Historical Landscape Development

A collection of black-and-white images showcasing historical infrastructure projects, farming, and watershed improvements across various American landscapes from the early 20th century.

Spring plowing in Williamson County, Texas 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Williamson County

Elsevier photo collection. North Bergpolder busy digging Noorder Canal capacity 3000 m3 establish Schie-rot connection soon possible. 1933-1938}. Rotterdam, South Holland

Farming. 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

Wachusett Department, Wachusett Watershed, Gates Brook Improvement, east from Electric Avenue down west branch (compare with No. 7250), West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 26, 1916 , waterworks, brooks, drainage, watershed sanitary improvement

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. Productive dairy farm replaces unsuccessful fruit orchard. Family had been on relief. They were reestablished by a plan of farm operation .... 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Assistance, Farm relief, Farms, United States. Farm Security Administration

Sudbury Reservoir, Section Q, dike and main embankment, from the north, Marlborough, Mass., Sep. 22, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Equipment. 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

Foundation of Community Housing Project Barn / Men Working. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Farming (Workers in Field). 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

Spring plowing in Williamson County, Texas 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Williamson County

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, fill in Coachlace Pond, from the east, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 11, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

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

Wachusett Reservoir, bottom, Clinton, Mass., Sept. 17, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams hydraulic structures, Water levels

Grading on the Mattydale Interchange. Original caption: Grading on the Mattydale Interchange north of Syracuse, New York. Credit: Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Ill. State: New York.

Road Construction. 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

South Koniky.

Sudbury Reservoir, Section Q, dike and main embankment, from the north, Marlborough, Mass., Sep. 22, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Truck farm with frame garden in background. Near San Angelo, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Dairy herd in Maricopa County, Arizona. Dairying is one of the principle industries of this country 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Maricopa County

Sarah Feinberg and spouse, camp, Pottapaug Pond, Dana, Mass., Dec. 20, 1927 : Parcel no. 393-5, Sarah Feinberg , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, camps recreation areas

Seasoning and Shipping Lumber - Arizona. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Progress #4 - Laundry , Foundations, Construction. Photographs of the First Naval District

Lumber mill in the piney woods, showing dry stacking. Texas. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, Lumber industry, Mills

Range Improvement - Seeding - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Sudbury Department, Sudbury Reservoir, Section A, showing McQuarry Road, Southborough, Mass., Aug. 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Rodent Control Workers Cover a Swath Half a Mile Wide. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Agriculture in Skåne.

Jack Whinery plowing with burros. Pie Town, New Mexico. This is typical valley farming land in this section 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pie Town, New Mexico , Catron County

Milwaukee Railroad Dam Washed out near Walker. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Red and white pine plantation, planted in spring of 1937, Mabel L. Wendemuth property, Prescott, Mass., Nov. 17, 1941 : Parcel no. 348-9 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Contract No. 82, Constructing Quabbin Hill Road, Ware, panorama from site of proposed service building on Quabbin Hill, compass bearing south 30 degrees west, Ware, Mass., Jun. 7, 1940

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, filling in Coachlace Pond, northern part, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 7, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking northwest from Sta. 58+00, dam 3, showing east wall of spoil area and dam 3, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Contract No. 82, Constructing Quabbin Hill Road, Ware, looking ahead from Sta. 128+08, Ware, Mass., Apr. 25, 1939

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Building countries, overviews. undated

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Beginning of Construction at Grass Mountain Colony. 1936-06-04T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

202-76 Truck Trail Camp. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 54, Highway in Towns of Dana, Petersham, Worcester County, drag for mixing tar surfaces in use near Sta. 20, Dana and Petersham, Mass., Sep. 24, 1936

Administrative Structures - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Logging: Transportation: Log Drive - Maine. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Progress #6-Administration Building , Construction. Photographs of the First Naval District

Construction on SvStön

Progress #6-Administration Building , Construction. Photographs of the First Naval District

Station 6 and 80. Original caption: West from Sta. 6 + 80 showing road mix being re-worked preparatory to adding Bituminous. State: Puerto Rico.

Harness hopping.

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking northeast from a point 50 feet+/- north of Sta. 97+/- showing dam 5, Access Road and parking area, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking westerly showing excavation of tunnel muck pile and general conditions of area, headhouse at Shaft 4, Southborough, Mass., May 6, 1941

Face on an open tingroeve with workers in Belinyu; Blinjoe. My 25. Flushing earthmoving. Through a cutting water stream (Kot Nai PIC). Part of photo album about the tin reclamation on Bangka.

Farming (Field). 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

Barre Wool Combing Co., pool at lagoon outlet, Barre, Mass., 2:35 PM, Jun. 10, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 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

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking south Sta. 886+00 showing general view and ditch location, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Jan. 5, 1940

Nursery Work: Seed Beds - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Turpentine camp. Godwinsville, Georgia. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia , Godwinsville, Georgia , Dodge County, Turpentine industry

Wasplaats for tinerts in Belinyu; Blinjoe. Field of my 3. Washing out of the ore layer. Part of photo album about the tin reclamation on Bangka.

