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Itineraire du Vicomte de Montmort, de Kimbeley a Soshong en 1890

Die Resultate der Deutschen Afrikanischen Expedition in West-Afrika, 1873-1875

[Der Amambara-Creek]

Mail at Union Station

Smaller freight tunnel

Bird's-eye view

Comparative Value of African Lands

Carte économique de l'ile de Madagascar

Underground tunnel railway

Schulze Baking Company advertisement

Bolt and rivet department

Solid beam department

Office and old power plant

South Africa

Karte der Witwatersrand Goldfelder

Ilha de S. Thomé parte mais cultivada

Stock yards and tower

Corner, manufacturing room

Section of polishing room

Section, engraving room

Underground freight system

Originalkarte der Reise des Dr. Emin-Bey in die Mudirë von Rohl u. Makraka, Oktober und November 1882...

Post Office pneumatic tube system

Railway post office

Armour elevator

Corner, watch repair room

Railroad crossing bells

Bolster department

Assembling department

Shipping department

Furnace rooms and annealing building

Annealing department

Carte de la Tunisie

Forages algériens de l'Algérie

Carte des formes de la vie des sociétés humaines dans le Haut Nil.

Mündung und Wasserfall des Lobe Flusses

Plan von Kuka

River Volta Shewing Rapids of Medica & Senchey

Sketch Map of part of the territory of the Katanga Company illustrative of the Progress of Recent Exploration

Entrance to Stock Yards

Itineraire du Vicomte de Montmort, de Kimbeley a Soshong en 1890
Image | 1890 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Die Resultate der Deutschen Afrikanischen Expedition in West-Afrika, 1873-1875
Image | 1876 | Maps of Africa to 1900
[Der Amambara-Creek]
Image | 1884 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Mail at Union Station
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The fast mail at Union Station". From text: "Chicago to-day is the greatest mail center on the continent. Seven hundred tons of this concentrated commerce flow through her gates every twenty-four hours. From every point of the compass, it comes to this great hopper to be ground out, separated, and sent to its destination. Why is this? It is because Chicago is t...
Smaller freight tunnel
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A typical view in the smaller sized portion of the tunne.l"
Bird's-eye view
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Comparative Value of African Lands
Image | 1891 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Carte économique de l'ile de Madagascar
Image | 1896 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Underground tunnel railway
Image | 1903 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The first mail arriving at the Post Office station of the Chicago subway or underground railroad, March 10, 1903."
Schulze Baking Company advertisement
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoText in advertisement: "The Bakery where bread is made of the highest standard of quality and production. Schulze Baking Co." The Schulze Baking Company building is located at 40 East Garfield Boulevard.
Bolt and rivet department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Solid beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Office and old power plant
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Office and Old Power Plant View from South Corner". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
South Africa
Image | 1885 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Karte der Witwatersrand Goldfelder
Image | 1888 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Ilha de S. Thomé parte mais cultivada
Image | 1884 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Stock yards and tower
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "All visitors to Chicago are sure to include a trip to the celebrated stock yards during their sojourn in the city. Thousands of head of cattle are slaughtered here daily. The cattle are housed in hundreds of pens covering three hundred and twenty acres. The problem of supplying this immense area with water was solved by the building of a great tower, from which ...
Corner, manufacturing room
Image | 1922 | Picture Chicago
Section of polishing room
Image | Picture Chicago
Section, engraving room
Image | 1922 | Picture Chicago
Underground freight system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Loaded freight train at street intersection". From text: "Chicago's great subway, or underground freight railroad, is now ready for operation. It is the most complete and extensive of any tunnel system in the world. … Every street in the down-town district, and many outside streets, are duplicated forty feet below the surface by the tunnel system. The entire sub...
Originalkarte der Reise des Dr. Emin-Bey in die Mudirë von Rohl u. Makraka, Oktober und November 1882...
Image | 1883 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "End of the big pneumatic tube system in the basement of the Chicago Post Office." From text: "The underground pneumatic tube system is the largest of the kind in the world. There are three double-tube trunk lines, aggregating over eighteen miles of eight-inch cast iron pipe. Of these lines the stockyards branch is the longest, the station being six and one-half ...
Railway post office
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The "R. P. O."--The Railway Post Office"
Armour elevator
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Armour grain elevator is the largest in the city, and belongs to the millionaire meat packer. The owner is noted for his great wheat operations on the Board of Trade. The vast quantities of the actual product in this immense elevator have often been able to turn the market in his favor. The elevator is located on Goose Island in the Chicago River. The combi...
Corner, watch repair room
Image | 1922 | Picture Chicago
Railroad crossing bells
Image | 1891 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Hall Signal Co." From text: "The Hall Signal Co. of 50 Broadway, New York, and 340 The Rookery, Chicago, are manufacturers of all kinds of Electric and Mechanical Signaling apparatus for railroads. The Hall Automatic Electric Block Signal System is in operation on twenty-one of the leading railroads of this country. On the opposite page is shown an application o...
Bolster department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Marion facility.
Furnace rooms and annealing building
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "General Views looking North Showing Furnace Rooms--looking East Showing Annealing Building and New Foundries". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Annealing department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Carte de la Tunisie
Image | 1887 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Forages algériens de l'Algérie
Image | 1889 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Carte des formes de la vie des sociétés humaines dans le Haut Nil.
Image | 1896 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Mündung und Wasserfall des Lobe Flusses
Image | 1887 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Plan von Kuka
Image | 1871 | Maps of Africa to 1900
River Volta Shewing Rapids of Medica & Senchey
Image | 1876 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Sketch Map of part of the territory of the Katanga Company illustrative of the Progress of Recent Exploration
Image | 1893 | Maps of Africa to 1900
Entrance to Stock Yards
Image | 1891 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Entrance to Stock Yards." From text: "No reference to Chicago of a statistical nature, even of the most infinitesimal character, would be complete without passing reference at least to the Union Stock Yards and the part they play in the world's economy. ... The yards were considered quite isolated at the time, but the city has grown so rapidly they have been anne...