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Vintage photographs showcasing early 20th-century transportation, including tramways and roadwork in remote locations, emphasizing historical engineering and landscapes.

Cars parked on a side track at the Aviation Experiment Station in Hampton, Virginia. This photograph, identified as 111-SC-3321A, shows vehicles lined up alongside the track. It was taken in the year 1917 by an unidentified photographer.
Cars parked on a side track at the Aviation Experiment Station in Hampton, Virginia. This photograph, identified as 111-SC-3321A, shows vehicles lined up alongside the track. It was taken in the year 1917 by an unidentified photographer.
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Coal jetty with track track in Rosshyttan.
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Track and pedestrian bridge at Kamp Tengah on Sumatra with a train in the background at a station; Kamp Tengah. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.
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Historical Transportation - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Cub Landing Strip Approx. 2 Miles South Of Passo Futa, Italy.
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Factual caption: "French truck tipped over on the side of the road due to mechanical issues. In order to avoid obstructing the one-way road due to numerous shell holes, the truck was tipped over on its side. The incident occurred on the road between Mallencourt and Guisy, Dept. of Meuse, France."
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Historical Transportation - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Floods - Ohio River Flood, Aerial Photograph.
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Roads - North Carolina. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Entering Lemitar Canyon 10 Miles from Socorro Road, Straw Covered For a Short Distance. Original caption: Entering Lemitar Canyon 10 miles from Socorro Road, straw covered for a short distance. March 31, 1911. A. L. Westgard. State: New Mexico Place: Lemitar Canyon.
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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The school bus leaves the flat at eight thirty a.m. Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 67-1V. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County, School buses, Rural schools
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bDescription:/b Road past old camp, looking E. bLocation:/b Weihaiwei, China bDate:/b 1916 b china, asia, asiathroughalens
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A runway in the Prokopiwna position.
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Description: Native Races. Red River Freighter's Boat. Location: Canada Date: 1858-1859 canada, manitoba, redriver, americas
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Ship on the Suezkanaal, C. & G. Zangaki (attributed to), c. 1870 - c. 1890 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Marseille, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. Suez Canal cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print sailing-ship, sailing-boat. canal Suez Canal
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Logging: Transportation: Log Drive - Maine. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Landing Fields - Alaska - Tanana Crossing, Aerial Photograph.
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Malmslätt, where the State Railways, SJ B1035 and SJ A 1016 collided at the station.
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Transportation of Livestock - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Peak Tram. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1910 Description: The Albany. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1910 Description: View from the Barker Road. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1910 Description: Filter Beds. Albany. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1910 hongkong, asia, asiathroughalens
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Everett Avenue from Broadway, after the big fire of Apr. 12, 1908, Chelsea, Mass. , Fires, Ruins, Streets. Chelsea Public Library Archive Collection
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View of a quay and the port of Audierne, 1901 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Audierne paper. photographic support  sailing-ship, sailing-boat. harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). pier, quay, wharf Audierne
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Description: The end of the line. Location: Colombia Date: July 1958 Description: Road building El Druiso-Tumaco Location: Colombia Date: July 1958 Description: British Kingstrand aluminium pre-fabs at Tumaco. (Some of 2000) Location: Tumaco, Colombia Date: July 1958 Description: A typical Colombian highway. Location: Colombia Date: July 1958 Description: The Beach at San Lorenzo, Ecuador. Location: San Lorenzo, Ecuador Date: July 1958 Description: The new quay at Tumaco Location: Tumaco, Colombia Date: July 1958 americas
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Great disaster near Bellefonte, Pa., June 11, 1878. 1878. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Railroad accidents , Pennsylvania , Bellefonte, Bridge failures , Pennsylvania, Bellefonte (Pa.)
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Helicopters - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Road from La Tablada to Cerro. Original caption: Carretera de la Tablada al Cerro. Longitud Total: 9 Kms.026 mts. Afirmado de adoquines de 10 mts.de ancho marginado por cordones labrados en plataforma de 14 mts. Comprende el trazado los puentes sobre el arroyo Pantanoso en el Paso Hondo y proximo a la Tablada. Camino construido expresamente para el transito de tropas. Año 1927. State: Uruguay. Place: South America.
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Hutterer Za, Working on the new shipping channel at the iron gate (without dat.): Canal construction work. Photo on cardboard, 42.8 x 96.7 cm (including scan edges) Hutterer Geza  (1864-1917): Arbeiten am neuen Schifffahrtskanal beim Eisernen Tor
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Railemplacement. Open site with the Railemplacement at the Sugar Factory, in the background a leaving train. Part of the photo album offered to F.J. Wirix through the staff of the Djatiroto sugar company in 1917.
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Baan at K.M. 100 - direction "Kwakeugron" (n). The new railway at km 100, direction kwacker. Photo in the photo album about the construction of the Lawaspoor road in Suriname in the years 1903-1912. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname.
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American military vehicles pass through the wreckage in Esnes, a village in the Argonne region, during the American advance northwest of Verdun. Due to heavy congestion, the vehicles can only travel at a sluggish pace of two miles per hour. This photo was taken on November 5, 1919, and approved by the A.E.P. censor.
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Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, east branch of Swift River, looking upstream from highway bridge, Hardwick, Mass., May 20, 1936
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Description: The African Lakes Company's Halting Station At Mbawi on Route From Katungas To Mandala. africa
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Strasse Bei Kostanjevica Gegen Fajti Hrib 1.3.18. .
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Panama Canal Zone - Pedro Miguel Locks, Aerial Photograph.
