[Profile view of John Kapp looking into a Dubuque Mattress Factory workroom]

[Profile view of John Kapp looking into a Dubuque Mattress Factory workroom]

Photographer unknown

John Kapp, the president of the Dubuque Mattress Factory at 63-77 West Main Street, stands in the doorway of an office and looks out into a workroom. There is a box spring on the floor in front of him and, on the left side of the picture, a Fairbanks scale. Two workmen in the center of the picture are wrapping mattresses for shipping, and a third workman in the background is holding up a mattress. Two signs hanging above a horseshoe on a wooden pillar at left read: “POSITIVELY NO SMOKING,” and “POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE.” The number “91” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. The number “3” has been written in the upper left corner.

Mattress industry
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection
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.

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William J. Klauer Collection

Still image

1912-05/06

KL 063-150

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

63-77 West Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa

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