Construction and Shipping Activities

Historical photos of construction sites, scaffolding, and shipping activities on waterways, showcasing industrial progress from the late 19th to mid-20th century.

Aerial View of Navy Yard Annex/Dry Dock, South Boston, Massachusetts. 1939 - 1947.

The power plant in Avesta is being built.

Mining industry in Cuba, Cuba. Probably Turagua mines, Firmeza.

Cotton bales on the levee, New Orleans, 1935.

Ironworks and blast furnace in Ljusne.

Henry Peter Bosse (American, 1844-1903), Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, L.W. 1891, 1891, cyanotype

Wachusett Reservoir, boring machines at dam site, Lancaster Mill Pond, Clinton, Mass., 1895 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, boring machinery

Getting Ready for Fishing Made 1887 England. Photoetching, pl. XXI from the album Wild Life on a Tidal Water The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew (1890); edition 270/500 . Peter Henry Emerson

Texas City Fire Aerial.

Åkers sawmill.

Iföverken, Bromölla.

A plant in Telok, located on the water .. a factory in teloky, located on the water. The factory has many outbuildings and some distracted boats.

Skutskär ", Motala mechanical workshop in 1904.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Scheepswerf NV Werf de Noord, Alblasserdam. undated. Alblasserdam, South Holland

Photo collection Government information service. Wieringermeer, inundation and reconstruction. undated. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Album with photographs from Bohusbanan.bro over Göta Älv.Brospann during performance from the workshop.

Construction Work on Matapeake, Sandy Point Toll Bridge Over Chesapeake Bay. Original caption: Construction Work on Matapeake, Sandy Point Toll Bridge Over Chesapeake Bay. Photo by T. W. Kines, Sept. 27, 1950. State: Maryland.

Elsevier photo collection. Storm North Sea coast. sea furious, lighthouse guards post day night. Recording Piers IJmuiden. January 23, 1956. IJmuiden

Timmer sorting in the Ångerman River at Uusimaa.

Ship-building, Gloucester Harbor , Boat & ship industry, Ships

Photo collection Government information service. Wieringermeer, inundation and reconstruction. undated. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Bridge construction works in Vasica about Bosut. .

The ironworks in Oxelösund.

Photo collection Government information service. Water shortage in 1953. Aerial recording. Goeree. February 2, 1953. Goeree-Overflakkee

Image of the diving team performing work on the foundation of the old Tolsteegbrug across the Stadsbuitengracht in Utrecht.

Photo collection Government information service. Work, piers, canals, new waterway. undated. Hoek van Holland

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier C Looking North, Snare & Trieste Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Scrapping site in the area around the peat powder factory in Vislanda

Description: Damage to nets is often caused by fish struggling to get free. At a wharf on the Pacific coast, gill-nets are set out to dry and be overhauled. Location: Canada Date: 1963 canada, americas

Lighthouse Construction. This image depicts the construction of a lighthouse.

Karlfors WoodenLiperi and cardboard factory, Småland.

The Royal Navy shipyard with dolls in Karlskrona.

Transparency - Lobster hatchery, Digby County, NS, about 1935

Anefo photo collection. Fire in shed from fa. Van Linden Opende Edierkade Amsterdam. October 13, 1952. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

A.G. Spalding Brothers Co., 1-S, Gage #4, Chicopee, Mass., May 15, 1928 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, factories structures, watershed sanitary conditions

Log Transportation: Log Drives. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Strömsnäsbruk, Sulfite factory.

Here, construction of Gruvön's mill is underway, which was completed in 1931.

Elsevier photo collection. building electrical bosom the waterwolf "Electra" water board Reitdiep Lammerburen (Groningen) when commissioning pumping station. November 1920. Groningen, Lammerburen

Mending the Wherry; Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936); London, England; 1888 - 1889; Photogravure; 22.5 x 27.3 cm (8 7,8 x 10 3,4 in.)

China: Derricks used in drilling for deep substratum brine to produce salt, next to the Fuxi River, Ziliujing, Sichuan Province, c. 1906

Bofors weapons workshops.

Elsevier photo collection. Couple busy allotment. 1933

Menufia, Egypt: reconstruction work to the first Aswan Dam: men at work; southerly view. Photograph by D.S. George, 1910.

Floating Dry Dock. The black and white photo shows the floating dry dock at the island unrest in Surabaya with a number of workmen on board.

Scrapping site in the area around the peat powder factory in Vislanda

MI - Rock of Ages. Rock of Ages Light Station, Michigan. Lighter, operated between rock and steam barges by cable, in position under derrick boom. Concrete bucket being lowered into steam cylinder.

Piling After Blasting Concrete, Squantum, Massachusetts. 1939 - 1947.

