Business & Industry
Interior of the Colby Motor Company
J.W. Witmer & Company Insurance
Sheaffer Pen Company
Washing machine assembly line
Union members picketing 
Punched pearl button shells
Elevators at Quaker Oats plant
Hybrid seed plant
War Changes Maytag Products
The Iowa Bystander Publisher Fights for Success
The Depression Years
Iowa's Meatpacking Industry
Insurance Company, ca. 1885
Time Frame: 1885
Exterior of J.W. Witmer & Company Insurance with personnel posing in front. Insurance has been a major industry In Iowa since the early 1800s. Des Moines, Iowa. ca.1885.
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