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The Streissguth-Petran Engraving Company, better known as The S-P Company of Milwaukee, is engaged in the manufacture of everything in the process engraving line used for newspapers, catalogues ' and periodicals, also wood engravings and electrotypes. A large staff of artists is employed to make illustrations. The company makes copper plate engravings used for business and calling cards, wedding announcements and invitations, private and society stationery and in fact everything in the engraving line.

The materials that enter into the making of engravings, such as zinc and copper, must be of the very finest quality. They are accurately rolled to sheets, measuring twenty-four by twenty-eight inches, on sixteen gauge thickness, highly polished, and must come in the very best condition. The chemicals that also enter into the S-P product are of the highest grade.

The engraving business requires skilled labor that cannot be obtained locally. The workmen must display the highest proficiency in their line and put in five years at the bench before they become experts. The engravers have recently adopted a standard computing scale, which enables the consumer to very easily check up the invoices for the engravings by consulting this scale, which heretofore was mere guess work.

The equipment of an engraving plant must be of superior order, too — the best machinery obtainable. The S-P Engraving Company is always on the alert for new devices, giving the consumer the very best engravings possible.

The utmost care is exercised, no matter whether it is a minimum zinc or the very largest process plates. The officers, therefore, tell the public that if quality and courtesy are desired, their company qualifies in all of the branches.

The company started in business April 13, 1908, with a force of eight persons, which included both Mr. Streissguth and Mr. Petran. The floor space then was twenty-five by one hundred feet; today, fifty-two persons are employed and the floor space is one hundred by one hundred and twenty-five feet. The officers at the company are: Herman Streissguth, president; Otto Streissguth, vice president; and Henry Petran, secretary and treasurer. They attribute their growth entirely to quality and service. Their plant is situated at West Water and Wells streets, occupying the entire second floor of the building, and the success of the enterprise, as they claim, is due to the high standards which they have always maintained in the character of work turned out.