Mending the Wherry. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936)

Photo collection Government information service. Dredging companies, ports, royal Dutch mine for port works, Curacao. undated. Curacao

Wachusett Reservoir, boring machine at dam site, from east bank, Clinton, Mass., 1895 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, boring machinery

Station N-2A, Swift River, Station 'C' tailrace, Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., 11:00 AM sample, Sep. 15, 1932 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, tailraces

Factory complex with oil tanks in Pangkalang-Brandan on Sumatra, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Sumatra paper. photographic support gelatin silver print oil; oil refinery. oil tanks Sumatra

Photo collection Government information service. Face on a river with a low bridge, in the background a scaffolding mill. undated

Three Rivers, dam, Palmer, Mass., May 15, 1928 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, hydroelectric dams, hydroelectric power plants, watershed sanitary conditions

Station N-2A, Swift River, Station 'C' tailrace, Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., 11:00 AM sample, Sep. 15, 1932 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, tailraces

TX - Sabine Bank. Sabine Bank Light Station, Texas. Erecting wharf at site.

Ware River, middle dam, looking towards Ware Woolen Co., flow 900 cubic feet per second, Ware, Mass., 10:15 AM, Oct. 21, 1932 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures, factories structures

Aerial photography over Nynäshamn's oil refinery, Södermanland.

MI - Keweenaw. Keweenaw Waterway, Michigan. General views of pierhead. Pouring concrete through tremie. Note gal.i. strips covering joints in flash plating. Flash plating served as concrete forms.

Timber discharge at Sandarne.

nd, Handelskai, warehouses of the city of Vienna during the flood on September , Bruno Reiffenstein -, photographer

A.G. Spalding Brothers Co., 1-S, Gage #8, Chicopee, Mass., May 15, 1928 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, factories structures, watershed sanitary conditions

Canadian boomlogging. Logs contained by booms float on a Canadian river. British Colombia, Canada, 21 June-4 July 1924., British Columbia, Canada, North America, North America .

'Loading a Cargo of Cotton', c1948. Creator: Unknown.

Photo collection Government information service. Westkapelle. Dike repair, sand vacuum cleaner. 1945. Westkapelle, Zeeland

Ware River, middle dam at Ware, looking towards Ware Woolen Co., drainage area - 168 square miles, flow 1180 cubic feet per second over dam, 100 cubic feet per second through wheels, total 1280 cubic feet per second - 7.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events, factories structures

Chicopee River, Chicopee Manufacturing Co. dam, Chicopee, Mass., 3:15 PM, Mar. 13, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events, cities

Scene at waterfront at Eden N.S.W.Austin Fishing Industries work at Cattle Bay Eden. July 29, 1953.

Misc - Indiana Harbor. Construction of Indiana Harbor Light Station, Michigan. Sand and stone scows, locomotive crane, cement shed, elevator, sand and stone bins, W 125 ft.

Dalälven at Leksand. Gustav Arvid Asplund, master at Gefle Porcelain Factory in the 1910s. Probably he was also employed at the Piginant Gefle Kakel factory. He himself has identified the pictures, the captions are also his own. Dalälven vid Leksand.Gustav Arvid Asplund, verkmästare på Gefle Porslinsfabrik på1910-talet. Förmodligen var han även anställd på föregångarenGefle Kakelfabrik.Bilderna har han själv identifierat, bildtexterna är också hans egna.

Boxholm's ironworks. Smedjefallet and the lancashires bond around 1914.

Photo collection Government information service. Afsluitdijk, construction. undated. Enclosure

The flooded main street Kempsey in the normally busy chopping section. Floodwaters have begun to recede and shopkeepers are engaged in "Mopping up" operations. August 29, 1949.

The cement factory in Degerhamn, Öland.

Elsevier photo collection. Shapes loaded hay Marken. 1928. Marken, Noord-Holland

Hemp maceration in Indre et Loire, France 1959

N/A - Misc. 6th District. Sewer Pipe Pedestal. Distant 15 feet.

Aerial photo over Kramfors Sulfit factory.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Transport ball structured factory / /. undated

East Boston Oil Works on fire , Fires, Ruins, Petroleum industry, Industrial facilities. Chelsea Public Library Archive Collection

214Drottningshallkajen.214Drottningshallkajen.

Årstabron Pillar 8 will be cast.

Adriatic sea fishing. Removal of the reed mats at low tide. .

Open pit mining in Germany, Ilse Bergbau AG, Chain-and-bucket excavators, 1918, Brandenburg, Senftenberg, Kohlengrube Ilse, Tagebau

Chicago, Illinois: September 5, 1929 Commercial fishermen's nets on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. The Adler Planetarium can be seen under construction at the far left shoreline.

Federal Fabrics Corporation, cofferdam below Greenwich Lake, Greenwich, Mass., May 24, 1933 : Parcel no. 309-23, on property of Boston and Albany Railroad , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, dams hydraulic structures

Scrubbing Down still image. Postcards. 1907 - 1908. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ship equipment & rigging, Sailors, Mops & mopsticks

giappone, coltura di ostriche da perla, 1920 1930

Oil field near Tulsa, Oklahoma Date: early 20th century

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