Historical Construction Projects

Sepia-toned photos of construction sites for dams and powerhouses in the early 20th century, capturing the essence of major infrastructural developments.

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Chaplin Hill Mine Tipple - This mine was bankrupt and closed during the summer of 1936. The company was reorganized and began to operate under new management in November 1936, March 1937, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Looking down the river towards Shasta Dam under construction 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Rutenberg Works, opening of powerhouse, Lord Reading's visit. 1932, Jordan

Major Project. 1938-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Royal Maori and Point D'or, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Wagon lift "Skip" at Dylta limestone quarry.

Major Project. 1940-02-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Afrasing Sint Pietersberg in Maastricht. November 8, 1950. Maastricht

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Chaplin Hill Mine Tipple - This mine was bankrupt and closed during the summer of 1936. The company was reorganized and began to operate under new management in November 1936, March 1937, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

Greymouth Harbour Board Quarry

Opening upstream tunnel portal for diversion tunnel in the Eucumbene Valley at Adaminaby the Eucumbene River can be seen. May 1, 1951.

Another view of Hydro-electric Powerhouse foundations and concrete-mixing plant at Mangaore from hillside above Tokomaru Valley Road black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

California History - Placer Mining - The Tail Sluice in Brown's Flat, Tuolumne County ca. 1866.

B732307 U12N GENERAL SHOTS JIM METCALF (Project Engineer) NOV 7 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/7/1973 AUTOMOBILES; CARGO; DIRT (SOIL); EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; GENERAL SHOTS; METCALF, JIM; MOUNTAIN PASSES; MOUNTAINS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PIPES; STEEL; TEST SITES; TRAILS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Anefo photo collection. Build aqueduct in the ring road in the Nieuwe Weg Amsterdam Rotterdam. February 6, 1959

Rebuilding of the viaduct over Malmö Ystad's railway, on the route between Malmö and Trelleborg. Provisional viaduct's pallets.

Heavy Construction Work -- The caption of this picture which was received through Stockholm Describes it as a scene in Greece where "The German Military Working Organization Todt" is erecting "Walls and Defense Systems Against the Forthcoming Invasion from the Allies." August 4, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Station plant 89 with Fontana Secca (elevator Kote 433).

Excavations, shed with hauling engine, and other preliminary works at the upper end of the pipe-line just below site of the Surge Chamber black-and-white negatives

North Africa Series--Kirk Burns. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Gravel at end of belt conveyor. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Tokomaru dam site, auxiliary dam and flume black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Arapuni Dam construction, 1927 - 1929, Arapuni, by Roland Searle.

Vintage Photograph. Chief Joseph dam being constructed on the Columbia river. Frame 3.

World's Largest China Clay Pit: ***** Village Has No Unemployed - A section of Lee Moor Pit showing the rail tracks running to the top of the "tips" where the Waste is taken.Lee Moor China Clay Pit in South Devon is the largest of land on the world, and work is continued there throughout the ***** boast of having no unemployed among the inhabitants, a boast ***** others towns of his England will find it difficult *****. The clay from the pit is used for divers purposes, ***** being, face powder and cream, pottery, paper making medical ***** and chocolates. The clay is sont to all parts of the *****. November 08, 1941. (Photo by Keystone).

Copper smelting plant and area below that has been strip mined, Katanga province, Congo in August 1960 during the provinces session and other political troubles that accompanied the independence of the former Belgian Congo in 1960.

Wachusett Dam, looking southwesterly, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 6, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Galvanic and Metallic (near Gibston), New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Rhoades - Hall Mine. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Mine buildings,Alaska,Fairbanks,1890-1920, Trestles,Alaska,Fairbanks,1890-1920, United States,Alaska,Fairbanks Area

Cape Adelaer, Greenland. Picture Shows: (1) Hydrogen Generating Building With Pilot Balloon Being Filled At Time Of Picture; (2) An/Gmq-1 Anemometer Installation; (3) Regular Ml-80 Anemometer; (4) Theodolite Observing Station; (5) Direction Of Main Camp.

Factories under construction, 1928 , New Zealand, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Cockatoo Island -- The primary crusher breaks the ore into 10in. pieces. From the primary crasher the ore drops about 100ft. into the secondary crusher (below) where hard rock is crushed finer. From here the ore drops still further down the cliff face to a 17,000-ton storage bin. When a B.H.P. ore boat calls, the ore is fed through the bottom of the storage bin to an endless belt which takes it out to the loading boom. October 14, 1955.

Wire cable station: Gran Poz - Col de Bous. .

World's Largest Lead Mine

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme : 25th, 26th, 28th and 29th visits, by Leslie Adkin.

Rebuilding of the viaduct over Malmö Ystad's railway, on the route between Malmö and Trelleborg. Provisional viaduct's pallets.

General view of Winsor Dam Spillway, looking southeasterly, water elevation 528.41, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., June 5, 1946 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, general views, dams hydraulic structures, spillways

Major Project. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Original caption: "Morongo. Walter Linton. Showing rock foundation upon which a 2-room adobe house is being built. July 1935. Reimb. Loan $99.77.". 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

Factories on the harbour, 1928 , New Zealand, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Forso power plants.

