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Watsonville, 1889: The largest U.S. beet sugar plant

Watsonville 1889: The largest U.S. beet sugar plant. From: George W. Shaw, "The California Sugar Industry," Beet Sugar Gazette 5…

Wayne Knitting Mills and Railway Tracks, 1908

View of the Wayne Knitting Mills, conveniently located near railway tracks that carried in supplies and carried out finished products.

Wayne Knitting Mills Office, 1906

In the first decade of the twentieth century, Thieme’s business expanded rapidly. Here is a photograph of the office in…

Wayne Knitting Mills Sewing Room, 1930

At its height, Wayne Knit employed approximately 2,500 workers and was one of the largest employers of women in Fort…

Wayne Knitting Mills Volunteer Fire Department

Page from the March 1918 issue of Wayne Knit Rav-lings: The Voice of the Wayne Knit Community. The issue featured…

Wayne Knitting Mills, 1906

In 1891, Wayne Knitting Mills began production in a small, rented building with a core group of twenty-five German knitters…

Wayne Knitting Mills, 1910

At its height, Wayne Knitting Mills employed approximately 2,500 workers and was one of the largest employers of women in…

Wayne Knitting Mills, Mill Operative, 1930

Postcard of a mill operative standing next to a full-fashioned knitting machine in the Wayne Knitting Mills. In addition to…

We are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848

Created By: Honeck, Mischa Publisher: Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011

Weathervanes from Augustus Lutheran Church, 1743

Weathervanes from Augustus Lutheran Church, 1743.

Wedding of Norma Shearer to Irving Thalberg

Guests from Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg's wedding included many notable names in Hollywood at the time: (From left to…

Wedding Secrets promotional series for Pabst beer

"Wedding Secrets" promotional booklet, part of a series of booklets published by the Pabst Brewing Company beginning in 1889. The…

Wega Concept 51K on display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Wega Model 42, 1975

Wega System 3000 series (including Wega TV 3022 and Wega TV 3050s)

Wega TV 3022

Weil, William and Hannah Levy on a buying trip in Italy, ca. 1980s

William Weil and Hannah Levy on a buying trip in Italy, ca. 1980s.

Weil, William and Jack Levy, ca. 1970s

William Weil (standing) and Jack Levy (seated), ca. 1970s

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

Weltzien, Julius

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.