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Vintage photographs depicting construction sites, derailed trains, and war devastation, illustrating historical industrial activities and damage.

Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Internal migrants, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Internal migrants, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
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Washout at Three Rivers hydroelectric station, Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., 11:15 AM, Oct. 1, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures, hydroelectric power plants, damage condition, people agentsBulldozer Filling In Bomb Craters In The Marshalling Yards At Plattling, Germany. June 1945.Balikpapan Operation July 1-31, 1945-A view of the machine shop area taken from the river side. At the lower left can be seen the bomb hit of the foundation of the winch used in the ships of the slip-way. Most of the wooden buildings had collapsedElsevier photo collection. Destructions Padang-Pandjang (West Sumatra) earthquake. Inland skims opposite cinema. 1926. Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, SumatraAddison D. Moore, icehouse, Greenwich, Mass., Feb. 7, 1933 : Parcel no. 309-24, Addison D. and Frances M. Moore , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, icehouses, slat conveyorsWood Salvage, Fire Hazard Reduction. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. PhotographsDavao City power plant after Allied air attacks over this area in Mindanao, Philippine Islands, May 1945.Logs Landed at Redby Sawmill. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. PhotographsPhoto collection Spaarnestad topics. Destroyances Netherlands 1941/1945. Venray. Ruins are already cleaned up. Piled bricks. 1945. The NetherlandsSupport wall at the Blind Institute Demolition of the molds. Line Tomteboda - Hagalund.Vintage Photograph. Construction workers building a new house.Coal breaker, Pike County, Kentucky 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionInformation office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Guinea: Sawing transporting Edelwood trees jungles winning products copal trees. Hawk cap Nempoer. 1950. Guinea, NOMFOORSurahammars use. Båtvervet, 1926.Bomb Damage To Hangar At Ciampino Airdrome Near Rome, Italy.Bullete in a Munitions Warehouse (Cerovlje Hermada) 29.8.17. .Work on derailed freight wagons loaded with pig iron and with station house in the background.Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Pipe Lines, Section 44, laying 12-inch pipe in Poplar Street from Hautevale, West Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 16, 1919 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sitesRemains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionConcrete construction system, photo from Une cite industrielle, etude pour la construction des villes (An industrial city, study for the construction of cities), Plate 152, Volume II, by Tony Garnier, 1917, Paris. Detail.Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Wood storage sites, wood residues. undatedElsevier photo collection. house destroyed peat fire. 1917. Drenthe, Emmer compasscumDescription: Manchu Rubber Co. - Laioyang, Manchuria. Photographed by U.S. Signal Corps, 10 June 1946. Empty building from which hydraulic presses, rubber mills and collandars were removed during Soviet occupancy. View Number 2. Location: Laioyang, China Date: 10 June 1946 china, asia, asiathroughalensConstruction of a new bridge at S.Andrat 5.11 ###.Vy vid tomtebodaStällberg's mining area.Wachusett Reservoir, wash-out in dam at Oakdale mill pond, West Boylston, Mass., Mar. 12, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, mills buildingsAll That Remains Of The Power And Generator Plant At Ube Synthetic Oil Refinery, Ube, Japan, After An Allied Bombing Attack.Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, Elevation Duct Change Around Head, West End, Looking South, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.Electrical material, outside storage , Armories, Ordnance industry, Storage facilities, Materials, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army OperationalCow shed and poultry house on the land occupied by the Ingrahams and the Smallwoods near Nelma, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Nelma, Wisconsin , Forest CountyA shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionPublic laundry, IndiaLooking northeast at interior of boiler house, Palmer Mills Inc., Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., Oct. 4, 1941 , waterworks, real estate, factories structures, ruins, watershed sanitary conditions, boiler houses, interior viewsRamhäll's mines.Demolition of Gamla Brogatan 41.Derailment at Älvho 1950. Unloading cement.Inauguration of the Annefors - Rimsbo road. Invigning av vägen Annefors - Rimsbo.Shared mill in Wipptachtal.12.9.17. .Viadukt's build wide tag mejaure.Monthly Progress Photo, Cantilever Crane Extension, Foundation East Side, Inshore End, Looking Southeast, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.Wasserleitunganlage: Vanini-Pio-Istituto-Prassolan. (2.pump station.).Logging: Skidding with Tractors - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistoryChicopee River, site of wooden building washed out in flood, Otis Co., Palmer Mills at Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., 10:55 AM, Oct. 1, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, factories structures, damage conditionLot in which farmers leave their wagons and horses while attending to do business in Eufaula, Oklahoma. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Eufaula, Oklahoma , McIntosh CountyOakland Garden branch of Stony Brook. East of railroad embankment , Construction, Sites Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph CollectionPattern shop. The large broken pipe (lower center) is probably the chief water main to the foundry. Wheels at left are probably tank bogeys.Steel mill and workers' houses near Birmingham, Alabama. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alabama , Birmingham, Alabama , Jefferson County, Steel industry, Labor housingRoad to Arsie. Construction of a street. .Elsevier photo collection. Fire factory Barneveld. September 1928. BarneveldWachusett Reservoir, wash-out in dam at Oakdale mill pond, West Boylston, Mass., Mar. 12, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, mills buildingsParis (France), November 1931. Some workers demolish the house where Napoleon Bonaparte lived in 1795.Indiana farmland and machine shed after the flood. Posey County, Indiana. