Alhambra Grain & Feed Grain Elevator in 1945

agriculture, Alhambra, grain elevator, soybeans

Illinois Agricultural Association, “Alhambra Grain & Feed Grain Elevator in 1945,” Madison Historical, accessed December 30, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/894.

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This photograph shows the Alhambra Grain & Feed facility in 1945, the year operations were expanded to soybean processing. This was the first cooperative to process soybeans in Illinois. Soybean processing was shut down in 1961.

• Photo courtesy of the Illinois Farm Bureau Family of Companies Corporate Archives
• Photograph and caption originally printed in “First Illinois Co-op Bean Mill.” Illinois Agricultural Association Record, Vol. 23, no. 4 (April 1945), 17.

• Alhambra
• agriculture

Illinois Agricultural Association

Illinois Agricultural Association

April 1945

• Alhambra Grain & Feed
• Alhambra

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photocopy
• jpg

• Alhambra, Illinois
• 1940s

• IAA-P-0001