Oliver Corporation

ID: 1969 ~ Source: Pictorial souvenir of South Bend, Indiana, 1919. Chicago: J.J. McVicker. https://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/digital/collection/p16827coll3/id/500 ~ Date: 1919

This file appears in: Oliver Chilled Plow Works Smokestack

This collage of drawings published for the company’s 58th anniversary in 1919 depicts how the Oliver Corporation grew over the years.

This file appears in: Oliver Chilled Plow Works Smokestack

Oliver Chilled Plow Works Smokestack

By Jacqueline Lopez

Oliver Chilled Plow Works - 1835-1855 South Bend’s Oliver Chilled Plow Works manufactured some of the world’s most popular plows, calling themselves “Plowmakers to the World.” Immigrant and inventor James Oliver’s patented method of chilling the…