Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Pier 16 & Bulkhead Building, Howard Street, San Francisco, San Francis...
Significance: Pier 16 and Bulkhead were last remaining structures of a unified complex of Mission Revival style pier front and bulkhead buildings dating to the early 20th century. The structures were among the... More
Pier 16 & Bulkhead Building, Howard Street, San Francisco, San Francis...
Significance: Pier 16 and Bulkhead were last remaining structures of a unified complex of Mission Revival style pier front and bulkhead buildings dating to the early 20th century. The structures were among the... More
Pier 16 & Bulkhead Building, Howard Street, San Francisco, San Francis...
Significance: Pier 16 and Bulkhead were last remaining structures of a unified complex of Mission Revival style pier front and bulkhead buildings dating to the early 20th century. The structures were among the... More
Pier 16 & Bulkhead Building, Howard Street, San Francisco, San Francis...
Significance: Pier 16 and Bulkhead were last remaining structures of a unified complex of Mission Revival style pier front and bulkhead buildings dating to the early 20th century. The structures were among the... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
[A hoist for ship building] - Public domain drawing
Steamship in background. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.631) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Kazalinsk. Pristan aral'skoi flotilii
Photograph shows a steam-powered paddle wheel boat with Russian naval personnel on board. In the background, a boat along the shore and two others under construction. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtn... More
The new political pilgrim's progress - passing the ogre / Gillam.
Print shows members of the 47th Congress carrying on their shoulders large money bags labeled "Surplus $150,000,000" and "Appropriations", and a sign that states "No large appropriations for the Navy whilst Rob... More
Launching of the Detroit - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cramp's Shipyard]
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cramp's Shipyard
Title from jacket. "G 2752" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 33913. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
The sphinx of the period / Keppler.
Print shows Puck standing on wooden scaffolding in front of the bow of a huge new battleship in drydock with a large sphinx on the deck between the big guns. Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1103, (1898 April 27),... More
Gantry crane, Great Lakes Engineering Works
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Laying keel of no. 400, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, O[hio]
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Str. John Craig showing patch in starboard quarter
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Cadillac on the stocks - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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Floating dry dock, Algiers, La.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cramp's [i.e. William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company] s...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Str. William E. Corey, interior of hold
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U. S. S. Illinois in dry dock, Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mas...
Postcard shows frontal view of U. S. S. "Illinois" in dry dock surrounded by Navy Yard buildings, and a large crane on the left. F40276 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 313.
Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer
Photograph shows the Orleans Street yard of the Detroit Shipbuilding Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. (Source: researcher W. Worden, 2017) Title from jacket. Probably for the steamboat City of Cleveland. "R 59" ... More
[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer]
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The City of Cleveland in the slip after the launch
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Str. no. 190, main engine in shop, 3 cyln. compound-inclined type, [pr...
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Macon Ea...
Significance: The Smilax is a Cosmos class inland construction tender. Survey number: HAER NC-52
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, McMyler Crane, 97 East Howard S...
Significance: The McMyler Hammerhead Crane of 1916; 1929 is among the oldest and is the largest of the Quincy-Fore River Shipyard's outfitting cranes. It is significant as an excellent example of an extensivel... More
M/V Colleen, Tall Timbers, St. Mary's County, MD
Significance: Colleen is a representative example of the wooden boat-building tradition in southern Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1237 Survey num... More
Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County, IL
2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Grosse Point lighthouse played a significant role in the development of maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. It was the leading historic navigational ai... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Waterfront Facilities, Various location...
Significance: The waterfront facilities (drydocks, wharfs, piers, and mooring structures) are among the most important facilities at Pearl Harbor, serving the basic needs of the Navy for ship and submarine bert... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Waterfront Facilities, Various location...
Significance: The waterfront facilities (drydocks, wharfs, piers, and mooring structures) are among the most important facilities at Pearl Harbor, serving the basic needs of the Navy for ship and submarine bert... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Wellman-Seaver Crane, 97 Howard...
Significance: Erected in 1901, Structure No. 30S, the Wellman-Seaver Folding Gantry Crane, or Crane S-1, is significant as the oldest and longest-operating crane in the Quincy-Fore River Shipyard. Located on P... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...
Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, power plant, electric generator, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT
Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More
Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop, 2200 Webster Street, Alameda, A...
Significance: The Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop building is both historically and architecturally significant. As the nucleus of a major West Coast shipyard which made important contributions to ship b... More
Anderson-Christofani Shipyard, Innes Avenue & Griffith Street, San Fra...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: This shipyard is most notable for retaining the last steam powered winch on the West Coast. The winch powers the marine railway and allows ships to be "pulled" f... More
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Sail Loft, Near State Highway No. 37, Vall...
