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Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Construction work on accomodations for Japanese

Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles County, California. The evac...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Wife of construction worker from Oklahoma living in tent along U.S. Highway No. 71

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Wife of construction worke...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox. Electric power line construction. The electrical industry of America relies largely on the "broadback" or lineman, to bring its power to the places where it is needed. This man is working on the construction of a transmission line to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where American soldiers are training for the battles of democracy

Fort Knox. Electric power line construction. The electrical industry o...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand for the building of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Informat...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Negative had no edge number. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United St... More

Arlington, Virginia. Subdivision under construction

Arlington, Virginia. Subdivision under construction

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. General view of the machine shop where tools used in turret construction are made on machines imported under the lend lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

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.

Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets, S.W. Unloading lumber

Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence A...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida w...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The nation's underwater craft are being launched in record time because of men like these two who work on a construction crew at the Navy's shipyard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The natio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer used in grading during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer used in grading duri...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing workmen engaged in the steel structure of one of the chlorination plants

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Submarine chasers. Nemesis of the U-boat. A Navy skipper and executive officer stand on the bridge of their new command, a nearly completed 110-foot wooden subchaser that will soon leave an Eastern boatyard. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Nemesis of the U-boat. A Navy skipper a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under construction in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under constructi...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under construction in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under constructi...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Not bottles of milk, but bobbins of glass yarn. From the twisting frames where glass fiber is converted into fiberglass yarns of standard construction, the worker takes the all-glass material to the weaving department for fabrication into tapes and cloths

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Not bottles of mi...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical data that will influence the construction of other engines

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in...

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Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory, Ozark farmer whose land has been bought by the Army for construction. With the aid of FSA (Farm Security Administration), he will move to a farm in Bates County one hundred miles north, in the corn belt

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory, Ozark farme...

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

Production. Submarine chasers. Ready to harry the U-boat. The skipper and executive officer assigned to a subchaser nearing completion at an Eastern boatyard discuss the specifications of their new command with the government inspector who approved the job. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Ready to harry the U-boat. The skipper ...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place one of the sides of the stern of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place on...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Worker operating a routing machine which uses metal template as a guide to make wood patterns. In the early stage of development wood supplements metal in the construction of a B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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

Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, Wash. A steel worker working on a section of the Grand Coulee dam east powerhouse

Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, Wash. A steel wo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arlington, Virginia. Subdivision under construction

Arlington, Virginia. Subdivision under construction

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox. Bridge construction trucks. Soldiers of a special engineering unit attached to the armored forces prepare to lay a treadway bridge. Equipped with winches and crane members, the bridge truck they use makes short work of transporting the bridge sections and laying them on pontoons. This particular truck is in use at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where soldiers are being trained in the use of armored equipment

Fort Knox. Bridge construction trucks. Soldiers of a special engineeri...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Pneumatic winch operator at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forthy-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system and in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Pneumatic win...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Carpenters setting a frame at the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A former construction worker now in a trench mortar crew in a chemical warfare unit

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A former construction w...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires caused by faulty electrical wiring and the misuse of electrical equipment cost the United States 26 million dollars last year. A total of 55,000 fires were started by overheated irons, defective lamp cords, overloaded and improperly fused circuits, and other faults in the use or construction of electrical equipment

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires caused by faulty electrical w...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing workmen engaged in the steel structure of one of the chlorination plants

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

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

Washington, D.C. Construction of temporary war emergency buildings on the Mall, near 16th and 17th Streets, N.W. Trees being moved on a truck to make way for buildings

Washington, D.C. Construction of temporary war emergency buildings on ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship construction in the middle stage

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship construction ...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under construction

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under constru...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under construction, half-completed

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under constru...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Port O'Connor, Texas. Stairway in a house of shell construction built about 1850

Port O'Connor, Texas. Stairway in a house of shell construction built ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, water way, maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

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

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Removing pork from a container, after treating it for twenty percent shrinkage. Henderson Fuller, (left), age forty, used to do construction work

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under construction

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Ship under constru...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Denison Dam and reservoir. Progress on construction of draft tube forms, looking south

Denison Dam and reservoir. Progress on construction of draft tube form...

Photograph shows construction at the Denison Dam on the Red River in Grayson County, Texas. 105-8.36.

New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Twenty-third Street. Unloading an airplane propeller

New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shasta Dam, California. Shasta Dam under construction

Shasta Dam, California. Shasta Dam under construction

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New Orleans, Louisiana. Cargo vessels under construction at the Higgins shipyards

New Orleans, Louisiana. Cargo vessels under construction at the Higgin...

