J.C. Land Department in ruins, after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago: Field & Leiter's Store]

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago: Western News Co.]

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - interior of Post Office]

Modern steel plant along the Monongahela River, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A.

Operators at their levers handling converters and ladles, steel works, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A.

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Drawing red hot bars of brass from the annealing furnaces

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Overhauling brass bars to get smooth surface for rolling

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Pouring molten brass from crucibles into molds

Weaving cotton cloth, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas, Texas

Blowing the bottle into required shape in a mould - American Glass Bottle Industry

Turning bricks so they rest on edges and dry evenly, Haverstraw, N.Y.

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: "Breaking down" - the first process in rolling brass bars into sheets

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Rolling sheet brass

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Foundry room, showing rods and bars just cast

Storage house, capacity 22,500 tons--Ice being sent to R.R. cars by automatic conveyors, Calexico, Calif.

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Mass.

General view in large printing room of cotton mills, Lawrence Mass.

Spoolers where the yarn is wound from bobbins onto spools, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., U.S.C.

Tanning the hides in vats filled with hickory bark liquid

Unloading beef cattle, Union stock yards, Chicago, Ill.

San Francisco earthquake, April 18, 1906. Memorial Arch [in ruins], Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto

Residence of Senator [Leland] Stanford, wrecked by the terrible earthquake, Palo Alto, Calif.