Early 20th Century Infrastructure Photography

Photographs of access roads and environmental features in Massachusetts, capturing changes and developments in infrastructure from the late 1930s to early 1940s.

Fire control trails, Withlacoochee Land Use Project, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 155+50, access road to East Branch Regulating Dam, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 5, 1940

Fire control trails, Withlacoochee Land Use Project, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Contract No. 66, Regulating Dams, Middle Branch (New Salem), and East Branch of the Swift River, Hardwick and Petersham (formerly Dana), looking southeasterly 3/4 mile from Dana on Petersham Road, east branch regulating dam, Petersham, Mass., Nov. 10, 1938

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 130+00 at entrance, East Branch access road, Belchertown, Mass., Sep. 10, 1940

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Edward Kraszewski, Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 48

Contract No. 55, Portion of Petersham-New Salem Highway, Petersham, Franklin County (Worcester County), placing stone, looking northerly from Sta. 378+40, Franklin County, Mass., Sep. 8, 1936

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 35+75, Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 14, 1940

Contract No. 55, Portion of Petersham-New Salem Highway, Petersham, Franklin County (Worcester County), looking southerly at property of Margaret Fiske, from Sta. 388+25, Franklin County, Mass., Jul. 9, 1936

Camp Pomeroy, camp, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 15, 1928 : Parcel no. 410-3, George Haupt et al. , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, camps recreation areas

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, spoil area west of basin 1 looking south from high service road, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Feb. 12, 1940

Contract No. 60, Access Roads to Shaft 12, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick and Greenwich, looking ahead (easterly) from Sta. 65+25, Greenwich and Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 15, 1938

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking ahead from manhole 4A-2, Holden Sewer Line, Holden, Mass., Jun. 21, 1940

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, formerly of William J. Holcomb, Plan No. S-4, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 22, 1931 : Parcel No. 31

Road washout caused by storm June 15, 1945, Egypt Hill Road, looking southeasterly, New Salem (formerly Prescott), Mass., July 3, 1945 : Real estate sheet #409 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, roads, erosion

Prince River, opposite Trefilio property, drainage area - 12.9 square miles, flow - 140 cubic feet per second - 10.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Worcester County, Mass., 11:15 AM, Apr. 13, 1934 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Arvo and Emma Heino, henhouses, Hubbardston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1937 : Not acquired, outside surveyed area, no parcel number, 245- , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, chicken houses, barns

Signs - Kentucky. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, ledge outcrop along highway above Greenwich Village, Hardwick, Mass., May 7, 1937

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Joseph F. Dyer, Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 49

Captain John Rich Monument, lot 48, section A, Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Mass., May 17, 1940 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, cemeteries

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Fred and Lucy R. Bisnette, Plan No. S-2, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 22, 1931 : Parcel No. 14

Camp Pomeroy, camp, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 15, 1928 : Parcel no. 410-3, George Haupt et al. , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, camps recreation areas

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 161+25, access road to East Branch Regulating Dam, Belchertown, Mass., May 21, 1940

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 24+00, Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 14, 1940

Signs - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Signs - Alabama. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 5+00, Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 14, 1940

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, formerly Stephen and Mary Baraniuk, looking northwesterly, Belchertown, Mass., Mar. 31, 1947 : Parcel no. 208-1 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns

Ruby C. Dickinson, icehouse, Greenwich, Mass., Jan. 4, 1929 : Parcel no. 330-56, on property of Harriet M. and Leona Flanders , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, icehouses

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, line 'A', Main Street, looking back from manhole 6A, Rutland Sewer, Rutland, Mass., May 23, 1941

Signs - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, formerly of Lena A. Cressman, Plan No. S-4, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 22, 1931 : Parcel No. 30

Albert W. Darling, camp, Petersham, Mass., Nov. 26, 1943 : Parcel no. 454-12 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, summer houses seasonal dwellings

Signs - Minnesota. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Road washout caused by storm June 15, 1945, Egypt Hill Road, looking northwesterly, New Salem (formerly Prescott), Mass., July 3, 1945 : Real estate sheet #409 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, roads, erosion

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Main Street from near manhole 6B-3, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., May 28, 1940

Robert Jackson, looking northerly at brook and pool, Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 17, 1939 : No block or parcel , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Vera and Leon MacCormack, henhouse, Dana, Mass., Apr. 8, 1936 : Parcel no. 473-2, Leon and M. Vera MacCormack , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, chicken houses

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Anthony and Bertha Turek (Quabbin Road cutoff), Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 52

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Henry C. Webster (Quabbin Rd. cutoff), Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 51

Contract No. 44, Extension of Belchertown-Pelham Highway, New Salem, Orange, looking northerly at Moosehorn Culvert at Sta. 947+, New Salem, Mass., Jun. 30, 1934

Contract No. 43, Extension of Belchertown-Pelham Highway to New Salem Center, Shutesbury, New Salem (Franklin County), New Salem Center, outlet to drain under access road to Perry Marshall Heirs property, New Salem, Mass., Mar. 19, 1935

Signs - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Robert M. Randall and land of Henry C. Davis (bridge location, Swift River), Belchertown and Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, looking southeasterly from Sta. 26+10+/- showing fill, dam 6, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Jun. 8, 1940

Contract No. 39, Trunk Line Sewer, Rutland, Holden, Asnebumskit Brook fill, looking westerly, Rutland-Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Sep. 6, 1934

