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Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 Ea...

Significance: The Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation complex is historically significant for its role in Detroit's early labor movement. This industrial complex was once the site of several vehement labor pro... More

Boston music hall! The peoples' promenade concerts. The twentieth concert will be given by the Germania band! as brass band and orchestra. on Saturday evening, August 28th, 1858 ....

Boston music hall! The peoples' promenade concerts. The twentieth conc...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 63, Folder 17.

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Portrait photo of Hinsdale Brass Band, Hinsdale, N.H.

Portrait photo of Hinsdale Brass Band, Hinsdale, N.H.

H75597 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Overhauling brass bars to get smooth surface for rolling

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Overhauling brass bars to get smooth s...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12977. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Rolling sheet brass

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Rolling sheet brass

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12980. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod coming from the extrusion machine. Red hot brass billets (solid cylindrical castings) are pushed by tremendous force through a steel die in the extrusion press to form rods of various shapes, or hollow shells that are subsequently made into tubing. The metal is ejected from the extrusion press like tooth paste from a tube. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of brass and copper metal are loaded into a freight car and shipped to factories where it is fabricated into thousands of metal parts needed for our war program, or to our airplane submarine, or ship-building industries to become parts of their production. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of brass and copper met...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. In the brass and copper casting shop, the operator of an electric furnace is pouring the molten metal into molds to form shells, or rough tubes, which are later formed into finished tubes. Tubes are formed by casting molten metal into these molds in which a refractory core has been inserted. The molds are mounted on a turntable, which brings them into position to receive the pouring. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. In the brass and copper casti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These bundles of finished seamless copper tubes are ready to be shipped. The Army, the Navy, and our vital industries use corrosion-resistant copper tube for pipelines that must not fail from the rust. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These bundles of finished sea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers]

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Virginia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the number of papers they call for. Witness, E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 Ea...

Significance: The Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation complex is historically significant for its role in Detroit's early labor movement. This industrial complex was once the site of several vehement labor pro... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Original brass dies used for 1860 edition of leaves of grass. Leaves

Original brass dies used for 1860 edition of leaves of grass. Leaves

Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Revising Himself : Walt Whitman" at the Library of Congress, 2005.

[Bedroom with brass bed] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Bedroom with brass bed] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of bedroom, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These men are pushing a factory platform truckload of coiled brass and copper strips to the shipping platform of the mill. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These men are pushing a facto...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed to turn brass discs punched from rolled sheets into long tubular cartridge case to carry the powder charges that send explosive shells up to meet enemy aircraft. The first operation is performed by a press which forms the flat disc into cups

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Not King Midas counting out his money, but an inspector in a cartridge case shop examining cartridge case blanks or discs for flaws in metal structure. Any flaws in the blanks can be easily detected in the freshly- cut edges after they are wiped clean. These circular blanks, which are cut on a press from heavy sheet brass, are drawn and formed into shell cases. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Not King Midas counting out h...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue Nor...

Survey number: HAER AL-49-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond, Virginia. Confederate brass mountain howitzers

Richmond, Virginia. Confederate brass mountain howitzers

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Hoyt's comic whirlwind, A brass monkey a satire on superstition.

Hoyt's comic whirlwind, A brass monkey a satire on superstition.

D11167 U.S. Copyright Office "From Hoyt's Theatre, New York." Caption: The Razzle Dazzle Trio. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4454. For... More

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Drawing red hot bars of brass from the annealing furnaces

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Drawing red hot bars of brass from the...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12979. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.

White House Secretary and medicine cabinet taken from White House in 1812. Washington, D.C., April 26. Stephen Early, Secretary to President Roosevelt with a mahogany brass bound medicine chest which was taken from the White House by a British sailor during the War of 1812 and returned yesterday by descendants of the sailor. The chest, in perfect condition, still contained the medicines, with the addition of a quantity of hemlock bark, an herb used by sailors to prevent scurvy

White House Secretary and medicine cabinet taken from White House in 1...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doubling in brass. Washington, D.C., Feb. 27. In addition to her duties as a congressional hostess, Mrs. William T. Byrne, wife of the democratic congressman from New York, is also acting as Washington correspondent for a number of New York state newspapers. [She] writes a daily newsletter for the Albany Times-Union, 2- 27-39

Doubling in brass. Washington, D.C., Feb. 27. In addition to her dutie...

A woman sitting at a desk with a typewriter. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Packing coils of refrigeration tubing in paper containers. Because it is important to keep dirt and moisture from refrigeration tube, it is packaged in individual envelopes. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Packing coils of refrigeratio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast division of city fireman J.L. Clayton's three-man foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. It is turning out precision parts for experimental bombers. In the foreground is the blast furnace, in the background the junk heap of brass and aluminum scrap from which come the metals to charge the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, used to work in an orange grove until Clayton taught him how to handle molten metals

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast divi...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Brass or golden guard, standing, with right hand on hilt of sword, with dragons on right and left, at a Buddhist temple in China]

[Brass or golden guard, standing, with right hand on hilt of sword, wi...

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

One of the few brass/copper cage elevators left in the country, at the Regional Arts Center, home of the Regional Arts and Humanities Council in what was the original Federal District Courthouse in Texarkana, Texas

One of the few brass/copper cage elevators left in the country, at the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cabinet, window or door, furniture, interior architecture detail, doorway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue Nor...

Survey number: HAER AL-49-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows ... the Funny, Wonderful Elephant Brass Band ...

Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows ... the Funny, Wonderful Elephan...

Poster showing five elephants playing tubas. Copyright deposit. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Brass Band Journal - Public domain music sheet scan
Original brass dies used for 1860 edition of leaves of grass. Leaves of grass

Original brass dies used for 1860 edition of leaves of grass. Leaves o...

Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Revising Himself : Walt Whitman" at the Library of Congress, 2005.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate infantry uniform with musket and brass framed revolver]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate infantry uniform with musket and ...

Revolver is possibly a Griswald & Gunnison percussion revolver. Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Domenick A. Serrano, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenqui... More

Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England]

Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England]

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hoyt's comic whirlwind, A brass monkey a satire on superstition.

Hoyt's comic whirlwind, A brass monkey a satire on superstition.

D10559 U.S. Copyright Office "From Hoyt's Theatre, New York." Caption: The dance of the Orient. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4447. Fo... More

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Foundry room, showing rods and bars just cast

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Foundry room, showing rods and bars ju...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12976. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.

Mud chimney on home of Indian (mixed breed--"brass ankles") family near Summerville, South Carolina

Mud chimney on home of Indian (mixed breed--"brass ankles") family nea...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mud chimney on home of Indian (mixed breed--"brass ankles") family near Summerville, South Carolina

Mud chimney on home of Indian (mixed breed--"brass ankles") family nea...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping press that forms them into the brass cups from which cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are drawn. They look harmless enough but each one will be a potential headache for Axis fliers by the time it comes off the production line

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operation on strip. Strip brass and copper, cast as thick heavy cakes, is reduced by successive rolling to lighter gauge sheet, strip, bar, plate, wire or foil. Here's one of the intermediate rolls used in the production of strip. The man is coiling the strip as it comes from the rolls. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operatio...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

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.

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

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American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Brass Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue Nor...

Survey number: HAER AL-49-G Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers]

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photogra... More

Brass band quartets - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

Brass band quartets - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows ... the Funny, Wonderful Elephant Brass Band ...

Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows ... the Funny, Wonderful Elephan...

Poster showing five elephants playing tubas. Copyright deposit. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

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