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.
Hungarian Roller Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Hungarian Roller Mill operated on Bloomington's west side from the 1870s to 1912.
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.
Diamond Star Groundbreaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The groundbreaking ceremony for Diamond Star Motors factory in Bloomington-Normal on April 16, 1986.
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.
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.
Bloomington Pickle Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Pickle Factory manufactured pickles and vinegar in the 1920s and 1930s.
Seibel Brothers Millinery Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Seibel Brothers Wholesale and Retail Millinery in downtown Bloomington.
Faloon and Geltmacher Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Faloon and Geltmacher was a small company on Washington St. in Bloomington that produced medical devices and patent medicines.
Stevens Manufacturing and Foundry Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Stevens Manufacturing and Foundry produced "high grade potato machinery" in Bloomington.
Tryner and Richardson Cigar Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tryner and Richardson's Cigar Factory employed a dozen hand rollers in 1894.
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.
Bloomington Cider and Vinegar Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Cider and Vinegar Co. factory was a short-lived 19th century business packaging vinegar and sweet pickles.
Meadows Washer Line
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four workers on the Meadows Washer line assemble clothes washers.
The 'Y' Brick Yard Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)S.B. Rankin was the proprietor of The 'Y' Brick Yard on Bunn St.
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 ChicagoE. T. Walker, Secretary and Treasurer".
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.
Moratz Planing Mill Workers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four workers at the Moratz Planing Mill, about 1915, stand amongst equipment used for cutting and shaping wood.
Mitsubishi Stamping
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is one of the five press lines in the stamping shop at Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America (MMMA) where coils of steel are stamped into body parts such as doors, hoods, and floor plans.
Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Five men pose in front of the Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory, an early 20th century manufacturer operating in Bloomington.
Funk Soybean Processing Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gene Funk built this soybean processing plant in 1924 in Bloomington, modeled after a mill in Chicago Heights.

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