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Weltzien with two employees marking their 25th anniversary of joining the company, 1938

Julius Weltzien spent nearly his entire career with one company, Schering AG, one of Germany’s oldest specialty chemical firms. He built up the international and American business of one of Germany’s leading companies only eventually to be exiled from Germany to the United States, albeit as a potentially dangerous alien to his new hosts.

Weltzien, Julius files

Created By: Schering Archives

Weltzien, Julius Potrait

Portrait of Julius Weltzie.

Wheeler, Wayne B., 1920

Wayne B. Wheeler, 1920

William Klein

Created By: Cyclopedia of American Biography Source/Publisher: Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: James T. White, 1892–1984

Willibrandt, Mabel Walker at Her Desk

Window Display at Marshall Field

Elizabeth Paepcke’s eye for design went a long way in convincing her husband to think seriously about the profitability of…

Wisconsin’s Deutsch-Amerikaner bis zum Schluß des neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Created By: Hense-Jensen, Wilhelm Publisher: Milwaukee, WI: Die Deutsche Gesellschaft, 1900-1902

Wish You Were Here

Created By: Keister, Kim Source/Publisher: Historic Preservation 44.2 (1992): 54–61

Wollenberg painting, Gertrude Arnstein of Alaskan wilderness

Painting of an Alaskan landscape by Gertrude Arnstein Wollenberg

Wollenberg, Harry in Boston, 1924, shortly before the Beacon Oil merger

Wollenberg, Harry in Juneau, Alaska, ca. 1913

Harry Wollenberg in Juneau, Alaska, ca. 1913

Wollenberg, Harry in Mexico, 1908

Harry Wollenberg in Mexico, 1908

Wollenberg, Harry Lincoln

Second-generation German Harry Wollenberg helped found Longview Fibre Co., a manufacturer of paperboard, corrugated paperboard, and corrugated boxes, in 1926. For the next fifty-two years he built the company from one plant to twelve and increased the share price from five cents in 1926 to $350 in 1979.

Wollenberg, Harry, ca. 1950

Formal portrait of Harry Wollenberg, ca. 1950

Wollenberg, Louis and Fannie Kalischer, Castro Valley, California, 1871

Louis Wollenberg and Fannie Kalischer, Castro Valley, California, 1871.

Woman at a soda fountain pouring alcohol out of a compartment in her cane, 1922

Women working in the Tabulating Machine Co.'s Washington office

Women working in the Tabulating Machine Co.'s Washington office.

Women Wrapping Products at Curtiss Candy Plant, 1952