Here are some photos (and artworks) of the grain elevators of Chicago, c. 1860s.
I found it very difficult to visualize the scene and how "grand" this whole system was. These pictures somewhat grasped the immensity of the system.
(this photograph is a nice layout of what the elevators are actually like)
http://condor.depaul.edu/chicago/chicago_images/elevator.jpg
(this photograph is composed mostly of lumbers and I believe there are grain elevators in the background)
http://condor.depaul.edu/chicago/chicago_images/boards.jpg
(an artist named B. J. O. Nordfeldt etched some interesting images of Chicago from the mid-1920s [so, they are more recent than the other photographs]. His style and composition is really quite different from all the paintings we have seen, but he provides an interesting new view of what Chicago was like back then)
http://neartexchange.com/sites/default/files/images/nordfeldt_elevators.jpg
More of Nordfeldt's etches can be found here:
http://neartexchange.com/neart/artwork/print?page=21&order=bkthjvai
-- Ihna
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