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Indiana , Posey CountyLooking northwesterly at boiler house and blacksmith shop, Palmer Mills Inc., Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., Oct. 4, 1941 : Chicopee River , waterworks, real estate, factories structures, ruins, watershed sanitary conditionsCrude Products - Bolts, Shingles. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistoryTypical of Renault Devastation is the machine shop for milling and screw fitting. The two overhead drives (long shafts with wheels) are twisted beyond repair. More modern factories use individual drives so that one accident will not affect a wholeAlunbruk.Interör of the boiler house, Smånen.Cåne. Albo HD. Andrarums sn.Burning Schanzeugdepot Tolmezzo. .Excavator with lifting crane on lye at mine in Kiruna. On the back of the image, Gustaf Horn stands.Distribution Department, Hyde Park Pumping Station, excavating for side track, Hyde Park, Mass., Jan. 11, 1912 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sitesContract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking northwest from a point 40 feet+/- south of Sta. 881+00, showing general conditions along aqueduct line within the reservoir, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940Distribution Department, Hyde Park Pumping Station, excavating for side track, Hyde Park, Mass., Jan. 11, 1912 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sitesThe garbage at Löfsta in June 1901.The Volcania munitions...Wachusett Dam, looking southerly, Clinton, Mass., Jan. 1, 1903 , waterworks, dams, construction sitesWare River, washed out dam and mill at Roper's Mill, Princeton, Mass., Mar. 31, 1936 : Purchased Mar. 28, 1931, Parcel no. 228- , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, mills buildings, dams hydraulic structuresBuilder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Power station and factory.Crude Products: Fuelwood - Vermont. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistoryPieces Of Machinery, Taken Apart In Order To Salvage A Few Usable Parts, And (In The Background) Piles Of Scrapped Machinery Are The Remanants Of This Opel Subsidiary Plant At Russelsheim. The Destruction Of German Indusrtry By Strategic Bombing Has BeenContract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, ruins of crusher plant at Shaft 11 destroyed by fire Jan. 2, 1934, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 5, 1934Elsevier photo collection. Near Hellevoetsluis start execution closure Haringvliet. 12 include construction shutdown exhaust slides. construction site locks, sinks port Hellevoetsluis, dragged construction site. July 18, 1956. Haringvliet, HellevoetsluisBurned Cars In The Worgl Marshalling Yards In Austria, Caused By Incendiary Bombs Dropped By The 15Th Air Force Bombers.Preparing the Wanderer , Boats, Naval yards & naval stations. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph CollectionWare River, washed out dam and mill at Roper's Mill, Princeton, Mass., Mar. 31, 1936 : Purchased Mar. 28, 1931, Parcel no. 228- , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, mills buildings, dams hydraulic structuresMilling Machinery Destroyed In Yokohama, Japan. Sept. 1945.Logging/ Timber Scene. Darius Kinsey (American, 1869 - 1945)Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the 'SS Mont-Blanc' caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland, whereupon it exploded (it was carrying a cargo of benzoil and picric acid), resulting in the death of approx. 2000 people and the utter devastation of a wide area. This card shows Oland's Brewery completely destroyed. Date: 1917Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking northwest from Sta. 107+20 showing Schenck's Pond outlet structure, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Jan. 5, 1940Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Dam, trench and core wall, southerly end, Ashland, Mass., 1890 , waterworks, dams, construction sitesParty of the Power Channel, Trollhättan.Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destructions 1940 The Netherlands - A to Q. Groningen 1945 (series HL) .. 1945. The NetherlandsBridge construction at Brovallen in the 1930s.The Musashino Aircraft Engine Plant In The Outskirts Of Tokyo Was Wrecked Principally By He Precision Strikes. At The Peak Of Production It Was Making 2,800 Radial Engines A Month.Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation. April 1936. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Marysville, California , Yuba County, Internal migrantsConcrete observation status in Konuchy.View of the havoc after the railway accident in Breukelen.Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, Shaft 6, Rutland, Mass., Nov. 22, 1928Sudbury Department, Sudbury Dam, trench and 48-inch outlet pipes, Southborough, Mass., 1894 , waterworks, dams, construction sitesDeadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.Pile of twisted metal after the flood, Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley, Pa., disaster. May 31, 1889. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.)Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, mucking machine, Shaft 12, front view, Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 9, 1932Ware River, Ware Woolen and Ware Valley dam from South Street bridge, Ware, Mass., 4:05 PM, Mar. 12, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures, factories structuresElectrification work on the line between Vretstorp and Laxå.Image of blowing up using explosives of the foundations of the overclock of the Vleutensche Vaart at the height of the neighborhood station in Utrecht, in connection with the construction of the Leidseveertunnel.Elsevier photo collection. Fire storage Haarlem. August 1923. HaarlemFrom the fire in Gällivare Lokstal. SJ D 106. LOK ON STALL TRACK 14 Seen from Stall 15Leaners at Piave-Damm 25.4.18. .Wood Preservation - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistoryDouble track banking Gothenburg - Alingsås. Masonry of stone cones at Hede Roadport, in 1915.Photograph of Log Boom and Mills, Northern Minnesota. 1914 - 1917. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Slide. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Irrigation Division. (1924 - 1940). Indian Life on the Western Reservation