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Houses for Britain. Putting finishings touches on roof of model house erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. by Federal Public Housing Authority. This type of pre-fabricated temporary emergency house will be shipped to Great Britain by the United States under lend-lease. War Production Board has allotted materials to the FEA for the production of 30,000 of these houses, the designed of which has been carefully screened to reduce to a minimum use of critical materials, including lumber. Procurement of the buildings will be undertaken by the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency. Bids for the construction of these units were to be in by March 5, 1945

Houses for Britain. Putting finishings touches on roof of model house ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. New buildings VI

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. New buildings VI

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. New buildings IX

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. New buildings IX

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Maintenance building no. 4 looking east, Milltown, New Jersey

New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Maintenance building no. 4 looking east...

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958-62. Construction

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven...

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

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill project. Building no. 1 II

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill project. Building no. 1 II

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Island Gardens, West Hempstead, Long Island. Island garden II

Island Gardens, West Hempstead, Long Island. Island garden II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idlewild National Airport. Arrival building, front through canopy II

Idlewild National Airport. Arrival building, front through canopy II

Annotation: for Progressive architecture. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Island Gardens, West Hempstead, Long Island. Island garden III

Island Gardens, West Hempstead, Long Island. Island garden III

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Idlewild National Airport. Arrival building, front through canopy I

Idlewild National Airport. Arrival building, front through canopy I

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

Long Island Lighting Co. Men on tower

Long Island Lighting Co. Men on tower

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array Warning System, Electric Substation, End of Spencer Paul Road, north of Warren Shingle Road (14th Street), Marysville, Yuba County, CA

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5770 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force constructed the electric substation in 1977-79. Survey number: HAER CA-319-K Building/str... More

Restoration work on Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Restoration work on Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Industrial worker

Carol M. Highsmith - Industrial worker

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Ceiling touch-up during the 1980s restoration, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Ceiling touch-up during the 1980s restoration, Union Station, Washingt...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under reconstruction during the 1990s restoration

Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under reconst...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of which became the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the early 1990s. Title, date, subje... More

Ronald Reagan Building, under construction in the 1990s in Washington, D.C.

Ronald Reagan Building, under construction in the 1990s in Washington,...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant

Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, hav...

Public domain photograph of restaurant tables, dinner, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Raboty po postroĭki︠e︡ shli︠u︡za. Kuzminskago, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Raboty po postroĭki︠e︡ shli︠u︡za. Kuzminskago...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Oka River and Suzdal, Russian Empire, LOT... More

Newly constructed beaverslide at the Ryerson farm

Newly constructed beaverslide at the Ryerson farm

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sidney Lanier Bridge, Spanning Brunswick River, Brunswick, Glynn County, GA

Sidney Lanier Bridge, Spanning Brunswick River, Brunswick, Glynn Count...

Survey number: HAER GA-147 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market Mills, Lee Jewelry, and Battambang Market on Merrimack St., Lowell, Massachusetts

Market Mills, Lee Jewelry, and Battambang Market on Merrimack St., Low...

Index data: The following photos were made at Market Mills, on Merrimack St., at Lee Jewelry on Merrimack St., and in the Battambang Market on Merrimack St. 0, Teenage female clerks, one Caucasian and one Black... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mechanics Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west side between A Street & Third Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mechanics Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west si...

Significance: Building 271 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 271 is highly significant as the earliest of the "curtain-wall" industrial buildings at Mare Island, a distin... More

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Mobile Launcher Platforms, Launcher Road, East of Kennedy Parkway North, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Mobile Launcher P...

Significance: The three Mobile Launcher Platforms (MLPs) are considered eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in the context of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program (1969-2010) under... More

Wolf Point Bridge, Spanning Missouri River at State Highway 13, Wolf Point, Roosevelt County, MT

Wolf Point Bridge, Spanning Missouri River at State Highway 13, Wolf P...

Significance: The Wolf Point Bridge is the finest remaining example of a Pennsylvania through truss bridge in Montana. Completed in 1930, the four-span bridge is the most massive in the state and retains the l... More

Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Township, Marshallton, Chester County, PA

Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...

1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More

Monumental Church, 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Monumental Church, 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, Independent City,...

Significance: Monumental Church (1812-14) was designed by architect Robert Mills to commemorate the deaths of seventy-two persons, including Virginia Governor George William Smith, who perished in an 1811 fire ... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Mill, Park City West, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Mill, Park City West, Park City, Summi...

Significance: At the beginning of the twentieth century the Silver King Coalition Mine in Park City, Utah, was both the largest producer of ore and ore-concentrates in the region and the largest dividend-payer ... More

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, Industry, Los Angeles County, CA

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...

Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519

Memorial Bridge. Construction of Memorial Bridge

Memorial Bridge. Construction of Memorial Bridge

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

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, 508-510 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, 508-510 Walnut Street, Philadelph...

Significance: The building is a fine example of Egyptian Revival architecture of the 19th cetnury. The building was constructed in two parts, and consisted of a ca. 1839 building and a matching 1902 addition...... More

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad, Dearborn Station Trainshed, 47 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad, Dearborn Station Trainshed, 47 Wes...

Significance: The Dearborn Station Trainshed of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad was an unusual and unique example of trainshed design, combining timber and wrought iron in the massive trusses that suppor... More

Jerome Bridge, Spanning Gasconade River at Missouri State Route D, Jerome, Phelps County, MO

Jerome Bridge, Spanning Gasconade River at Missouri State Route D, Jer...

Significance: The Jerome Bridge is a four-span pin-connected, Pratt through truss, and is significant as a relatively uncommon example of a multiple-span, pinned through truss. Built as a toll bridge by the Je... More

Old Gaol, Vestal Street (moved from original site), Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Old Gaol, Vestal Street (moved from original site), Nantucket, Nantuck...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N162 Survey number: HABS MA-120 Building/structure dates: 1711 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1805 Subsequent Work

Cherry Creek Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek, north of Delgany Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Cherry Creek Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek, north of Delgany ...

Significance: The bridge is a single span wrought iron or steel through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining examples of this once-common bridge type in Denver. The bridge features a unique, decorative p... More

Republic Building, 209 South State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Republic Building, 209 South State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Significance: The Republic Building was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird and Roche and built in 1905 by the Wells Bros. Company, General Contractors...Henry Strong, the original owner, and his son... More

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-1128 Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-1128 Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-1128 Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-1128 Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work

Dr. Alexander Glass Strachan House, 302 Cross Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Dr. Alexander Glass Strachan House, 302 Cross Street, Petersburg, Pete...

Significance: The main portion of this house was probably built by Dr. Alexander Glass Strachan, a physician, and graduate of the University of Edinburgh, about the middle of the eighteenth century. Strachan w... More

Meadow River Lumber Company, Highway 60, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV

Meadow River Lumber Company, Highway 60, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, ...

Significance: The Meadow River Lumber Company was, at its peak, the world's largest hardwood saw mill in the world. Its history and operation are indicative of the changes in the lumber industry during the 20t... More

Meadow River Lumber Company, Highway 60, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV

Meadow River Lumber Company, Highway 60, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, ...

Significance: The Meadow River Lumber Company was, at its peak, the world's largest hardwood saw mill in the world. Its history and operation are indicative of the changes in the lumber industry during the 20t... More

Woolworth bldg. iron work, made April 4th, 1912

Woolworth bldg. iron work, made April 4th, 1912

Photograph shows the Woolworth Building, New York City, under construction. J168244 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No. C-8543.

Colonel Paul Wentworth House, Dover Street (moved to MA, Dover), Dover, Strafford County, NH

Colonel Paul Wentworth House, Dover Street (moved to MA, Dover), Dover...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS NH-35 Building/structure dates: 1701 Initial Construction

Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Works, Morgan Billet Mill Engine, 550 feet north of East Carson Street, opposite South Twenty-seventh Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Works, Morgan Billet Mi...

Survey number: HAER PA-48 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

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: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Barn, Montour, Gem County, ID

Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Barn, Montour, Gem County, ID

See HABS No. ID-35 for written data, fieldnotes & list of related structures. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-42 Survey number: HABS ID-35-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 In... More

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...

Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 2, On northern shoreline of Shipyard, between Dry Dock Nos. 1 & 3, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 2, On northern shoreline o...

Significance: This dry dock is associated with the expansion of waterfront facilities at Pearl Harbor in the 1940s, and played an important role in salvage operations after the December 7, 1941 attack. The dock... More

Herman Schmidt House, Route 2 (Overton Road), Boonville, Cooper County, MO

Herman Schmidt House, Route 2 (Overton Road), Boonville, Cooper County...

Survey number: HABS MO-1376 Building/structure dates: ca. 1841 Initial Construction

Proposed ship canal at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to connect Green bay with Lake Michigan and open a new harbor on the west shore of the lake. Reasons why Congress should grant lands to aid in its construction. Washington, D. C. McGill & Witherow,

Proposed ship canal at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to connect Green bay w...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 206, Folder 56.

Fort McCoy, Sparta, Monroe County, WI

Fort McCoy, Sparta, Monroe County, WI

Significance: Fort McCoy is significant as the location of one of the largest concentrations of 800 Series temporary buildings in the United States. Fort McCoy was built as part of a massive mobilization progr... More

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