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Folding Machine
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One page of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). The booklet is illustrated with photographs featuring employees and facilities at the company's 1925 building at 178-184 Seventh Street. In the photograph on this page, men and women work at two automatic folding machines.
February 1928
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W0126BG
WHi 138605
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The North American Press Cover
February 1928
The embossed soft cover of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). The booklet is illu...
Examples of Printed Work
February 1928
The centerfold of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). These two pages feature examp...
George Brumder, Sons and Friends
1890
An outdoor group portrait of George Brumder, sitting in a bent willow chair at far left; Dr. Herman Duemling, sitting in the center, and Julius Andrae, sitting on the far right. Duemling worked wit...
Cousins
1998
Second cousins Valerie Patricia Brumder and Edward John Brumder, Jr. posing, sitting, for an informal portrait in a living room. Both are great-grandchildren of George Brumder, prominent Milwaukee ...
Composition Book
1889
The cover of a composition book printed by the Germania Publishing Company. A label identifies the contents as "Incorporation-Papers and Minutebook, Germania Publishing Comp,y [sic]". The book reco...
Brumder Building
1895
View from street towards a streetcar passing in front of the 1872 Brumder building located, according to a note of the reverse of the photograph, "on N. E. corner of Plankington [sic] Ave. and Kilb...
