Historical Industrial Sites

Images showcasing early 20th-century industrial sites, including construction machinery, naval shipyards, and factory systems, capturing a vintage aesthetic and labor activities.

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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, C.I. Main to Condenser, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Air Receiver, 5th Street, Near Head, Dry Dock 4, Looking South, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Personnel of the 11th Air Cargo Supply Squadron are re-packing parachutes to be used on future drop missions. This photo shows all stages of the packing operation. As many as 315 parachutes are often assembled in one day; but they are used as fast as

Railway accident in Holmsveden between Ockelbo and Bollnäs.

Clinton Sewerage, interior of covered reservoir, Section 2, Clinton, Mass., Aug. 30, 1899 , waterworks, sewage treatment, reservoirs water distribution structures, watershed sanitary improvement

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Sugar mill (machine), Puerto Rico. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Sugar industry,Puerto Rico,1890-1930, Machinery,Puerto Rico,1890-1930.

Monthly Progress Photo, Addition to Lean-to, Building 131, Substation No. 11 Looking Southeast, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

U.S. Navy Yard, New York Submarine. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Paving Coal Plant Pier, Shore End, Looking North, Joseph Balaban Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Coal Plant Building 129 (80), Tower Locking Device Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Construction of the locomotive workshop at the State Railway's railway workshops in Kirseberg, Malmö.

Conveniently installaed in air-portable trailers, propeller maintenance equipment could easily be moved with the group and be used immediately upon the arrival of the unit at a new flying field. Florida Blanca, Luzon Island, August 1945.

Anefo photo collection. Sluisbouw in Hopolderdijk at Walcheren. September 5, 1949. Hopolderdijk, Walcheren

Distribution Department, supply pipe lines, Section 3, trench showing gas pipe, Sargent Street, Newton, Mass., Jul. 9, 1903 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Kockkärra FM/34 with balongrings

Distribution Department, Weston Aqueduct Supply Mains, laundry, Helen G. Navin's house, 55 Eastbourne Road, Newton, Mass., Nov. 9, 1910 , waterworks, residential structures, interior views

Marines operating a crushing machine during construction activities in Vietnam on September 8, 1967. These crushers can handle up to 3500 cubic yards of material daily. Photo taken by MySgt Frye, and classified under the Defense Department. Image reference: A189207 127 GVB-/73.

Work in the steam boiler soot cabinet.

Dry Dock 4 Pump Well, Looking Southwest, Monthly Progress Photo, Contract 1399, Holbrook Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Shipyards , Boat & ship industry. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Monthly Progress Photo, Building 115 (26) Trolley Runway Extension, Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Compressor on Fleet, Squantum, Massachusetts. 1939 - 1947.

The superstructure is changed on the viaduct in Rödsta, on the route between Sollefetå and Långsele.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, connection at Broadway and Williams Street, Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 29, 1917 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Animal Exposure Containers Being Placed in Test Stations. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 31st, 32nd , 33rd and 34th visits, 1924, by Leslie Adkin.

Wachusett Reservoir, railroad bridge near South Boylston Station, pile showing first stage of failure, West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 4, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, railroads infrastructure, construction sites

Whaling in the Ross Sea, 1924, Southern Ocean, by Captain George Samuel Hooper.

Clinton Sewerage, interior of covered reservoir, Section 2, Clinton, Mass., Aug. 31, 1899 , waterworks, sewage treatment, reservoirs water distribution structures, watershed sanitary improvement

On Aug 3. 1897. "We photographed our forks' development history. I made a fork to Fraenkel," says Andrée. The latter fork to the right of the other two. Production of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in 1930 in photography, Technical College.

Sudbury Reservoir, bonding of stone near sound end of overflow, Sudbury Dam, from the north, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 26, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, bottom and lower course of steel tank on blocking 2 feet above the foundation, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 4, 1914 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Mystic River tunnel extension, interior of old shaft, lower end, after removal, Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 5, 1912 , waterworks, water tunnels, construction sites

Distribution Department, Edgeworth Pipe Yard, loading 48-inch pipe on a team, Malden, Mass., Apr. 6, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Hydroponics Garden On Ascension Island. 7 May 1945.

