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Historical Construction and Ruins

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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Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, logs and stumps from mud excavation, Section 4, Stoneham, Mass., Apr. 9, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sitesLand being cleared with help of FSA (Farm Security Administration) land clearing loan. Boundary County, Idaho. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Boundary CountyWare River, 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 structuresExcavation for road at road gate in the 3rd avenueMining - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistoryThe construction of the double track between Rönninge and power.Riddarhyttans ironworks. The backer screw loading device.Foundation along Boylston Street, construction of the McKim Building , Public libraries, Foundations, Building construction, Boston Public Library01/01/1938. A "Beach" of Debris, Formed by Piles of Iron, as a consequence of the War.Image of a group of workmen and some supervisors during the clean -up work on the remains of the Vredenburg castle on Vredenburg in Utrecht, in connection with the intended construction of the first Jaarbeurs building, with a few chicken carts on narrow gauge. In the background the Vredenburg 41-Hoger buildings that will soon be demolished.Ware River Intake Works, Shaft #8, pumping out pool below spillway, looking southwesterly downstream from top of dam, Barre, Mass., Sep. 23, 1947 , waterworks, aqueducts, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineeringConstruction of the K Street Skyway. Original caption: Construction of the K St. Skyway - Key Bridge and vicinity. Photo by Charles H. Ritter. State: District of Columbia. Place: Washington.Burning site at Watertown Arsenal for uranium scrap , Armories, Ordnance industry, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army OperationalSide view of cornice stone at Milford Quarry, construction of the McKim Building , Granite quarrying, Public libraries, Cornices, Boston Public LibraryDemonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Pipes Conduits. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense MobilizationImage of the work for the widening of the Tolsteegbrug: Heien; On the right in the background the Tolsteegbascule bridge.Chemical Wood - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic HistorySap Boils Over Fire and Cans Catch Sap Drippings. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. PhotographsWarsaw. Workshops of the Warsaw-Vienna railway after a fire.. Brandel, Konrad (1838-1920), photographerContract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, head frame and works at Shaft 10, Hardwick, Mass., Nov. 25, 1931Damage To Machine Tools Was Usually Indirect. At The Mitsubishi Steel And Arms Works, 4,200 Feet From Ground Zero At Nagasaki, Many Closely Packed Machines Escaped Serious Damage From Collapsing Roof Trusses, But Were Exposed To The Weather. Other MachiInformation office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Wood type Agatis Alba disposed of. June 1955. GuineaHistoric photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.Warsaw. Workshops of the Warsaw-Vienna railway after a fire.. Brandel, Konrad (1838-1920), photographerDestroyed Machinery In The Residential Section Of Yokohama, Japan. Although Japanese Homes Were Destroyed, Most, If Not All, Of Them Were Producing Small Parts For The War Effort. Sept. 1945.Contract No. 56, Administration Buildings, Main Dam, Belchertown, placing seam faced granite, patrol building, Belchertown, Mass., Apr. 14, 1938The construction of the Electricity Agency in Kirkenes, Norway. The culvers at low tide. The photograph is part of an album from AB de Laval's steam turbine, 1909. "The Power Station of Aktieselkabet Sydvaranner in Kirkenes".Freight wagon GS, g trolley and wheels with other accessories at the accident site in Säffle. Derailment the night between 2 and 3 October 1948.Ware River Intake Works, view of upstream side of measuring weir from south bank, looking northwesterly, Barre, Mass., Oct. 9, 1947 , waterworks, aqueducts, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, weirsConstruction of the field railway. .Boxholm's ironworks. Sågdammen and the garden around 1918.1940s SINGLE MAN FARMER DRIVING A TRACTOR AND CORN HARVESTER FARM MACHINE PULLING LOADING A WAGON WELLSBURG IOWA USASide view of cornice stone at Milford Quarry, construction of the McKim Building , Granite quarrying, Public libraries, Cornices, Boston Public LibraryProject 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Post Shot Item - Damage Building 338H. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.Later stage of house construction at Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, Tennessee.. Photographs. 1936. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionFilling AF (off) BikUp carbon oven. (Michigan). From Album Photographs from American Charcoal Shutts 1905/1906.Vintage photograph. Scene in subdivision, houses under construction, roofingSuggested workman on Campolongo. .Docks of the fireplace furniture / turntable. Docks of La Villette Bires, Turning Bridge, 19th arrondissement, Paris. The municipality of Paris. Docks of the fireplace furniture, turning bridge. Paris (nineteenth arrest). Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924). Platinum circulation (front). 