Photo of damage incurred in the 11th and 7th Street area of Rockford from the 1928 tornado. There is a car in the foreground and people standing by destroyed buildings in the background.
Photo of damage incurred in the 11th and 7th Street area of Rockford from the 1928 tornado. There are people standing on the roof of a damaged building.
The 1920 city directory states that the Empire Manufacturing Co. are "makers of high grade furniture," located at 2578 11th St. in Rockford IL. This black and white photograph is on thick but flexible cloth-like paper.
The Rockford Peerless Furniture Company, started circa 1910, is shown here some seven decades later. The building is located at the northeast corner of 11th St. and 20th Ave.
Employees are photographed at their desks at the Sundstrand Adding Machine Co., located at 2421 11th St. The back of the photo contains signatures, presumably of the people pictured. Next to one name is written, "1933." A message handwritten in…