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Title
Challenge Corn Planter Works Employees
Creator
NULL

Institution
Loutit District Library

Subject
Challenge Corn Planter Works (Grand Haven, Mich.)

Subject
Manufacturing industries -- Michigan -- Grand Haven

Subject
Labor and laboring classes -- Michigan -- Grand Haven

Item Number
LH01a008

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
Since 1883, the Challenge Corn Planter Company manufactured corn planting machines and refrigerators which were sold all over the United States. By 1912, the plant occupied 20 acres in Grand Haven and consisted of at least ten buildings.

Challenge Corn Planter Works Employees

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