Reservoir Construction and Excavation

Historical images of construction activities related to water reservoirs, cemeteries, and environmental engineering in Massachusetts.

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, westerly from station 2+50 (compare with No. 4333), Clinton, Mass., Jun. 11, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, excavating in Roman Catholic Cemetery, Clinton, Mass., May 11, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, cemeteries

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion, rolling soil in 6-inch layers, main cut-off trench, Sterling, Mass., Dec. 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Dumping Platform No. 11, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Oct. 12, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, excavating in Roman Catholic Cemetery, Clinton, Mass., May 16, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, cemeteries

Wachusett Reservoir, excavating in Roman Catholic Cemetery, Clinton, Mass., May 16, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, cemeteries

Sudbury Reservoir, Section O, removing muck, from the south, Marlborough, Mass., Sep. 25, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, westerly from station 2+50 (compare with No. 4333), Clinton, Mass., Jun. 11, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Weston Aqueduct, Section 2, Angelico Brook culvert, Framingham, Mass., Aug. 19, 1901 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites, culverts

Wachusett Reservoir, stumps and muck excavation, Section 5, Sterling, Mass., Jun. 13, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion; from the west, Clinton; Sterling, Mass., Sep. 7, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, building the south bank, looking east, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 10, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 28, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Newell & Snowling Construction Company's Dumping Platform No. 10, Section 8, Sterling, Mass., Nov. 9, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Sudbury Reservoir, Marlborough Brook Filters, artificial Filter-bed No. 12, Marlborough, Mass., Aug. 28, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, filter beds, watershed sanitary improvement

Wachusett Reservoir, final cleaning of reservoir bottom, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Oct. 6, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, scythes

Wachusett Reservoir, pulling stumps, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 28, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, excavation pit for sanding, Section 2, near Hammer Neck, from the south, Stoneham, Mass., Nov. 22, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, looking northeasterly towards Dumping Platform No. 21, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Apr. 24, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping soil above Worcester Street crossing, West Boylston, Mass., Sep. 18, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, Old Stone Church

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, covering muck on Mud Island, Section 5, from the south, Stoneham, Mass., Oct. 3, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, north bank, looking east, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, surveying

Wachusett Reservoir, removal of soil, Section 4, grubbing and stripping, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Sudbury Reservoir, Marlborough Brook Filters, gravel bank, Filter-bed No. 21, Marlborough, Mass., Aug. 28, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, filter beds, watershed sanitary improvement

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, stripping on west shore, Section 5, from the south, Stoneham, Mass., Oct. 3, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Sudbury Reservoir, fill on west side of Section C, near Bagley Road, from the south, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 24, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Sudbury Reservoir, fill on west side of Section C, near Bagley Road, from the south, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 24, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Dumping platform 'J', Section 6, Clinton, Mass., Jun. 25, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Italian camp, Clinton, Mass., Oct. 10, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping near Dumping Platform No. 5, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Sep. 7, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Dumping Platform No. 10, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Oct. 15, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, removal of soil, Section 5, plowing before stripping, Sterling, Mass., Dec. 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, South Dike, fill near Winston's Shanty, Boylston; Clinton, Mass., Mar. 9, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Italian camp, Clinton, Mass., Oct. 10, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, excavating with scrapers, Quincy, Mass., Jul. 20, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, scrapers and plowing, Quincy, Mass., Aug. 2, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping steep slopes on Section 6, near Dumping Platform No. 10, Boylston, Mass., Dec. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, looking northeasterly towards Dumping Platform No. 21, Section 6, Boylston, Mass., Apr. 24, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, building the north bank, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, borrow pit left of station 189, Clinton, Mass., Feb. 6, 1903 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, planting white pines and sugar maples in very dense brush, Boylston, Mass., Apr. 11, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Wachusett Reservoir, relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, borrow pit left of station 189, Clinton, Mass., Feb. 6, 1903 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, construction sites

Camels drawing water from well for irrigation. 1905. Egypt. Egypt, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection .

Wachusett Reservoir, building Quinapoxet Arches, Oakdale, West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 9, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, arch bridges

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping slopes on Section 7, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 25, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Hyde Park Pumping Station, excavating, Hyde Park, Mass., Nov. 2, 1911 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping steep slopes on Section 6, near Dumping Platform No. 10, Boylston, Mass., Dec. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

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

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Inplating, dredging, channels, algae. undated

Wachusett Reservoir, South Dike, northerly from State Road, Boylston; Clinton, Mass., Jul. 5, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Chinese laborers employing primitive methods during the construction of an airfield at an acvanced base somewhere in China.

Distribution Department, Southern Extra High Service Bellevue Reservoir, excavating for foundation of steel tank, Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., Aug. 19, 1914 , waterworks, water towers, construction sites

Men and machines are at work, crushing, spreading and rolling rock during the construction of a runway at Lourmel Airport, Oran, Algeria. 24 March 1943.

