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Two men, Ed Majerus at left and possibly John O’Rourke at right, stand in the Majerus Grocery Store at 475 Clay Street. These products are visible in the store: a crate full of heads of lettuce or cabbage, Jell-O gelatin, Welch’s Grape Juice,…

A man sits, looking at a piece of paper, in a small, unidentified office in the B & I Building. There is a table in front of him—in the foreground—and a roll-top desk behind him. A Journal titled, “Merchants Trade Journal,” and a telephone…

A man, dressed in overalls and a white shirt, is standing near a large, circular laundry tub. The tub appears to be an early industrial washing machine. Pipes and valves are visible protruding from the floor and from a row of horizontally mounted…

A bearded man works at a table in a large, unidentified office in the B & I Building. There is a roll-top desk behind him. Hanging from a picture rail on the back wall is a map of Iowa with pins covering the northeast part of the state. A June, 1912…

A large, glass-front display case with various sized boxes, pamphlets and rows of tools used in the practice of dentistry dominates this image. Another case filled with bottles is also visible. A woman, seated, is partially visible behind an…

Two men, one of whom may be Paul Strelau, are standing and seated at a waist-high, double-sided worktable, with an angled writing surface. Ledgers and a telephone are on the table. A doorway and two open pass-through windows to interior rooms are…

One of the Master Brewers at the Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company, and also pictured in photograph KL 165-452, appears to be testing the contents of a kettle in the brewing room. The top of a large copper brewing kettle is visible in the rear of…

Two men are standing in the corner of a small room at the Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company. A scale and two small copper brewing tanks are among equipment visible on a table behind the men. Shelves containing glass vials, bottles and stone jugs…

Four individuals are working in a spacious office. One man is seated at a desk in the center front of the image. Joe McFadden is seated at a desk on the left side of the room, reading a document. Next to him, a woman is typing at a typewriter. On the…

Four men are working on the upper floor of a warehouse building of the McFadden Coffee & Spice Company. One man appears to be servicing a large machine. Behind this man are three hoppers full of spices, or perhaps different kinds of tea or coffee.…