Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nordberg Manufacturing Company
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content: Nordberg Manufacturing Company Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0975, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contain approximately 26,000 primarily black-and-white prints arranged into groups, #1-#75. Not all groups are represented.  Missing are groups #5, #6, #25, #26, #30, #40, #43, #50, #57, and #59. Each grouping defines a specific type of equipment produced by Nordberg.  For example, Group #13 contains photographs for compressors and Group #45 contains soak wheels. While most of the photographs are undated, there are images from the early 1940s. 

The photographs are primarily images of engines and other  equipment manufactured by Nordberg, but also included are exterior views of plant buildings, shop floor views, employees working and/or operating equipment, and vessels such as the USS Electra and USS Bellatrix. Images of women working in the factory, the Red Cross blood donors, and the men's basball and women's softball teams can be found in Group #47.

An index, arranged numerically, provides identifying information.  Many of the photographs have a number on the front (lower right) and reverse of the photograph  (at the top and in pencil). 

The photographs were taken by Kuhli Photo Service of Milwaukee and Jos. Brown, scenic and commercial photographer of Milwaukee, for Nordberg Manufacturing Company.