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Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System, SAR-1 Powerhouse, Redlands, San ...

Survey number: HAER CA-130-J Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work

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

Black Bridge, Spanning Gunnison River, Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO

Significance: It is significant as the longest and tallest Pratt roadway truss remaining in Colorado. It is exceeded in span length by only one other pinned truss in the survey, the Pennsylvania span of the Rif... More

Waddell Dam, On Agua Fria River, 35 miles northwest of Phoenix, Phoeni...

Significance: It is the only storage dam constructed by private interests in central Arizona. It became the largest multiple arch dam in the world upon completion. Survey number: HAER AZ-11 Building/structure... More

Sarum, State Route 234 vicinity, Newport, Charles County, MD

Significance: Excellent example of expanded colonial house. // c. 1680. Colonial. Frame, clapboarding. One-and-one-half stories; rectangular plan; gabled roof with rear shed extension; side porch. Ground fl... More

Construction workers eating lunch, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, Californ...

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

Memorial Bridge. Construction of Memorial Bridge

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

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Huntingdon Furnace, Grist Mill, 2 miles northwest of Colerain Mansion,...

Survey number: HAER PA-243-A Building/structure dates: 1808 Initial Construction

Water tanks. Big Shanty. W & A.R.R

Title inscribed below image. Sketch fragment on verso. Formerly Waud no. B-76. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.840) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Interurban Electric Railway Bridge Yard Shop, Interstate 80 at Alameda...

Significance: The Interurban Electric Railway (IER) Bridge Yard Shop has been determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, significant under criteria A and C, as a rare survivi... More

Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...

Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More

Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...

Moravian Grist Mill Complex, High Street & Hackettstown Road, Hope, Wa...

Significance: Although the interior has been altered, the Moravian Grist Mill is one of the important surviving 18th century examples of Moravian architecture in New Jersey. The plans for the mill were drawn up... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Civilian Quarters, Between East K Street ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-K Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Illinois Central Railroad, Grain Elevator "A", South Water Street, Chi...

Significance: Until the time of its demolition in 1943, this grain elevator was the last surviving 19th century elevator in Chicago. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey numb... 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

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Bran...

Significance: Lock No. 35 is a historically significant remnant of the Pennsylvania state-built canal system. The lock is the sole surviving structure of the Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal, a lateral line construc... More

Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on ...

Title on verso. Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Inscribed on verso: "I have a better sketch taken next day when the 7th had their turn General Mansfield and Capt. Meigs looking [...]. Similar image published in N... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Charity Hospital, Natchez, Adams County, MS

Survey number: HABS MS-148 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction

Kamoi Theater, Ala Malama Avenue & Kamoi Street, Kaunakakai, Maui Coun...

Significance: The Kamoi Theater is one of three buildings on the island of Molokai that were built expressly as movie theaters. Only the Kamoi, in the town of Kaunakakai, remains; the others, in the towns of M... More

Kanal v Solovet︠s︡kom monastyri︠e︡. [Solovet︠s︡kie ostrova]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Exterior Cranes, Waterfront Crane Track...

Significance: Crane use at Pearl Harbor is intrinsically tied to the construction of the dry docks and the daily functions of the dry docks and wharfs. The procurement of cranes throughout the history of Pearl ... More

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

William House Farm, Barn, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, A...

Significance: The barn on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a timber-frame bank barn, representative of a type of structure associated with the mixed farming carried on in eastern Al... More

Bridge No. 2.4, Spanning Boiling Fork Creek at Railroad Milepost JC-2....

Significance: Railroad bridge built at various times. Survey number: HAER TN-43 Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1951 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: c... More

Houses under construction. Greenbelt, Maryland

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

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

Cedar Canyon Bridge, Spanning Cedar Canyon at Highway 60, Show Low, Na...

Significance: The Cedar Canyon Bridge & Corduroy Creek Bridge - two almost identical steel girder-ribbed arches - were the last links completed on U.S. Highway 60 between Globe and Springerville in 1937, and am... More

Pennsylvania Station, New York Terminal Service Plant, 250 West Thirty...

Significance: The New York Terminal Service Plant was constructed as an integral component of the original Pennsylvania Station complex and served as a power generation and control center for the station, its t... More

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

Russian Port of "Dalny" Near Port Arthur

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1961. Forms part of John Barrett Collection.

Bas Obispo Cut, gelatin silver print

J188513 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: 143 Baronne St., New Orleans, La. No. 543. 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 image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tonkīĭ ustoĭ plotiny i chastʹ okonchennago fli︠u︡tbeta. [Beloomut]

A uniformed man standing near a dam abutment, more men posed in background.

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highwa...

Significance: The construction of Prado Dam was a significant event in the history of flood control in southern California and specifically Orange County. The Dam has played a vital role in the economies and d... More

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 H...

Significance: Ford Motor Company built the Long Beach Assembly Plant during 1929-1930 as one of six contemporaneous assembly plants constructed in the United States. The overall purpose of these plants was to ... More

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River...

Significance: The Allegheny Locks were among the few canal-related structures surviving in Pittsburgh. The locks are near the western terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal which has been determined to be of natio... More

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River...

Lockport Historic District, Bounded by Eighth, Hamilton & Eleventh Str...

