People at the Powell & Cook tobacco factory, ca. 1905
| Description: |
Photograph of people in front of the Powell and Cook tobacco factory in Newburgh, Indiana, circa 1905. Front row, left to right: Myrtle Mure, Laura Mure, Lula Brenner, Jennie Abshier, Landry Conway, Henry Powell. Back row, left to right: Ivo Griffith, Ernest Koch, Charles Feldman, Ben Leach, Dietrich Heidorn, Frank Pritchard. Rear: Gardner Winfrey. The plant was the last tobacco factory in Newburgh. Later, the building on Water Street was used as an arsenal, flour mill, chair factory, laundry and power plant. |
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| Origin: | ca. 1905 |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll75/id/392 |
| Collection: |
Newburgh Chandler Public Library Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
| Subjects: |
Tobacco industry--Employees Factories--Employees Costume |
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