[Bookseller's Row, Chicago, after the great fire of Oct. 1871]

[Ruins at Union Depot, after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago, showing wall and railroad cars]

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago]: View from Hamsin St.

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago]: Rush Medical College

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - Courthouse]

[Ruins of J.V. Farrell's Store, after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago; rubble and fallen columns]

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - Insurance Building, Washington St.]

[Ruins in Chicago, after the fire of Oct. 8-9, 1871 - Hall Kimbark & Co. Bldg.]

Ruins of Sherman House, Chicago, after the great fire of Oct. 1871

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - Great Central Station]

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - looking N.E. from corner of State & Madison St.]

Drake's Block, cor. Wabash Ave. and Washington St.

[Ruins of Smith & Nixon's Building on LaSalle St., Chicago, after the great fire of Oct. 1871]

[Ruins of Trinity Church, Chicago, after the great fire of Oct. 1871]

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