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Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...

Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More

Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...

Freeman's Crossing Bridge, Spanning Middle Fork of Yuba River at CA St...

Significance: Freeman's Crossing Bridge, also known as the Middle Yuba Bridge and determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, is an excellent example of a reinforced concrete open-... More

Repairing Bull Run Bridge. Construction Corps U.S.M.R. Rds. (Andrew J....

Five men in foreground and large group of men working on bridge over Bull Run Creek in the background. No. 177.

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-G Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Colonial Parkway, C&O Railroad Underpass, Milepost 12.54 of Colonial P...

Significance: The C&O Railroad Underpass represents a typical 1930s brick-faced arch reinforced concrete bridge constructed on the Colonial Parkway. Charles Peterson based his design of this bridge on the 1860... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Profilʹ stroi︠u︡shchagosi︠a︡ cherez Tobol zhi︠e︡leznodorozhnago mosta....

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Steam Plant, Sixth Street south of East K...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-F Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

Incinerator Number One, 121 'Ahui Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, H...

Significance: Incinerator Number One achieves state and local significance in the areas of maritime and social history, as well as engineering and architecture under criteria A and C. Incinerator Number One is... 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

John Mulvihill Duplex, 1408-1410 Charles Street, Saint Joseph, Buchana...

Significance: This building is a representative example of the duplex residence property type with characteristics of the Queen Anne architectural style in St. Joseph. Survey number: HABS MO-1886 Building/str... More

Navajo Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at U.S. Highway 89 Alternate, P...

Significance: As the only crossing of the Colorado River for some 600 miles, the Navajo Bridge has had a profound impact on the commerce and transportation of a rugged, remote and isolated part of Arizona. Its ... 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

Prescott Bridge, Spanning St. Croix River on U.S. Highway 10, Prescott...

Significance: The Prescott Bridge is a rare regional example of a Waddell-and-Harrington, vertical-lift highway bridge. Built by a group of Prescott residents who operated it as a toll crossing from 1923 to 19... More

Ellis Island, Incinerator, New York Harbor, New York, New York County,...

Significance: Constructed in 1911 by the Morse-Bougler Destructer Company, the incinerator was used to burn all the garbage on Ellis Island. It was second incinerator on the island. Unprocessed Field note mat... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Oxygen Plant, Midway along northern boundary of...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: Building 277 is a significant arc... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 139, Second Street between Ramsey St...

Significance: The Artillery Wheel Stock Dry Kiln was one of a pair of almost identical buildings erected in 1917-1918 for seasoning lumber used in the arsenal's manufacturing program (see HAER No. IL-20X). The... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 20A, Propeller T...

Significance: This concrete acoustical structure was built during World War II to surround an outdoor propeller test area and craneway. The unique concrete tube construction was a response to the need to muffl... More

Fafnir Bearing Plant, Bounded on North side by Myrtle Street, on South...

Significance: Fafnir Bearing Company was one of a half-dozen ball bearing manufacturers that dominated world production of ball bearings in the first half of the twentieth century. Fafnir made several importan... More

Altoona Mirror Building, 1000 Green Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5814 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Memorial Bridge. Construction of Memorial Bridge

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

[Brandy Station, Virginia Wagons and men of the U.S. Military Telegrap...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight ...

Significance: As the oldest of three such freight warehouses built in the railyards near Dubuque's ice harbor, the Illinois Central depot is historically significant for its association with early Dubuque rail ... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Alaska Commercial Co.'s ware house, Dawson City, N.W.T.

Photograph shows warehouse under construction. 68835 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14. Copyright by F.D. Fujiwara.

Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Rocket (Missile) Test Stand, Do...

Significance: The Redstone Interim Test Stand, in use from 1953 to 1961, was developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and associates to test the Redstone rocket propulsion system. Constructed for $25,000 out of mate... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Military railroad bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg R...

No. 11 (handwritten) and 2512 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...

Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More

Davis Dam, Switchyards, Southeast of Davis Dam, Kingman, Mohave County...

