Historical Construction Projects

A collection of vintage images depicting various construction activities, including bridge building and sawmilling in rural settings, showcasing teamwork and early engineering techniques.

Sawmill. New houses are built with timber cut on the project. Skyline Farms, Alabama 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Sawmill. New houses are built with timber cut on the project. Skyline Farms, Alabama 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Farming (Irrigation). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Flat of divisional and shelters of resin furnace. .
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Oil tank and workers, circa 1870
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Tractor & Aerial Skidding: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Nurseries: Transplants - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Gravel group. .
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Station men in wood work.
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Rallers build the east coast line at robbery. Rallare bygger ostkustbanan vid Rån.
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Logging Waste - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Depot for large shells, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.
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Ånvält in work at track building.
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Contraband laborers (often pressed into service by Federals) are repairing stringer track near Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1862.
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Log Transportation: Truck. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Lunchtime for county sawmill workers near Omaha, Illinois. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Omaha, Illinois , Gallatin County
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Original caption: "Pipe fitting in connection with spring development. Mesa Grande.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs
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Logging: Loading Logs - Minnesota. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Another Culvert. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs
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Field train, transport of caterpillar articles.
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Häafla use, Östergötland. Topics for horse shoes outside the carpentry workshop, 1901.
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Stretch construction at Campea. .
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Fire Suppression: Ground Handtools - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Cattle Branding. 1900 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Crow Creek Agency. 1949-1954. Photographs
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Photograph shows Indonesian workers harvesting lemon grass, this would be distilled into lemon oil at a local factory. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indoesia. Dated c1935.
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Company at a lock, 1929 - 1930 photograph Suriname photographic support building-site. sluice, weir Moengo. Albina
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Small Sawmills (mold) - Georgia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Naval Stores - Products. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Track work on the line Bergkvara - Gullaboby. In the background is a started construction of a station house.
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Mining - Ohio. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Vintage Photograph. Two horses leading a man in a sawmill in the mountains of West Virginia
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Östl.Galuzia: Team Laundry 1.Lifth. (K.U.11.ktd.).
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Runway bridge under construction at Soligo. .
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Logging: Loading Logs - Texas. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Krupp balloon gun
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Saw mill in the eucalyptus woods of Khadera. Tree trunks about to be sawed into boards. 1934, Israel, Ḥaderah
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Petrol engine for farming the hammering hammer to cavern construction.
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Vintage photograph. Caterpillar diesel tractors equipped with traction sidebooms laying pipe line near Bassfield Mississippi
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Diggers at dedication of motor parkway
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Log Transportation: Log Drives. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Looking southerly at damaged gate on Hacker Pond Road off Route #122, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sep. 22, 1941 : Parcel no. 571-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, gates, damage condition
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Vintage photograph. Laying pipe line
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Logging: Skidding with Animals - Georgia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Tract 358 - Birch Logs Cut in Chunks. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs
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Rafter when setting the scribes
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Companion at a lock.
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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The Norwegian saw , Stabblaggare Evert Svensson and Mårten Björk. "Norsksågen", stabbläggare Evert Svensson och Mårten Björk.
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Conquered electric cable. .
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Cereal threshing machine in Veneto 10.7.18. .
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Utilization of Wood Waste. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, hauling poles, Southborough, Mass., Nov. 13, 1917 , waterworks, power lines, construction sites
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Wolf Creek Farms, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) project in Grady County, Georgia. Racks for drying soya beans 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Filling Shell with Nitro-Glycerine, Preparatory to Shooting the Well, Oil Field in Penns, Single Image of Stereo Card, circa 1915
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8 cm pneumatic miner m.15. .
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Loading area at Kall, Zink mine.
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The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910
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Russian navvies laying the log sleepers for the Trans-Siberian Railway Date: circa 1910s
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Zum Brückenbau der Deutschen in Feindesland Baumstämme und Flösse werden durch gefangene Russen aus dem Narew gefischt.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Engineering and construction, Bridge construction, Narew River (Belarus and Poland)