Historic American Industrial Scenes

Images depict various aspects of American industrial history, including maple sugar production, railroad trestles, and hydraulic mining, showcasing agriculture and engineering.

Merchant Iron Mill, Boiler Explosion, Mill and boiler. Stack where Davis and Francis were found. Looking south from the canal.. W.P. Bacon (American, active 1870s)

Pineries of Minnesota , unloading. Upton's Minnesota and northwestern views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Lumber industry , Minnesota

Supply Steamers at Nashville, Tennessee 1862 Rodney Poole American The seemingly endless array of steamships along the wharf at Nashville, Tennessee, provides an accurate report of the complex preparations required to supply the United States Army before an impending Civil War engagement-in this case the battle of Murfreesboro on December 28, 1862. The square containers in the foreground are clearly stenciled "Pilot bread from the U.S. Government Bakery, Evansville, Ind." Customarily known as hardtack, this dried biscuit was a common provision that stayed soldiers' hunger with, or more often without, other more precious foodstuffs such as sugar and coffee. Behind the crates of hardtack are barrels of Cincinnati rot-gut, a cheap whisky distilled for military use only.. Supply Steamers at Nashville, Tennessee. Rodney Poole (American, 1837-1921). 1862. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Photographs

Workmen's ranche sic, on Alum Creek, Kansas, 7 miles east of Fort Harker, and 496 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1867. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kansas, Prairies, Sod buildings

Driling deep holes for blasting in Portland cement rock.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Dredge on the Suez Canal.. Webster & Albee

Rock crushing machine (), at either Augusta or Columbus, Georgia. Tucker & Perkins

Victoria Manganese Mines. Mackhamville, N.B. View of Washing Sheds, Caprenter's Shop, Drying & Packing Shed, etc.. John S. Climo (Canadian, born England, 1833 - after 1890)

Frankenstein Trestle and Cliff, P.& O.R.R., Crawford Notch. 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, Cliffs, Trestles, Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Company

Control of the banana bunches, anonymous, c. 1912 - c. 1913 photograph Transport of the harvested banana bunches by carriers on Plantage Peperpot in Suriname. Part of the photo album from ca. 1912-1913 with 92 photos of the Peperpot and Dordrecht plantations in Suriname and Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Suriname photographic support. paper gelatin silver print plantation. fruits: banana Suriname. PEPERPOT PLANTAGE

Interior view of a greenhouse , Greenhouses, Plants

Photograph by Underwood & Underwood showing workers preparing clay for Awata porcelain at the Kinkosan workshops in Kyoto, Japan, in 1904, captured on gelatin paper in stereo format.

Ore train and van in the Jackson Iron Mine. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1867. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Iron mining, Mine railroad cars

Loading oil on steamers at Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.A.. No.20355 still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1915. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, Ships, Petroleum industry, Port Arthur (Tex.)

Havanna Glen. Council Chamber Looking E...

Unknown architect, port facility on the north dike, Aurich region (without dat.): View. Photo on cardboard, 28.7 x 37.7 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Hafenanlage Norddeich

Mining for Gold at Jacksonville, on the road to Yosemite. no.1109. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Gold mining, Tuolumne County (Calif.), Hydraulic mining

B.B. & K. wreck. Train wreck on the B.B. & K. Rail Road. Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania oil regions. 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

12 inch shaping machine, traveling head. Bement & Dougherty, builders. Industrial works, Philadelphia. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Pa.)

Providence water works , Construction workers, Drilling & boring machinery, Water supply

People surveying smoking ruins. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1882. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Fires, Haverhill (Mass.), Ruins , Disasters

Champion Well, Pioneer Run; Wager (American, active Pennsylvania 1860s); about 1865; Albumen silver print

Great Fire in Chicago, October 9th, 1871. Group of people standing in front of rubble of Merchants, Farmers & Mechanics Bank. Lovejoy & Foster

Rollway on Cass River. 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, Levees, Cass River (Mich.)

Big River Mills, Mendocino No. 1154. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Mendocino County (Calif.), Mills, Lumber industry, Big River (Calif.)

Field Seiters & Co., Ruins of the Chicago Fire, 1871. John Bullock (American, born 1827)

Cambria Iron Works. 1870 - 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Iron industry, Foundries, Johnstown (Pa.)

After casting Katadin Katahdin Ironworks. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine

High banking. Gems of the pineries of Michigan 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Lumber industry, Logs, Levees

Refining oil. Views of the Penna. 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

Great Fire in Chicago, October 9th, 1871. Herrings Safe Warehouse. Lovejoy & Foster

Panning out the gold in the Klondyke Klondike, Alaska. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alaska, Gold mining

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Dam and Reservoir, construction views, Ashland; Hopkinton, Mass., 1890-1892 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Phil Sheridan oil tanks. 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

Cotton yard at C.R.R. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Savannah (Ga.), Railroads, Cotton industry , Georgia

Charcoal Kilns, Katahdin Iron Works, Maine. William P. Dean (American, born Canada, 1835 - 1911)

Site of Adam's saw mill. 1874. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sawmill River (Mass.), Floods , Massachusetts, Mill River Disaster, 1874

Evolution of the Sickle and Flail - 33-horse Harvester at Walla Walla, Washington; Underwood & Underwood (American, 1881 - 1940s); about 1930; Gelatin silver print;

Placer Mining - Columbia, Tuolumne Co., from the top of the dump-box. no.1006. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Tuolumne County (Calif.), Hydraulic mining, Mineral industries , Environmental aspects

Part of a whale bone and cartilage in a warehouse. T. E. M. White (American, 1834 - 1909)