Significance: Davis Dam is significant for its role in control of the lower Colorado River, fulfillment of obligations under the Mexican Treaty of 1944, and economic development of the Southwest after World War... More

Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Millto...

Significance: The dam and power plant are significant for their association with W.A. Clark, one of the single-most important individuals in the economic and political history of Montana; for its association wi... More

James W. Seavey Hop Driers, 0.6 mile East from junction of Highway 99 ...

Significance: The James W. Seavey Hop Driers are the only known remaining intact examples of large-scale hop drying complexes in the Willamette Valley. Containing its paired kilns, this complex in Covallis is ... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Electronics Laboratory Building ...

Significance: E Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of the Mound Laboratory, polonium having importance in the 1940s for its use in nuclear weapon manufacture and... More

James H. Lane Ranch, Barn, One Mile South of Richfield on Highway 26, ...

Significance: The Riverwood Ranch's barn is significant under Criterion A, because of its associations with broad patterns of south-central Idaho agricultural history and settlement. It is also significant und... More

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Mess Hall, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, M...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-O Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

John Dickinson Mansion, Feed Barn, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent Cou...

Significance: The Dickinson Feed Barn is a reconstructed agricultural building erected as part of the Delaware Bureau of Museums' Dickinson Plantation Project. The design of the building and its construction ar... More

Culebra Cut, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

J188511 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: 143 Baronne St., New Orleans, La. No. 545. Copyright deposit; Gordon Panoramic Photo Co.; December 29, 1913; DLC/PP-1914:44724.

[Design drawing for stained glass Rose window with Lamb of God, and mo...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hovden Cannery, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, Monterey County, CA

Significance: The Hovden Cannery was one of the oldest and largest canneries of the Pacific Sardine Fishery. Its heyday in the first half of the 20th Century marked one of the most lucrative national fisheries... More

Grand Canal, North side of Salt River, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: This was the first Salt River Valley canal that was built by a canal company; that improved northside distribution system; that was the site of the most significant low-head hydropower plant of th... More

Municipal Auditorium, 1310 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Jackson Coun...

Significance: The Municipal Auditorium is a classic example of 1930s moderne style constructed with funds from the city and the federal government. Although the U.S. contribution was relatively small, it kept t... More

Edgar Laing Stores, Washington & Murray Streets, New York, New York Co...

Significance: This group of five stores, erected by James Bogardus in 1849, was the earliest example of cast iron front architecture remaining in New York City. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded ...

Significance: The Transonic Wind Tunnel Building is an aviation testing facility contained within the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division Historic District. Naval Surface Warfare Center is a... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Roger Williams Way, North Kingstown, ...

Significance: The Quonset Point Naval Air Station is a typical example of the design and construction concepts that influenced major World War II era naval air stations. Until the time of its closing it was th... More

Fort Hamilton, Rose Island, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: Fort Hamilton contains a mixture of military fortification buildings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth century storage facilities and torpedo warhead ar... More

Terminal Tower Building, Cleveland Union Terminal, 50 Public Square, C...

Significance: The Terminal Tower Building is one of seven buildings built in the 1920's, known as the Terminal Group, an urban business complex comparable to and predating Rockefeller Center in New York City. A... More

Old South Meetinghouse, Washington & Milk Streets, Boston, Suffolk Cou...

Significance: Built in 1729-30 as the Second Meeting House of the Third Congregational Church in Boston, gathered in 1669. Pews, pulpit and part of the galleries were removed and destroyed by British troops in... More

Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton C...

Significance: The Cincinnati Union Terminal represents a complete break from the neo-classical style so prevalent among earlier railroad stations in this country. The Terminal is unique and monumental manifesta... More

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Variable Angle Launcher, CA State Hig...

Significance: Morris Dam Test Facility (MDTF) was built at the Morris Dam Reservoir for the purpose of obtaining basic hydrodynamic data for use in design and development of Naval Ordinance, particularly air-to... More

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Variable Angle Launcher, CA State Hig...

