[Edwin Albee in his office in the Bank & Insurance Building]

[Edwin Albee in his office in the Bank & Insurance Building]

Food industry
Offices
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection
Glass negatives
Itinerant photographers

Edwin Albee sits at a roll-top desk in his office, room 310 of the B & I Building. The office is spacious, with wicker chair in one corner and a sink mounted against the back wall. There are 4 large picture calendars in the room. Two of these are open to June, 1912. The number “150” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. The number “1” has been 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

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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 131-248

310 Bank & Insurance Building, 9th and Main Streets, Dubuque, Iowa

According to the Encyclopedia Dubuque (www.encyclopediadubuque.org), Edwin Albee purchased an interest in the Fairbanks Bakery in 1870. This firm, named the J. E. Fairbanks & Company, became one of the Midwest’s largest cracker manufacturing companies. Eight years later, Albee bought out his partner, renamed the company the Albee Bakery, and produced “Albee’s Crackers.” In 1891, Albee sold his company to the National Biscuit Company and remained for an undetermined time as manager.

1 glass negative: b & w

6.5 x 8.5 in.