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.
Collection Title
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
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