Northwestern Engineering Company

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Papers contain nine folders and one book, Paving the Way: The Life Morris E. Adelstein by Howard Shaff and Audrey K. Shaff (1970). There are eight folders of photographs and one folder with two issues of The National Jewish Monthly magazine (1944-1945).

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Mounted photograph showing a culvert in South Dakota. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several counties in South Dakota. Morris Adelstein and his banker founded the Northwestern Engineering Company in 1924.

Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew of fifteen men at a worksite in South Dakota where a concrete culvert pour is about to begin. Forms are fitted with rebar, a concrete mixer with extended trough is at the back, along with a tarped stack of supplies, a gravel pile, two wheelbarrows, a shovel and other tools. Two kegs (probably holding nails for form assembly) are at the right front and back, and two men standing at the left of the photo have shovels. After serving in the Army as...

Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a culvert in South Dakota. Nine men pose at a bridge construction site, where a concrete pour is beginning. The forms are fitted with rebar; a concrete mixer with extended trough is at the back, along with a tarped stack of cement bags, a gravel pile and two wheelbarrows. Loose lumber is scattered about the site. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and...

Abstract Morris Adelstein was born in Des Moines, Iowa on June 2, 1894. His parents had immigrated from Russia and settled in Des Moines, Iowa. His mother Bailey Adelstein Martinsky homesteaded land in South Dakota in 1910 and moved with her youngest daughters to Kadoka, South Dakota. Morris Adelstein graduated from Highland Park College in Des Moines with a degree in englineering. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, he joined his mother in Kadoka and was elected as the...

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File contains image of construction equipment and houses in the background.

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The series contains photographs of Northwestern Engineering Company worksites and a photograph of Kadoka, South Dakota.

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File contains Northwestern Engineering Company photographs of the construction of bridges and roads in South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. Taped on the photographs are descriptions and explanations of the work.

Scope and Contents

Series contains 1 folder with two issues of The National Jewish Monthly and a book on Morris E. Adelstein and Northwestern Engineering Company.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Papers contain nine folders and one book, Paving the Way: The Life Morris E. Adelstein by Howard Shaff and Audrey K. Shaff (1970). There are eight folders of photographs and one folder with two issues of The National Jewish Monthly magazine (1944-1945).