[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

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.