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.
Vintage Photograph. Construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline in Alaska.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Medan, Pematang Siantar, Goenong, Bajoe, Belawan, Sumatra's east coast. Tempuran: The bridge builders of the genius have a new tradition in Indonesia. Their inewausting work is the first and main contribution to the rapid recovery of indonesia destroyed by destruction and terror. A railway bridge at Temperan under construction .. December 19, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme, 1922 : 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th visits, 1922, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.
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Right: Looking across the new bridge to Studley Park Road, Kew. November 30, 1953.
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Vintage Photograph. Rock quarry where rock is ground to white powder from which dishes, insulators, etc. are made.
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Panticosa (Huesca), 1930 (Ca.). Preparation and works at the Brazato dam.
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A coal mine in France during the medieval era, showing the ladders that the miners use to descend to the coal face.
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Black and white image of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel at Glacier Bay banding Canada Geese in net traps. Note: ARLIS. Subjects: Work of the Service; Birds; Waterfowl; Employees (USFWS); Personnel; Biologists (USFWS); History. Location: Alaska.
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Hartley and Reilly Dredge - Clutha River, 1870-1880s, Clutha, by Burton Brothers.
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Panorama of Wellington Gas Co's plant ..., 11 November 1950, by Leslie Adkin.
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Construction workers using tools to settle freshly-poured concrete, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. 1940 - 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County
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1900s 1910s HYDRAULIC MINING CAMP WITH MEN AND WOMEN YUKON TERRITORY CANADA - kr20137 HAR001 HARS PERSONS MALES MINE YUKON PERFORMING ARTS PUMPS DISASTER DREAMS MAMMALS HIGH ANGLE ADVENTURE DISCOVERY AND CANINES EXTERIOR FRONTIER MINERS SEVEN OPPORTUNITY MINING GOLD RUSH POOCH CONCEPTUAL 7 TINTED CANINE ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULIC MAMMAL TOGETHERNESS YOUNG ADULT MAN YOUNG ADULT WOMAN CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY DAMAGE HAR001 MINES OLD FASHIONED TERRITORY
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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.
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1850s PIONEER RUN CREEK OIL FIELD FIRST OIL WELL DRILLED 1865 AUGUST 27 1859 LANDSCAPE CHANGED OVERNIGHT TITUSVILLE PA USA
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Vintage Photograph. World famous Utah Copper Division Mine of Kennecott Copper Corp.
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Anefo photo collection. Fire in bag trade on the candlestick road near Kethel, extinguishing work. March 16, 1965. Kethel
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Poll photo collection. Iceland. Access to an underground bakery. 1934. Iceland
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Miocene Ditch Company's mining operations on Glacier Creek , "Giants" at work - Miocene Ditch Co.'s operations on Glacier Creek, Alaska, August 7th, 1910. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Mining equipment,Alaska,Glacier Creek,1910, United States,Alaska
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"The World in 1955". Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Wachusett Dam, panoramic view, from the west, Clinton, Mass., Oct. 3, 1900 , waterworks, dams, construction sites
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A 20 ton dinkey engine swung across a canyon, at Elephant Butte, Rio Grande River, New Mexico. A series of cableways were erected at Elephant Butte to transport many thousands of tonnes of materials and machinery. Date: 1st Nov1913
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Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Preparations for the passage Bad Salzig - Bingen i.v.m. Bends, rapids and low water level. Close of the shutters after loading of load at the height of bath salzigret. April 1, 1955. Bad Salzig, Germany, West Germany
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General view showing first water released at Winsor Dam Spillway, looking northwesterly, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., June 22, 1946 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, general views, spillways, dams hydraulic structures, people agents, celebrations
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Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme - 41st and 42nd visits : 1924-1925 black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Poerwokerto-Banjoemas. Hydroelectric power station. December 14, 1947. Banuymas, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Purwokerto
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Tignes Dam. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Rio Grande project - region five - view looking upstream at Dam power plant and into Reservoir area
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Gatun spillway dam, Panama
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Creator: Hipkins. Subjects: Prince William Sound; Industries; Commercial Fishing; ARLIS; Alaska.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Dajeuhkolot (Bandoeng sector). Water pump station. Concrete water well with the text Source 6. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Oil rigs in an oilfield, Pioneer Run Creek, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA, 1865
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Two engineers with theodolite
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Manuherikia dredge and claim, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.
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March 1909. José Tolra's widow's textile factory. -Yarn room - in San Esteban de Castellar Barcelona.
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Africa, congo Belgium, a bridge construction site during the construction of the railway congo - ocean, 1923-24.
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Construction of Wachusett Dam, Clinton, Mass., 1903 , waterworks, dams hydraulic structures, construction sites
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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.
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Tring cutting - 17 June 1837. Engineer Robert.. Stephenson. From J.Bourne 'Drawings of the London Railway', London 1839. Navvies excavating cutting: wheelbarrows filled at bottom, line attached to wheel, and then winched to top along narrow plank with labourer behind guiding.
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Marble quarry, Gouverneur, N. Y. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States