Company records, 1854-1998 (bulk 1910s-1996).

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Company records, 1854-1998 (bulk 1910s-1996).

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Subject files, newspaper clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, daybooks and order books, and other records of a family-owned, St. Paul-based ice skate manufacturer, bicycle dealer, and sporting goods retailer founded in 1887 by German immmigrant John E. Strauss. Strauss skate blades, which were made using steel specially tempered according to a secret process, were used by many famous speed and figure skaters.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 8313267

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John E. (Johann Edvard) Strauss was born in Koenigsberg, Germany, on October 29, 1856. In the early 1880s he arrived in St. Paul, and around 1886 opened a general mechanic, repair, and locksmith shop downtown. He began to manufacture skate blades around 1887, and later expanded into repairing and manufacturing bicycles. Strauss retired around 1940, and his son John took over the business. The elder Strauss died October 17, 1946. The younger Strauss was eventually joined in the busin...

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