Historic Construction Activities

Black and white images showcasing various construction tasks, including father-daughter workshop activities, water-testing, and innovative building methods.

Vintage Photograph. Father and daughter working in home workshop.
Vintage Photograph. Father and daughter working in home workshop.
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Anefo photo collection. Ex-oyster growers in Yerseke get the first mushrooms in, Marinus de Munck picks the first. February 19, 1964. Yerseke, Zeeland
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Elsevier photo collection. Prince Claus laid stone Croeselaan Utrecht exhibition building Jaarbeurs. March 8, 1967. Utrecht (city)
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Anefo photo collection. Activities of the crosswalks. Asphalt is heated. October 23, 1961
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Vintage Photograph. Man climbs up on side of bulldozer to get on while looking out around him.
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Railroads/Gare St. Lazare - Railroad Workers. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Major research Moerdijk fellowship NLM nevertheless crashed yesterday. Employees research team search residues. October 7, 1981. Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant
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Greek laborers follow in the wake of the giant U.S. road-making machine which lays and backs hard the asphalt surface in one operation. Work on the reconstruction of the Athens-Corinth highway proceeded at the rate of 2/3 kilometers a day. November 25, 1948. (Photo by Camera Press).
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Anefo photo collection. Weth. Van de vlis the first stakeholders parking places put into use for f. 40, - or f. 20, - If you have the key to such a garage. May 20, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Research into underground heat under Road Cover Carel van Manderstraat in Heemskerk; Temperature. November 6, 1975. Heemskerk
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Fire at Les Halles in 1949. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Modane Wind Tunnel. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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1930s 1940s MAN IN WHITE OVERALLS BY STEP LADDER ZINC PAIL BUCKET APPLYING PAINT GLUE WITH LARGE BRUSH TO PREPARE FOR WALLPAPER
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Anefo photo collection. New construction in Amsterdam Nieuwmarkt neighborhood, commissioned municipal information, Mrs. Zevensloot (old resident) stores first pile. August 23, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Mowing the grass in the limits. August 2, 1960
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Anefo photo collection. Middle fire in hardware wholesaler van Leeuwen at the Groenburgwal 3-17, the plastic garden hoses are thrown on the ice from the Groenburgwal. 26 February 1963
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Anefo photo collection. Strike action (O.A. at Kroonvlag) in connection with dismissal 151 employees at Rotterdam Terminal. August 27, 1984
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Miss Natalie O'Donald, Garage Attendant at Atlantic Refining Company Garages, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano for Office of War Information, June 1943
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Work at the Port of Hamburg and Howaldtswerke Hamburg, HDW) in 1970, Germany, Europe
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Anefo photo collection. Latest safety measures at UCN in Almelo; work at the gates. 17 June 1981. Almelo, Overijssel
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Anefo photo collection. Employees of Thomassen Motorenfabriek BV in De Steeg Keep 24-hour strike. February 28, 1973
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Poll photo collection. Distilled boiler in the open air. Man with a barrel with coal. 1950. France, Paris
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Just Part Of The Day's Work - This is what happens to you and your car when you get into a sand drift in Australia 's Northern Territory. John Kelly, cattle expert for the Federal Government, always has a good supply of hall carpet runners with him. Miles from anywhere, he and his driver have to do this sort of job to make sure that they can get on a few more miles across the spinifex country to a hospitable cattle station for a night's lodging.And it's just as bad in the dry. Special tracks have to be laid across sandy river beds for the wheels to grip. It's rather slow going - but sure.John Kelly, a Federal Government cattle expert, always used to have a good supply of hall carpet runner with him. November 21, 1951. (Photo by Australian Official Photograph).
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Rörstrand's porcelain factories. Bearing on board of rye code.
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12/31/1919. 1925 (CA.) A stonemason working on stone at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Blixt photography quickly moving objects and rapid processes. Milk beam build up of individual drops. For more info see: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Other revised edition. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1948. p. 876.
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Last, who shares a shed with his landlord's watchdog, covers the model at night with chaffbags. The wood is Canadian myrtle, the work traditionally called "Reclining Figure." October 11, 1950.
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SAAR Story - Coal - Apprentice Training. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Carpenter sawing a wooden plank using an electric saw
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Anefo photo collection. unknown . Masonry competition in the Ahoy Hall. July 3, 1961
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12/31/1936. Collaboration of Women in an Automobile Repair Park.
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GDR report on Karl-Marx-Stadt (today: Chemnitz) from 10-15 September 1975, city of Kar-Marx-Stadt (centre) Kinderegarten, DEU, Germany, Karl, Marx, Europe
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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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Anefo photo collection. Claus construction school community "Willem van Oranje" Zoetermeer; Prince Claus looks brickwork. October 16, 1987. Zoetermeer, South Holland
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Poll photo collection. Beekeeping. Beekeepers at work with hives. January 1, 1964
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Anefo photo collection. Min Smit Kroes and Mr. S. Patijn (CDK Z Holland) start work on Rijksweg 11 in Alphen A.D. Rijn; Smit Kroes digs piece for Rijksweg 11. November 9, 1984. Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland
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Farmer with pinto beans, New Mexico October 1940.
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Poll photo collection. Excavations in Pompei. Archaeologist / restorer at work. undated. Italy, Pompei
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Eric Hosking sits in the frame of a bird hide with his High Speed Flash equipment used to photograph birds in flight, year 1948
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Anefo photo collection. Heitje for a job, path fighters at work. April 18, 1963. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Extension of the pier to IJmuiden. Work on Zuiderpier. November 22, 1961. IJmuiden
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DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Mining. Underground. Miners ca. 1965, Europe
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Laborer Smoothing Welds With Angle Grinder
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Anefo photo collection. Demonstration / blockage Dodewaard nuclear power plant. Unmedited me. September 18, 1981. Dodewaard, Gelderland
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DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Mining. Last shift at Heinrich colliery ca.65, Europe
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Sculpture depicting construction of the Empire State Building; New York City, New York, United States of America
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Photo reportage Rijkswerf Willemsoord.Touwlagerij.
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Glass Industry - Trades And Tradesmen. November 23,1940. (Photo by International News Photo).
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Experiments in Agricultural Productivity in Sologne. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Construction, surveying ground, Ireland
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Anefo photo collection. The agricultural gif methyl bromide has been found in the westland water supply network. January 2, 1981