Mining and Quarry Activities

Vintage photographs depicting laborers in mining and quarry operations, highlighting both gold mining techniques and construction of railways in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Repairs on Lydda-Jerusalem railroad, Sept. 5, 1938, Israel, Lod

Construction Of The Road Rogorina - Fieri - Valona. Albania. 1940

Close-Up of Excavation. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Recovery pipeline and Acquaduct of a hydroelectric power station. Overview. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

One of The World's Biggest Woodpiles! If you were a youngster again and had to chop the kindling before you went out 'for that fun' how would you like to meet up with this woodpile. It's at Damascus, Virginia, and one of the largest in the world since it is added to as fast as the dried wood is used. The machine in the foreground is a pulpwood stacker at work doings it's part in converting the woodpile into paper.

Men building railroad track

Original caption: "Soboba - Loose rock dam. Process of construction". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Miners 'rocking' on theTundra, AlaskaDate: 1900

Other Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Dust building. Kaderjokk

Quarry at Hodov with tram system, recorded on 11.1.1917.

Close up of Distortion in Bow, Casued by Impact in Spreading Position. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Sluicing on Number Two Claim, at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

Construction of the road scutari - puca - kukes. albania. 1940

Sudan. Khartoum. Shambat village. The onion market. 1936, Sudan, Shambat

Wachusett Dam, drilling for the cut-off, Clinton, Mass., May 3, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Japanese building a bridge of poles across a stream for the passage of troops in Manchuria, Single Image of Stereo Card, Underwood & Underwood, 1906

Photo collection Government information service. Walcheren dyke repair. undated. Walcheren, Zeeland

Original caption: "Mesa Grande. Truck Trail". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Road Construction - Illinois. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Relling Tornehamn - Vassijaure

Discovery of the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun (designated KV62 in Egyptology) in the Valley of the Kings, near Thebes, Egypt. It is renowned for the wealth of valuable antiquities that it contained. Howard Carter discovered it in 1922 underneath the remains of workmen's huts built during the Ramesside Period

The construction of the water reservoir in the city garden around 1900.

Wealthy traders in Szechuan district of Western China in 1930.

Road construction at Draga.

Germany. Earthwork (possibly for the construction of a monument at Thale). Loading the excavation on tilting lores. Group recording of the workers

Air Compressor Hammer Breaking Rock Ledge. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Digging and improving channels, laying bridges, gates. undated. Lith

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Digging and improving channels, bridging bridges, excavations, workers, maas works. undated. Megen

Original caption: "Santa Rosa Dam". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Technical Course.Shemisung of Installations M.G.Hangar. .

Anefo photo collection. First water pipe tube at Jutphaas, Leiden, Castricum. December 20, 1954. Castricum, Jutphaas, Leiden, South Holland

Track workers somewhere on the line between Guldsmedshyttan and Gullblanka.

Baiting trawls on deck of Gloucester haddock schooner Mystic, Captain McKennon. By T.W. Smillie

Levin Water Supply Project gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives

Elsevier photo collection. action thresher. 1933

Rally teams from the double -track building on line Järna - Ström

Panama Canal construction showing workers drilling holes for dynamite in bedrock, as they cut through the mountains of the Isthmus. Steam shovels in the background move the rubble to railroads car. 1913.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE ISABEL II CHANNEL - 1855 - SIFON DE BODONAL. Author: CHARLES CLIFFORD (1819-1863). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Water line system: Vanini-Pio-Istituto-Prassolan. (Reservoir of the 4th pumping station.).

Shared Ital.MinEngineering A.D. Piave 17.6.18. .

Weston Aqueduct, Section 1, waste pipes at Outlet Chamber, Weston Aqueduct Outlet Chamber, Southborough, Mass., Oct. 10, 1902 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Labourers and geologists working at a site in Swanage, Dorset, where geological discoveries were made Date: 1857

Telephone networks and natural motifs from Norrland omm. 1900. Line work.

Excavation work. Grävningsarbete.

