For much of his childhood in the late 1940s and early '50s, Robert Libman would keep his father company as he drove the back roads of central Illinois. With his son sitting next to him, Clarence ...

N-G photographer Stephen Haas went behind the scenes at a 700-person company that makes some 500,000 brooms, mops and brushes a week in a 1.5 million-square-foot plant. An employee uses a forklift to ...