[Klauer Manufacturing employees in front of corrugated metal roofing machine]

[Klauer Manufacturing employees in front of corrugated metal roofing machine]

Photographer unknown

Two men dressed in overalls, long sleeved shirts and caps, are standing in front of a large machine. A flat piece of metal appears to have just been pressed into a large, corrugated sheet. Numbers in white paint or chalk are visible on various parts of the machine which was manufactured by “J. M. Robinson Cincinnati O.” Electrical cables powering the machine, as well as a long belt drive and gears, are visible behind one of the men. A large stack of the corrugated metal sheets is visible in front of the men. The building is partially open to the weather and appears to have been constructed of the same corrugated metal that is being manufactured in this image.

Factories
Warehouses
Sheetmetal
Dubuque (Iowa) –- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection. City at Work Project
Gelatin silver prints
Itinerant photographers

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

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

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

Still image

1912-05/06

KL 484-490

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

Corner 9th and Washington Streets, Dubuque, Iowa

The Encyclopedia Dubuque (www.encyclopediadubuque.org) indicates that in 1896, Klauer Manufacturing began making metal rain-carrying equipment including eave trough and rain pipe. By 1906 the company began the production of metal roofing and siding, conductor pipe, and eaves and by 1911 the company was supplying metal flume to some of the largest irrigation projects in the nation. The company added such products as metal fireproof window frames and sash, roof ornaments, skylights, steel ceilings, solder, asbestos paper and roof cement. At that time, the company was the world's largest manufacturer of conductor pipe.

This image was displayed in the “City at Work” exhibit at the Dubuque Museum of Art, December 7, 2013 – March 24, 2014.

The original glass plate negative was lost. A gelatin silver print created in the 1970s remains.