Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library

This organization has contributed to the following objects in the Encyclopedia.

In 1941, the company celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, which came on the heels of its most profitable year ever up…

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Rath company sponsored an advertising campaign to sell wieners, originally a German meat product,…

Rath products were from the heartland, and references to America’s native heritage served to enhance that fact. In 1946, James…

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Rath company sponsored an advertising campaign to sell wieners, originally a German meat product,…

From the very beginning, Rath company advertising focused on the source of its meat products. The company’s top quality products…

In 1906-07, Rath worked to update their buildings and expand their facilities. This correspondence from December 27, 1906, concerns the…

Aerial photograph of the Rath Packing Plant, Waterloo, lowa, ca. 1950.

Portrait of John Washington (J.W.) Rath, President of the Rath Packing Company. Published in Land O’ Corn News, September 1941,…

One explicitly German product line was the Rathskeller line, a clever play on the name Rath and the German word…