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Underground Construction Activities

Black and white images of workers engaging in various underground construction tasks, including tunneling and cement work, representing historical labor efforts and industrial settings.

High angle view of construction workers working on a subway tunnel
High angle view of construction workers working on a subway tunnel
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Anefo photo collection. Excavations during restoration to the former Burgerweeshuis in Amsterdam. Some excavation specialists in action. August 8, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-HollandInside a Welsh Coal mine showing a miner with shovel digging coal in restricted conditions without a maskThe production of steel products, as here at the Neunkirch ironworks in 1969, already seemed outdated at the time, is now a museum, Germany, EuropeUnder ground worker. January 1, 1951.Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Winegrower takes a monster from a wine barrel. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West GermanyWith the last dog the coal mine Waltrop ended its coal feeding in the coalfield on 29.06.1979 in Dortmund-Waltrop, DEU, Germany, Dortmund, EuropePhotograph of miners in a coal mine, Midlands, EnglandCoal Miner Workers, Pennsylvania. Lewis W. Hine, photographer (American, 1874 - 1940) 1911 A coal miner wearing a safety helmet standing in front of a group of miners. The men are all in front of a wooden building. Metal cart tracks run across the ground. (Verso, print) ink: "1933"; pencil: "NCL 1933"; pencil: "1933";Essen, DEU, 17.11.85 - A worker and climber from the Zollverein coking plant, inspecting a coke oven. The coking plant was discontinued in 1993. Together with Zollverein Colliery, the former coking plant was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001, Essen, GermanyThe Ruhr area, country and people, work, life, leisure in the coalfield in 1976. Miners in a coal mine, Germany, EuropeGreat drilling system on the VRSIC peak. .1975, Paris, Rive droite, men at work.Salt miners 1000 feet underground drill into the side of a mountainRecording is in progress of the "Kronans Rallare" Philoma.Inventory chamber 1 (depicted name).Inventory chamber 1 (depicted name)Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 31, laying 48-inch main under Boston Water Works 48-inch main, Beacon Street near Fairbanks Street, Brookline, Mass., May 17, 1909 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sitesThe Oxygen steelworks Phoenix of Hoesch AG on 25. 7. 1973 produced steel. Today, the former steelworks is an amusement park on the Phoenixsee lake in Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany, EuropeInside the Great Pyramid; the main passage and the sepulchre chamber of Khufus 1907Image of the transport of gres tubes by rail.DN-SN-88-02574. Country: UnknownAnefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. LimburgMinistry of Information First World War Official Collection Women workers in the clinker house in a Cement Works in Scotland, 1918.Tunnellers - Trade&Tradesman. January 1, 1951.The Ruhr area, country and people, work, life, leisure in the coalfield in 1976. Miners in a coal mine, Germany, EuropeThe construction of the subway in Paris 1899-1911. "Le Métro de Paris".The Coal Strike Scene in a coal mine From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913Sierra de Guadarrama, August 1975. Condition of tunnel 2 of Guadarrama after the fire that occurred on the 14th. In the image, the workers work on the rehabilitation.Steel production at the Hoesch AG steelworks in the Westfalenhuette on 4.12.1974 at the blast furnace and Siemens Martin furnace (SM) in Dortmund, Germany, EuropeA workers' meeting in the wash-house of the Monopol colliery on 18 November 1973 in Kamen was replaced by a demonstration against the closure of the collieryAnefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. LimburgAlexei Stakhanov explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)Man working in underground, mumbai, maharashtra, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotoxShift change of the miners of the coal mine Minister Stein on 31.05.1979 in Dortmund, Germany, EuropeGermany, Berlin, 23.10.1992, Friedrichstadtpassagen construction site, start of new construction after demolition of the GDR buildings, cleaning machinesMan with shovel on construction site , Construction. Edmund L. Mitchell CollectionView in the Stadskelder, the storage space for the Wijnhandel Finjé & Co. (Oudegracht Weerdzijde 5) in Utrecht.n.b. The Stadskelder was located in the basement of the Keyserrijk house. The address Oudegracht Weerdzijde 5 was changed in 1917 to Oudegracht 160.Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Filling a wine barrel in the basement. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West GermanyChina. Cultural Revolution. Miners with Mao's Red Book Man performs as a miner in VillajoyosaShift change of the miners of the coal mine Minister Stein on 31.05.1979 in Dortmund, Germany, EuropeThe Ruhr area, country and people, work, life, leisure in the coalfield in 1976. Miners in a coal mine, Germany, EuropeThe work of the steelworkers, like here on 31 August 1971 at the Mannesmann-Huettenwerke in Duisburg, is a hard job, Germany, EuropeLérida, November 1963. There is uranium in the Lleida Pyrenees. Located at more than a thousand meters above sea level and about two hundred meters from the road, near the Plana de Monrós, three galleries twenty meters deep have been opened. In the image, work carried out to extract the rich mineral.A860814 U12N MIDDLE NOTE FAC DELIVERY STALLER (Project Engineer) MAR 14 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/14/1986 DOLLIES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FAC DELIVERY; FAC LOADING; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MIDDLE NOTE; MIDDLE NOTE NUCLEAR TEST; MIDDLE NOTE TEST; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; STALLER, GEORGE; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; U12N; U12N MIDDLE NOTE; UNDERGROUND; WEAPONS RELATED; WORKERS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.A740451 U12G O'CORE EQUIPMENT BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) MAY 10 74EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/10/1974 CABLES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; G-TUNNEL; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MALE; MAN; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TABLES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; O'CORE EQUIPMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.Here in Recklinghausen 10. 8. Herten 12. Gelsenkirchen 24. and Luenen 24. 10. of the year 1987 were unsuccessful. Sometimes the faces of the miners speak for themselves. Ruhr area. The Dwemonstzrationen of the IGBE for the preservation of jobs in the mining industryAmerica Builds An Atomic Shelter - The Erection of a Series of Deep Concrete Vaults at the Mushroom-growing Area of Linlithgo, N.Y.Atomic Warfare Defence Precautions in America -- The Entrance to a vast underground shelter at Linlithgo, New York: The main entrance will be in the shaft at the left, where a 36-ton steel door containing a time lock will be installed. The shelter is being built by the Knaust Brothers at the site of one of the World's largest areas for the cultivation of mushrooms. In the event of the use of atomic weapons the shelter would be used for the protection of valuable records, intricate machinery, historical books and prominent works of art. July 12, 1951.Lansing, Michigan, The Michigan History Museum. A display explores Michigan's mining historyWith the last dog the coal mine Waltrop ended its coal feeding in the coalfield on 29.06.1979 in Dortmund-Waltrop, DEU, Germany, Dortmund, Europe