Part of West Wall, Dry Dock 2, Coated With Tax-Cement, a Near View. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, 36-inch connection of new 48-inch low service main to Boston Water Works 48-inch Beacon Street line, near Effluent Gatehouse No. 1, Brighton, Mass., Aug. 13, 1909 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Mitsubishi Ordnance Factory After Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki, Japan. Direction Of The Blast Is Obvious By The Way The Structure Is Leaning. 15 October 1945.

Work with electrical installatin and generators.

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe No. 434 pitted by electrolysis, Boylston Street; laid September 1896, removed November 1910, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 8, 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Marblehead, boatyards (vertical) , Fish, Hoisting machinery. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis, removed from Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, electrolysis

Building No. 131. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

An abandoned oil mill in an image from August 1974. Dirt and Areñas slowly take over a traditional mill, already in disuse.

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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Paving Coal Plant Pier, Center Bay, Looking Shoreward, Joseph Balaban Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Warsaw -- Russians collecting copper etc.

Firebombs accounted for the destruction of this cracking unit at Balikpapan's Fandansari refinery. The bombs were dropped by warplanes of the 13th AAF, which pelted the "Ploesti of the Pacific," with more than 2,000 tons of bombs before the invasion.

Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pumping Station, 36-inch hydraulic lift valve, Brighton, Mass., Dec. 23, 1898 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, valves hardware

Interior of wool warehouse , Warehouses, Wool industry, Wool, Boston Wharf Company Collection

Clinton Sewerage, screen room in Pumping Station, Clinton, Mass., Mar. 12, 1901 , waterworks, pumping stations, sewage treatment

Photo collection Government information service. Slideshow water mills. undated

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 employee machine. undated

Old Anchor Excavated Near Building Number 225 (19-3), Looking Northwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 13x18 (2 photos) Stone press. undated

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe No. 42 pitted by electrolysis, Boylston Street; laid September 1896, removed November 1910, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Electrical installation on contact line post.

ARC-4 Thor , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, New Bollards Eastside, Looking Northeast, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis, removed from Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, electrolysis

Distribution Department, supply pipe lines, Section 2, Commonwealth Avenue, laying pipe near Temple Street, Newton, Mass., Jun. 27, 1902 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Compressor on Fleet , Machinery. Photographs of the First Naval District

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

ASPB , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, steel cylinder for tunnel shaft at Chelsea North Bridge, Chelsea Creek; Charlestown; Chelsea, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900 , waterworks, water tunnels, construction sites

Saugus Iron Works , Iron industry, Industrial facilities, Waterwheels. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis, removed from Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, electrolysis

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Pipe Lines, 12-inch pipe No. 399 W. F. '98 laid July 26, 1900 in Broad Street at Spring Street, removed January 8, 1920 on account of electrolysis, Lynn, Mass., May 1, 1920 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Pipe Lines, Section 44, heating lead with kerosene blow torch, Poplar Street, West Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 16, 1919 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 2, trench work on St. Paul Street, from Freeman Street to Commonwealth Avenue, from the south, Brighton, Mass., Sep. 15, 1896 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Distribution Department, break, 48-inch pipe No. 503 that burst on December 24, 1909 at Harvard Square, after removal from pipe line, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 5, 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Electrolysis, 48-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis, removed from Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, electrolysis

Pier F, Looking Into Top of Form for Interior Column, New York State Construction Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Park Street Pipe Yard, from the south, Somerville, Mass., Apr. 6, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Electrolysis, Boston Water Works, Massachusetts Avenue at Harrison Avenue, 30-inch pipe pitted by electrolysis (compare with Nos. 5971 and 5972), Boston, Mass., Oct. 26, 1905 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Electrolysis, Low Service Pipe Lines, 24-inch pipe No. 1 pitted by electrolysis, Broadway, near Power Station; laid 1887, removed August 1913, Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 1913 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, front entrance to masonry tower, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Sep. 16, 1915 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Metalworking companies that went bankrupt ca. 1965, Europe

Sudbury Department, Sudbury Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant, form for concrete outlet conduit, Framingham Reservoir No. 3 service, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 22, 1915 , waterworks, hydroelectric power plants, construction sites

Bessemer converter , Steel industry, Furnaces, Machinery, Steel, Factories

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