1870-1871.Men at work on a yard, presumably in Volendam. Part of photo album with recordings from Volendam, Dordrecht, Gorinchem and Woudrichem.Burning site at Watertown Arsenal for uranium scrap , Armories, Ordnance industry, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army OperationalDwight Manufacturing Co., canal, section #6 and racks at Spaldings Unit #2, Chicopee, Mass., Aug. 20, 1931 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, dams hydraulic structures, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, artificial water channelsContract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, 20 feet left of Sta. 26+90, looking south showing concrete forms, dam 1, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Oct. 2, 1939Dwight Manufacturing Co., canal, section #1, Chicopee, Mass., Aug. 20, 1931 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, artificial water channelsWachusett Department, Wachusett Dam Hydroelectric Power Station, break in turbine No. 2, damage to Superintendent's office; and damage to records, Clinton, Mass., Feb. 17, 1919 , waterworks, hydroelectric power plants, offices work spacesHansel's cutting millWreck at Tye River, Va., Southern Ry. Digging out EngineerClose-Up of Student Welder. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. PhotographsPanorama of Palmer Mills Inc., Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., Oct. 4, 1941 : Chicopee River , waterworks, real estate, factories structures, ruins, watershed sanitary conditions, panoramas visual worksA Curtiss P-40 Undergoes Repairs In The 50-Hour Inspection Hut An An Airfield In Iceland. 23 September 1941.Mining at the Josefina mine in Malmberget.Burned Italy. Field bakery in Manzano 27.11.17. .Elsevier photo collection. Fire machining yarn mushroom Gouda. January 1917. GoudaContract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, results of fire in compressor room, Mar. 3, 1931, at Shaft 7, looking northeast, Rutland, Mass., Mar. 11, 1931Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Post Shot Item - Damage Building 338H. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.Messerschmitt Aircraft Plant At Augsburg, Germany. Rubble Litters The Foreground Of The Picture Of Destruction Of The Messerschmitt Wing Assembly Shops And Paint Works.Schalter with transformers Station on Prasnik for high-voltage obstacles and lighting needs. Recorded on May 22, 1916..Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destructions: Bridges. 1940. Bridge over the Apeldoorn's channel to animals. May 1940. The NetherlandsLead mine. Cherokee County, Kansas 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionMaes, Joseph, Oosterweel, Lunden, A., Usine Rieth & Co, Factory building of Rieth & co that was destroyed by the explosion of a munitions factory in Oosterweel near Antwerp on September 6, 1889, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, 8, height 165 mm, width 230 mm, photographer, 1885-09-06 - 1889-12-12, paper, papier, collotype, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, cliché makerCamera Work: The Asphalt Paver; New York by Alfred Stieglitz, 1892The quarry in Hammar.Sample load of telephone posts.Making charcoal at Jack Daniel's, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg (pop. 361), Tennessee , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesSupplies and materials for maintenance of an 11th Air Force base near Amchitca, Aleutian Islands are stacked in the supply area. 12 October 1943.View of the split of the Rijksstraatweg with the Zand- en Jaagpad in Baambrugge (municipality of Abcoude-Baambrugge), from the northeast, during road works; On the right a ship in the Angstel with road workers and materials.Clearing away debris, Bangor fireRalph I. Daniels, shed and shop, Oakham, Mass., Mar. 6, 1941 : Purchased Mar. 29, 1940, Parcel no. 104-29 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, sheds storage structuresBlasts And Concussions Of High Altitude Daylight Bombing Attacks By U.S. 8Th Af Wrecked Reinforced Concrete Columns And Roof Panels Of The Messerschmitt Aircraft Factory Paint Shops At Augsburg, Germany.Clear work is ongoing after the fire in the Remodel Station in Kläppa, Ljusdal.Maes, Joseph, Oosterweel, Colon, H., Les Tanks a Petrole. Rieth & Co, Oil tanks of Rieth & co which were destroyed by the explosion of a munitions factory in Oosterweel near Antwerp on 6 September 1889, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, 9, height 165 mm, width 230 mm, photographer, 1885-09-06 - 1889-12-12, paper, papier, collotype, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, cliché makerConstruction of the W-Z route "(Krakowskie Przedmie and Plac Zamkowy); Kondracki, Wojciech; 1949 (1949-00-00-1949-00-00); was downloaded from the Muse of the National Museum in Warsaw; photographic / photographic print; products from W ókien / paper / photographic paper; height 34.7 cm, width 25.5 cm; di 83251/29 MNW; all rights reservations.Krakowskie Przedmieście (Warsaw - street), Faces of socialist realism (Warsaw, National Museum - exhibition - 1987), Pokój wins (Warsaw, National Museum - exhibition - 1949/1950), Polish Photographic Society, route W -Z (Warsaw), Warsaw (voivodeship Mazowieckie), construction, awarded works, competitions, photo exhibitionsGeorge B. Walker, barn, etc., Hardwick, Mass., Nov. 5, 1929 : Parcel no. 351-14, George B. Walker , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barnsSamantha Burlingame, barn, Dana, Mass., May 17, 1930 : Parcel no. 391-21, now Edgar A. Wood and Louis A. Nelson , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barnsUlunda limestone quarry at Hammarsbacken.The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 14 miles below New Orleans. The crevasse was created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans.