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This photograph shows four women sewing substantial pieces of heavy fabric on industrial sewing machines equipped with large spools of white thread. Piles of canvas are haphazardly scattered on racks and on the wooden floor of the spartan warehouse…

Seven men are working on mattresses at the Dubuque Mattress Factory, 63-77 West Main Street. Five mattresses are lined up on individual tables at left and rolls of dense batting and more mattresses are stacked at right. The number “64” has been…

A butcher is standing behind the counter and is writing in a notebook. On the counter are several cuts of meat and a large scale that is labeled, “The Computing Scale Co.—Dayton, Ohio, USA.” Sausages and various cuts of meat hang on hooks on…

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,…

The photograph was taken from one end of a long, wooden counter with stools for customers on one side. Two waitresses and one waiter stand behind the counter. Another waiter stands behind a table at right. A man, a woman and a child pose in the…

Three bakers pose in the basement workroom of Boldt’s Incorporated at 872 Main Street. A June, 1912 calendar hangs on the wall at right. The number “106” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right…

A woman at left stands behind a display case and a second woman stands behind the counter at right in Boldt’s Incorporated, 872 Main Street. Pastries and cakes are set out in and on top of the glass display cases. Loaves of bread are stacked in a…

Two men wearing butchers’ smocks stand in the Armour and Company Meat Locker at 298 Iowa Street. The man at left, wearing a straw hat, is the manager, Arthur H. Sigmann (or Sigman). The number “103” has been written on the emulsion side of the…

Arthur H. Sigmann (or Sigman) sits at a desk in the Armour & Company office at 298 Iowa Street. He wears a butchers’ smock and a straw hat and is looking at a letter. Other papers and letters cover his desk. The only one that is legible reads:…

A man holding a cigar sits at a large desk at left in this unidentified grocery warehouse office. A woman sits in front of a small table with a Remington Standard Typewriter No. 6 at the back of the office. The office has large windows that look out…