Historical Building and Demolition Scenes

Black and white photos highlight demolition and fire-fighting efforts, featuring vintage machinery and workers at historical construction sites.

Firefighters going up on ladder

Anefo photo collection. Fallen homachine in Amsterdam. The heath machine destroyed the roof of a bank on Amstelstraat. August 30, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fire in St. Olofskapel to the Zeedijk, the fire brigade extinguishing. June 1, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Demolition of a bunker in Utrecht. December 20, 1945. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Fire at V and D in Leeuwarden. Undamaged confection is brought to safety. March 21, 1963. Friesland, Leeuwarden

Anefo photo collection. Fire at Hotel T Silveren Seeepaerd in Eindhoven: Eleven killing. September 28, 1971. Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Kv. The adler.

A fire fighter stands on the fire gutted roof of Enterprise Hall at the Anacostia Naval Station, as the District of Columbia and Naval District Washington Fire Departments work to control and extinguish a fire. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Firefighters going up on ladder

Anefo photo collection. Jordaan Festival 1968. The fair on the Palmgracht is built up. September 12, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Warmhouse burned out in Amsterdam; The burned warehouses burned. February 16, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Dramatic picture of firemen on extension ladders fighting a fire which extensively damaged Griffiths Bros. factory at the corner of Commonwealth-street and Wentworth avenue today. Thousands watched the spectacular blaze. May 1, 1943.

View of beating the foundation piles for the 2nd Jaarbeursgebouw (Vredenburg) in Utrecht.

Vintage Photograph. Urban redevelopment: crane demolishing old building for city transformation.

Vintage Photograph. Steam shovel loading truck in excavation for new building.

Anefo photo collection. Food provision: Wageningen. Demolition of houses in Amsterdam. January 1, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fire in the Jacob van Campenstraat, overview of extinguishing work. March 12, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Fire in cigar factory Karel I, Eindhoven. February 19, 1971. Eindhoven

Anefo photo collection. Fire in sex clubs on the old Zijndenburgwal in Amsterdam, 13 killing; Nablussen Saturday morning. December 17, 1983. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Demolition of 3rd Avenue "L" workers placing cables on steel girder, (Nov 1955) New York City

Monthly Progress Photo, Hot Water Heating System, Looking Southeast along McDonough Avenue from Building 11 (34), Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Anefo photo collection. Potato stomer for animal feed. March 8, 1951

Anefo photo collection. Fire. Blue hatsveen. September 11, 1948

Anefo photo collection. Work on sheet pile in CS in connection with construction subway station. November 6, 1978

Anefo photo collection. Remains of ships found at metro work Waterlooplein Amsterdam. January 13, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Nierstratz, Heimachine. January 12, 1965

Anefo photo collection. Renewal work on a low-fat bridge, Amsterdam new ham empoort placed. May 8, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

View of rubble waste on the yard along the Nieuwegracht in Utrecht at No. 137.

Anefo photo collection. Work on the Deynootplein givers. 30 June 1961. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Alderman De Cloe hits first pile bridge Houtkopersbrugwal; Overview. August 30, 1978

Elsevier photo collection. Fire broke third time weeks. police suspect fires pyromaan. Today's fire broke Hoogstraat 125. floors burned completely. Firefighters busy burnt house. 21 February 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Worker killed by falling crane on railway beach behind Ruyterkade, Amsterdam. December 4, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Heidemij construction headquarters Arnhem. construction wing Headquarters Arnhem. Foundation. 1952. Arnhem

Anefo photo collection. Brush factory burned out on Prinsen island. September 4, 1962

10/24/1967. Ring road works on the Abroñigal stream.

Anefo photo collection. Fire in Frederik Hendrikstraat 33 Amsterdam, fire brigade, exterior. January 3, 1972

Anefo photo collection. Construction of the Belgian Center for Dutch Culture at NES in Amsterdam, Bureau Information Bureau; Seen from the NES. November 20, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Work on a gear on Södra Fältskärsgatan for prospective meeting tracks. The Dala Palace in the background Arbete med en växel på Södra Fältskärsgatan för blivande mötesspår. Dalapalatset i bakgrunden Album med bilder erhållna som gåva av Ingvar Sjöberg, Västervik år 2000.Ingvar Sjöbergs faster var gift med Hugo Hedberg.

Anefo photo collection. Fire at V and D in Leeuwarden. Undamaged confection is brought to safety. March 21, 1963. Friesland, Leeuwarden

Anefo photo collection. Fire in workshop for the blind to the Amstel, the fire brigade by extinguishing, people hang out of the windows. October 20, 1964. Amstel, Noord-Holland

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Addition to Building 41. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Looking south from top of Cutter building excavating, concrete, etc. , Excavation, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Anefo photo collection. Fire in warehouse to Weesperzijde, outline of the fire. January 5, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Chemicals are excavated in Lekkerkerk; Overview excavation work. April 24, 1980. Lekkerkerk

Anefo photo collection. Fire in workshop for the blind to the Amstel, the fire brigade in action. October 20, 1964. Amstel, Noord-Holland

Image of the work for making a new quay wall along the Oosterkade in Utrecht.

