Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis-Moline Lake Street Tractor Plant

(Satellite, northwest quadrant of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue)

"The Minneapolis-Moline Company (MMC) was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Minnesota. It was the product of a merger among three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery (MSM), the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company (MTMC), and the Moline Plow Company (MPC). Headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota, production sites included Minneapolis's Lake Street and Como Avenue plants and Moline, Illinois." [mnhs]

"In 1973, Minneapolis Moline was purchased through a hostile takeover by White Westinghouse. They closed the huge plant in Minneapolis, reneging on pensions of hundreds of workers, many of whom lived in St. Louis Park." [slphistory]

Tim Magoo posted
I found this photo of the MM Lake St. Plant
Phil Wiegman: Was 2500 east lake street, plant was torn down around 1973 after it closed, entire area has been redeveloped you would hardly know it was ever there Google earth it. Friend of my Dad was a truck driver there in the 60s.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Phil's comment
The Milwaukee Railroad had a big railyard north of the plant. 1947 aerial photo [AR1DV0000040105]

LC-USF34- 060226-D [P&P] LOT 1127
This was one of the photos used by a Tractor City history.

Another MM history (For future reference: Hopkins plant)

https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=partof%3Alot+1127&st=list&c=100:

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Moline tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Moline tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Moline tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Moline tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Tractor at factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lunch hour, employees of tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lunch hour, employees of tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota]1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Lunch hour, employees of tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Tractors at tractor factory. Minneapolis, Minnesota Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available1 negative ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Minneapolis-Moline Company, manufacturors of tractors. Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Tractors on railroad cars at Minneapolis-Moline Company. Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Loading tractors on railroad cars at Minneapolis-Moline Company. Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Loading tractors onto railroad car. Minneapolis-Moline Company. Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Loading tractor onto truck with crane. Minneapolis, Minnesota1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

  • Contributor: Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939-01-01

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  PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING

  Minneapolis, Minnesota. September, 1939. Minneapolis-Moline tractor factory12 photographic prints. | Photographs show Minneapolis-Moline Tractor Company. General views of plant exterior. Cranes unloading parts and loading tractors on freight cars. Railroad yard. Completed tractors. Workers during lunch hours.

  • Contributor: United States. Farm Security Administration - Vachon, John
  • Date: 1939

  
  

Is the $20 print from ShopCityMerch higher resolution than the 4218x3188 file that you can download for free from the LoC image (LC-USF33- 001562-M2 [P&P] LOT 1127) listed above?

A website that slaps their copyright on some of the free photos available from the LoC.