Construction Historical Photos

Black and white historical images of construction sites and scaffolding, featuring workers, wood structures, and industrial settings, embodying a sense of labor and heritage.

I Norrköping shoulder carrier.Norrköping (pictured - name)
I Norrköping shoulder carrier.Norrköping (pictured - name)
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Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, Water Flowing from 8" Pipe Through Dock Floor, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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The Tea Horse Road (Cha Ma Dao) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma, to Tibet, and to central China via Sichuan Province. In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its presumed origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan. The Luding Bridge (Luding Qiao) is a bridge over the Dadu River in Luding County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, located about 80 kilometers west of the city of Ya'an. The bridge dates from the Qing Dynasty and is considered a historical landmark. In 1935, during the Long March, soldiers of th
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50-FOOT INTERFEROMETER MOUNT AT SANTA BARBARA ST., READY FOR PT. LOMA ECLIPSE CAMERAS.
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California History - Placer Mining. The Arastra ca. 1866.
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Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Stentransport.
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Anefo photo collection. Scaffolding collapsed at municipal trade warehouse, Amsterdam, fire brigade tries to remove doded scaffolding builder. September 2, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
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From An Unusual Point Of View -- An unusual view as 10,000 feet of Submarine Cable is loaded and stowed into the hold of the "Athenia" at the London Docks. The cable has been ordered by the Ocean Telegraphs Department of the New Zealand Government, and will be laid across Auckland Harbour. August 11, 1952. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).
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Reconstruction of Crane Hercules, Test of Erecting Blocks. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Artwork: "U.S. Engineers Construct Nissen Hut" Artist: Unknown. Country: Unknown
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I Uppland photo for model manufacturing.Uppland (depicted name)
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Standardization of streams, graves and damping of locks, lay sewerage, divers and concrete, assembled, slope. May 1962
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Construccción de una barca por un mestre d'aixa en Mataró. Provincia de Barcelona. Año 1971.
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Pier E - Batter Piles, New York State Construction Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Glass industry (grinder medicine glass factory). undated
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Inplating and bemaling, watermeals. July 1958
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The Mechanization and Modernization of Ånge Bangård.
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Photo collection Government information service. Delta works, aquacloop laboratory. undated
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Vagnbjörn, UNLATED.
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Hong Kong--Wharf scene. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Peddlers,China,Hong Kong,1890-1930, Piers & wharves,China,Hong Kong,1890-1930.
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Gloucester, marine , Ship equipment & rigging. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection
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Anefo photo collection. Work on ice rink at Kruislaan. October 23, 1961
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The 'Pearl' under construction, 1929-1930, Stewart Island, maker unknown.
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Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. The first shaft work for the northern King Tower in Brunkebergsåsen.
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Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, laying coursed ashlar, masonry tower, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Jun. 28, 1915 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites
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Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, laying coursed ashlar, masonry tower, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Jun. 28, 1915 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites