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Workers use lock-corner cutters to make wooden boxes.

Workers press and trim lock-corner wooden boxes.

Several workers use nails to assemble wooden boxes

Workers stand next to several pallets of wooden boxes.

Wooden boxes are loaded onto wagons.

Wagons loaded with wooden boxes stand outside the mill.

Workers file saws in the filing room.

Office employees work at their desks at the Sangamon Street Plant.

Sangamon Street Plant office employees work at their desks.

Salesmen sit in an office discussing problems their customers have with the mill's boxes.

An aerial photograph shows the entire Sangamon Street Plant of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.

Illinois Lieutenant Governor Hugh W. Cross poses for a portrait wearing a dark suit. Cross served as Lieutenant Governor from 1941-1949.Image dedication: "To my good friend Bill Stratton; With all good wishes, Hugh W. Cross."

A horse and buggy ride past storefronts with large awnings in 1890.On verso: "Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville, Ill in 1890."

An article titled, "Extra," from "The Journal" in Springfield, announces with "great pleasure" that Gen. John A. Logan was elected to the U.S. Senate. Logan was a veteran of the Mexican-American War, a general in the American Civil War, a member of…

Men work in the glazing room at the Western Stoneware Company in Macomb.

Female employees drill holes in watch plates at the National Watch Company factory in Elgin.

A man washes a cattle carcass at a meat packing plant in Chicago.

Carts carrying produce fill the South Water Street Produce Market in Chicago.

A network of railroad tracks run through the relay depot in East St. Louis.

Smoke pours from smokestacks throughout the German-American Portland Cement Workslocated in LaSalle. Producing Portland cement since 1897, the Portland Cement Works is today known as the Illinois Cement Company.

The seven Illinois Supreme Court justices and the court reporter sit around a conference table in the Illinois Supreme Court's conference room in Springfield.

The St. Nicholas Hotel provides a good vantage point for an aerial photograph of downtown Decatur, Illinois, including the city's Transfer House.

Fence posts float in floodwaters while houses stand in the background with water reaching halfway to the second story in the aftermath of an 1898 flood resulting from a levee break near Shawneetown.