19th Century Industrial Scenes

Stereographs depicting historical industrial activities, including waterworks, train accidents, and gold mining in the 1800s, showcasing early American engineering.

People looking through wreckage at a train accident , Railroad accidents, Railroads

Boston water works, Sudbury River Conduit, 1876, Division III, Section 12, Fuller's Brook waste weir. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Arches, Weirs

People looking through wreckage at a train accident , Railroad accidents, Railroads

Hayden's cotton factory. Views of Hampshire: Flood! Williamsburg, Mass. 15. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1874-05. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sawmill River (Mass.), Floods , Massachusetts, Mill River Disaster, 1874

Copper plate sluice at Bonanza bar. Snake River gold fields. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho, Gold mining, Hydraulic mining

Atlantic Stamp Mill Gems of Lake Superior scenery 1877 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Superior, Lake, Mills, Iron mining

Sudbury River Conduit, Nov. 6, 1876, ditch in woods for temporary ... between Farm Pond and Lake Schituate showing apparatus for rating current meter. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Ditches

Stereo gelatin photograph of a coke oven near Altoona, Pennsylvania, taken by Underwood & Underwood in 1903.

Nashua Cotton Mills. Views of Nashua and vicinity. 1875. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Nashua (N.H.), Cotton industry, Industrial facilities

The Cross-Cut in The Big Tree.. Thomas Houseworth & Company

Placer Mining at Volcano, Amador County, The dump and sluice. no.945. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Gold mining, Sluices, Amador County (Calif.)

Sudbury River Conduit, B.W.W., div. 4, sec. 15, Sept. 13, 1876, view near Beacon St. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Construction, Pipes (Conduits), Bricklaying

Draymen in Cotton Yard, C.R.R.. Jerome Nelson Wilson (American, 1827 - 1897, active Savannah, Georgia)

View of gates on Sudbury River pipeline below effluent gate house, Chestnut Hill Reservoir, looking south. Oct. 31, 1877. 1877. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Pipes (Conduits), Water-pipes , Valves

Hallowell granite quarry. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Hallowell (Me.)

Painting the panorama of Rac Avice: Painters watching from the central platform part Presenting scenes conquering Russian cannon batteries by Czo groups the first column of scythemen; Unknown, Hamel and Feigl (Lviv; Sk Ad photographic materials; 1892-Ca 1905); 1893/1894 (1893-00-00-1894-00-00);Hamel and Feigl (Lviv - composition of photographic materials - 1892 -Ca 1905), Kossak, Wojciech (1856-1942), Kossak, Wojciech (1856-1942) - reproduction, Lviv (Ukraine), Universal National Exhibition (Lviv - 1894), Styka, Jan (1858-1925), Styka, Jan (1858-1925)-reproduction, Styka, Jan (1858-1925) and others. Panorama of Racławicka, painting accessories, painting, Polish painting, painters, painting panoramas, artists' studios, painting workshops, scaffolding, purchase (provenance)

Workers at the locks, Keokuk,Iowa. Iowa views. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Iowa, Canals, Construction, Keokuk (Iowa), Locks (Hydraulic engineering)

Boston water works, Sudbury River Conduit, 1876, Dam no III, north end of Dam, showing foundations of gate house, looking north. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Dam construction

Newburgh Shipyard, 1891. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1891 - 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State)

Abandoned or ruined railroad tracks at Hollywood Colliery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal mining

B.W.W. Dam Division. Dam III, south centre wall and 8" permanent sheeting looking north, June 14, 1877. 1877. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Dam construction

View of a slate factory, Middle Granville, N.Y. 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.), Slate quarrying, Middle Granville (N.Y.)

