Railway and Lumber Operations

Historical photographs of rail transport and lumber operations, highlighting activities and infrastructure at various locations.

W.Indies - Navassa Island. Navassa Island Light Station, West Indies. Locomotive boiler, for concrete mixer and hoist, being taken up the incline to the upper level. Boiler is securely lashed to the car. Material will be hoisted up the incline with cable and hoisting engine.
W.Indies - Navassa Island. Navassa Island Light Station, West Indies. Locomotive boiler, for concrete mixer and hoist, being taken up the incline to the upper level. Boiler is securely lashed to the car. Material will be hoisted up the incline with cable and hoisting engine.
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Description: Laying telephone cables on Recalamation. Location: Suva, Fiji Description: Nabukulon Creek Wharf under Construction. Location: Suva, Fiji Description: View from Wharf looking across Walu Bay. Pacific Cable Board's Cable tanks. Location: Suva, Fiji Description: Receiving Shed No. 1. Location: Suva, Fiji fiji, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens
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Tea factory Kertamanah built by Machinefabriek Braat Surabaia 1934, Anonymous, 1934 photograph Album magazine with a photo of the Tea factory Kertamanah south of Bandoeng, under construction in 1934. Part of a photo album with photos of machines and constructions of the N.V. Machinefabriek Braat in Surabaya, Soekaboemi and Tegal from the period 1931-1937. Bandung photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print making the overground structures (~ building activities). factory-building Java. Ribbon
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Description: A group of British harvesters stooking near Okotoks, Alberta. Location: Alberta, Canada Date: 1928 americas
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Road Construction - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Agriculture. C. D. & W. Scheme D.2368 & A Rice. Rice Harvest, Mussel Creek, September 1957. Showing transfer of padi from combine harvester to bin for transport to Silo. Location: Mussel Creek, Belize Date: September 1957 Description: Agriculture. C. D. & W. Scheme D.2368 & A Rice. Rice Harvest, Mussel Creek, September 1957. High yields were obtained. Location: Mussel Creek, Belize Date: September 1957 belize, caribbean, britishhonduras, caribbeanthroughalens
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"Quartermaster mechanical repair shops for motor transportation at Columbus, N.M. Col. R. B. Harper, MTC photographer captured this photo on Jan. 17. The image shows the main compound looking south, where salvage parts are being packed for shipment to El Paso, Texas, for offical use."
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Women rake rubber plantation on Sumatra, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph To their left is a man with a stick in his hand, possibly a supervisor. Possibly it concerns contract workers. Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Sumatra paper. photographic support gelatin silver print plantation. (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber. working class, labourers Sumatra
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Paddyness with Loode Dorsch Machine. White factory building for threshing and processing rice. Part of the photo album offered to F.J. Wirix through the staff of the Djatiroto sugar company in 1917.
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Description: Timber depot in jungle - Borneo. Location: Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Nearest smoke is Frank's camp; Frank's camp, large tent 34 ft. long, "Tired" miner with shovel and pan at company's well, on tundra; Frank's camp; Frank's camp and sluice; Frank's sluice, looking toward sand.. 1900. Photographs. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. Nome (Alaska), Southwest, New, Miners, Mining camps, Sluices
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Description: Surveyors measuring lots to be laid out. Location: Frederick Village, Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1949 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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Front of a cutter grain machine drawn by horses in a field with grain, c. 1905 - c. 1920 photograph Part of photo album with recordings of harvesting farmers in the United States. United States of America paper. photographic support harvest. farmers. field filled with a crop. harvest (+ machines ~ crafts, industries, agriculture) Washington
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Description: In the furniture section of the M.-i-S. stores. 1926. Date: 1926 Description: A store-yard stocked with drilling material in the Naftak area at Masjid-i-Sulaiman. 1926. Date: 1926
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Reproduction of a drawing of a blacksmith in Antwerp by Frans van Kuyck, Anonymous, After Frans van Kuyck, c. 1889 - in or before 1894 photomechanical print Brussels paper collotype farrier, shoeing-smith Antwerp
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Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". Looking down inside the mast. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". View from North mast. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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World exhibition , machine hall, eastern wing No, Attribued to, Michael Frankenstein -, Photographer, Viennese Photographer Association, Publishing House
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Description: Electricity-operated winding-gear at the top of the incline used for transporting material down the mountain to Godar Landor. Location: Godar Landor, Persia Description: Water-pipe loaded on the trolley commencing the descent on the incline.
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Harvest in Kullu. Threshing maize. .
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Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". Building started. Trench for ""Earth"" wires. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". Fixing the roof. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Description: Preparing the Elephant Tusk, to contain the Address of the Kumasi Chamber of Commerce. Location: Ghana Date: 1925 africa
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Sawmill Interiors - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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A ditcher at work in Aviation Experiment Station, Hampton, Virginia during World War One. The photograph, numbered 111-SC-3458, was taken on September 12, 1917. The image shows a ditcher in action. The photograph was received from c.0. photographer and has a description number of AU 343-9.
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Pulp & Paper Mills - Abandoned Pulp/Paper Mill. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Persian drivers beside their motors at the M.-i-S. garage. Description: A geologist in the field. Mr. G. M. Shaw working on a map survey near Tembiun. Asmari Mountain appears in the background.
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Born towers near Cupsuptic Lake, Maine, 1900 - 1920 photograph This photo is part of an album. Maine Paper. baryta paper drilling for oil Maine
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Drying rubber in a shed on Sumatra. 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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Bill Gunn, a Potato Patch, and Southern Ute Raking Hay. 1879 - 1952. Rocky Mountain Region (Denver, CO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Consolidated Ute Agency. 1947-ca. 1970. Decimal Files
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Construction of K Street Skyway. Original caption: Construction of K Street Skyway - Key Bridge and vicinity. Photo by Charles H. Ritter. State: Washington, DC.
