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Fredenhagen's new roller mills : St. Charles, Kane County, Ill

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Description: A color lithograph featuring a view of A. Fredenhagen's flour mill in St. Charles, Illinois. The scene includes an image of Fredenhagen's mill neighbored by the Fox River to its left and the Chicago Telephone Company to its right. Image also includes men loading horse-drawn carts with flour and grains, the Main Street bridge across the river, and additional mill buildings in the background. Bordering all corners of the print are images of various flour types advertised for sale. Signed by printer on lower left corner, "Lith. by Skeen & Stuart, Chicago."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880.
Call number: priPEF 17
Provenance: Purchased from James E. Arsenault & Company, March 2023.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Image of six vignette street views centered on the facades of mill buildings of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota: the Consolidated Elevator with flour house; the Zenith Mill; the Columbia Mill; the Galaxy Mill with elevator; the Northwestern Mill; and the Crown Roller Mill; the vignettes show various street traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and wagons and trains on elevated tracks; text below each vignette identifies each mill and its daily barrel capacity.

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Image of dry diggings on a hill to the left, wet diggings on a river to the right, and a smaller vignette of a quartz mill in the lower center. The left and right vignettes are labeled with letters and numbers which correspond to descriptions of mining processes explained in the printed text in the center of the sheet. "Barber & Baker, Publishers, cor. J & 3d sts., Sacramento."--text below title of image. "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1855, by Barber & Baker, in the Clerk's office of the District Court, for the Northern District of California."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

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Image of buildings draped in black bunting along a broad street. On the left side of the image is a fence surrounding an open space, possibly the State House grounds.

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Fredenhagen's new roller mills : St. Charles, Kane County, Ill

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