![Vance Packard (1942-2020)](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
It is with profound sadness that I pass along the news that two-time SIA President Vance Packard passed away on Oct. 27. Vance was an…
![SIA YouTube channel is now live](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
SIA is pleased to announce its YouTube channel, featuring talks and videos about industrial archeology. Visit us at the SocIndstArch channel on YouTube If you…
![SIA Poster Session Guidelines](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
At each annual meeting and some fall tours and chapter events, SIA welcomes poster displays for research which is either just beginning or is not…
![SIA Membership Survey Prize Draw Winners](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Thank you to all the members and non-members who responded to the SIA Membership survey run by the Michigan Tech School of Business last fall….
![Solvay Coke Plant in MKE](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-05-at-2.11.41-PM-470x140.png)
The old 46-acre Solvay Coke plant site in Milwaukee (#SIA2005 annual conf. tour stop) is to be redeveloped by Komatsu as what is being touted…
![SIA Membership Survey](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-2.35.54-PM-470x140.png)
Thanks to all the members who participated in the online membership survey sent to all members in the early summer of 2018. In all, 285…
![Gettleman Demolition](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-14_08-37-55_089-470x140.jpg)
SIA members may wish to know of two recent losses of industrial buildings in Milwaukee (SIA conference 2009). The historic Gettleman Brewery malt house from…
![CFP: Atomic I.A.](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology is planning an issue on “Atomic I.A.” for publication in 2020. Topics we are seeing are…
![Flooding in Houghton (June 2018)](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Houghton Co., MI, where the SIA headquarters are located, suffered severe flooding on Sunday 17 June 2018. The region was very hard hit with many…
![Membership Committee Report 2018](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The Membership Committee has recently done a study of the demographics of SIA members over time and has developed the following report. SIA Membership Report…