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Workers at the Panama Pottery factory at 4421 Twenty-Fourth Street are hard at work in this January 2, 1944, photograph. Founded in 1909 by Swedish immigrants Anders Anderson, Victor Axelson and Jacob Johnson, Panama’s production scope was wide, making everything from pickling crocks to urns. By the 1920s, the business was employing between 15 and 20 people, using local clay, and having its items sold at Sacramento’s Weinstock, Lubin and Company, even having some of its creations exported as far away as Asia. Just a year after this photograph was taken the factory was destroyed by fire, claiming 35,000 dollars in damage. The business’s name is thought to have come from an effort by founders to ride the popularity of the Panama Canal’s 1914 completion and opening into quick brand recognition.
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