![Item #9286 [Photo lot picturing the operation of Loft’s Candy in Long Island City, and more.]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9286_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765830608)
A captivating lot of ninety photographs—nearly half of which are captioned on the verso— documenting the extensive manufacturing operation and workforce of America’s largest candy producer during the early twentieth century. Established in 1860 as a small sweet shop in Manhattan by British immigrant William Loft, the candy manufacturer Loft.....
An unrecorded promotional photo album comprising twenty-three images showing the operations and workers of the short-lived Southern Sugar Co. of Clewiston and Canal Point, Florida. The subjects represented include workers in the company cane fields (including many African American laborers); a portrait of owner and President Bror Dahlberg; fields of.....
An album vividly documenting three Oregon mining operations in which the compiler, a St. Louis photographer and businessman, owned stakes, with detailed annotations. This album documents two trips to Oregon undertaken in May and Oct. 1908 by J. Fred Woltz of St. Louis, Missouri, a man of perhaps sixty who.....