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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
| Date: | 05 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
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| Description: | The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke. |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Frank Hurn, driver for Davidson Transfer & Storage Company, wiping the windshield of an International D-40 truck. The truck appears to be parked near a har... |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
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| Description: | Uniroyal workers cross a suspension bridge over water at the end of a work shift. In the background are factory buildings and a smokestack. |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Waterside view toward a couple canoeing by a boathouse and docks on the Ohio Canal, with a steel bridge in the left background. Smoke streams across the sk... |
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| Description: | View across water toward a sawmill amidst palm trees. Lumber is piled high in numerous stacks. Five men are standing on a platform that juts out from a roo... |
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| Description: | The roofs and smokestacks of the power house and hoist house of Buffington Coke Works are behind the coke ovens which are in the foreground. Buffington Cok... |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View from railroad bridge of the harbor at Green Bay. On the other side of the harbor, there are many industrial buildings, including Northern Paper Mills,... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Ramsay & Jones Mill with logs in the water in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
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