[Canvas Products Company sewing room]

[Canvas Products Company sewing room]

Canvas products
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection
Glass negatives
Itinerant photographers

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 space. Several different patterns of wide-striped fabric, one of which is similar to that used on the awnings on the Security Building, at the corner of 8th and Main Streets, may be seen in several of these piles. Other awning pieces are hanging from the ceiling behind the women. A scalloped metal pattern piece is hanging from a wooden post; bare light bulbs hang from the ceiling over the sewing machines. A stove is visible in a corner of the photograph. The number "19" has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. The number "2" is written in the upper left corner.

Photographer unknown

The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001

This record is part of the William J. Klauer Collection held by The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

1912-05/06

Contact The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001 or call (563) 588-7100 © 2013 LORAS COLLEGE

William J. Klauer Collection

Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 8700 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a glass plate negative scanned in 16 - bit grey scale at 1200 ppi.

Still image

KL 058-267

Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa

No listing for a business by this name appears in the 1912 Dubuque City Directory. However, this business appears next to the Dubuque Mattress Factory in an undated photograph accompanying the article about the Dubuque Mattress Factory in the Encyclopedia Dubuque (www.encyclopediadubuque.org).

1 glass negative: b & w

6.5 x 8.5 in.