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Trailer home of migrant keymaker near Jefferson, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Jefferson, Texas , Marion County
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Transportation: Land. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Landing Fields - Philippines - Calamba, Aerial Photograph.
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Eastern approach to Dale Creek Bridge.. 1869. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Union Pacific Railroad Company, West (U.S.), Railroad tracks , Wyoming, Railroads construction & maintenance
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Historical Transportation - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Dar-i-Khazinah. Stills for providing local supply of Petrol and Fuel Oil. Location: Dar-i-Khazinah, Persia Description: Goods yard at D-i-K. Fields Railway. A load of well-easing leaving for the Oil-Fields. Location: Dar-i-Khazinah, Persia
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On the Railway between Colombo and Kandy, the Sensation Point. Unknown
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Landing Fields - Hawaii - Oahu Island, Aerial Photograph.
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Roads - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Track of Hamra Railway.
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Lick Stone Ridge Tunnel, Blue Ridge Parkway. Original caption: Section 2-Y, Station 158, Blue Ridge Parkway. Unfinished section. Lick Stone Ridge Tunnel. Not open to traffic. Photos by T. W. Kines, Aug 13, 1950. West end (50-5051) and Timber tunnel lining, east end (50-5052). State: North Carolina. Place: Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Difficult crossing of a new railroad track. Original caption: Difficult crossing of a new railroad track near Huerfano Sta. Photo by A. L. Westgard. State: Colorado.
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Logging: Transportation: Railroads - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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A large ship with dozens of people carrying sacks of coal up gangplanks from lighters floating alongside. Original manuscript caption: Coaling "Port Said" S.S. General Denschense. 1923 Trip out.
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Historical Transportation - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Landing Fields - Alaska - Stevens Village through Summit, Aerial Photograph.
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Landing Fields - Hawaii - Oahu Island, Aerial Photograph.
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Railing - job from Dam out to Paramaribo. Groundworks for the construction of the route of the new railroad track. Photo in the photo album about the construction of the Lawaspoor road in Suriname in the years 1903-1912. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname.
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Photography.Photography in glass and frame.The frame of oaks rod torpedo on rod with electrical firing and control device mounted on land.
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Panama Canal Zone - Chateaw Thierry through S.S. Empress, Aerial Photograph.
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The Pan-American Highway. Original caption: A view of the highway joining Ribeira to Curitiba. State: Brazil.
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Contract No. 21, Portion of Ware-Belchertown Highway, Ware and Belchertown, new highway, looking west from Sta. 130+80, Ware and Belchertown, Mass., Nov. 10, 1931
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Description: SOP.GSR. 4384. Minna rly stn. 14-11-29. 1635. F10" 1500' Location: Minna, Nigeria Date: 14-Nov-29 station, railway, nigeria, minna, 1929, africa
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Description: Pencil Rock Description: Sledge transport Description: Test strips Description: New wheeled transport rock, pencil, africa
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Gotthardbahn: Eigentlicher Tunneleingang in Airolo. Adolphe Braun & Cie (French, founded 1876, dissolved 1889)
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Construction of Railway in Suriname, 1905 - 1910 photograph Groundwork at the Lawasspoorweg construction in Suriname in the years 1903-1912, at km 173, towards Kabelstation-Dam. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname. Suriname photographic support  railway, train Suriname
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Earth Road Between Denver and Colorado Springs. Original caption: Earth road between Denver and Colorado Springs. Graded dirt. Photo by Westgard, March 6, 1911. State: Colorado.
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Automotive driving along the Lac de Guéry in the Auvergne, 1902 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Auvergne paper. photographic support  automobile. lake Auvergne
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Bridge Over the Santa Lucia River. Original caption: Puente sobre el Rio Santa Lucia En la Barra.- Deptos. de Montevideo Y San Jose. Estribos de mamposteria, Pilas de mamposteria, Tramos de acero; 3 de 100 mts.de luz c/uno y 4 de 45 mts. fijos y 1 de 60 mts.de luz giratorio.- Longitud Total: 540 mts., Ancho entre guarda-ruedas 6 mts., Longitud de las carreteras de acceso: En la margen derecha 4000 mts., En la margen izquierda 127 mts.10 Total 4127 mts.10 Costo: $1.139.573,23. Año 1924. State: Uruguay. Place: South America.
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, Volksprater - Hochschaubahn, postcard, Paul Ledermann -, producer
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Incline Railway, Mount Beacon, New York State, USA.   1903
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Gotthardbahn: Rückblick von der Rindelfluh auf den Zugersee. Adolphe Braun & Cie (French, founded 1876, dissolved 1889)
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The Gorge Road, Granville , Roads, Carriages & coaches, Cliffs
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Train track in Mozambique, possibly along the banks of the Rio Incomati, Manuel Romão Pereira, c. 1886 - c. 1895 photograph  Mozambiqueprinter: Lissabon photographic support albumen print railway, train. river Mozambique
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Logging: Transportation: Railroads - Minnesota. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Taken from Railway-Bridge Location: Kapuskasing, Canada Date: 1914-1918 ontario, canada, americas
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Train track in Mozambique, possibly along the banks of the Rio Incomati, Manuel Romão Pereira, c. 1886 - c. 1895 photograph  Mozambiqueprinter: Lissabon photographic support albumen print railway, train Mozambique
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LAN Van Het Slot - Zeist Recto
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Japanese National Railways System Map from Passenger Schedule effective 1964-10-01, showing the new Tokaido Shinkansen line (in red) and conventional lines. 1 October 1964
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