Category: Manufacturing

History of the Tip Top Products Company

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date November 27, 2020
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Millions of bobby pins, pink hair curlers, and other products came flying out of the Tip Top Products Company factories in Omaha. This is a history of the company.

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History of the Omaha Casket Company

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date November 25, 2020
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This was the original Omaha Casket Company factory at 1618-24 Izard Street. Built in 1892, it was demolished by a tornado in 1905.

A tornado and a fire couldn’t stop the Omaha Casket Company, which made boxes for the dead in North Omaha from 1892 to 1939.

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A Biography of Levi Carter

This is Levi Carter, born in 1830 in New Hampton, New Hampshire and died in 1903 in Omaha. The founder of the Carter White Lead Company, he is the namesake of the City of Carter Lake, Iowa, and the Levi Carter Park in Omaha, Nebraska.

A wealthy industrialist worked hard, then died. His wife gave the City of Omaha a lot of money to commemorate his life, and today the name is all over East Omaha. This is a biography of Levi Carter.

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A History of the Carter White Lead Company Factory in East Omaha

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date January 20, 2020
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For 40 years, one plant poisoned North Omaha with heinous disregard. This is a history of the Carter White Lead Company factory in East Omaha.

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A History of the U.S. Brush Company

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date January 2, 2020
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This is the office of the U.S. Brush Company factory at 4301 North 28th Street.

This is a history of the U.S. Brush Company factory once located in North Omaha.

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A History of the Omaha Motor Car Company in North Omaha

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date August 21, 2019
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This is the "first of the Omaha Motor Car Co.'s product." Only six were ever built.

When the automobile industry was just getting started, every major city in the United States had at least one manufacturer. In Omaha, there were several including the Ottomobile, Ford trucks, and the Omaha Car, which lasted for just over a year between 1912 and 1913. This is a history of the Omaha Motor Car Company […]

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A History of Murphy, Wasey and Company Factory in North Omaha

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date August 17, 2019
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This is the Murphy, Wasey and Company factory built at Spaulding Street on the Belt Line Railway in 1890.

In 1890, a major Detroit-based chair manufacturer called Murphy, Wasey and Company arrived in a big way in North Omaha. Located at 3167-77 Spaulding Street along what was then called North 32nd (aka John A. Creighton Boulevard) and the Belt Line Railway, the company built a large factory and employed a hundred people. It was […]