B.W.W. Dam Division, Dam III, center wall and embankment, north side of Stony Brook, Dec. 6, 1877. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Stonework, Bridge construction

Drying codfish in the sun,Gloucester and harbor in the distance, Mass., U.S.A. 1915. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Gloucester (Mass.), Harbors, Fish drying, Fishing industry

Shipyard. James O. Durgan (American, born about 1835)

Oil Region Views - "Struck Ile.". H. Ropes & Company

Coal breaker no. 8. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

Newburgh Shipyard, 1891. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1891 - 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State)

Boston water works, Sudbury River Conduit, 1876, Division III, Section 12, sheeted trench heavy sand cutting. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Trenches

Among the copper mines, shaft house. Gems of Lake Superior scenery. 1870 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Superior, Lake, Copper mining , United States

Wool Freighting Teams, Las Vegas, NM 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico

Sudbury River Conduit, B.W.W., div. 4, sec. 15, Sept. 13, 1876. View showing interior structure of Charles River Bridge over arches "F" & "G". 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Laborers, Bridge construction

Pumping station, Providence water works , Pumping stations, Reservoirs, Waterworks

Mill dam and sash factory, Peshtigo, Wis. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1867. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Lakes & ponds, Mills, Logs, Peshtigo (Wis.)

Cotton picking house, Savannah, Georgia. Men with baskets of cotton, standing outside of cotton warehouse, Savannah Georgia. 1870 - 1879. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Augusta (Ga.), Savannah (Ga.), Cotton industry, Warehouses , Georgia

Bouwwerf Te Fécamp; Construction site FECAMP; Côtes de France Normandy ..

Excavators at work, old Corinth, Greece , Archaeological sites, Archaeology, Digging, Excavation. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Saw mill, Strong, Maine. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maine, Franklin County (Me.)

Barn and stacks of lumber , Agricultural facilities, Building materials

Sudbury River Conduit, B.W.W., div. 4, sec. 15, Oct. 18, 1876. View of south and east sides of east abutment of large arch. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Arches, Ox teams, Bridge construction

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Reservoir, stripping Section C, Ashland; Hopkinton, Mass., 1892 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Farming. Plow gangs in the Dakota Territory, Fargo, D.T. , Plows, Plowing, Farms, Horses

Sudbury River Conduit, B.W.W., view near Center Street, div. 4, sec. 15, Sept. 13, 1876. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Construction, Bricklaying

High banking. Gems in the pineries of Michigan 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Lumber industry, Logs, Levees

Farming. Plow gangs in the Dakota Territory, Fargo, D.T. , Plows, Plowing, Farms, Horses

Men working at the orange grove. 1875. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Palatka (Fla.), Harvesting, Ladders, Orange orchards

Drilling an oil well. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Water works, Newton, Mass. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Pipes (Conduits), Water-pipes , Valves

Water works, Newton, Mass. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Pipes (Conduits), Bricklaying

Quarrying granite for Mormon Temple. Rocky Mountain series. Views in the Rocky Mountains. 119. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Expeditions & surveys , United States, Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)

Excavators at work, old Corinth, Greece , Archaeological sites, Archaeology, Digging, Excavation. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Carpenters at work outside ..

Port Blakely Mills - largest in the world, near Seattle, Puget Sound , Lumber industry, Lumber, Mills

Niagara Suspension Bridge.. Langenheim, Loud & Company Langenheim Bros. & G.W. Loud

Minnesota ice harvest. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Winter , Minnesota, Ice industry , Minnesota

H. & E.R.R. Depot, and burning coal wharf , Disasters, Fires, Laborers, Railroad tracks, Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872

Boston water works, Sudbury River Conduit, Nov. 6th, 1876, Division 1, Section 1, view of Farm Pond gate house foundations, looking towards northeast corner of coffer dam. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Foundations, Cofferdams

Refining Oil. The Bleaching Tanks. Oil City, Pa.. Frank Robbins (American, born 1846)

Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley, Pa., disaster. May 31, 1889. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.)

Danville: a view of a man walking along a creek: "bound for the coal underneath the ground" 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois, Coal miners, Danville (Ill.)

