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

Cultivating the Fields and Planting Rice, Japan, Stereo Card, Standard Scenic Company, 1906

Placer Mining - Columbia, Tuolumne County. The Tailings of the Columbia Claim.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Deep cut, Lehigh Valley R. R., Pa. , Railroad cuts, Railroad tracks, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

Men laying pipe. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Brockton (Mass.), Construction, Pipes (Conduits)

Men working in a wood shop. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Bedford (Mass.)

Mine of clay, near the surface, St. Louis, Missouri. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Missouri, Saint Louis (Mo.), Donkeys, Clay industries

Cotton in R.R. yard. John Usher's Stereoviews of Augusta & vicinity, no. 32. 1870 - 1900. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Augusta (Ga.), Railroads, Cotton industry

Barbecue, Atlanta Exposition still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Atlanta (Ga.), Barbecues, Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.)

Loading cage with car of coal at bottom of shaft, Scranton, Pa. , Coal mining, Coal miners, Coal

Print market scene, Oud-Holland exhibition in 1897, Amsterdam, Netherlands.Pressure Market Scene, Oud-Holland Exhibition in 1897, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Colliers Dam.. E.S. Thorn (American, active 1870s)

French workers pitching hay in wagon. Fraget & Viret

Food bags at the Aar in South Africa, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph The Aar photographic support. cardboard albumen print food supply The Aar

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.)

Emptying vats, interior of town elevator, Illinois, U.S.A. , Interiors, Grain elevators, Carts & wagons

Grinding sugar cane. Ocklawaha series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Agriculture

Harvesting Indian River pineapples, Florida, U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1909. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Agriculture, Harvesting, Pineapples, Indian River (Fla. : River)

East side, Triumph Hill, 50 derricks. Large stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania oil region. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

First dike inspection in Drechterland, 1288. First dike shed in Drechterland, 1288. A group of people on a dyke. In the foreground a plowing farmer. Part of the Steel enruges group to the paintings of the historic gallery of the Company Arti et Amicitiae.

Filling trucks from hopper, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

Hydraulic Mining - Behind the Pipes; Lawrence & Houseworth; about 1865; Albumen silver print

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

Hauling at Thomas Foster's. In the pineries. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Lumber industry, Logs, Tuscola County (Mich.)

Farm workers in America ..

Speeders, 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

Weighing the Load - Gould & Curry Mine, Virginia City.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Canal Lock Under Construction. Unknown maker, American

Sing Sing Prison. Hudson River scenery. The women's workroom. 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.), Sewing

Waltham Watch Manufactory. Finishing room , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection

Group of Miners.. Pine Brothers

As we spun long years ago.. Keystone View Co. (American, founded 1892, dissolved 1963)

Tarport and Limestone from B.B. & K. R.R. Stereoscopic views of the oil country. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Straightening bent rails with a jackscrew. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Inside conveyer line, from shaft to breaker, Scranton, Pa. , Coal mining, Conveying systems, Coal miners

Outdoor Scene: Lumber Mill; American; about 1855; Daguerreotype, hand-colored; 6.8 × 5.7 cm (2 11,16 × 2 1,4 in.)

Stereoscopic views of the oil region of Pennsylvania and New York. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Stereo gelatin photograph depicting workers planting rice in Japan, captured by Underwood & Underwood in 1904.

Large concert hall with steel skeleton construction, in use during concert ..

California fruit farmer circa 1900

Fresh Fish Market at Lake Resort.. The Ingersoll View Company

Spooling room, mechanics mill, Fall River, Mass. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Fall River (Mass.), Interiors, Textile industry

Sugar landing, lower levee, New Orleans, U.S.A. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana, New Orleans (La.)

Plowing rich prairie soil with tractor, S. Dak. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Dakota, South Dakota, Plowing, Tractors

Minnesota ice harvest. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Winter , Minnesota, Ice industry , Minnesota

View of the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown (Pennsylvania), 1860 - 1880 stereograph Johnstownpublisher: New York (city) paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print iron and steel industry Johnstown

Steam mill, Pittston. Gems of Maine Scenery, Artistic Series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine

Steam shovel at work, showing how track is laid, Burt mine, Mesabi range, Minn. U.S.A. 6965. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota

Champion load at Thomas Foster's. In the pineries 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Shipping, Lumber industry, Logs, Tuscola County (Mich.)

Hoeing Time.. Unknown maker, American

Modern steel plant along the Monongahela River, 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.)

Two hundred thousand skeletons - Cemetery Colon, Havana, Cuba , Cemeteries, Bones Anatomy, Skeletons

General view, Charlestown Navy Yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Cannon balls, Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

At St. Vasilios, Kynouria, where water flows freely , Fountains, Pails. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Irrigating from the great mountain reservoirs by means of which orange groves supplant sage brush , Irrigation canals & flumes

Cutting room W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. () , Factories, Shoe industry, Interiors, Employees, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Sawing lumber in Manchuria, Keystone View Company, Gelatin silver, 1904 or 1905, Image taken during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905). 523. 6571. Chinamen sawing timbers for the Japanese army, Manchuria

Miner drilling and laborer loading 'black diamonds' in the rough, Scranton, Pa. , Coal mining, Coal, Coal miners

The Smoke Stack of the rebel ram Virginia at the Rocketts, Richmond, Va., showing the effects from Shot and Shell.... Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Fishermen at home, Columbia River, Oregon , Fishing nets, Fishing industry, Canneries, Salmon

Excavators at work, old Corinth, Greece , Archaeological sites, Archaeology, Digging, Excavation. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Silver bricks. Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. 130. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Black Hawk (Colo.), Boston and Colorado Smelting Company

Men rolling a barrel in a field of barrels. E. Lamy (French, active 1860s - 1870s)

French Machinery. Western annexe. (1); The International Exhibition of 1862..

Miner, Johannes W. Merkelbach & Co, 1880 - 1920.

Burning oil tanks at Olean. Stereoscopic views of the oil country. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Men work in the limestone quarry of Rüdersdorf, near Berlin, Johann Friedrich Stiehm, 1868 - 1870 stereograph Rüdersdorf near Berlin Publisher: Berlin cardboard. paper albumen print quarry Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

Champion load at Thomas Foster's. In the pineries. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Shipping, Lumber industry, Logs, Tuscola County (Mich.)

Mining coal three miles under ground, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1900. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal mining , Pennsylvania, Horses, Working animals

Carpenter at work, Anonymous, 1852 - 1863 stereograph cardboard. paper albumen print carpenter. workbench

Union stock yards and packing houses, Chicago, Ill. , Cattle, Stockyards

Pacific Mills , Textile industry, Pacific Mills

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