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1940s Heavy Equipment Operations

Vintage footage of heavy machinery and cranes in action during the 1940s, including work at aggregate and railroad sites.

Vat of Sulphur and Crane, Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas, John Vachon for Office of War Information, May 1943
Vat of Sulphur and Crane, Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas, John Vachon for Office of War Information, May 1943
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Construction waste burning power plant
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CARRETERA NACIONAL II - CONSTRUCCION DE PUENTE CON GRUAS - FOTO AÑOS 90. Location: EXTERIOR. PROVINCIA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Engineer equipment somewhere in Korea.
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Aerial view of a construction site
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Views within Arsenal site , Armories, Debris, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt
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POZO DE PETROLEO EN EL DESIERTO. Location: EXTERIOR. Nación. KUWAIT.
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Italsider, taranto, workers, 70's
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Vintage Photograph. Stacked industrial barrels outside warehouse under blue sky.
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Federal Reserve , Construction, Banks, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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A view of some of the antennas at a communications facility run by Detachment 4, 2003rd Communications Group. Elma Dag is located about 20 miles east of Ankara, Turkey. Base: Elma Dag Country: Turkey (TUR)
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Personnel using bulldozer and crane to move earth in preparation for construction.. Personnel using bulldozer and crane to move earth in preparation for construction..
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Château-Chervix, Haute-Vienne, France The Fagassière deposit, gold mine , 1929 - French provinces - Stéphane Passet - (March 26 -May 18) (French - Château-Chervix , Haute-Vienne , France Le gisement de La Fagassière , mine d' or). Factory , workshop, mining resources, tower, rubble, Habitat , architecture, nature , environment
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Fresno, California:   1890 This photograph by C.C. Curtis shows the Smith and Moore 96 foot trestle which is part of flume built by Hiram T. Smith and Austin D.Moore, to transport lumber ftom the Sierras for their company, the Kings River Lumber Company, later known in 1894 as the Sanger Lumber Company.
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Verdindingsweg Stationsweg Market Kerkrade. undated. Kerkrade
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Test Activities. Launch complex construction, Johnston Island. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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The Shasta dam under construction. It was, a New Deal project to provide irrigation, flood control and electricity to California's Central Valley. June 1942 photo by Russell Lee.
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The State Railways, SJ J1J1 wagons paced for gravel and tipping for hand gravel pit at KM. 2
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A820316 GENERATOR YARD PRESSURE CLEANER DEMONSTRATION PASSMORE (PROJECT ENGINEER) FEB 18 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/18/1982  CLEANING; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GENERATOR YARD; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MOBILE HOMES; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PRESSURE CLEANER DEMONSTRATION; SPRAYING; TEST SITES; TRAILERS, MOTOR DRAWN; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Iceland - Aerial view of factory near lake and road
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Unknown , Houses, Building construction. Needham Building Collection
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Digitally restored, Die Bessemer Fabrik, Stahlgussfabrik Friedrich Krupp in Essen, Deutschland, Holzstich nach Zeichnung, 1889, von Emil Limmer, Veroeffentlichung aus dem Jahr 1882, Digitally improved:, The Bessemer factory, cast-steel factory Friedrich Krupp in Essen, Wood engraving after drawing, by Emil Limmer, publication from the year 1882
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Unknown , Fires, Houses. Needham Building Collection
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Food From America and Canada Arriving in Britain, 1943 A ship's cargo of dried California peaches being unloaded into a barge.
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Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill. December 1942.
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A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740-1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771), 1785, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 35 5/8 x 57 inches (90.5 x 144.8 cm), banks, barrel, bridge (built work), building, conveyor, house, labor, landscape, man, river, rocks (landforms), stream, woman, wooden, workers, Derbyshire, Derwent, England, Matlock, United Kingdom
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China industry houses of worker brigades Tatchai 1969,
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Chinese medicine to improve men's health and fertility. Advert by the Tianjin Medicine Factory
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