Thurston Nursery, transplant beds, looking northerly, Enfield, Mass., May 26, 1936 : Parcel no. 289-25 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Farming (Field). 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

Barns of the old Mineral King Ranch seen across alfalfa field. New buildings suited to cooperative farming will soon be erected here. Tulare County, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Mineral King, California , Tulare County, Agriculture, Cooperative, Farms, Farm buildings

Belawan, Ocean harbour Belawan, Making dikes around the residential area to be sprayed, verso - manuscript, Construction of dikes around a piece of land intended for housing. Numbered: 107. Part of the group of loose photographs about the construction of the Belawan harbour on the coast of Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922., photograph, foto, Indische albums, 23, 1-22, bottom right - manuscript, No 107 Making dikes around the residential area to be sprayed, height 160 mm, width 220 mm, photographer, 1922-01-23 - 1922-01-23, first quarter 20th century, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

Oil Tanks a Boortor, 1903 - 1907 photograph View of oil tanks and a derrick in a village. Photo in the photo album about oil extraction on Borneo by the Royal Dutch Petroleum Maatschappij (KNPM) in the years 1903-1907. Kalimantan paper gelatin silver print Borneo

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Meloland, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

S.O. Goenoengsari. S.L. Menampoe taken from Sukorenobaan towards the factory. 30-4-27., 1927 photograph Work on the supply and drainage channels on the factory site, April 1927. 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

S.O. Goenoengsari. S.L. Menampoe taken from Sukorenobaan towards Semboro. 30-4-27., 1927 photograph Work on the supply and drainage channels on the factory site, April 1927. 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

The converter station in Fjärås.

Storängsbanken, on the route between Åby and Gravesfors, during ongoing reinforcement work.

Wachusett Department, Wachusett Watershed, Gates Brook Improvement, preliminary ditch at Bowles Avenue, looking west and east, showing connection with small arm of brook; preliminary ditch at Bowles Avenue crossing,, West Boylston, Mass., Dec. 1915 , waterworks, brooks, drainage, watershed sanitary improvement

Log Transportation: Rafts/ Rafting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Photo collection Government information service. Water shortage in 1953. Aerial recording. Flakkee, partly drying agricultural grounds. February 2, 1953. Goeree-Overflakkee

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

Description: The Palestinian A.M.P.C. Unit in France. A special series of pictures illustrating their work and also the conditions under which they live. "Carrying railway sleepers" Location: Palestine; France Date: 1939-1940

Timber Management - Types, Pacific Interior Types. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Another Completed Drilled Well Installation. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, general view looking south from point 'A',100 feet east of Sta. 52+50, dam 2, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Historical Monuments - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Tingroeve in Pangkalpinang with steam carrier and pumping installation, anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of photo album about the Tinwinning on Bangka. Pangkalpinang photographic support gelatin silver print minerals and metals: tin. mining Pangkalpinang

Contract No. 49, Excavating Diversion Channels, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Dana, Hardwick, Greenwich, looking northwest at area north of Shaft 11A, Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 26, 1936

General view showing grading and cobble gutter on north side of East Access Road entrance, looking easterly, Ware, Mass., Nov. 26, 1945 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, roads, gutters roadside elements

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Improving the Ghent-Terneuzen canal. Schutsluis Sas Van Gent. Sluitpy. June 3, 1882. Terneuzen, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Zeeland

Looking down on Ola self-help co-op mill showing the upper end of Squaw Creek Valley, the creek lined with trees, the new dry shed near the mill, homes of co-op members and cultivated surrounding fields. Gem County, Idaho. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Ola (Idaho), Idaho , Gem County

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea, Indonesia. undated. New Guinea

Major Project (Log Clearing). 1939-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, setting pole, Southborough, Mass., Nov. 13, 1917 , waterworks, power lines, construction sites

Contract No. 108, Utility Wharves, Quabbin Reservoir, Ware, looking westerly at float from near Sta. 7+20, Ware, Mass., Oct. 14, 1940

George Hutton working at the small sawmill which he built on his homestead farm. This sawmill serves not only his own needs, but many neighbors also use it. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pie Town, New Mexico , Catron County

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

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking east along Hilbert Van N. Schenck's property line showing uncompleted fence, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Aug. 12, 1940

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, clearing progress looking westerly from point 50 feet east of Sta. 52+50, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Jul. 5, 1939

Belchertown Nursery, red spruce seedlings, planted fall of 1936, row #4, Belchertown, Mass., Aug. 20, 1937 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Contract No. 120, Drilling a Well for Water Supply for Quabbin Hill Buildings, Ware, looking northeasterly at drill rig on Quabbin Hill, Ware, Mass., Aug. 26, 1940

Sawmill Interiors - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Farming (Field). 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

Administrative Site - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Farming (Cattle). 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

Contract No. 85, Manufacture and Delivery of Precast Concrete Steel Cylinder Pipe, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Natick, Weston, Lock Joint at south entrance looking east, Natick, Mass., Jun. 2, 1939

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

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

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