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Soap from the West Hotel (back).
Soap from the West Hotel (front).
The completed West Hotel, Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, c.1897.
The West Hotel, Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, c.1902.
Proposed drawing of the West Hotel, c.1884.
West Publishing Company editorial offices, c.1920s.
West Publishing Company employees, St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1916.
The West Publishing complex seen from the Mississippi River, 1955.
West Publishing Company headquarters on West Third Street (later Kellogg Boulevard) in St. Paul, 1915.
Typesetters at West Publishing Company before the introduction of Linotype machines, 1885.