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 "This picture, taken by [Eadweard] Muybridge, of San Francisco, at Buena Vista Vineyard, Sonoma, California, in the early 1870's, was captioned `Champagne Corking.' It shows a shed where various processes of disgorging, perfecting the fill and recorking were carried on. The man inspecting the labeled bottle is B. E. Auger for many years an officer and trustee of the Buena Vista Vinicultural Society. Wicker baskets shown were woven by Chinese employees of the vineyard society; the finished champagne was packed in them for the market. The box near the disgorging apparatus bears the words, `National Grape' the name of one of Buena Vista's champagnes. The building at the rear of the shed is the brandy distillery operated in conjunction with the winery." [338kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Trail of the hide hunters." Buffalo lying dead in snow, 1872. [245kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Rath & Wright's buffalo hide yard in 1878, showing 40,000 buffalo hides, Dodge City, Kansas." [397kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Irrigation ditch under construction at San Carlos Indian Agency, Arizona-1886." [290kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Some of [Aztec's] Punchers." Aztec Land & Cattle Company, Holbrook, Ariz. Terr. By Ames, 1877--89. [253kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Oklahoma Cotton Field." Overseer and Negro cottonpickers, ca. 1897--98. [303kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Picking cherries on an Oklahoma Fruit Ranch." A baby in a stroller watches the busy family at work, ca. 1900. Copy of halftone. [428kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Inside view of Cold Springs reservoir." A panoramic view of men at work on the Umatilla reclamation project in Oregon. Horsedrawn carts, a train, and a crane are diverse technological applications in this irrigation project. By William J. Lubkin, September 17, 1907. [252kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Gathering the Fruits of an Oklahoma Farm--Apples, Peaches, Plums, Pears, Grapes, and Melons." Children at their chores, ca. 1900. [494kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Panoramic view of California wheatfield, windmill, and ranch buildings at foot of mountains. By C. Hart Merriam, 1903. [250kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Trappers and hunters in the Four Peaks country on Brown's Basin [Ariz. Terr.]. Two Crab Tree boys, their father and the dogs and burrows [sic] which they hunt with. Their cabin is located on LongCreek, at the entrance of Hell's Hip Pocket in Brown's Basin, between Four Peaks and Salt River." By Lubkin, January 1908. [324kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Buffalo grazing near buffalo yards, Wichita National Forest, Okla., March 11, 1908. [218kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Turning over first sod on homestead." Sun River Mont. By Lubkin, November 5, 1908. [236kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "N. P. Railway, Tacoma [Wash. Terr.] Shipping first cargo of halibut caught in Puget Sounds by crew of schooner Oscar and Hattie. September 20, 1888." By N. B. Miller. [216kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Husking shrimps--treading out dried shrimps, San Francisco Bay, 1888--89." By Charles H. Townsend. [203kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Fishermen's Wharf at foot of Union Street, San Francisco. Circular crab nets and large fish nets are spread out to dry. A three--masted ship is on distant horizon and small feluccas thrust protruding masts and graffs above the wharf's railing, ca. 1891. By Townsend. [223kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Chinese drying shrimps and mending nets, ca. 1889." San Francisco Bay By Townsend. [257kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "[Reeling] up a gill net. To dry." Near San Francisco, ca. 1891. [191kb Image from US National Archives]
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 View of Chinese fishing camp against a hillside. Drying grounds, nets cast out to sea, and shanties hugging the shoreline. Point San Pedro, San Francisco Bay, ca. 1889. By Townsend. [317kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Italian fishermen mending nets on wharf at foot of Union Street in San Francisco. Boats are lined up on the wharf for painting and repairs, ca. 1891. By Townsend. [188kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "On the wharves, San Francisco, 1900." Moored schooners' masts form a wall around the dock. By Henry G. Peabody. [290kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Sardine Industry: Wharf and sun dry process." Monterey, Calif., ca. 1908. [292kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Baird, Calif. Hauling seine." ca. 1908. [282kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Sand storm that passed over Midland, Texas, February 20, 1894 at 6:00 p.m." Windmills and houses visible just below the whirling sand. [242kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "First water works of Perry [Okla. Terr.]. Martin Bro's. Prop., Oct. 10th, 93." [224kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Guthrie Cotton Market." Peak of trading on Harrison Avenue is captured by Photographer Swearingen, after 1893. [395kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Her daily duty." Cow with seven small boys on her back poses in front of schoolhouse in Okanogan, Wash. By Frank Matsura, 1907. [279kb Image from US National Archives]
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