WAUAlbersBrosPHColl610.xmlGuide to the Albers Bros. Milling Co. Photograph Collection 1940Albers Bros. Milling Co. Photograph CollectionSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries© 2003 (Last modified: 11/27/2017)
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Finding aid written in English.Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0610Albers Bros. Milling Co. Photograph Collection19406 photographic prints (1 folder) ; 8 x 10 in.Collection materials are in English.Photographs of the construction of Albers Bros. milling facilities and grain elevator in Oakland, California.

Edwin F. Carter (1884-1977), who engineered the Albers Bros. Oakland plant addition, was a consulting engineer employed by the John S. Metcalf Company, Ltd., in North America, Australia, and Shanghai between 1910 and 1958. Carter at one time was in charge of the company's grain elevator designs on the Pacific coast in Canada and the United States. He also supervised the construction of grain elevators in Australia. After his retirement he resided in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, until his death.

The collection contains photographs of the 1940 construction of the Albers Bros. Milling Company milling facilities and grain elevators in Oakland, CA. Includes some views of San Francisco Bay and the Oakland Bay Bridge.

The Albers Bros. Milling Co. was created in 1895 by Bernhard Albers and his four brothers. The company expanded from Portland to the Seattle area, and by 1920, there were Albers mills not only in five U.S. states, but also in Japan, Chile, and Manchuria. The business was purchased by the Carnation Milk Products Company in 1929. This company was in turn purchased by Nestlé, and products with the Albers label are still available today. Edwin Carter engineered the Albers Bros. Milling and Storage Co. addition to their Oakland, California, plant in 1940.

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The photographs along with architectural drawings of the plant were separated from the E.F. Carter Papers at the University of British Columbia and transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Gift of the University of British Columbia Library, 1987.

Processed by Randy Hertzler, 2002.

Edwin F. Carter Architectural Drawings.

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11Initial construction in "the pit" with workers laying rebar12Steam post-driver setting support posts into mud at shoreline13Man looking out from an upper level of construction toward Oakland Bay BridgeFrank R. Killinger, Alameda, Calif.14Albers Bros. Milling Co., finished structureApr. 16, 1940 15Concrete grain elevatorsAug. 12, 1940Frank R. Killinger, Alameda, Calif.16Concrete grain elevatorsNov. 2, 1940Frank R. Killinger, Alameda, Calif.