Northwestern Engineering Company
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1924-
Biography
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Road and Culvert Work, 1919
File
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Papers contain nine folders and one book, Paving the Way: The Life Morris E. Adelstein by Howard Shaff and Audrey K. Shaff (1970). There are eight folders of photographs and one folder with two issues of The National Jewish Monthly magazine (1944-1945).
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00001
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road in South Dakota. There are seven men standing in front of three four-horse hitches pulling grading equipment. On the right of the image are two of the men with surveying equipment. One man is standing behind a level on a tripod and one is holding a rod. Buildings are in the far background. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the...
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00002
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing a construction crew in South Dakota. There are two children on a horse, eleven men, and two women. Four of the men are astride saddled horses inside a corral. Behind the people are an automobile, a truck, and two tents. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several counties in South Dakota. Morris Adelstein and his banker founded the...
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00003
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road and a culvert in South Dakota. There are three four-hitch teams of horses with grading implements and eight men. The men are by a newly constructed culvert and road. Two automobiles are parked on the dirt road and in the distance on the prairie is a wagon. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several...
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0001.00003
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing construction of a road in South Dakota in 1919. A Caterpillar tractor drags a grading machine in the foreground. There is a driver on the tractor and an operator on the machine. Eleven teamsters with horse-drawn wagons are lined up above and behind the tractor and grading machine. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota. He was elected as the county engineer for several counties. Morris...
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0001.00004
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road in South Dakota. Nine men and a small boy pose at a road construction site with Fresno Scrapers drawn by four-horse hitches. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several counties in the state. Morris Adelstein and his banker founded the Northwestern Engineering Company in 1924.
Dates:
1919
Road Construction, 1919
Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0001.00005
Abstract
Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road in South Dakota. Eight men, a woman and a child pose with two-, three- and four-horse hitches with grading implements on an open prairie. Behind them are two moveable construction trailers and an open motor vehicle. A freshly graded section of road runs up the hill in the left background; a canvas-roofed structure is behind the leftmost team, and a enclosed wood wagon and tent is pitched in the far right backgrond. After serving...
Dates:
1919
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- Archival Object 16
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Photographs 11
- South Dakota 11
- Jewish engineers 9
- Roads 6
- Design and construction 5
- Construction workers 4
- Culverts 3
- Construction equipment 2
- Engineering 2
- Jewish families 2
- Bridges 1
- Construction workers -- South Dakota 1
- Engineers 1
- Jewish families -- South Dakota 1
- Jews 1
- Kadoka (S.D.) 1
- Roads -- South Dakota 1
- Surveying 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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