Theodore P. Brown Estate, camp, Hubbardston, Mass., Mar. 7, 1941 : Purchased Jul. 12, 1940, Parcel no. 185-31 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, summer houses seasonal dwellings

Robert Jackson, looking northerly at brook and pool, Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 17, 1939 : No block or parcel , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Signs - Kentucky. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

William C. Jewett, boathouse, Hubbardston, Mass., Apr. 27, 1937 : Parcel no. 266-15 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, summer houses seasonal dwellings, boathouses

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, looking north from Sta. 0+75 showing basin 3 site, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Feb. 12, 1940

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, Walker quarry, showing edge of reservoir clearing, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 3, 1937

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking back from Sta. 151+50, access road to East Branch Regulating Dam, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 5, 1940

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Signs - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 116+75, East Branch access road, Belchertown, Mass., Sep. 19, 1940

Signs - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Henry C. Davis, Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 41

Saw Products: Dimensions - Connecticut. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of William B. Ballou, Plan No. S-4, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 22, 1931 : Parcel No. 35 'E and F'

Present Lands: Indian Homestead #29. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, basin 1, Fells Reservoir looking south, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Feb. 12, 1940

Ware River, United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) Gaging Station at Gibbs Crossing, new station, flow - 880 cubic feet per second, Thorndike, Palmer, Mass., 4:30 PM, Oct. 21, 1932 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Road washout caused by storm June 15, 1945, Pelham Hollow Road, looking westerly, Pelham, Mass., July 2, 1945 : Real estate sheet #367 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, roads, erosion

Contract No. 57, Portion of Petersham-New Salem Highway, New Salem, Franklin County, ridge between spectacle ponds, looking westerly from Sta. 140+70, New Salem, Mass., Oct. 27, 1936

Signs - Idaho. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Howard H. Dickinson, camp, Quabbin Lake, Greenwich, Mass., Jan. 4, 1929 : Parcel no. 330-73, Howard H. and Ruby C. Dickinson , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, summer houses seasonal dwellings

Fern E. Chapman, looking west at Station 756+00, Barre, Mass., Jan. 5, 1933 : On back, typed: Quabbin Tunnel, Parcel M, Fern E. Chapman, looking west at Station 756+00 , waterworks, aqueducts, real estate, lands general areas

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, formerly of Lena A. Cressman, Plan No. S-4, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 22, 1931 : Parcel No. 30

Signs - Texas. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Signs - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Blazed trees #1 and #2 on property line between Joseph and Matilda Truman and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, looking westerly, New Salem, Mass., Sep. 17, 1942 : Parcel no. 467-17 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, property lines

Contract No. 44, Extension of Belchertown-Pelham Highway, New Salem, Orange, looking back from near Sta. 1042+00 showing affect of underfill blast, New Salem, Mass., Feb. 8, 1934

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking back from Sta. 15+50, access road to Middle Branch Regulating Dam, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 19, 1940

Titus, Pine Grove Cemetery, Block no. 2, lot 12, Prescott, Mass., Nov. 22, 1932 : Cora E. Stone, Q-138 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, cemeteries

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, land of Edward Kraszewski (West Ware road cutoff), Plan No. S-5 Ware, Mass., Jul. 23, 1931 : Parcel No. 46

Roads - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Administrative Site - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 62, Clearing Lower Middle and East Branches, Quabbin Reservoir, Ware, New Salem, Petersham and Hardwick, looking easterly across Quabbin Lake towards Shaft 12, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 21, 1939

Contract No. 55, Portion of Petersham-New Salem Highway, Petersham, Franklin County (Worcester County), looking northwesterly on property of Margaret Fiske, from Sta. 391+50, Franklin County, Mass., Jul. 9, 1936

Signs - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Roy and William William. 1879 - 1952. Rocky Mountain Region (Denver, CO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Consolidated Ute Agency. 1947-ca. 1970. Decimal Files

Goods cancellation

Administrative Signs - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection Government information service. Concentration camp in Vught. Board with communication "Neutral zone". Anyone who stopped in this zone was shot without pardon. 1945. Noord-Brabant, Vught

Signs - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Signs - Illinois. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Part of Irwinville Farms, Georgia 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Contract No. 106, Improvement of Access Roads, Middle and East Branch Regulating Dams, and Quabbin Reservoir Area, Hardwick, Petersham, New Salem, Belchertown, looking ahead from Sta. 119+00, access road to East Branch Regulating Dam, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 27, 1940

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Road washout caused by storm June 15, 1945, Belden Hill Road, looking southwesterly, New Salem, Mass., July 5, 1945 : Real estate sheet #549 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, roads, erosion

Signs - North Carolina. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Information Signs - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Waine C. and Hilda A. Niskala, henhouse, Hubbardston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1943 : Purchased Mar. 1, 1945, Parcel no. 205-19 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, chicken houses

Original caption: "Martinez.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Eugenie Marshall, homeplace, New Salem, Mass., Oct. 24, 1935 : Parcel no. 610-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures

Present Lands: Brush lands #10. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, Fred and Lucy Bisnette, barn, Plan No. S-2, Belchertown, Mass., Jul. 13, 1931 : Parcel No. 11

Agnes V. Latham et al., camp, Curtis Pond, Greenwich, Mass., Dec. 3, 1937 : Parcel no. 390-3, Agnes V. Latham and Ruth V. Smith , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, summer houses seasonal dwellings, ponds water

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, large quarry, showing 6 feet overburden, looking easterly, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 3, 1937

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