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| Description: | Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery. |
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| Description: | An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot of the Platteville Brewery (spelled Plattville). It is an elevated perspective showing the main buildi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Potosi Brewery at about the time Adam Schumacher took over the operation. Children and adults can be seen near a fence and in horse-dr... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view showing, on the left, the bottling plant and the stables, and on the right, the Potosi Brewery itself. Groups of men are standing on the sid... |
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| Description: | The Potosi Brewery. Men can be seen standing in front of the building, and driving horse-drawn vehicles. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the bottling works of the Potosi Brewery built in 1902. A group of men stand near the front entrance. |
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| Description: | Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill. |
| Date: | 05 1981 |
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| Description: | Quonset hut at Len's Feed and Fuel, North Third Street at East Furnace Street. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks looking towards the Bagley train station. On the right is a large storage tank. A man is driving a car near the railroad tracks n... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Fennimore, primarily the train depot. There is a windmill near railroad cars, and dwellings are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across road of travelers on platform exiting the Lancaster train depot. A man sits on a horse-drawn wagon in front of the depot. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Adams Patent Wheel Co. on Front Street along the C.B. & Q. Railroad. There are seven men, and a young boy, all posing near four different open doorways... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the backs of billboards on the left along a street or alley. Power lines lead to the horizon, over what appear to be businesses or indust... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over city. A church is in the middle foreground, and the Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. On the right side is a dir... |
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| Description: | View across road of creamery building. Male workers are standing near the entrance on the left in front of a sign that says "Patch Grove Creamery." On the ... |
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| Description: | Ruins of an old furnace. There is a pile of stones and the remains of a wheel. In the background is a hill with trees. |
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| Description: | View along railroad tracks towards a group of men and boys standing on a platform in front of the Preston Depot while a locomotive arrives. In the backgrou... |
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