E. J. Brach & Company, Modern Analytical Lab, Kinzie and Kilpatrick Streets, ca. 1924E. J. Brach & Company, Modern Analytical Lab, Kinzie and Kilpatrick Streets, ca. 1924.
E. J. Brach building, LaSalle and Illinois Street, ca. 1909E. J. Brach, exterior, LaSalle and Illinois Street, c. 1909
Early Kroger storefrontEarly Kroger storefront. Kroger’s first store (and each one that followed) featured prominent, eye-catching displays.
Early Soda Fountain, 1872Photograph of what is likely a Puffer soda fountain similar to the one in use at Long & Billups Pharmacy…
Factory Inspectors Past and Present, 1914Concerns about health, hygiene, and food safety, once confined to the family and left largely to women, became a matter…
Faust, Tony portrait, n.dPortrait of Tony Faust, n.d. Faust was a restaurateur and mutual friend of Eberhard Anheuser and Adolphus Busch. He included…
Federal Sugar Refining Company building, seen from Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, 2013Photograph of Federal Sugar Refining Company building, seen from Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, 2013
Flour packers inside the C.H. Guenther & Son’s new brick mill constructed in 1908Flour packers inside the company’s new brick mill constructed in 1908, six years after Guenther's death.
German Maschinenfabrik [engineering works] Grevenbroich advertisementAdvertisement of the German Maschinenfabrik [engineering works] Grevenbroich. From: Beet Sugar Gazette 1 (1899): 2
Guenther Mill, 1882As San Antonio and the state of Texas grew following the Civil War, Guenther expanded his facilities to meet demand.…
Guenther, C.H.'s first mill painted by Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz, 1855In 1855, Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz (1813-1891) painted C.H. Guenther's first mill, built in 1851. Lungkwitz was born in Halle-an-der-Saale…
Guenther, Carl's New Mill, completed in 1868Photo of Guenther's New Mill, completed in 1868. Because of increasing demand and insufficient water power at the original site…
Guenther, Carl's Upper Mill which ground mainly corn, rye, and barley, a quarter-mile up river from his original millA photograph of the Upper Mill, which ground mainly corn, rye, and barley, a quarter-mile up river from the original…