Smith Silo Company Brochure, 1961

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Artifact Overview

Hiram Smith patented his silo design in 1907. The design employed concrete staves bound together with cable hoops, much like a barrel. His business, Smith Silo Company, located in Paw Paw, then Oxford, Michigan, built its first silo in 1909. The company grew to become one of the largest concrete silo manufacturers in the Midwest during the next seventy years.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Date Made

1978

Subject Date

1961

Creator Notes

A 1961 advertisement photographed in 1978.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

EI.1929.N.B.82598

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 5 in
Width: 4 in