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Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators.
Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely distributed. It is currently owned by the Gannett Company.
U.S. Bank Center is a skyscraper located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, noted for being the tallest building in the state of Wisconsin, and the tallest building between Chicago and Minneapolis. Standing 601 feet (183 m) and 42 stories tall, the building has a floor area of 1,077,607 sq ft (100,113.0 m2) and it surpassed the Milwaukee City Hall as the tallest building in both the city and the state. Topped off August 29, 1972, and completed in 1973, it was the headquarters for what eventually became Firstar Corporation from 1973 to 2001. The building was designed by Colombian-Peruvian architect Bruce Graham with James DeStefano of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and engineered by Bangladeshi-American structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan. As of 2017, the building is home to the headquarters of Foley & Lardner, Robert W. Baird & Company, Sensient Technologies Corporation, and is the Milwaukee office for U.S. Bank, IBM, and CBRE.
Nubuck is top-grain leather that has been sanded or buffed on the grain side, or outside, to give a slight nap of short protein fibers, producing a velvet-like surface. It is resistant to wear, and may be white or coloured.
The Sheboygan Press is a daily newspaper based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. It is one of a number of newspapers in the state of Wisconsin owned by Gannett, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Green Bay Press-Gazette and Appleton's The Post-Crescent, along with the nearby Herald Times Reporter of Manitowoc. The Sheboygan Press is primarily distributed in Sheboygan County.
Walland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blount County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Its population was 259 as of the 2010 census. Walland is the site of a post office and is the place name associated with zip code 37886, which covers an area beyond the Walland community.
The leather manufacturing process is divided into three sub-processes: preparatory stages, tanning and crusting. All true leathers will undergo these sub-processes. A further sub-process, surface coating may be added into the sequence. The list of operations that leathers undergo vary with the type of leather.
The Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, often referred to as GCELT, is an institute offering engineering courses at the undergraduate levels in Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology and Leather Technology, diploma in shoes and leather goods making and M.tech in Leather technology. The college is affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology and is approved by AICTE.
The Institute of Leather Engineering & Technology (ILET) is an educational institution at Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh that provides education related to making leather, leather products and footwear. It is an institute of the University of Dhaka.
Gebhardt is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Tannery is a historic tannery building constructed by the colonial Moravians in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It is a limestone building built in 1761, and is part of the Bethlehem Colonial Industrial Quarter.
Humanity has used animal hides since the Paleolithic, for clothing as well as mobile shelters such as tipis and wigwams, and household items. Since ancient times, hides have also been used as a writing medium, in the form of parchment.
The Wisconsin Leather Company Building was built in 1874 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the central office and store of one of the first leather companies established in Milwaukee and by the 1870s one of the largest. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Friedrich Vogel, more commonly known by the Americanized version of his name as Frederick Vogel, Sr., was an American tanner and businessman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Together with his cousin Guido Pfister, he founded the Pfister & Vogel tannery.
Pfister & Vogel (P&V) was an American tannery business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
August Hugo Vogel (1862–1930) was vice-president of Pfister & Vogel leather tannery of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Albert F. Gallun was president of A. F. Gallun & Sons in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the time, the company was one of the four largest leather-tanning operations in the United States.
Bantala is a neighbourhood of East Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Dick Bacon was a nudist or naturist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who was known for outdoor tanning every day of the year. He worked at Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He Sun tanned year-round at Milwaukee's Bradford Beach on Lake Michigan. Bacon also frequented a nude beach in Milwaukee called Paradise Beach.
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- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19820727&id=C2oaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2CkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1471,3780309 [ dead link ]
- ↑ Tanning operations of P&V, Gebhardt change hands Milwaukee Sentinel - December 22, 1988
- ↑ U.S. Leather to end all business in Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - February 2, 2000
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