Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Chicago general offices
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Shop No. 2
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "N. E. Corner Shop No. 2."
Bolster department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Factory Workers
Image | 1953 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Egyptian
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Clifford-Jacobs Forging Co.
Image | 1941 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the south and west sides of the structure.
Bowman and Co. egg processing plant
Image | 1946 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the west side of the structure.
Local Industry
Image | 1939-1940 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionJuly 15, 1939 and April 3, 1940.
Tool department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoTool department for Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Shop No. 1
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Section of Shop No. 1".
Forge department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bolt and rivet department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit 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.
Coke Plant at Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Image | 1999 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionImage Agent: Colin Ball
Matchworks
Image | 1998-2002 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionPublished between 1998 and 2002.
The Big-Charachter Poster is Good! (Chairman Mao Visits and Automobile Factory)
Image | 1974 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Chinese
Portrait of America
Image | 1933 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Mexican
Argenteuil
Image | 1872 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1872.
The Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant
Image | 1932 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
The Races
Image | 1873 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1873.
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
General views, looking S.W. and west
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoViews of Chicago Railway Equipment Co. plant in Marion, Indiana.
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.
Japan. Honshu. Factory on an Island East of Hiroshima
Image | 2000 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionPublished circa 2000.
Matchworks
Image | 1998-2002 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionPublished between 1998 and 2002.
Hog Heaven
Image | 1957-1977 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1957 and 1977.
Weir & Craig Mfg. Co. building
Image | 1891 | Picture ChicagoWriting on the side of building, in image: "Machine shop & brass foundry. Plumbers. Steam & gas fitters--Supplies. Weir & Craig Mfg. Company. Iron foundery." From text: "It is only reasonable that in Chicago, which is the center of so many packing houses, there should be a manufactory of packing house machinery, and a firm which makes a speciality of this is the Weir & ...
John P. Ahrens, E. B. Leigh and E. T. Walker
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "John P. Ahrens, Vice President
Board of directors
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".
Draughting department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoDraughting department for Chicago location of the Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Power room
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--South". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bird's-eye view
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Solid beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City 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.
Annealing department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Matchworks
Image | 1998-2002 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionPublished between 1998 and 2002.
Gas City in Boom Days
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionJanuary 4, 1939 and July 28, 1939.

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