Photographs of the renovation of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D...

Images show interior and exterior views of the memorial during restoration. Arrangement: Arranged by photographer-assigned negative number. The corresponding digital id numbers used for reproduction requests ra... More

Great Northern Elevator, 250 Ganson Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Significance: The grain elevators of Buffalo comprise the most outstanding collection of extant grain elevators in the United States, and collectively represent the variety of construction materials, building f... More

Abbeville Hydroelectric Power Plant, State Highway 284 & County Road 7...

Significance: J. Roy Pennell acquired property and began construction of the multiple arch reinforced concrete dam in 1933. Pennell abandoned the project in 1935 and it was completed by the City of Abbeville w... More

Stewart Company Grain Elevator, 16 West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, All...

Significance: The 1913 elevator replaced an earlier elevator on the same site and was the first concrete grain elevator in Pittsburgh. A rail siding connected the structure to the Panhandle Division of the Penn... More

Stewart Company Grain Elevator, 16 West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, All...

Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...

Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More

Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...

Donovan's Mill, Silver City, Lyon County, NV

Significance: The Donovan Mill was the first cyanide process mill established on the Comstock, and opened the way for the great technological revolution in metallurgy. Unprocessed Field note material exists fo... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

D'Hanis Brick Works, D'Hanis, Medina County, TX

Survey number: HAER TX-12 Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction

Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Mast House, West side of Warrington Avenue bet...

Significance: The Mast House served as the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's mast construction facility from 1836 to 1904. The building is historically associated with the shipyard's early role in the construction and ... More

U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...

Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More

Eads Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River at Washington Street, Saint Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Highline Canal & Pumping Station, South side of Salt River between Tem...

Significance: The Highline Canal expanded the irrigable acreage of the Salt River Project. The pumping plant was the only surface water canal pump on the project. Survey number: HAER AZ-23 Building/structure ... More

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...

Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...

Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New York/Connecticut...

Survey number: HAER CT-11 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crosscut Steam Plant, North side Salt River near Mill Avenue & Washing...

Significance: The diesel plant housed unique large engines; both the diesel and steam units provided power to the cities of the Salt River Valley during WWII and the very high growth period following. The pump ... More

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Lackawanna Plant, Route 5 on Lake Erie, B...

Survey number: HAER NY-198 Building/structure dates: 1899-1901 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Forge Shop, Railroad Avenue, southwest cor...

Significance: Building 386/388/390 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. The significance of this building is both historical and architectural. Its construction in 1922 represented ... More

Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 25, ...

Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious river improvement projects ever constructed in the United States. The project's origins date... More

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge Brothe...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

[Bridge under construction] - Early photography, Public domain image

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 4. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 42. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 38. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 47. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[West front of the United States Capitol, with the new cast-iron dome ...

Vintage salt print from the personal photographic album of Montgomery Meigs. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Canals; Greenhouses.

[Railroad construction workers] (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 63 (handwritten) and 2563 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Chattanooga water works, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows U.S. Army water works at Cameron Hill, Chattanooga, Tennessee Purchase; Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:117). Vender : Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.

Bridgeport, Tenn. (i.e. Alabama), 1864, showing ruins of Nashville & C...

Hand written on mount: "See also LC-B8184-10349". Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. - present condition of the Washington Monument, on th...

Print shows the incomplete Monument, with sailing boats in foreground; possibly Tiber Creek. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 Dec. 12, p. 233.

[The construction department on the dock]

Carpentry shops at the double-berth dry dock of the Imperial Naval Arsenal. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 20. No. 47. In album: Naval personnel, the Imperial ... More

U.S.S. Maine under construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 18...

Source unknown. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 16, 18...

No. 41 Source unknown. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 189...

No. 59. Source unknown. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 28, 18...

No. 55. Source unknown. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

N. A. - Northborough--Building side walls Sec. 10 - Sta. 422

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Northborough, Massachusetts. No. 724. and photographer name from Massachusetts Archives. Glass negative for this photograph is at the Commo... More

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