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Description: Reafers at work in Cyprus field. Location: Cyprus Date: 1950-1959 Description: Orange picking Location: Cyprus Date: 1950-1959 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Stone manufacturing outdoor. 6. Stone shapes. undated
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Overview of the machining threshing; Complete Threshing outfit. Part of photo album with recordings of harvesting farmers in the United States.
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Description: Persian workmen screwing a length of pipe on to an oil-pipe-line in Fields. Description: A view of pipe-laying in the Oil-Fields where a line crosses a suspension bridge.
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Excavation work at the sugar factory, Otto Hisgen (Possible), 1890 - 1910 photograph Excavation work on the grounds of the Tjomal sugar factory. Part of the photo album about the Tjomal (Comal) sugar factory on Java in the period 1890-1910. Comal photographic support gelatin silver print Java. Count
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Large Sawmills - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Plantation field with pickers in the Dutch East Indies, c. 1920 - c. 1930 photograph Part of photo album of the Kleiterp-Vermeulen family with recordings of the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support gelatin silver print plantation. reaping, picking, mowing ~ harvest. field filled with a crop Dutch East Indies, The
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This photograph shows a power plant located at the Chemical Warfare Service in Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The image is labeled with the symbol "A" for the Chemical Warfare Service. It was taken in 1918 during World War I and is identified with the number 604.95 and photographer code S.C. e2-19-21.
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Factory complex with oil tanks in Pangkalan-Brandan on Sumatra, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Sumatra paper. photographic support gelatin silver print oil; oil refinery. oil tanks Sumatra
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Description: Parade of Fire Guard at Abadan outside the General Office.~ Location: Abadan, Persia Description: Fire Hose Lorry fitted with extension ladder. Abadan Refinery. Location: Abadan, Persia
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Kampongwoningen, links bioscoopgebouw gezien vanaf den kalkoven in Z-W. richting. October 1926..View of the Kampongonhouses and the cinema on the factory site, October 1926. Part of the photo album with photos of the build-up of the sugar factory in Goenoensari on East Java by the trade association Amsterdam 1926-1927.
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The trade of mechanics and machine manufacturers, Photography of the anniversary homage to withdrawal, macart, Josef Löwy -, photographer
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Equipment: Range Improvement - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Support frame for De Crusher, Anonymous, 1936 photograph Album magazine with a photo of a support frame for the crusher for a Canecutter installation, made in 1936 for the Sugar Factory Ketanggoengan-West, southwest of Brebes, July 1936. Part of a photo album with photos of machines and constructions of the N.V. Braataja Soekaboemi and Tegal from the period 1931-1937. Surabaya photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print machines; parts of machines; tools and appliances Java
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Description: Other plantations opened in the company's territory. Dominion Rubber Co., Ltd. Gang of Malay coolies weeding. Age of trees, 1 year. Location: Kelantan, Malaya Date: 1909-1910 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens
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Chemical Wood - Arkansas. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Photo production of a drawing, representing a worker for a combustion oven for phosphorus, anonymous, c. 1890 - in or before 1895 photomechanical print Prague paper working class, labourers. blast-furnace
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Electronics Position Indicator. This image depicts a view taken from a helicopter of Electronics Position Indicator Station on Mercy Bay, Banks Island.
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Description: Manchu Iron Works - Anshan, Manchuria. Photographed by U.S. Signal Corps, 18 June 1946. Winch used for removal of equipment in blooming mill (steel rolling). Location: Anshan, China Date: 18 June 1946 china, asia, asiathroughalens
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Description: Kraal Building. Description: A Group. Description: Making a Light. zulu, kraal, africa
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Overview Kampongwoningen, seen from Den Kalkoven in W. direction. October 1926., 1926 photograph View of the Kampongwoningen on the factory site, October 1926. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927. East Java photographic support gelatin silver print East Java
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Portrait of an unknown Japanese man weaving a mat; Mat-making. .
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Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". Mast sections. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". Sand and stone for concrete. Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Description: On the D.-i-K.-Fields Railway in the valley of the Tembi River. Location: D-i-K, Tembi, Persia Description: The D.-i-K.-Fields Railway-taking supplies into the Oil-Fields. Location: Dar-i-Khazinah, Persia
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Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'Checking a donkey's harness prior to transporting the cut sugar cane on the Orange Grove sugar estate, Trinidad'. Photograph No.: R 4000. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1962 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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Washington Blacksmith Shop , Buildings, Forge shops. Messenger Collection
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A man seals minerals from mud, anonymous, c. 1885 - in or before 1890 photomechanical print California paper collotype miner (+ minerals) California
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United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: Stone Quarry
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In Big Indian Slough, Changing Hold of Block and Tackle. Original caption: In Big Indian Slough. (see preceding photo). Changing hold of block and tackle. April 30, 1911. A. L. Westgard. State: California Place: Big Indian Slough.
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Description: Agriculture. Ploughing, Narromine, N.S.W. Location: New South Wales, Narromine, Australia Date: 1920 australia, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens
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Page from The Growth of industrial art, compiled by Benjamin Butterworth, 1892 | Library of Congress
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MI - Livingstone Channel. Livingstone Channel Lights, Michigan. Constructions views. Steel reinforcement and completed form for caisson base. Lights #1, 2, 3, and 4 (caissons).
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Section T. Hijwerk, Bridge Wittewaterkreek, 1905 - 1910 photograph Heiwerk for the construction of the bridge over the Wittwater Kreek (WittieWatra) photo in the photo album on the construction of the Lawaspoorweg in Suriname in the years 1903-1912. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname. Suriname photographic support railway, tramway; rack railway Suriname