Cotton yard at C.R.R. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Savannah (Ga.), Railroads, Cotton industry , Georgia

View of a shipyard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

Sudbury River Conduit, Nov. 6, 1876, ditch in woods for temporary ... between Farm Pond and Lake Schituate showing apparatus for rating current meter. 1876. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Sudbury River (Mass.), Hydraulic facilities , Massachusetts, Ditches

Cotton Depot showing cotton bales in a yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Cotton industry

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. The Atlas Stereographs. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alaska, Gold mining

No. 260. Excavating for "Y" at Devereux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad.. A.J. Russell, photographer (American, 1830 - 1902) April 1863 A group of men digging alongside a railroad line. (Verso, mount) upper right, in pencil: "C.W.-4";

Workers posing in front of a factory, Girard, Pennsylvania. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Girard (Pa.)

Interior of Blakely Machine Shop. Unknown maker, American

Large scale excavation of thesite of Pompeii showing menand even boys at work.Date: circa 1890

Miners coming out of shaft on "cage", Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Scranton (Pa.)

Men with teams of horse plows seeding a field. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Ramapao Wheel & Foundry Co., Hilburne, N.Y. on Erie R.R. Rockland Co. American views. 1855 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.), Wheelwrights, Foundries, Hillburn (N.Y.)

Hollow sycamore, Oil Creek. Group portrait of men and boys in the hollow bole of a tree. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Jacob's ladder, Mt Washington r r , Mountain railroads, Railroad construction & maintenance, Trestles

Louisiana - Head of Passes. Head of Passes Light Station, Louisiana. The two buoy platforms at the depot, and railway from the wharf, all the buoys per "Emery" except two are on the platform. On either side at the railway in the foreground are piles of the new chains, at the extremity of the road is a pile of sinkers, to be removed farther when this railway is extended.

Coal packet at dock. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Newburyport (Mass.)

Under Ground Sluice, Near Shaw's Flat, Tuolumne Co., Cal. Watkins' New Series, no. 3543. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Tuolumne County (Calif.), Hydraulic mining

Group of Men on Loading Dock with Ships in Background. Unknown maker, American

Ordnance and Shot, Brooklyn Navy Yard; Webster & Albee; about 1880; Albumen silver print

Frankenstein Trestle, P. & O.R.R., White Mts. Notch. 1876 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire, Crawford Notch (N.H.), White Mountains (N.H. and Me.), Railroads, Trestles, Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Company

Coal mine no. 8. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

Sudbury Department, Sudbury Reservoir, stripping, Section A, Southborough, Mass., 1894 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Men working on hay chafing machine. Unknown

Blacksmith shop at Page & Benson's. Gems in the pineries of Michigan 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Forge shops, Lumber camps, Blacksmithing, Lapeer County (Mich.)

Irrigating an orange grove, Riverside, California. 1870 - 1925. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California

Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1879. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Agriculture, African American agricultural laborers, Cotton gins

Stone Quarries near Newport, Monmouthshire.. London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890)

Civil War train thruway excavation, Railroad

Driling deep holes for blasting in Portland cement rock; Underwood & Underwood (American, 1881 - 1940s); about 1902; Gelatin silver print;

Loading cotton, New Orleans, U.S.A. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana, New Orleans (La.)

Farming. Plow gangs in the Dakota Territory, Fargo, D.T. , Plows, Plowing, Farms, Horses

Mill no. 4 and bridge. Willimantic Linen Co. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Linen industry , Connecticut , Willimantic (Conn.), Photography, Industrial, Willimantic (Conn.), Willimantic Linen Company, Bridges, Rivers

Quicksilver Mines, New Almaden, Cal.. Unknown maker, American

Outdoor Scene: Lumber Mill. Unknown maker, American

Untitled (Construction of the First Drydock, U.S Navy Yard, Dry Dock #1 Brooklyn, NY) Made 1845 United States. Daguerreotype . Unknown Maker

Connecticut River Dam. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Holyoke (Mass.)

Farrel Farm. Oil regions of Pennsylvania. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Spreading manure and plowing with tractor, Nebraska. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Nebraska

Hydraulic mining, Idaho. Stereoscopic views of Colorado scenery, 237. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho, Gold mining, Hydraulic mining

Sheldon Junction: view showing men doing hydraulic excavation. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont, Sheldon (Vt.)

Filling trucks at the passes, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

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