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Pottery

Title: Red Wing Sewer Pipe Information
Type: Document
Date: 1912
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Red Wing Stoneware began making sewer pipe to sell to local communities. This pamphlet described the construction and benefits of using stoneware sewer pipe.
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Red Wing Sewer Pipe Information

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Activities:

  1. Why is the glaze on pipe important, according to this article?



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  2. Why do you think some Red Wing business leaders decided to start a new clay industry making sewer pipe?



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  3. According to the title page of this booklet, how much pipe did this company produce per year?



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  4. Why would the title page of the book request that you "Address all Correspondence to Red Wing, Minn." if the company also had a factory in Hopkins?



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