Baling alfalfa in the Salt River Valley near Chandler, Ariz; Underwood & Underwood (American, 1881 - 1940s); about 1902; Gelatin silver print;

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Dam and Reservoir, construction views, Ashland; Hopkinton, Mass., 1890-1892 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Placer Mining - Columbia, Tuolumne County. The Daley Claim.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Hydraulic Mining - The Palm Claim, Timbuctoo, Yuba County.. Lawrence & Houseworth

Evolution of the Sickle and Flail - 33-horse Harvester at Walla Walla, Washington.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Baltimore openings. Baltimore mines. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

River Mining at Jacksonville, Tuolumne Co. Watkins' Pacific Coast, no.3538. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California

Men working on ship hove down for repairs. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Bedford (Mass.), Boat & ship industry, Piers & wharves

Horse and equipment near construction site , Construction, Sites Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

Primitive mining, the old rocker. C.E. Watkins posing as miner. Pacific Coast Views, no. 880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, mining , California, Gold mining, Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Loading at L.B. Curtis & Co'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, Midland County (Mich.)

Boston water works, Sudbury River Conduit, Sept. 1876, Dam III, Rubble masonry foundations, southeast corner of gate house. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Dam construction, Foundations

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.)

Bridge under construction with train on tracks. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Railroad bridges

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

Hallowell coal sheds. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Hallowell (Me.)

Plowing from Sawah's., 1900 - 1935 photograph. stereograph Malang (possibly) paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print

Pineries of Minnesota , unloading. Upton's Minnesota and northwestern views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Lumber industry , Minnesota

Providence water works , Building construction, Pumping stations, Waterworks

Mouth of Erie Canal, Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A.. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Buffalo (N.Y.), Erie Canal (N.Y.), Barrels

Mill scene (recto); Mining scene (verso). Unknown maker, French

A turpentine still, N.C. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Stills (Distilleries), Turpentine industry

Among the copper mines. Gems of Lake Superior scenery. 1870 - 1879. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Superior, Lake, Copper mining

Clothes for refugees , Clothing relief, Disaster victims, Earthquakes, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

Vermont Marble Co.'s quarries, West Rutland, Vt. Vermont scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Rutland (Vt.)

Men working in a quarry. Unknown

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Working in Gelderland and Overijssel. Improving the Zwolschen Waterweg. January 1, 1965. Overijssel, Overijssel, Zwolle, Zwolle

Barrels and cargo on piers, ships in background. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Bedford (Mass.), Harbors, Piers & wharves

End of a Lumber Flume at the Lumber Yard on the Railroad, Oregon, U.S.A.. Hawley C. White Company

Iron piled like straws, Johnstown, 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, Johnstown (Pa.)

Marble Quarries of the Prison..

On the straw stack, old fashioned stacker, Illinois , Threshing, Agricultural equipment, Wheat

Silver mining, Colorado. The Grayhound Lode (Galena), Cheyenne Mountain. Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain views, scenes on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande railway. 131. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Canyons , Colorado

Victoria Manganese Mines. Mackhamville, N.B. Store. John S. Climo (Canadian, born England, 1833 - after 1890)

Sudbury River Conduit, B.W.W., div. 4, sec. 16, Oct. 18, 1876. View taken at the east end of rock cut looking west. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Pipes (Conduits), Bricklaying

Log men. Unknown maker, American

Placer Mining, Columbia, Tuolumne County. The Main Claim. Thomas Houseworth & Co.; American, 1828-1915. Date: 1866. Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.6 cm (each image); 8.2 x 17.1 cm (card). Albumen print, stereo, No. 1012 from the series "Placer Mining". Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Thomas Houseworth.

Jerusalem water works Cleaning out one of the springs at Ain Arroub. 1917, Israel

Track repairer,Mt. Washington R.R. White Mountains, New Hampshire. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Washington, Mount (N.H.), Railroads construction & maintenance

Great Western refinery. Views of the oil regions. 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

Threshing oats, general view, Illinois , Threshing, Agricultural equipment

Farm yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Farms , New Hampshire

Corliss engine. 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.)

Pineries of Minnesota. Upton's Minnesota and northwestern views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Lumber industry , Minnesota

Dry Dock, U.S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. , Naval yards & naval stations, Charlestown Navy Yard Mass.

Gut of Canso. Port Hawksbury, C.B.. H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s)

Filling in stopes, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

Hydraulic Gold Mining, California. American Scenery, no.649. 1871 - 1878. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, mining , California, Gold mining, Hydraulic mining, Mineral industries , Environmental aspects

Hallowell coal sheds. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Hallowell (Me.)

Total Wreck Mine miners. Arizona scenes. No. 244 still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona, Mining, Miners

Iron piled like straws, Johnstown, Pa. U.S.A. , Debris, Disasters, Floods

Where it takes one to do the Work and two to see it Well Done.. Rufus Morgan (American, active 1870s)

Sorting seaweed for food. Korea.. Carleton H. Graves (American, 1867 - 1943)

Shipping beef to the Chicago market, cattle industry, Montana, U.S.A. 13644. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Montana

Making maple sugar. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Maple sugar industry , Vermont

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

Dam on Caspar River, in the Red Woods, Mendocino Co. no. 1102. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Mendocino County (Calif.), Lumber industry, Dams

Oil derricks. 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

Modern steel plant , Foundries, Steel industry, Railroad freight cars

"How de Debble does dey make a bicycle". Strohmeyer & Wyman

Omplow from Sawah's.; S 1 no 10. Rijstculture. SAWAH Operation ...

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