19th Century Construction Projects

Historical images of construction sites and water works from the 1800s, depicting laborers and machinery in early engineering techniques.

Digger Indian Camp. Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus county.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Operators at their levers handling converters and ladles , Steel industry, Machinery, Steel, Factories, Iron & steel workers

Spooling Room of the Gromet Mill. Fall River, Mass.. Unknown maker, American

Hot steel beam from rolling process being cut into lengths by buzz saw , Steel industry, Iron industry, Saws, Machinery, Steel, Factories

Maple sugar works of S. & E. Morse, Montpelier, Vt. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Maple sugar industry , Vermont

Niagara Falls. New Suspension Bridge. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Waterfalls , New York (State), Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Tourism , New York (State) , Niagara Falls (N.Y.)

Braceman at work, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

East entrance to Mullen Tunnel. Men working at the entrance to the tunnel. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Corliss engine. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Knocking down, breaking and loading coal, Anthracite Mining, Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Scranton (Pa.)

Boiling sap. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Maple sugar industry , Vermont

Stereo gelatin photograph by Underwood & Underwood from 1906 showing the scotchy machinery used in Marinette, Wisconsin for paper production.

Johnstown flood, general wreck. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.), Floods , Pennsylvania , Johnstown

Breaking up the bed , Iron industry, Furnaces, Factories, Molds Shaping tools, Iron & steel workers

Vermont Marble Co.'s quarries, West Rutland, Vt. Vermont scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Rutland (Vt.)

Three carpenters in a workshop ..

Engine up Mt. Washington. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.), Engines, Mountain railroads

Wood sawmill, near the window barriere in Amsterdam ..

Providence water works , Building construction, Pumping stations

African American Railroad Construction, African-Americans

Copper plate sluice at Bonanza bar. Snake River gold fields. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho, Gold mining, Hydraulic mining

Waltham Watch Manufactory. Machine shop , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection

Plants on display in an exhibition hall , Exhibitions, Plants

Workers build an object of steel and wood, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880 stereograph Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print working class, labourers Europe

Logs in the banking ground. Gems in the pineries of Michigan 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Lumber industry, Logs, Wooding stations

Among the iron mines. Gems of Lake Superior scenery. 1870 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Superior, Lake, Iron mining, Miners

Photograph of iron and steelworks in Pittsburgh captured by Underwood & Underwood on gelatin paper in 1903.

Katahdin Iron Works. Before or After Casting.. Unknown maker, American

Threshing oats, general view, Illinois , Threshing, Agricultural equipment

Page 158 of the general Association of Rubber Plants in East Coast of Sumatra (A.R.O.S.). Book page with a photo of an Indian worker who sneaks Gambir on a field in Gooeng Malajoe. Part of photo album of the general union of rubber planters on the east coast of Sumatra (A.R.O.S.).

Rijkswaterstaat Photo Collection. Construction of a lock at Nieuwe Statenzijl. August 26, 1876. Groningen (prov.), Nieuwe Stateszijl, Reiderland, Reiderland

Glass manufacture, Tarentum, Pa. - casting and rolling sheets of plate glass 12 1/2 x 21 feet.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Providence water works , Construction workers, Drilling & boring machinery, Water supply

From Wireless Tel. Tower west over huge Manufactures Bldg. to the Pike, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Prisoners going to work, Sing Sing, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Sing Sing (N.Y.), Prisoners

Brattleboro views. Repairing dam. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Brattleboro (Vt.)

Nitro-Glycerin factory. Leo Daft (American, active 1870s - 1880s)

Slate pickers, anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pa. , Coal, Coal mining, Coal miners, Machinery

Genesee Valley Sand Stone Quarry, showing all the opertions of quarrying. Portage, N. Y. and Vicinity. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1870. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Portage (N.Y.), Sandstone quarrying, Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)

Marble Quarries of the Prison, with Convicts at work. Sing Sing Prison views, no. 4298. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Sing Sing (N.Y.)

Shear sharpener at work on the street ..

Hot steel beam from rolling process being cut into lengths by buzz saw , Steel industry, Iron industry, Saws, Machinery, Steel, Factories

Conveyer line for carrying bird's-eye coal to bin, Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Scranton (Pa.)

Barn and stacks of lumber , Agricultural facilities, Building materials

N.P.R.R. Docks and Harbor Improvements - Duluth, May, 1872.. Caswell & Davy

Stuffing cotton. John Usher's Stereoviews of Augusta & vicinity. 1885. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Augusta (Ga.), Cotton

Irrigating an orange grove, Riverside, California. 1870 - 1925. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California

Gallery of machines ..

