Historic Naval Dock Construction

Glass plate negatives showcasing the construction of dry docks at the New York Navy Yard, highlighting industrial progress in early 20th century.

Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pumping Station, northwest corner, engine room, Brighton, Mass., Dec. 31, 1898 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

General Motors Plant - Petone, 1926, Petone, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

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.

Railroad Tracks Over Scale, West of Building Number 28. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

English women in ship yards

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Chelsea Creek Tunnel, lowering 42-inch pipe into Chelsea shaft, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 18, 1914 , waterworks, water tunnels, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, Lower Gate Chamber, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Monthly Progress Photo, Bulkhead Across Old Launching Ways, Looking West, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

General view of destruction in Astra Romano oil refinery in Ploesti, Rumania, after heavy bombers of the 15th Air Force completed their job before. Rumania capitulated to the Allies.

Ludwigshafen Chemical And Oil Production In Chaos -- Bombed Nitric Acid Division. The Germans, In Spite Of Allied Air Attacks, Have Poured Concrete Squares In An Abortive Effort To Restore Production Of This Paramount War Acid, Said The Observers.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, General View Looking South, 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.

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.

Elsevier photo collection. Fire N.V. Philips Eindhoven. January 1921. Eindhoven

General Motors Plant - Petone, 1926, Petone, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Monthly Progress Photo, Filling-in Launching Ways (Maine), Looking South, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier D From Mainland, E. D. V. Tompkins, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

VANITIE

Dahlgren's Floating "Derrick". Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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.

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.

Album with photographs from Bohusbanan.Pesvisoror Viaduct during work.

Dry Dock No. 4, First Vessel Docked - U.S.S. Utah. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Arlington Pumping Station, construction progress, southwest corner, Arlington, Mass., Nov. 14, 1906 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

Monthly Progress Photo, Circuit Z, Northeast of Dry Dock 3, Near Waterfront, Looking East, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Launching Ways, Looking South, Monthly Progress Photo, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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.

Dry Dock Number 1 Looking Southwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Railroad Changes at Causeway Entrance, Looking Northeast, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Wrecking Palace of the Fans ballpark, Cincinnati (baseball)

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.

Wachusett Reservoir, concrete mixing plant, Oakdale, West Boylston, Mass., Aug. 3, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

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.

The Saarbrucken Engineering Plant As Seen From A Machine Plant, After Being Practically Destroyed By Bombs From The Us 8Th Air force. 300,000 Tons Of Coal, Stored Beneath Parts Of The Plant, Caught Fire During The October 1944 Attack And Is Still Burning.

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.

Building Number 212, Looking Southwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Weston Aqueduct Supply Mains, Section 7, engine house after explosion, east end of tunnel, Newton, Mass., Dec. 6, 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Monthly Progress Photo, Rebuilding Railroad Tracks, West End Building 117 (19), Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, General View, Looking Northeast, 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.

Crane Track Foundations, Head of Dry Dock 1. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Wachusett Dam, looking northeasterly, Clinton, Mass., Jan. 1, 1903 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Dry Dock Number 1 Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Building Number 127. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Hoist Is Used To Lift Steel Planks For An American Airstrip On A Former Luftwaffe Base In Germany.

Extension of Kungsbron in Stockholm

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.

New Roof of Brass Foundry, Building 29, Looking Northwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Bachman Von Blumenthal Company'S Me110 Factory At Furth, Germany, Was Hit First By 8Th Air force Heavy Bombers On 25 Feb. 1944, Rebuilt, And Then Bombed Again A Year Later With The Results Shown Here. Noses Of Me110S Suffered Only Dents When The Adjoining Hanga

Laying Keel of U.S.S. Battleship Number 39, Nailing of the Horseshoe. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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.

Aqueduct fire

Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, placing concrete on roof of masonry tower, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 27, 1915 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites

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.

BROBYG.

Monthly Progress Photo, Railroad Connections Caisson of Dry Dock 4, North Groove, West End, Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Nagasaki. Local women and men loaded the deep-sea passenger steamer "Cleveland" with coal (transported in baskets)

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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Gantry Crane Site, Looking North Along East Rail. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Granite Storage Yard, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,SUPPLIES War

UNDERGROUND AIRCRAFT PLANT-An interior view of the cave at St. Astier with some of the machinery strung along the corridor which will eventually become the main production line. The cave plant turned out one shipment of FW-190 parts

Launching Ways From South End, Monthly Progress Photo, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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.

Wachusett Dam, 24-inch valves in lower gate chamber, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, valves hardware

Anefo photo collection. Ship brings under construction in IJmuiden. December 29, 1950. IJmuiden

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier C Looking Northeast, General View of Column Storage Yard, Snare and Triest Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

The Volkswagen Factory At Fallersleben, Germany, Producing The V-1 Flying Bomb Was At A Complete Halt In Production Following Allied Attacks. Here A Member Of The Us Engineering Corps Examines A Damaged Vehicle Is Captioned Incorrectly As A: Kubelwagon

Monthly Progress Photo, Hole 7, D.D. 3, Wash Borings, Looking Northwest , United Core Drilling Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Filling-in Maine Launching Ways, Looking South, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Building 214 (68), New Concrete Footings for Columns, Westside, Looking North, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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.

Distribution Department, Hyde Park Pumping Station, from the north, Hyde Park, Mass., Jul. 25, 1912 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites, billboards site elements

Monthly Progress Photo, Building 214 (68), New Concrete Column Bases, Looking North, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Before Debris From Allied Air Attacks Could Be Cleared Away From This Production Line Designed To Produce Large Panther Tanks, American Ground Troops Overran The Area. Aschaffenburg, Germany, Tank & Submarine Plant.

Cow barn blown down, Geneva, N.Y., cyclone

Duke of Gloucester's Visit : Laying of Foundation Stone, 17 December 1934, Wellington, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. The first shaft work for the northern King Tower in Brunkebergsåsen.

Wachusett Dam, Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal; members of the International Board of Consulting Engineers; the Isthmian Canal Commission; the Metropolitan Water & Sewerage Board; and the Engineers of the Metropolitan Water & Sewerage Board, Water Works, abutment, looking towards Boylston Street, with car and horse-drawn railway on street, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 27, 1905 , waterworks, civil engineers, boards of directors, trolley cars

Loading of timber.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Head of Dock from 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.

The levee at Memphis, Tenn.-Hauling sugar and cotton from their hiding-places for shipment north / sketched by Mr. Alex Simplot. | Library of Congress

A Lumber Raft, Duluth, Minn. still image. Postcards. 1903 - 1904. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Duluth (Minn.), Log rafts

Sorting shells at Black Tom

Roof girders of Imam Airframe Works (9) (in vertical 27493 A.C.) twisted like jackstraws, testify to intensity of NAAF, bombardment of Naples. At right, a section of the freight yards, with rows of railway car skeletons. In background is Mt. Vesuvius

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