19th Century Industrial Scenes

Stereographs depicting historical industrial activities, including waterworks, train accidents, and gold mining in the 1800s, showcasing early American engineering.

People looking through wreckage at a train accident , Railroad accidents, Railroads

Refining Oil. The Bleaching Tanks. Oil City, Pa.. Frank Robbins (American, born 1846)

Machinery Hall. Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. 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.)

Hoeing young cotton. Louisiana Scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana

100 ft. derricks. Oil regions of Pennsylvania. 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

Screw Machine, for Manufacturers of Fire-Arms, Sewing Machines and Machinists. 1868. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Rhode Island, Providence (R.I.), Machinery, J.R. Brown & Sharpe (Providence, R.I.)

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Working in Gelderland and Overijssel. Construction of the Spreng Veldhuizer. September 21, 1869. Loenen (Veluwe), the Netherlands

Farming Scene.. Unknown maker, American

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

Dannemora mine.

Breasting an oar, just to steady her. Coil of rope on the raft in the foreground. Wanderings among the wonders and beauties of Wisconsin scenery: the camera's story of raftman's life on the Wisconsin. 1886. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin, Ropes, Lumber industry, Rafts

Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the Peak of Teneriffe in the distance.

Carding Rooms, laps, (rolls) are out into "Silvers," White Oak Mills, Greensboro, N.C., U.S.A.. Hawley C. White Company

Frankenstein Trestle and Train, P. & O.R.R., Crawford Notch, N.H. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Crawford Notch (N.H.), White Mountains (N.H. and Me.), Railroads, Trestles, Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Company

Logging in Northern California. Stereoscopic views. American and Foreign scenery, no. 114 1890. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Lumber industry, Ox teams, Loggers

'How de debble does day make a bicycle' , Processes & techniques

View of masons laying bricks on National Hotel in Salina. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kansas, Building construction, Bricklaying, Salina (Kan.)

New Strike," Dennis Run. 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

Miners loading supplies, Silverton, Col., U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado

Wood sawmill ..

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, main cut-off trench, stratification of sand, about station 17+00, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 13, 1898 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Description: Issoruru Rubber Station. North West District, British Guiana. Location: Guyana Date: 1936 guyana, caribbeanthroughalens

Agriculture in Oregon, Horses of Oregon, Horse-drawn vehicles, Buildings in Oregon, Flour sacks, Pendleton, Oregon, 1906, Ore, 141000 Sacks of Wheat four Miles', United States of America

Steel works, Hamstead, Pa. - famous source of dirt and dollars. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1908. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania

Shipping oil, Story Farm. Oil regions of Pennsylvania. 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

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.)

Upper end of 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, Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.), Hydraulic mining

A sugar factory. A sugar factory with six chimney pipes, one of which is in the scaffolding. In the foreground a lawn with standing Europeans and sitting inland workers. Part of the photo album by the Surabayasche Vereeniging van Sugar manufacturers offered to Frederik Beyerinck, resident of Surabaya.

I.K. Brunel, Esq., (taken on his last visit to the Ship.) The Great Eastern. London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890)

Drying kilns stereoscopic photographs, black-and-white prints

Evolution of sickle and flail, 33 horse team harvester, cutting, threshing and sacking wheat, Walla Walla, Washington. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State), Wheat, Combines (Agricultural machinery), Horse teams, Walla Walla (Wash.)

Overlooking the ore docks, Two Harbors, Minn , Ore industry, Loading docks

Hydraulic Mining - The Pressure Box, Yuba Co.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Workers (in the front Jan Vink) load a wooden barrel at a lemonade factory, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Netherlands baryta paper wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket

Construction. From the album: Snapshot album - Nga Mahanga, circa 1900, Manawat River, maker unknown.

Men at work. Attributed to Charles Peeters (French, active 1860s)

Maple Sugar Making in the Northern Woods of New York.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

WESTWARD, THE MONARCH CAPITAL MAKES ITS WAY. Oct. 1866 photograph by John Carbutt. Photo depicts either Samuel B. Reed, chief engineer of construction, U.P.R.R., or Thomas Chase Durant, U.P.R.R. Vice President, on the flat, unsettled land through which they were building the transcontinental railway. Durant created the financial structure which led to the Credit Mobilier scandal (BSLOC_2020_1_20)

Conveying salt to the interior by wheelbarrow train, China, 1906. Artist: Keystone

The sweetest spot on earth,sugar levee beside the Mississippi, New Orleans, La. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana, New Orleans (La.)

Loading alfalfa with a hay loader, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Nebraska

Men rolling a barrel in a field of barrels; E. Lamy (French, active 1860s - 1870s); 1860s; Hand-colored Albumen silver print

Levee Scene on Lower Mississippi River.. Unknown maker, American

Shipping Lumber, Washington , Lumber, Lumber industry, Shipping

Motion tests ..

Filling a truck, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

Scene in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. New York City and Central Park. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Naval yards & naval stations , New York (State) , New York, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)

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

Minnesota ice harvest. Stereographs of Minnesota scenery. 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

A Canadian Farm Yard.. Strohmeyer & Wyman

Landing and scaling logs, Aroostook Woods, Maine , Lumber industry, Logs, Loggers, Rivers

Overlooking the ore docks, Two Harbors, Minn , Ore industry, Loading docks

Flowing Well. Bradford, Pa.. Detlor & Waddell

Hanging room, Armour's packing house, Chicago, Ill. Armour's packing house: long rows of hogs in the hanging room. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois, Chicago (Ill.), Stockyards , Illinois , Chicago

R.E. Peabody & Co., Lumber Manufacturers, Peabody Station, Vermont. Daniel A. Clifford (American, 1826 - 1887)

Steamer loading cotton, Mobile, Alabama. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alabama, Cotton, Steamboats

Hydraulic mining, at Alma, S. Park, Colorado. Descriptive views of the American Continent. 79. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, South Park (Colo.)

Milform Farm. Oil City, Pa.. Frank Robbins (American, born 1846)

Indigo factory (Loading the Vats). Oscar Mallitte (British, about 1829 - 1905)

Cutting Snow Blocks. Southern Minnesota Div., C.M. & St. Paul R'y. (March 29th, 1881.).

Cutting Sugar-cane, Marianao, Cuba..

Veere lock in construction, Peter Oosterhuis, 1869, The Netherlands.

In the coal mine ..

Lumber mill. Choice Bits of Romantic New England: Richardson and Rangeley Lakes illustrated. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine

Track engineer A. Åhslund with the track department's staff at Karlshamn - Vislanda Järnveg, KWJ.

Exporting Wheat at Odessa on the Black Sea, the Ukraine, Stereo Card, Keystone View Company, early 1900's

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