Businesses and Industries: Indiana Stove Works

A woman worker in a spray booth applies gold bronze used in the interior of stoves; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 8)

Workers dipping cast iron and steel parts and hanging them on racks before they are placed in the baking oven (rear left); c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 9)

Steel fabricating department; worker in foreground is Al Schaefer, and the one at right is George Eger; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 11)

Workers assembling small heating stoves; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 12)

Workers assembling cook stoves and ranges; men identified (l-r): Morton Northington, Bob Duncan, Ed Rogge, Bill Martin, and Al Rogge; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 13)

Workers assembling gas stoves; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 14)

Finished stoves stacked and ready for shipment; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 15)

Worker in sand blast department cleaning cast iron parts before they are enameled; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 21)

Workers in the pickling (cleaning) department, where steel parts are cleaned to remove impurities; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 23)

View of sand blast department; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 22)

Women workers priming steel parts after they have been cleaned in the pickling department; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 25)

Workers in graining department applying imitation wood finish to cast iron and sheet iron parts; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 27)

Women workers brushing black borders after steel parts are dried and before being burned; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 28)

Woman applying decalcomania transfers to sheet iron door panels; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 29)

Workers operating the double speed fork in front of a furnace; c. 1925 (Indiana Stove Works 30)