Sudbury Reservoir, removing muck in Section C, near Worcester Turnpike, with carts and cars, from the east, Southborough, Mass., Oct. 8, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Sudbury Reservoir, Section D, south of Willow Bridge Road, from the east, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 24, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, Worcester Street crossing, from Prospect Street, West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 23, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Chinese Women And Girls Hauling Earth To Construct An Airfield In China.

Wachusett Reservoir, hauling carts loaded with stone, by steam engine, Boylston Street, station 54; from the east, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 5, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, uprooting trees, Stoneham, Mass., May 25, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, upper quarry, Boylston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, building the banks, looking north, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 10, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Construction Of An Airfield In China.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, trench work on Beacon Street, near Englewood Avenue, looking east, Boston, Mass., May 29, 1896 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion, filling in the dike, east of station 37, Clinton, Mass., May 15, 1901 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, main dam site, from the northwest, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 16, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams, construction sites

Field and houses, 1880-1925, maker unknown.

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, building the north bank, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, planting white pines and sugar maples on semi-bushy land, Boylston, Mass., Apr. 6, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 3, valves, blow-off, etc., station 141+ (specials), at junction of two 36-inch with 48-inch pipe at the foot of Magazine Street, from the east, Cambridge, Mass., May 10, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, concreting in the southerly corner of the basin, Quincy, Mass., Jun. 14, 1901 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Poll photo collection. Report Noord-Holland. Dorsing machine with a steam engine as a drive in the Anna Paulownapolder. January 1, 1930. Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland

Wachusett Aqueduct, boulders in trench near Bartlett's Pond, Section 9, station 397, from the south, Northborough, Mass., Apr. 12, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Weston Aqueduct, Section 3, borrow pit, south of station 103, Framingham, Mass., Aug. 27, 1901 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, eastern shore, Section 7, looking south, Stoneham, Mass., Jun. 26, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Construction Work at Bangård.

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, (compare with No. 3288), Quincy, Mass., Oct. 2, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Pipe Lines, Section 29, laying 24-inch pipe in South Street, Stoneham, Mass., Aug. 2, 1901 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Distribution Department, Sara Hourly's land for Arlington Pumping Station, stripping soil, Arlington, Mass., Aug. 27, 1906 , waterworks, real estate, pre-construction site

Harvester at work, 1922, Australia, maker unknown.

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping steep slopes on Section 7, Clinton, Mass., May 6, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, building the north bank, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 1, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Weston Aqueduct, Section 15, borrow pit, south of station 687±, Weston, Mass., Sep. 25, 1903 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Miscellaneous Wood Products - Poles. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mowers. Slåtter.

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir Watershed, brook and houses on westerly side of Emerald Court, looking southerly, Stoneham, Mass., Oct. 7, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, brooks, watershed sanitary improvement

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.

Distribution Department, Southern High Service Forbes Hill Reservoir, gravel screener, Quincy, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, Waste Channel and Spillway, from the west, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 1, 1904 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, spillways

Wachusett Reservoir, Road Contract No. 269, northwest of station 125, West Boylston, Mass., Sep. 9, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Wachusett Aqueduct, Italian camp, Section 5, Berlin, Mass., Oct. 20, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Weston Aqueduct, Section 8, screening gravel, Wayland, Mass., Oct. 22, 1901 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

Threshing red clover for seed on older settler's ranch. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Ontario, Oregon , Malheur County, Threshing, Farming

A Blaw Knox Finisher And A Multi Foot Paver Are Used In Construction Of A Runway At An Airbase At Edmonds, England. Shown Operating The Machines Are, Left To Right: T/4 Stanley P. Davis, Salt Lake City, Utah; Pfc. Edmund Murawski, Chicago, Illinois; T/4

The surveyors are the first men out in the field. With transit, stadia board and range pole, they stake out the runway for the heavy equipment. Man at extreme left sights through transit at stadia board at right. Markings for the heavy equipment.

Construction of workshop, unknown place.

Farm House and Tractors. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping on Section 7, loading cars from the hillside, looking southwesterly, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 10, 1901 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

New Madrid spillway where evicted sharecroppers were moved from highway, New Madrid County, Missouri 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Räljäggar team on the main line through Upper Norrland. On the line between Långsele - Anundsjö. SJB 6 "Jemtland".

Mining Site Chincha Islands 1860s-70s José Negretti The carte de visite, a format comprised of an approximately 2 x 4 inch photograph mounted to card stock, was perhaps the most ubiquitous of nineteenth-century photographs. The French studio portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri?first patented the carte in 1854. His innovation of exposing not just one but eight photographic images on the same glass plate negative enabled cartes to be made cheaply and reproduced on a mass scale. During the late 1850s and throughout the latter half of the century, these economical keepsakes depicting portraits of loved ones, celebrities, monarchs, and foreign types circulated en masse and spurred a veritable "cartomania." Collected in albums, traded among friends, and admired in drawing rooms, cartes put photography in the hands of virtually everyone, and thus offered a means of reflecting upon one’s own social standing in an ever-expanding world.. Mining Site Chincha Islands. José Negre

People working. People working

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