Title: Duplex Manufacturing Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1891-1985

Creator:

• Duplex Manufacturing Company (Superior, Wis.)

Call Number: Superior Mss AA

Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, Jim Dan Hill Library, University of Wisconsin-Superior; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Superior Jim Dan Hill Library / Superior Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Business records of a Superior, Wis. firm which manufactured and sold farm water supply items including windmills, steel towers, iron pumps, and water tanks. A windmill which could pump water and grind grain at the same time was patented in 1882 and designated “duplex” by the Lake City Tool Co., Madison, Wis. In 1885, the firm was purchased by the Andrew brothers and moved to Brooklyn, Wis. under the name Duplex Windmill Co. The company was re-established in Superior in 1892 with the name Duplex Manufacturing Co. The collection consists of scattered correspondence; letterbooks; an invoice book; scattered historical materials; written recollections of company president Homer L. Andrew, Delphin M. Johnson, and William M. Spencer; materials concerning company ownership and stocks; and seven product catalogs.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-sup00aa

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑

Acquisition Information

Presented by Delphin M. Johnson, Superior, Wisconsin, 1995. Accession Number: M97-136

Processing Information

Processed by Gayle Martinson, October 1998.

Box   1 Folder   1	Historical Materials, 1898-1967, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	“Historical Recollection,” by Homer L. Andrew, 1985
Box   1 Folder   3	Duplex Oral History Project, undated
	Company Ownership
Box   1 Folder   4	Buy and Sell Agreement, 1963-1967
Box   1 Folder   5	Stock Register, 1892-1968
Box   1 Folder   6	Stocks, 1899-1962
Box   1 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1892-1926
	Letterbooks
Box   1 Folder   8	1891
Box   2 Folder   1	1893-1894
Box   2 Folder   2	1905-1906
Box   3 Folder   1	Invoice Book, 1892
	Product Catalogs
Box   4 Folder   1	No. 17, undated
Box   4 Folder   2	No. 18, undated
Box   4 Folder   3	No. 22, undated
Box   4 Folder   4	No. 24, undated
Box   4 Folder   5	No. 25, 1918
Box   4 Folder   6	No. 26, undated
Box   4 Folder   7	No. ?, 1973