Historical Construction Projects

Black and white photographs of historical construction sites, including machinery, loading operations, and bridge building, depicting early engineering and industrial activities.

Diamond washing machine De Beers, Anonymous, c. 1890 - c. 1896.
Diamond washing machine De Beers, Anonymous, c. 1890 - c. 1896.
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Anefo photo collection. First workmen pedestrians about new amstel bridge. November 12, 1953
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Shaft Viktor, Billesholm's mine.
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Construction of retaining walls for the railway bank in the construction of a new railway vigor across Norrtullsgatan. Located about 100 m east of the Eastern Land Fort in the New Video. Casting of the eastern part.
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Edsbro Masugn 1942. Part of the management to the roast furnace.
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Piling Engine, North Pier, B.H. Renkioi. John Kirk (Scottish, 1832 - 1922)
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Puerto de Tarragona, principio del siglo XX.
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Bouwrein, Anonymous, 1921 - 1922 photograph View of the sprayed building site with a stake for buildings. Part of the group of individual photos about the construction of the port Belawan on the coast for Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922. Belawan photographic support building-site. making the overground structures (~ building activities) Belawan
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Track building inlandsbanan.Text on the back: Norlin's team at the road gate at Jokkmokk.
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Bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.
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Part of iron mine.
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The limited liability company brothers Hedlund. The advertising set for the Stockholm exhibition during rising on Jan 19, 1930. The mast, whose cross-section was 3 x 3 m and about 80 m high, weight approximately 30 tons, was ridden in about 3 hours.
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Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, loading cement into truck at Old Furnace, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Nov. 9, 1933
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Construction workers and staff during the construction of the railway bridge over the Ångerman River at Forsmo.
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German railway troops. Construction of a field railway bridge
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Dry Dock, U.S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. , Naval yards & naval stations, Charlestown Navy Yard Mass.
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Closing of weak current cable on the western main line.
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Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, head frame (center), compressor house (right), Shaft 12, Hardwick, Mass., Nov. 25, 1931
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Transparency - Coal mine, Taylorton, SK, about 1928
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Bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.
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The opening of the Stadium in Utrecht/ De Varvendeons of the Utrecht Gymnastics Associations bring their greetings before starting with the gymnastics demonstrations, which were a great success.
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Persberg's mines.
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Construction sites in Aussersihl abandoned by the workers, strikes in Zurich, Switzerland, photograph by Eduardo Ximenes (1852-1932), from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 32, August 2, 1896.
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Marianna mine disaster wrecked tipple
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Mounting of suction transformer.
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The centre section of the Quebec Bridge being raised into position on 11th September 1916. This photograph was taken just prior to the span collapsing in a tragic construction accident which claimed the lives of 13 workers. After the bridge's completion in 1917, special passes were required for those wanting to cross the structure. It remains the longest cantilevered bridge span in the world. Date: September, 1916
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Germans repairing bridge over Dunajec in Galicia i.e. Galitzia
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Coasts How to Haitz L / 15, Battery 3, position in the Lesachtal. Cat is transferred from the big crane to the gun crane. Recorded on August 20, 1916..
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Driving piles into the water. On a wooden scaffolding structure built around a pile driver next to a shore, at least nine people, some of which are men, some younger boys are standing or climbing. On the bank lie two tree trunks prepared as piles with iron hoops around the tops to protect the stuck surface from splitting. Nigeria. 1911. Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa.
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Suspense.
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Railway bridge construction at Stora Lule River.
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The southern span is being built.
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Higher starvation Chief physician 2.j.D. Harz furnace. .
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Duke mine in Malmberget.
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Ship-building, Gloucester Harbor , Boat & ship industry, Ships
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AB Freja load crane on Svartön
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Shaft 11 at Stora Strand's mines.
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Kanntorp's mines.
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Construction of the Viaur Viaduct in France by the Societé de Construction des Battignolles, October 18, 1901, 1901 photograph France photographic support cyanotype making the overground structures (~ building activities). viaduct Viaur Viaduct
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Shooting and test stand of the 4th K.U.K. Army.
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Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, head frame and works, Shaft 10, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 5, 1932
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Bridge under construction in Suriname. Bridge under construction in Suriname. Photo with corners attached on a page of an album leaf in the photo album over the family's family and life and work in the Mijnstad Moengo in Suriname around 1927.
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Mangahao Power Electric Station black-and-white prints
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Boortoren.A group of Europeans posing for a derrick in partly lined with ATAP, behind the tower the strike of a barn under construction. Photo in the photo album on oil extraction on Borneo by the Royal Dutch Petroleum Maatschappij (KNPM) in the 1903-1907.
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Coal mine Ilse - open pitSenftenberg. Coal mine Ilse - open pit
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Airship Infrastructure Description: Britain's R 101 airship under construction at the Royal Airship Works, Cardington. Date: c.1928 sepia, aircraft, aviation, transport, airship, dirigible, lighterthanair, r101, royalairshipworks, gfaaw
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Grua utilizada para la construcción del ferrocarril en la Pobla de Segur, cerca deTalarn (Lleida). Año 1925.
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View of the monster room of the Van Velsen Plaatwellerij, on the Jaarbeursterrein on Vredenburg in Utrecht, during the second Jaarbeurs.
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Panama Canal Under Construction. ca. 1913, Miraflores, Panama, CONCRETE WALLS COMPLETED AND CRANES THAT OPERATED THE CEMENT BUCKETS, MIRAFLORES LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL. The side walls are 50 feet wide at the surface of the floor, perpendicular on the face. The walls are 25 feet thick at the base and narrowing towards the top where they are 8 feet thick. The amount of concrete required being over 800,000 cubic feet, the concrete is brought from the mixers in buckets on a narrow gage line, and deposit
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Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, drill carriage, side view, Shaft 10, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 5, 1932
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Duke mine in Malmberget.