Clearing Herring Nets, Hastings. Attributed to Harold Howe (British, active 1890s)

Remains of crockery store, Johnstown, Pa. , Disasters, Floods

Hydraulic Gold Mining, Virginia City.. William Henry Jackson (American, 1843 - 1942)

Crossing Jhelum River by a bridge of three ropes, Garli, on Murree route, India to Cashmere , Rivers, Bridges

Card room, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C. 1909. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Greensboro (N.C.), White Oak Cotton Mills, Cotton industry , North Carolina , Greensboro

Miners going into the slope, Hazleton, Pa., U.S.A. (2) 20049 still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal miners, Hazleton (Pa.)

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Dam, concrete mixer, Ashland, Mass., 1890 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Carding Room, Granite Mill, Fall River, Mass. U.S. 3rd Story. Joseph W. Warren (American, active 1870s)

Boiling Maple Sugar.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Man sharpening blade on foot-operated whetstone; French; about 1865; Albumen silver print

Irrigating an orange grove, Riverside, California. 1870 - 1925. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California

Among the iron mines. Gems of Lake Superior scenery. 1870 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Superior, Lake, Iron mining, Miners

Westward the Monarch Capital makes its way. Man standing on railroad bed, with ties laid out awaiting rails. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1866. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Nebraska, Railroads construction & maintenance

Sawing Wood. Morrisville, Vermont. Lorenzo Gray Burnham (American, 1845 - 1931)

Ore Barrows, Katahdin Iron Works, Maine. William P. Dean (American, born Canada, 1835 - 1911)

Buyer of rags, legs, etc. for his warehouse, exhibition Oud-Holland in 1897, Amsterdam, Netherlands.Buyer of Rags, Legs, etc. for His Warehouse, Exhibition Oud-Holland in 1897, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Fighting diseases through a so -called 'rat oven' in Malang, 1900 - 1935 stereograph Malang (possibly) paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print

Steam stops and safety valves. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Pa.)

White Lead Works, Joplin, Mo. 1890. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Missouri, Lead industry, Joplin (Mo.)

Placer Mining, Flume in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County Made 1863-1873 United States. Albumen print, stereo, No. 970 from the series Placer Mining . Thomas Houseworth and Company

Shaft house, Anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pa. , Coal mining, Headframes Mining

Hydraulic Mining - Behind the Pipes.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Boston Water works, Sudbury River Conduit, Nov. 6, 1876, automatic apparatus for recording heights of water at dam on Sudbury River. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts

Warper & Creel, Lewiston, Maine. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Lewiston (Me.), Textile machinery

Galerie du travail, section Autrichienne , Exhibitions, Machinery, Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris, Alexandre Benois Collection

Modern pig iron machine at rest, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A. 1886 - 1915. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh (Pa.)

Washing Fish. G.H. Nickerson & W.H. Smith

Gold mining in Idaho. 4238. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho, Gold mining

Experimental Suspension Trusses of Boards. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Boiling sap. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Winter , New Hampshire, Maple sugar industry

Sing Sing Prison. (Prison cart.) Hudson River scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Sing Sing (N.Y.)

Fog horn engine. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Lighthouses, Fog-signals

Providence water works , Drilling, Water supply

Steam shovel at work, Burt Mine, Mesabi Range, Minn. , Steam shovels

Gelatin paper stereo photograph from 1906 by Underwood & Underwood showing iron mining activity in Hibbing, Minnesota, capturing miners, equipment, and landscape.

Making maple sugar. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Winter , New Hampshire, Maple sugar industry

Remnants of the mill of Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus; Le Moulin de Souain ..

Stripping off the surface dirt, Mesabi Range, Minn. , Strip mining, Machinery

Smelting Works, New Almaden.. Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)

Men building a stone wall. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Brockton (Mass.), Construction, Stone walls

The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life on the Wisconsin "Putting in a Yankee.". Henry Hamilton Bennett (American, born Canada, 1843 - 1908)

A Mississippi lumber raft. Beauties of the upper Mississippi, Minnesota and vicinity. 41. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Lumber industry , Minnesota

P. R. R. shops Altoona, Pa. interior of locomotive black-smith shop. Views among the Alleghenies. Penna. Railroad. 146. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny Mountains, Railroad shops & yards, Railroad locomotive industry, Altoona (Pa.)

Miners descending the west shaft with the Burleigh Drill. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.), Tunnels , Massachusetts

Ruins of Cambria Steel Works, Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley, Pa., disaster. May 31, 1889. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.)

Sailors at work on the sailing ship De Hohenzollern; Im hafen von mountains.

Interior of a factory. A.S. Hinckley (American, active 1870s - 1880s)

Interior of spinning works. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Overalls, EMS ..

Iron Works, Port Heary, N.Y. American scenery ; Green Mountains. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Champlain, Lake, Iron industry, Port Henry (N.Y.)

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alaska, Gold mining

Hoisted car of coal ready to be dumped, Scranton, Pa. , Coal mining, Hoisting machinery, Coal

In the kitchen of a country home, near Rättvik, Sweden , Kitchens, Cookery

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