Photograph showing members of the London Fire Brigade tackling a blaze at Samuel Ward & Co.'s paint and varnish warehouse in Great Guildford Street, Southwark, August 1926. Date: 21/08/1926

Anefo photo collection. Remains of ships found at metro work Waterlooplein Amsterdam. January 13, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Three African American men lifting a piece of equipment, with block and tackle, at the Standard Engraving Company ca. 1909.

Anefo photo collection. Fire at the Vletwinkel paint factory on the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam. Fire hoses that lie over the street; Boy walking over one of the fire hoses. November 6, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Closeup of bucket of excavator filled with earth on construction site, New York City

Anefo photo collection. Strike in the diamond industry. March 14, 1955

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Anefo photo collection. Fire at the Vletwinkel paint factory on the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam. fires, fire extinguishers, smoke, ladders, public, facades. November 6, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Strike in the diamond industry (October building). March 14, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Garbons collect the dam from protest against alternative landfills at a strike in Amsterdam. Projections, strikes, blockages, cleaning services, trucks. December 15, 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage photograph. Five-alarm fire that raged through a five story export warehouse

Anefo photo collection. Application of 35m deep steel sheet pile around construction site for the metro to the Coolsingel in Rotterdam. April 24, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Work on the "inner ring" in Amsterdam. Work at the Wetering Circuit. 21 May 1979. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Start construction "inner ring" in Amsterdam; Work on small Gartmanplantsoen. November 1, 1977. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Closure of underground telephone lines, Norrbro in Stockholm, 1891. Outside "public" house at Malmskillsgatan.

View of the spray lice in the bottom head of the Weerdsluis in Utrecht.

Anefo photo collection. Fire. Blue hatsveen. September 11, 1948

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Cleaning company The guest Ramenwassers. April 19, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Four images of Arti et Amicitea to the Rokin are restored, one of the images with a crane was taken of their place. January 27, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Image of the asphalting work in the Oudkerkhof in Utrecht.

Crane demolishing a building

Anefo photo collection. Fire in the Javastraat. Fire brigade climbs in ladder. December 29, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Fire in Dutch middle position tank in Rotterdam. Smoke development at the rear of the bank building. November 5, 1965. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fire at Vollenhove height Gifts. May 12, 1950

Anefo photo collection. Work in Amsterdam, sewers etc. September 6, 1958. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Raadhuisstraat in Amsterdam interrupted in connection with work on rails, sewerage etc. 12 July 1984. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fire brigade exercise at Sonestahotel, Amsterdam. March 21, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Major fire in Rotterdam factory of goodwill (rubber) overview of extinguishing work. December 7, 1964. Rotterdam, South Holland

Market Street Construction, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anefo photo collection. Rat control in Amsterdam, a team at Kattenburg work. July 21, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Leveling the beach in Scheveningen for the coming season. March 13, 1961. Scheveningen, South Holland

View of the Mechanical Workshop of Bolinders.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 6x6.1 Stopping scaffolding post. undated

Anefo photo collection. Fire at V and D in Leeuwarden. Undamaged confection is brought to safety. March 21, 1963. Friesland, Leeuwarden

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, condition of streets after break in 30-inch main, Boylston Street at Boylston Place, Brookline, Mass., Feb. 14, 1917 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Construction worker standing at a construction site, Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, New York State, New York, USA, 1930s

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 English steel scaffolding. Photo Report Steel Scaffolding usual England van Last, Tjaden Lodder D.D. February 4, 1932. Undated. Britain

Anefo photo collection. Fire factory of table cutlery on right boomsloot in Amsterdam. March 23, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Decoration party at Amstel Hotel. April 24, 1962

Firemen drag the hose up long ladders to reach the upper stories of a building on fire in the Chicago, Illinois, area around 1909. To reach high buildings, hose was attached to the rtop of the tower, as seen on the engine at right. Tall buildings at the time had standpipes running from the ground through the floors to the top through which water is forced.

Elsevier photo collection. Company fire in Emmen and various house fires in Amsterdam caused by a pyromame. 1966. Amsterdam, Emmen

Construction work at the White House. View of construction work in progress near the West Wing Entrance of the White House, Washington, D.C.

Anefo photo collection. Drilling platform (Stichting Rotterdam Drilling Platform) center Rotterdam (Nieuwe Maas). 19 September 1987. Rotterdam, South Holland

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.

Anefo photo collection. Large fire in "peace" warehouse on the Prinseneiland 79 to 83 in Amsterdam. March 5, 1949. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Ware Woolen Co., looking easterly at building #5 and #6 and east end of #4, Ware, Mass., Nov. 21, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, general views

Calls in storage, Stockholm South

Anefo photo collection. High water slicker fear. Scheepswerf van de Groot & van Vliet. December 23, 1954. Slikkerveer, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Warehouse with dolls to façade on Waterlooplein. August 13, 1965

Elsevier photo collection. Tonight fire broke Blaauwhoed warehouse Nieuwevaart rear height caddy. Backside smoke curtain (height gift). June 1, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Order Nierstratz, concrete fitting machine in The Hague. March 16, 1966. The Hague, South Holland

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