Society for Industrial Archeology info about Milwaukee SIA Annual Meeting

Select on image for more photograph info Above Milwaukee photograph by Larry Mishkar On the RIght: Milwaukee "Feeds and Supplies the World" historic poster from the City of Milwaukee

SESSION A. Saturday, June 4, 2005 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Panel A1: Rail

John N. Vogel. Recording the Milwaukee Road Shops: The Company’s Largest Midwest Facility.

Richard T. Steinbrenner. A History of the Schenectady Plant and Operations of the American Locomotive Company and its Predecessors.

Christopher H. Marston. E. Francis Baldwin: Building the B&O Through Maryland and Beyond.

Panel A2: Medicine and Morbidity

William McNiece. The Evolution of the Anesthesia Machine–Pharmacology, Technique and Technology.

Fredric L. Quivik. Inhaling a Microscopic Artifact: Asbestos Dust and the Vermiculate Mine at Libby, Montana.

Sean P. Dougherty and Norman C. Sullivan. The Underclass and Infirm in the Industrial Age: A View from the Milwaukee County Poorhouse Cemetery.

Panel A3: Midwestern Bridges

Bob Frame. Preserving and Restoring Three Milwaukee Type Bascule Bridges.

Milwaukee County Historical Society (Robert T. Teske et al). “Bridging the Centuries” - An Exhibition by the Milwaukee County Historical Society.

Richard M. Johnson. Transporter to Vertical Life: The History of Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge.

SESSION B. Saturday, June 4, 2005 10:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Panel B1: Maritime

Myron Boyajian. Industrial Archeology in Chicagoland.

Keith Meverden. The Apex of Wooden Shipbuilding: The Great Lakes Bulk Carrier Appomattox.

Andrew Schmidt and Katy Lain. The Canneries of Los Angeles’ Fish Harbor: Rise and Fall of an Industry.

Andrew Lydecker. The Fish Hawk: The Persistence of Wood in Atlantic Fishing Vessel Design.

Panel B2: Extractive Industries

Ronald L. Reno, Susan Lindstrom, Allika Ruby, and Robert McQueen. Pit Charcoal Production Archaeology in Nevada and California.

John H. Broihahn. A Smelter’s Life: Lead Smelting in the Upper Mississippi Valley as seen from the British Hollow Smelter Site (47GT510).

Nancy Farm Männikkö. Brownstone Quarries of the Apostle Islands in Northern Wisconsin.

Marco Meniketti. “Sugar Mines” of the Caribbean: Technology, Environment, and the Impact of Agro-Industrialism in the Periphery.

Panel B3: From the First Superhighway Through the Interstate Act: Roads as Indicators of Changing Highway Policy

Mary E. McCahon. America’s First Superhighway: New Jersey Leads the Way.

J. Patrick Harshbarger. The Interstate Highway System: The Formative Years BEFORE 1956.

Bruce Seely. The Interstate Program: The Legislative Response.

SESSION C Saturday, June 4, 2005 2:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Panel C1: Methods

Jane Eva Baxter and Scott J. Demel. The Archaeology of the Pullman Community: An Ongoing Collaboration in Industrial Archaeology.

Alicia B. Valentino. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Industrial Sites: Examination of the Van Winkle Mill in Northwest Arkansas.

Efstathios I. Pappas. Industrial Forensics: The Managerial and Operating Ethos of a California Sawmill.

Robert McQueen. Historic Charcoal Manufacture in Nevada: Using Dendrochronology as a Research and Dating Tool.

Panel C2: Made in the Midwest

Lee E. Gray. Passenger Elevator Manufacturing in the Mid-West: 1870 to 1910.

Thomas H. Fehring. Use it or Lose it: A Discussion of the Innovative Re-Use of Historic Industrial Facilities in the Milwaukee Area.

Emily Pettis. The Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company and Early Automobile Manufacture in Wisconsin.

Julie Kloss. The Hersey & Bean Lumber Company’s Mills of Stillwater, Minnesota.

Panel C3: Transportation Solutions Past and Present

Allison S. Rachleff. Layered Landscapes: Post-World War II Highway Construction in New York City’s Highbridge Park and the Highbridge Interchange.

Perry S. Green. Bridging the Landscape of Early 20th Century America with Patented Concrete Arch Bridge Designs -Daniel B. Luten and the Luten Bridge Companies.

Robert W. Scoggin. Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department Historic Bridge Management System.

Robert C. Leavitt. Crossing the Tracks: A Pedestrian Underpass along the Transcontinental Railroad.

For more information, contact SIA's Events Coordinator, Mary Habstritt, at events@siahq.org or 212-769-4946.