Mining and Construction Sites

Historical photos of mining operations and construction projects, highlighting machinery, abandoned sites, and geological landscapes in black-and-white.

Vintage Photograph. Construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline in Alaska.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 30th and 31st visits black-and-white negatives

Project (Oglala Dam Irrigation Pipe). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Powerhouse construction site, 24 August 1923, North Island, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking south from left side of Sta. 882+80 showing overburden, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Apr. 16, 1940

Spanish laborers at work in Culebra Cut and loaded train hauling dirt from canal, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Donzere Mondragon - Flax Shipment. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The yard

Wachusett Aqueduct, rock excavation, Section 6, station 263+, from the south, Northborough, Mass., Jun. 24, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Falu copper mine.

Steam shovel loading coal, McLeans, Ohai black-and-white negatives, gelatin silver negatives

Molding. Off the twinkle mondouse undg niklasberg

Construction work on the sewer system, 1962, Elstermuehlgraben, Leipzig, Saxony, GDR, Germany, Europe

Ankarsrum's power station, black stream. The tube from the power station. The case is according to Nordic family book 16.3 meters between small and large fly.

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion, driving 6-inch sheeting in main cut-off trench, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Grängesberg, Dillner's separation plant.

Vaimat Gravel Grop.

Tech Dam. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

A Hooverville - Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Bachelor shacks in outskirts of Paterson, on "Molly Jan Brook." About 20 men live there now (some of them old silk workers) and stay up there all winter. Man in one view worked in silk up to 5 years ago. On relief now. 1937

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Vintage Photograph. Moving rock in a rock quarry.

Construction site

Spain, Basque Country. Biscayan mining industry. Somorrostro: perspective of the ore deposits of La Orconera and the new town of La Orconera. Engraving. La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1882.

Donzere-Mondragon Project - under Rigaud Irrigation Project. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

From Freja Lastkran

Bog's mining facilities.

Shipways Number 1, Lowering East Leg of Old Cantilever Crane. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

The clean-up on the Discovery Claim at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. water wheel. undated

Relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, form for tunnel arch and concrete car, Clinton, Mass., Mar. 5, 1903 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, railroad tunnels, construction sites

Ampose work at Storängsbanken at Gravesfors, just north of Åby, between Katrineholm and Norrköping.

Sveagry. The scraps at the mine.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Crawling closures, Jeppegat 04. 1968

Stockholm city water management in Norsborg.

Anefo photo collection. Ports in Rotterdam West are expanded. March 15, 1950. Rotterdam, South Holland

Railway administrator at Zolnowka IG Graf v. Bothmer Viaduct.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 6x6 Expoet Mergelgroeve fa. Sieben Voerendaal "Kunrader" chalk (wall height approx. 6 meters). undated

Saw mill on Mill Road, Akatarawa, 1940s, North Island, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Anefo photo collection. Persex course IJ tunnel construction municipality Amsterdam. October 2, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Surte disaster. (8.16 pm). More than 30 residential buildings were destroyed in the landslide but only one person was killed. Over 450 families became homeless.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Industrial complex, probably the Orinoco Mining Company (iron ore) in Venezuela. October 1, 1955. Venezuela

Italy. Tuscany. Carrara. lysing of monolith from the carbonera in Carrara that served for the realization of the Mussolini obelisk. 1929.

Vintage photograph. Caterpillar Diesel D8 Tractor with number 8A Bulldozer relocating railroad track in the world's largest open pit copper mine

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Album Mr. Wijnbergen. Mountain work from fa. Dr. Ruthjens in Wofshagen (Harz). 1957. Germany, Harz, Wolfshagen

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Industrial complex, probably the Orinoco Mining Company (iron ore) in Venezuela. October 1, 1955. Venezuela

Welland ship canal - channelled faces for pit for lock no. 5

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, main cut-off trench, station 27; from the east, Clinton, Mass., May 23, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Jerusalem Water Works. Pipeline laying E. of Kulonia. 1934, Israel

Wrecked Installations Of Russian Dnepr Dam - This is a part of the Dnepr Dam, in Russia, which was destroyed in Aug. 1941, during the German advance into the Ukraine, and which is being rebuilt by the Russians. The project is expected to be completed in 18 months. Installation is the head race to powerhouse from the right bank. (Editors: This is one of a series of pictures made by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal works administrator, while on Assignment by the President to study Soviet reconstruction methods and programs.). November 15, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Transparency - Aerial view of pulp and paper mill, about 1925

Mangahao Hydro-Electric scheme : 1923-1924, 1923-1924, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Kelly and Casey, Alpine Consol and Great Central, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, driving 6-inch sheeting in main cut-off trench, Clinton, Mass., Jan. 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Europe, Italy, Calabria, timpagrande, construction of the hydroelectric power station, 1920-30.

The bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Water reservoir in Vanadislunden.

Anefo photo collection. Repair work Djeper dam. May 14, 1946

Wachusett Dam, excavation, looking up stream, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 3, 1900 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Utah, April, 1869 - Construction camp of the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah, April, 1869, before linkup with the Union Pacific to create America's first transcontinental railroad.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric scheme : 1929, 1929, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Sing Sing Prison. December 1, 1933. (Photo by International Newsreel).

Utah, April, 1869 - Construction camp of the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah, April, 1869, before linkup with the Union Pacific to create America's first transcontinental railroad.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 30th and 31st visits, by Leslie Adkin.

Torrejón el Rubio (Cáceres), January 1965. When part of the metal structure of the dam of the reservoir that is being built collapsed, four workers were killed and three others were injured, out of a total of twenty-five who were on the damaged section. at the time of the accident.

Mining loading barge on canal around 1860

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 30th and 31st visits, by Leslie Adkin.

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking west from right side of Sta. 891+40+/- showing 4 feet precast 11.5 feet pipe in place on Contract 80, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 6, 1940

African Timber. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Power Plant of Pragneres, Pyrenees. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Bridge construction at Forshufvud over the Dalälven.

The concrete channel of the Mangaore Stream alongside the Hydro-electric Powerhouse black-and-white negatives

Dams - Chastang. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Moa dredge, Alexandra, 1900s, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 30th and 31st visits, by Leslie Adkin.

Rebuilding Trollhätte Canal, Trollhättan. The blast for lock number two.

42 cm Haitzen position in the Canal Valley at Gugg. Transport of the closure. .

Rutenberg Works, opening of powerhouse, Lord Reading's visit. 1932, Jordan

Hoover Dam.Caterpillar diesel D8 tractor with bulldozer working on the volcanic rock material of which 825,000 cubic yards must be moved in the channel clearance project below the Boulder Dam.

Conveyor in Köping.

Aerial photo over the mining area in Falun.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-58. Motifus depicting "open pit, mine" Great bump at Falu copper mine, valleys.

Tunnel construction at Hagalund.

Rotorua-Taupo NZGS (New Zealand Geological Society) Conference, 16 May 1948, by Leslie Adkin.

Wachusett Dam, from the east, Clinton, Mass., Jun. 1, 1904 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

A coal mine in Swansea, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1865).

Vintage Photograph. Laying gas pipe line.

Wachusett Dam, conduits to the pool, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 11, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Some of the stream of sightseers who visited Mundaring Weir yesterday watch the water pouring over the top at the rate of 100,000,000 gallons a day.The weir overflowed at 12.35 a.m. yesterday whereas it has been predicted that it would overflow between 6 and 8 a.m. The flow was officially measured as being 3½ in. above the crest of the wall at 3.45 p.m. yesterday. At 8 a.m. it was 1½in. over the wall.About 200 people visited the weir yesterday. However, "bumper-to-bumper" traffic is expected at the weekend.The Helena River has been running high since the overflow, and it should be running a banker within the next few days. January 5, 1954.

The locomotive with a turntable under construction at the national border.

Transparency - Asbestos mine, Thetford Mines, QC, about 1918

Mangahao Hydro-Electric scheme : 1924, 1924, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Pipe-line looking down towards the "deep cut" at Mangahao Hydro-electric power station, 1 Jan 1925, by Leslie Adkin.

Charlton Creek, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1877. Chinese workers wearing round straw hats and tunics are supervised by a Caucasian foreman in a white shirt and vest. In the distance, Chinese men are among the workers leading mule carts of excavated earth. Photo by Carleton Watkins (BSLOC_2018_1_39)

Irrigation Works-Cyprus -- Almost nearing completion. Men and women working on the weir which when completed will control the torrents that rush down the river and feed the canal safely.Because of the physical features of the country it is necessary to irrigate all land used for cultivation in Cyprus. Tanks are built all over the lowlands, some of then dating back to the Turkish occupation. These tanks are filled by the summer rains in the hills and the water carried by conduits and used for winter irrigation. September 14, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

New Guinea series.Gold Dredging at the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co..The ships of the inland these dredges operated by the company work 24 hours a day recovering alluvial gold from the river bed.They are now in full production following the war.All the dredges were flown in from the coast ***** by piece over the mountain and weigh ***** 1000 tons. September 1, 1950. (Photo by Frederick John Halmarick/).

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