Significance: The Village of Lockport was first established in 1836 by the surveyors of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to serve as field headquarters and as a supply point. As the 19th century progressed, Loc... More

Kenyon Bridge, Spanning Mill Brook, Town House Road, Cornish City, Sul...

Significance: The Kenyon Bridge is an extraordinarily well-preserved example of a multiple kingpost covered bridge by noted builder James F. Tasker. Survey number: HAER NH-40 Building/structure dates: 1882 In... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 3, Farragut Avenue, Bremerton,...

Significance: Drydock No. 3 is located within the boundaries of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard National Historic Landmark District and is considered by the National Park Service to be a contributing property wi... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 3, Farragut Avenue, Bremerton,...

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 13, Upper Mis...

Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More

Sacramento River Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at California State...

Significance: The Sacramento River Bridge, also known as the Tower Bridge, and as the M Street Bridge, when built, was determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and l... More

Sacramento River Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at California State...

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam 26, Alton, ...

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

Union Avenue Viaduct, Spanning between Southeast Harrison & Southeast ...

Significance: Completed in 1937, the Union Avenue Viaduct is the longest continuous concrete slab/beam/girder-type structure in the state of Oregon. The original structure was built in 1936-37 and refined with ... More

Old Fort Randall Church, Right Bank, Missouri River, Pickstown, Charle...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS SD-4 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1896 Subsequent Work

Lincoln Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columbia,...

Significance: One of Washington's largest and most well known monuments, it serves as an anchor to the western end of the Mall. Statue of Lincoln on interior is one of the most famous works by noted sculpture D... 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

Hughes Aircraft Company, Cargo Building, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los An...

Significance: Known to posterity as the structure where the famed "Spruce Goose" was built, the monumental Building 15 is constructed entirely of wood and consists of two parallel gabled hangar bays, designated... 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

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... 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

San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco...

also CAL, 38-SANFRA-137-A- San Francisco Railway: Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn Significance: The last operating cable railroad in the world. Representative of an important type of urban transportation system in... More

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

Charlestown Navy Yard, Central Power Plant, Attached to northeast end ...

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 108 was originally buil... More

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, Johnson Av...

Significance: The ferry slips, sheds, and concourses comprise the harborside element of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, which is a National Register site. The terminal is the la... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 9, Lynxville, C...

See HAER MN-20, Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project History, Locks and Dams 3-10, for additional information. Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the l... More

George Blanchard House, 18 Bradbury Avenue, Medford, Middlesex County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-74, FN-352 Survey number: HABS MA-2-5 Building/structure dates: 1658 Initial Construction

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

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

Fort Laramie, Old Bedlam, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

Survey number: HABS WY-1 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1876 Subsequent Work

Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...

Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 5A, Win...

Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Assembly Plant, 12214 Lakewood ...

Significance: Building 1 has a long history of construction. Originally built in 1929, it was continuously remodeled, added on to, and modified up until 1996. Building 1 is the largest building on the Downey si... More

Providence & Worcester Railroad, Freight House, Canal Street, Providen...

Significance: The freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America. It was also one of the first structures built in the Romanesque style and one of the only surviving structures o... More

Mobile Launcher One, Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Brevard County,...

Structure associated with Apollo 4, Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Skylab & Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Significance: The mobile launcher is a representative example of the engineering and technology used in the U.S. mann... More

Wayne County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: The Wayne County Courthouse is one of Indiana's most imposing 19th century courthouses, and is a handsome example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It is massively scaled with rock-faced ... More

St. Louis River Front, New National Hotel, 300 Market Street, Saint Lo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS MO-1131 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction

Bonneville Project, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Bonneville, Multno...

Survey number: HAER OR-11-F Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Lenthall Houses, 612-614 Nineteenth Street Northwest-moved to 606-610 ...

Significance: Name derives from first owner, John Lenthall, Benjamin Latrobe's principal assistant in the construction of the U.S. Capitol. Good example of Federal Style, and one of the few such examples survi... 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

Pacific Shortline Bridge, U.S. Route 20,spanning Missouri River, Sioux...

Significance: The Pacific Short Line Combination Bridge was the work of three prominent names in the late 19th century American engineering: J.A.L. Waddell (chief engineer), Charles Sooysmith's Sooysmith & Comp... More

Pacific Shortline Bridge, U.S. Route 20,spanning Missouri River, Sioux...

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

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

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

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse ...

Significance: Launch Complex 17 has played a key role in the American space program by supporting over 260 launches since 1957. Constructed in 1956 and 1957, the complex originally supported the Air Force's Th... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

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

A black and white photo of an old building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Louksor (Thèbes) - construction postérieure - galeries parallèles / Fé...

Courtyard of Amenhotep III showing columns topped with the closed blossoms of papyrus, Luxor (Thebes), Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'... More

[Seven men on a bridge construction]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Column being raised into setting during construction of U.S. Post Off...

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 43. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 77b (handwritten) and 2578 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Libra... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 76 (handwritten) and 2576 (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

Right Sect & 3rd N.Y. Capt. Ashby 20 pdnr.

Title inscribed upper right. Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 30, 1864, p. 485. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.231) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Construction of mattrasses [i.e. mattresses], Tampico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of men with horses building the Middle Loup irrigation ditch.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

William Moore, Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska.

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

Nebraska Farmers - Construction of bridge

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description