China Clay Is Second Biggest Export -- Treviscoe Pit: to reach the "pockets" of China clay thousands of tons of topsoil, rock, etc.-- overburden -- have to be removed by steam shovels and excavators. October 31, 1949. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Poll photo collection. Israel - Timna. Timna in the negative desert; View of the brain mining grounds with installations. January 1, 1963. Israel, Negev, Timna

Construction of upstream buttressing wall, 18 February 1923, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from motorcycle ship Damco 230: Switzerland. Storage tanks from Gulf and Avia in the oil port under construction from Basel-Rheinfelden. April 1, 1955. Basel, Switzerland

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

Dunstan lead, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

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

Poll photo collection. Israel - Timna. Timna in the negative desert; The field of copper mines with concrete bins for storage of materials in which water is deposited via a water supply system. January 1, 1963. Israel, Negev, Timna

Wachusett Dam, looking westerly, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Photo collection Government information service. Work, locks, channels. undated. IJMUIDEN

Building site black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

The sweat grape. Transport paths and carbon stores 1919 The tip mountains

Shasta Dam under construction. Cable cars carrying materials operate from the high tower. Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Loading pipes black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Construction at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. 1940 - 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta Dam, California , Shasta County

Casting for bridge foundation.

104-70 Hump Creek Bridge: New Crew After Pile Driving Completed. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Italy. Tuscany. Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina under construction. 1910-20

Coal mining town-Price, Utah. 1936. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah , Price, Utah , Carbon County

Vintage Photograph. Workers cutting stone at Limestone Quarry, Malta

Quarry at Flossenburg concentration camp, May 1945

Construction of the Massaua ship, October 8, 1947, Genoa shipyards, Italy, 20th century.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Guinea: Sawing transporting Edelwood trees jungles winning products copal trees. De Lier sawmill terrain collection daggers sea. background load supplied pontoon. June 1955. Guinea

Ore loader at Santa Rita copper mine. New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Santa Rita, New Mexico , Grant County

Project Construction (Well). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Viaduct at Gläborg.

Soviet Kazakhstan -- The Leninogorsk Lead Mines And Ore Concentration Plant - The Leninogorsk complex ore works operates a lead works, concentration plants and mines. This enterprise co-ordinates the entire cycle of lead production processes. March 24, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Timber Management - Partial Cutting - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mine the so -called shock. Falun Gustav Arvid Asplund, master at Gefle Porcelain Factory in the 1910s. Probably he was also employed at the Piginant Gefle Kakel factory. He himself has identified the pictures, the captions are also his own. Gruvan den så kallade Stöten. FalunGustav Arvid Asplund, verkmästare på Gefle Porslinsfabrik på1910-talet. Förmodligen var han även anställd på föregångarenGefle Kakelfabrik.Bilderna har han själv identifierat, bildtexterna är också hans egna.

Original caption: "ECW 500,000 gal. reservoir under construction Oct. 1936.". 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

Mangahao Hydro-Electric scheme : 36th and 37th visits - 1924, 1924, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Sand graves (see page 99 - 106 Central Report 1933). 1933

Tesa Rai Land Reclamation works a bridge blocked by the flooding of a river

Central electric gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives

una fase della costruzione diga di pontesei, 1957

SAAR Story - SAAR Landscape. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Indians fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Celilo Falls, Oregon , Wasco County

Poor Dog Steel Dam Incomplete. 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. DLC Destroyed bridge over the endikat gorge Tusen Lahat and Pagar Alam; Laying an emergency bridge. Work on a bridge part. January 30, 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Water Use: Electricity - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme, by Leslie Adkin.

07/31/1909. The Mines Railway. Recomposition of the track by the Engineers, in the background you can see the destruction carried out on the Rails by the Enemy.

Poll photo collection. Israel - Timna. Timna in the negative desert; View on the grounds of the copper mines with installations and a water reservoir. January 1, 1963. Israel, Negev, Timna

Iron ore fields. Kirunavaara.

View of discharge in outlet channel from north bank, 87.5 cubic feet per second being released, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Jan. 3, 1942 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, artificial water channels

Anchor Cables Installed Before Filling on White Shirt. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Major Project (Dams and Reservoirs). 1938-12-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Panamanal

Torrejón el Rubio (Cáceres), 10/22/1965. Construction work on the transfer canal where the catastrophe occurred.

Shasta Dam under construction. Cable cars carrying materials operate from the high tower. Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Only A Mass Of Steel Remains Of The Mitsubishi Arms Factory Along The Urakami River In Nagasaki, Japan, After Atomic Bomb Blast.. 14 October 1945.

The power station in Gränna. Vättern Kraftstationen i Gränna. Vättern

Gold mill and tailings. Mogollon, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Mogollon, New Mexico , Catron County

Washington, Yakima County, Roza Irrigation Canal. Sides concrete, lined by machine. The project, when complete in 1945, will open 72,000 acres to cultivation in East Yakima and West Benton Counties. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County, Irrigation canals and flumes

Construction of the BarricaStraße. .

Geyer. Zinnstockwerk Geyersberg in the binge

Feb. 29, 2012 - Duke of Edinburgh to visit Canada: The great Gold mine at Yellowknife on the shores of the Great Slave Lake. The Duke will visit this town which was founded in 1935 after the discovery of gold in the area.

Hoover Dam. Caterpillar Diesel D8 tractor, with Le Tourneau bulldozer, one of 60 D8's owned by Guy F Atkinson Company, contractor on the 825,000 cubic yard channel clearance job below Boulder Dam bulldozing volcanic rock and abrasive dust

Closed collieries, colliery ruins, and coal dumps dominated the image of the Ruhr area in 1965 and 1966, Germany, Europe

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