Factories

Built in 1880, the Administration Clock Tower Building formed the central mass of a monumental structure seven hundred feet long. As the manufacturing center of Pullman, the Administration and Factory Complex was an unusually ornate industrial building designed to sit in a park-like setting.

The Winchester Coca-Cola Bottling Works building in Winchester, Virginia was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is significant as a well-preserved soft drink bottling facility, and as an example of the evolving business and marketing of Coca-Cola across the country in the 20th century.

The Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. The factory is significant as the original producer of numerous notable chocolate products like Goobers, Raisinets, and Sno-caps.

The Worker Houses were built in 1856 behind the Colt Firearms Manufacturing Company as a way to attract and retain skilled workers. Twenty houses were built and provided a place for up to 145 families to live. Today only ten of the houses remain and are privately owned condominiums.

Colt Patent Firearm Manufacturing Company was built in 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut by industrialist, Samuel Colt. The factory is easily recognizable by the Blue Onion Dome and rampant Colt that sits atop the East Armory. Coltsville. Samuel Colt would shape the development of the City of Hartford and the United States.

This 16.56-acre Chicago Park district site was previously part of the U.S. Steel Complex known as South Works. The establishment of the steel works attracted and met the demands of industries such as the Pullman Palace Car Company. The site was recently converted into an attractive landscape with natural areas, walking paths, views of Lake Michigan and a community rock climbing wall, built on the historic ore wall.

Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company provided water for farmers for over one hundred years. Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company is one of the the longest running wind-powered water pump manufacturer in the United States. The company produced windmills from 1885 until 2009. Dempster Mill Mfg. Co. employed hundreds of people in the local area allowing the surrounding communities to thrive.

Helen August was born in New York City into a secular, Jewish family active in the labor movement. When she was twelve years old, her family moved to Southern California. In this interview, she talks about the differences between New York City and Los Angeles, especially in terms of race relations and diversity.

Donated from Mignon Sherer, a Jewish-American woman who worked as a Rosie in WWII. A group of women and men factory workers at Murray Body Corporation. 1940's.

Candelilla (or "wax weed") harvesting has occurred in Big Bend for over a century. Archeologists investigated wax-making camps and factories where laborers, many of whom were Latino, lived and worked each day.

From 1917 to 1918, the nationalization of the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest led to the creation of the Spruce Production Division. This massive war effort employed tens of thousands of soldiers and produced millions of board feet of lumber for the manufacture of airplanes.

The DH-4 Liberty plane, manufactured from Sitka spruce logged from the forests of the Pacific Northwest, played a significant role both in battle and after the war.

Training to become a U.S. Soldier was (and still is) a rigorous task that often lasted all day. It was challenging to all involved, both physically and mentally. While training was the key purpose of the thousands of soldiers being at Camp Sherman, they did have some downtime from all of the rigors of becoming a soldier. Recreation at the camp played an important part in maintaining physical and mental well-being.

"As new technologies changed military conflict during World War I, Thomas Edison called for industrial preparedness, experimented on some of the Navy's most difficult technical problems and helped the U.S. government prepare for future wars by advocating the creation of the Naval Research Laboratory."