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A man sits at a desk at the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works office at 550 3rd Street. The desk is covered with papers and there are several picture calendars on the wall in front of him. A day calendar from the WM Powell Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio…

Five workmen pose in a shop at the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works at 550 3rd Street. A boiler tank is in the foreground at left and three large sheets of metal with holes drilled for rivets are on the floor at right. Three hoists hang from beams and…

Five men are working on mattresses at the Dubuque Mattress Factory, 63-77 West Main Street. Silhouettes of two other men are visible behind a stack of mattresses at left. The man in the center of the photo, wearing overalls and a dark shirt, is…

A woman stands at a fabric-cutting worktable at left and 3 other women are sitting at sewing machines at right. John Kapp, the company president, is standing in a doorway at left and is looking at the camera. The number “68” has been written on the…

One of the itinerant photographers poses with John Kapp, the president of the Dubuque Mattress Factory at 63-77 West Main Street. Three other workers pose behind them, on the left and right. The number “90” has been written on the emulsion side of…

John Kapp, the president of the Dubuque Mattress Factory at 63-77 West Main Street, stands in the doorway of an office and looks out into a workroom. There is a box spring on the floor in front of him and, on the left side of the picture, a Fairbanks…

Six men pose in a large workroom at the Dubuque Mattress Factory, 63-77 West Main Street. Metal components for making box springs are scattered about on worktables throughout the room. There is a machine for cutting or bending metal rods at the back…

Peter H. McCarthy, manager, sits in his office at the Standard Lumber Company, 602 7th Street. There is an open roll-top desk behind him with a “Rockwell’s Rival Cabinet Letter File” on top of it. There is a telephone attached to an accordion…

Dr. John B. Murray, Jr., works on a patient in his dental office in room 205 of the B & I Building. There are two dental chairs facing a large set of windows at the back of the small office. The patient sits in the chair at right and faces the window…

A young woman stands behind the counter of a cigar stand in the lobby of the Hotel Julien, at the corner of 2nd and Main Streets. Cigars are on display in a case beneath the glass-covered counter and in a cabinet built around a cash register at the…