Industrial Milwaukee: Images of P&H Electric Cranes

Industrial Milwaukee: Images of P&H Electric Cranes at the WHS. "...Alonzo Pawling and Henry Harnischfeger met while both were employed at the Whitehill Sewing Company of Milwaukee. Several years later, in 1884, sensing Milwaukee's growing need for a dependable machine and pattern shop, the two combined their resources and with a simple handshake, started the business that would one day service 90 percent of the world's surface mines and revolutionize the machinery industry with the invention of the electric crane."