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RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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CREX Products

 List of
American Grass Twine employees, 1903
List of American Grass Twine Women Employees 1918


Crex Furniture and Rugs
 


Photos of Harvest Camp near Forest Lake


Crex Online Exhibit Home

Samples of Crex Floor Coverings
 Images of the Crex floor coverings are from a 1903 catalog, from the Library of Congress,
and a 1905 catalog in the collection of Paul D. Nelson





 

 

Crex Furniture




 


Furniture Showroom circa 1901, Image from Creating New Industries, Minnesota Historical Society
 


Crex Stock Certificate
 

Those who may wish to see many more photographs of American Grass Twine/Crex products and operations have a few sources readily available. The Minnesota Historical Society library has one copy of Creating New Industries, the company's 1901 self-laudatory history, and a 1919 Crex full-color rug catalog. The Crex Nature Center in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, has a history display, with photographs not shown here or in the article, and a Crex rug. In warm weather one can also see wire grass growing in the peat bogs..

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Our Mission
 "The Ramsey County Historical Society inspires current and future generations to learn from
and value their history by engaging in a diverse program of presenting, publishing and preserving." 

The place for St. Paul & Ramsey County, Minnesota history.
Ramsey County Historical Society programs include a research center, St. Paul & Ramsey County MN history magazine, 
historical exhibits, historic site attraction the Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life.

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RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
 323 Landmark Center, 75 West Fifth Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102    
Phone: (651) 222-0701, Fax: (651) 223-8539
 info@rchs.com
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