***** nears its completion the preparations for the transport of sufficient Helium are carried through after the American government gave the consent for the delivery of this rare gas. Bottles which contained up till now hydrogen-gas have been sent to USA to be filled with Helium. Here we see the loading of the gas-tanks on the air-port Rhein-Main in Frankfurt for USA. May 9, 1938.

California History - Hydraulic mining near French Corral, Nevada County circa 1866.

Men Working with Surveying Equipment 1936-1946.

Logging Camps and Crews - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Iron ore fields. Old cabin wise Masugnsbyn, Kiruna (Kirunavaara).

Construction of Berettastraße. Details of the route. .

French Corral, California 1866Nevada County placer mine workers wielding hydraulic water hoses to extricate gold from a mountainside.

04/30/1909. Photo by R. Cifuentes. El Escorial, the Bringing of Waters. The Authorities and Guests At the inauguration of the Works in the port of Malagon.

Relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, foundations of pedestals of viaduct, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 6, 1902 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, viaducts, construction sites

Trinidad -- loading pitch

Elsevier photo collection. Flood disaster 1953. Series: Water shorts 1953 Gouda Gouderak. cattle gained completely sagged embankment. February 1, 1953. Gouderak

Taking gold from Chatanika, sluice-box. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Gold miners,Alaska,Chatanika,1890-1940, Gold mining equipment,Alaska,Chatanika,1890-1940, United States,Alaska

Suez Canal, Egypt, 1860 (ca.). Photograph of the construction of the canal, by Nemesio Artola. The working conditions were recorded in Artola's memoirs.

An ore pallet at Kiruna Mining Field.

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

Work team at Kolmila. Arbetslag vid kolmila.

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. Loading potash into barge from the Usdum pier. Jebel Usdum seen in background. 1934, Israel

Export goods at the Torne River beach.

The construction site for the Nile delta dam, near Cairo, Egypt, photo by Daumas, from L'Illustration, No 3520, August 13, 1910.

Porus power plants. Bridge at Porjus, 1911.

High battery delivery in the primary alps.

9cm m.14 miner.

Building dikes to protect the city from the flood, East St. Louis, June, 1903 , Embankments

Force of gold miners working on W.M. Cowley´s claim 22 above Bonanza, Klondike, Alaska, 1897.

Other Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Elsevier photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Miners home walk past debris; result fierce battles region. November 21, 1945. Limburg

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: Chinese laborers then hammer the stones solidly into place.

A Zero job! Shoveling out refuse from the hot pools of oil that comes up from a spouting well. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Petroleum industry,Romania,1920-1930, Women,Employment,Romania,1920-1930.

Engraving depicting the digging of caliche at Nitrate grounds in the province of Tarapaca, Chile.

Avesta Lillfors power plants. View in the north of the workplace down the cross-link. The turbine house should be dug to the right of the pond. The gutter leads water to lash coarse ejectors.

Stone drilling machine.

Björklunds lag någonstans på linjen Mella Rämshyttan - Idkerberget. Björklund första Mannen från Vänster i Främre Raden.

Photos from the facility of a telegraflinje in Russia in 1900.

British wiring parties in rain

Dijkherstel, December 1954, 1954 photograph A dike is restored with the help of braided mats and boulders. In the background a farm and a church tower. Netherlands photographic support Zeeland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Tureship. undated. Deurne (Noord-Brabant)

03/02/1909. Coal mines of the Berga district.

Pile of pulpwood for papermill at International Falls, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , International Falls, Minnesota , Koochiching County

This photograph from the early 1900s shows Whaling in Baffin Bay. The whalers are taking the whalebone worth $8000 (at the time) out of mouth of Greenland whale.

06/01/1937. The Republican government is in charge of fixing the roads.

China: Coal miners outside a coal mine in the mountains west of Dazhu, Sichuan Province, 1909

Anefo photo collection. Disaster at Liège, excavation work to remove the embers. February 4, 1961. Liège

Goatskin tannery at Hebron. 1898, West Bank, Hebron

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