Significance: Mare Island was established by Commander (later Admiral) David Glasgow Farragut as the first Naval base in California. Building No. 55 was a prime example of an industrial building constructed by... More
Hoboken Piers Headhouse, River Street at Hudson River, Hoboken, Hudson...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hoboken Piers Headhouse, River Street at Hudson River, Hoboken, Hudson...
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An old time saw-mill. Yukon Territory
Photograph shows four men using pit saws to cut lumber for boat construction, at Bennett Lake, near Dawson City, Yukon Territory. 68859 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. Copyright by F.D. Fujiwara.
[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 41, Baltimore, Independent City, M...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shipyard / Levy & Cohen., Confederate States of America.
Photograph shows a ship building facility in a rural area near Richmond, Virginia. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Levy and Cohen in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the ... More
U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 8, Corner of Billard & Shoemaker A...
Significance: Erected at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard during World War II to accommodate the needs of heavy industry, Building 8 is an example of a multiple-use structure influenced by early 20th-century internati... More
[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Old Boat Repair Yard, Fowl River, Mon Louis, Mobile County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-189 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Willamette Falls Lock Chamber No.1, Willamette River, West Linn, Clack...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East How...
Significance: The XYZ Crane & Towers is significant for its association with nearly 70 years of shipbuilding at the Quincy-Fore River shipyard, functioning as an assembly crane for early submarine construction ... More
Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard, Machine Shop, 1201-1321 Hudson Stree...
Significance: The Machine Shop is the most recognizable structure within the Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard complex as a consequence of its siting on the yard's Hudson Street frontage. The oldest section of ... More
U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 38, Baltimore, Independent City, M...
Significance: One of the first two storage sheds erected at the YARD in 1920 for the storage of small boats, lumber and supplies. Survey number: HABS MD-1040-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pier 19, Hudson River waterfront, Jers...
Significance: The pier and its attendant structures represent the last vestiges of the repair facility for the harbor craft of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, which developed its huge harborside transportat... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Apprentice School, 97 East Howa...
Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1943, the Apprentice School housed the Quincy-Fore River Shipyard training school for nearly 70 years. With the exception of welding, the courses of instructio... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Dravo Cranes, 97 East Howard St...
Significance: The versatile Dravo Cranes are significant as an integral component of several phases of the shipbuilding processes at the Quincy-Fore River Shipyard from the early 1940s to 1984. Survey number: ... More
North Point Lighthouse, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI
2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The North Point Lighthouse represents a time within Milwaukee history when maritime travel was quite vital to the economy. It was in an era when waterways we... More
Percy & Small Shipyard, 263 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County,...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Percy & Small Shipyard, 263 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County,...
Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Percy & Small Shipyard, 263 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County,...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Percy & Small Shipyard, 263 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George W. Bourne House, 104 Summer Street (State Route 35), Kennebunk,...
Significance: The conventional late Federal style brick house was built in 1826 for George W. Bourne, a shipbuilder at a Kennebunk River shipyard. In 1855, Bourne designed and added the elaborate Gothic Reviva... More
Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...
Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More
Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard, Blacksmith Shop-Boiler Shop, 1201-13...
Significance: The Boiler Shop/Blacksmith Shop is sited to the east of the Machine Shop within the Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard complex. This structure was built by the W. & A. Fletcher Company during the i... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 ...
Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1929 and 1939, the Joiner and Sheet Metal Shops is significant as the location of important components of the shipbuilding design and fabrication processes at t... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 ...
Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1929 and 1939, the Joiner and Sheet Metal Shops is significant as the location of important components of the shipbuilding design and fabrication processes at t... More
General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 ...
Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1929 and 1939, the Joiner and Sheet Metal Shops is significant as the location of important components of the shipbuilding design and fabrication processes at t... More
Ship Chandler's Shop, Federal & North Streets, Salem, Essex County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72 Survey number: HABS MA-291 Building/structure dates: 1799 Initial Construction
Ship Chandler's Shop, Federal & North Streets, Salem, Essex County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72 Survey number: HABS MA-291 Building/structure dates: 1799 Initial Construction
Lockport Historic District, Bounded by Eighth, Hamilton & Eleventh Str...
Significance: The Village of Lockport was first established in 1836 by the surveyors of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to serve as field headquarters and as a supply point. As the 19th century progressed, Loc... More