In 1956, Marathon sold the Ashland plant to the American Can Company, before that, the Menasha Company ...
Photograph

John A. White and Company

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Description: Exterior of the John A. White and Company, a wood-working machinery company, formed in 1877.
Photograph

Pepperell Manufacturing Company

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Description: Elevated view of Pepperell Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of sheets, including company town and surrounding countryside. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye V...
Photograph

Company Quarters

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Description: Four men stand in a country setting near the company quarters of Fort Brown, on which construction started in 1845. Caption reads: "Company Quarters, Fort ...
Photograph

Madison Pepsi Cola Company Truck

Date: 09 16 1938
Description: Madison Pepsi Cola Company truck made by the Ideal Body Company in front of the Ideal Body Company shop on Park Street.
Photograph

Ideal Body Company Truck

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Description: Truck with bed built by Ideal Body Company advertising the company. the truck is parked in front of the Ideal Body Company building on Park Street.
Photograph

Madison Plow Company

Date: 1916
Description: Madison Plow Company.
Photograph

Packard 2-Ton Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A Packard 2-ton truck owned by the Chain Belt Company. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
Photograph

The Columbia Chemical Company

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Columbia Chemical Company, constructed in 1899.
Photograph

Body Production

Date: 1913
Description: Interior of the Milwaukee factor of the W.S. Seaman Company, a manufacturer of bodies for various automobile companies. In 1919 Nash Motors purchased a ha...
Photograph

Consolidated Paper Company Offices

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Description: View of the Consolidated Paper Company Offices standing on the bank of the Wisconsin River. The Consolidated Paper Company formed in 1894.
Photograph

Home and Garden

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Description: Front view of home and garden, with ivy covering the front porch, in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company.
Postcard

Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building

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Description: View across lawn toward the Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building. Caption reads: "Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

Man in Bean Garden

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Description: A man stands in front of several very tall bean plants. Photograph taken in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company.

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