Red Wing Potteries records. 1894-1978.

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Red Wing Potteries records. 1894-1978.

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Minutes and stock records, correspondence, product records,facility plans, clippings, and printed matter, trace the company's evolution fromthe formation (1894) of the Red Wing Union Stoneware Company into the 1940s, with afew items relating to its subsequent history and its liquidation in 1967 following acrippling strike. Substantial files (1920s-1940s) of correspondence and land and taxrecords document the purchase, management, rental, and sale of its farm landholdingsin Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana. Also included are sketches ofplants and flowers by William G. Warr, Jr., an artist/designer for Red WingPotteries from 1949 to 1954.

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The earliest recorded pottery making in the Red Wing area is credited to a German immigrant named J. Pohl who in 1861 began fashioning crude crocks on his farm. He used the clay deposits on his own property and hand-turned his ware on a treadle wheel. In 1868 W. M. Philleo began manufacturing flower vases in Red Wing using local clay. He manufactured unglazed terra cotta ware until his pottery works burned in 1870. He rebuilt his small factory but ran into financial diff...

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