Historical Terminal Operations

Black and white images depicting loading and unloading of machinery and materials at docks from the mid-20th century.

Loading a planing machine on board a ship, February 16, 1940, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
Loading a planing machine on board a ship, February 16, 1940, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
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DN-ST-85-00693. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WEDDING '82 Country: North Sea
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Activity in Walsh Bay.Steam compressor in foreground - cooling in background. The compressor is being lined in reconditioning Central Wharf, Walsh Bay. February 20, 1939.
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Marblehead, boatyards , Boats, Boat & ship industry, Harbors, Hoisting machinery. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection
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NJ - Cross Ledge. Cross Ledge Light Station, New Jersey. Photographs showing erection, towing to site, sinking, filling the pneumatic caisson for foundation of elbow of Cross Ledge Light Station, Delaware Bay, New Jersey.
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Anefo photo collection. Preparations Emergency building of C and A in the water on the Damrak. March 28, 1963
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Cargo Ship Unloading Grain at Great Northern Elevator, Buffalo, New York, USA, Detroit Publishing Company, 1900
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A view of the bow of the guided missile cruiser GETTYSBURG (CG-64) during construction. The ship is 70 per cent complete. Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Tsingtau / China: When unloading coal. Workers in the harbor when unloading coal from sailboats
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First cut 90 foot Blue whale Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives
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Reel of a Lier A / B from the Oceanographic research vessel Hr.Ms. Tydeman (1976-2004).
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Build Hydrographic Contractor Buyskes (1973-1999) in Bolnes
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Anefo photo collection. Stuff at Hagestein. Sluizen complex. April 25, 1961. Hagestein
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment G. J. van Hulzen for Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd Loosen van Ms. Heidelberg. 11 February 1972
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Loading of cotton for export. Notice man operating winch. Port of Houston, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Houston, Texas , Harris County
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Operation Deep Freeze I - Icebreaker Eastwind. Only her bow visible the Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind waits for Navy's new giant icebreaker Glacier to dispose of her cargo at McMurdo Sound unloading point before moving in to off-load here. Both icebreakers here were shuttling between the cargo ship Greenville Victory anchored out in open waters and the unloading area. Cargo was hauled from this point by weasels and caterpillars to the William Air Operation Facility being built at Hut Point, Ross Island. Part of this cargo was to be stockpiled at Hut Point for delivery to the Pole Station to be erected at geographical South Pole in 1957.
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Monthly Progress Photo, Paving Coal Plant Pier, Outer Field, 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.
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Maritime Coal Co., East Boston, MA -from East 1000 ft. , Harbors, Maritime Coal Co.. Photographs of the First Naval District
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American Importer. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Village well Copyright: xJagdishxAgarwal/DinodiaxPhotox
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Image of the repair work on the railway bridge over the Waal in Nijmegen, during the replacement of the last emergency bridge part by a definitive bridge section.
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Anefo photo collection. Opening of the Soda factories in Delfzijl by Queen Juliana. June 5, 1958. Delfzijl, Groningen (province)
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Anefo photo collection. Fire in the engine room of the Norwegian tanker Mistra during a doctor at the Scheepsweed Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam; Overview of extinguishing work. December 8, 1965. Schiedam, South Holland
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Photo collection Government information service. DIAS Rotterdam Continuous series of 7. Undated. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch mine sweeped covered ice. 1940-1945}
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Boat winch , Hoisting machinery. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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No More Backaches For Sailors -- Jolly Jack Tars should now be even jollier, thanks to the latest machine to prevent them from getting backaches. It is the 'Mechanical Sailor' for 'swabbing tie decks', seen here in use for the first time on the Ellerman & Bickmall liner City of Port Elizabeth' after she had docked in London, These mechanical deck scrubbers, made in the Cimex-Fraser Tuson factory at Orpington, Kent, are adapted from a spark-proof and silent machine made specially for Britain's atomic research establishment at Harwell, for cleaning the laboratory floors. April 27, 1953. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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"Minnehoma" Super Oil-Tanker, in the Dunkirk Shipyard. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Warranty section of HR. Ms. The seven provinces (1953-1975) from April 6 to June 2, 1954. Sailor work. Is part of the AVDKM 540216 to 540344 object series, portion AVDKM 540264 to 540270.
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Anefo photo collection. Photos "New Holland". March 23, 1948. Holland
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blur philippines house in the slum for poor people concept of poverty and degradations
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Goods being loaded onto a ship, January 13, 1951, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.
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Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Dredging Entrance, 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.
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'Mattanza' tuna fishing, Sicily, Italy, 1958 (Kurt Drost)
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Formation Shrie Water Mine Sweeps
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View of Bilbao river with construction crane and AccelorMittal in Sestao
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Hollandia. Phone cables put at sea. A welder is busy with a bolt. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Some workmen are building a prefabricated house for those affected by the Friuli earthquake. Friuli Venice Giulia (Italy), May 1977.
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Construction of New Dock at Old USNAD Hingham, MA , Magazines Military buildings, Naval Ammunition Depot. Photographs of the First Naval District
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Anefo photo collection. Urker fisherman brings barrels with dinoseb on land in Harling (very dangerous agricultural gif); Skipper De Boer (L) and Crew UK56 that felt barrels. March 31, 1984. Friesland, Harlingen, Urk
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Elsevier photo collection. Torpedists action Merwede Gorinchem i.v.m. fishing interests. Explosion Merwede Gorinchem torpedists connection fisheries interests. 1920. Gorinchem, Merwede, South Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Port strike Amsterdam 1979. Striking port workers in the field of the Amsterdam Port Authority in the Coenhaven. August 30, 1979. Amsterdam, Rotterdam