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Stream pollution. City dump. Dubuque, Iowa

Stream pollution. City dump. Dubuque, Iowa

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

It's time for the people who talk about pollution to join people who are doing something about it

It's time for the people who talk about pollution to join people who a...

Poster shows a drawing of people at a cocktail party. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. A6. 196/7- Gift; American Art Museum.

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

A black and white photo of a factory with smoke coming out of it, possibly related to: Stream pollution, Dubuque, Iowa

A black and white photo of a factory with smoke coming out of it, poss...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Pollution haze hanging over the valley

Pollution haze hanging over the valley

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington ...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: When oil baron Frank Phillips built this home, his was a lonely mansion on an oil-soaked prairie. Phillips had the streets around his house paved and streetli... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Progress?, Washington DC - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Progress?, Washington DC - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Poster showing heavily congested traffic scene, U.S. Capitol in background, pollution coming from jet and plant. "To find out what you can do to help stop this mess, write or call Environment! 119 Fifth Avenue ... More

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Ecology flag - Public domain portrait drawing

Ecology flag - Public domain portrait drawing

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he keeps samples of trees with symptoms induced by air pollution, and squirrel meat marinating, next to jars of mint and sassafras root

Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he...

Event: Visit with Joe Ailff. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lockport, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lo...

Significance: To deal with Chicago's water supply and pollution issues, the engineers of the Sanitary District devised an innovative approach that involved diluting the city's sewage with water drawn from Lake ... More

Royal address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark

Royal address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-Kin...

Satire on pollution of the Thames and its effect on the waters by the Southwark Water Co. London Bridge in backgrd. Hand-colored etching by George Cruikshank. Reference copy may be in LOT 4625 B. This record co... More

Stream pollution. City dump. Dubuque, Iowa

Stream pollution. City dump. Dubuque, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Stop heir pollution! - A picture of a group of people with a stop her pollution sign
The Whole earth is watching - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

The Whole earth is watching - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

"Earth Day, 16 Fulton St., N.Y.C. 10038." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Exhibited: "Victor Papanek : The Politics of Design" at the Vitra Design Museum, Wien am Rheim, Germany, Sept. 2018 - March 2019.

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak , Fort Hunt Park, Near loop road in Area B, Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, VA

Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak , Fort Hunt Park, Near loop road in...

See also HABS VA-1370-A for related documentation. Significance: The Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) is significant because of its association with the visitation of England's King George... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Join the pollution fighters - Drawing. Public domain image.

Join the pollution fighters - Drawing. Public domain image.

"4/71" on poster. Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of air pollution, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, PA

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, P...

Significance: The beehive coke ovens originally constructed at the site were among some 40,000 built in lower Westmoreland and Fayette counties between 1870 and 1920, in an area known as the Connellsville Coke ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, PA

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, P...

Significance: The beehive coke ovens originally constructed at the site were among some 40,000 built in lower Westmoreland and Fayette counties between 1870 and 1920, in an area known as the Connellsville Coke ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lockport, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lo...

Significance: To deal with Chicago's water supply and pollution issues, the engineers of the Sanitary District devised an innovative approach that involved diluting the city's sewage with water drawn from Lake ... More

Stream pollution, Dubuque, Iowa

Stream pollution, Dubuque, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buckeye sapling, noted for its resemblance to ginseng

Buckeye sapling, noted for its resemblance to ginseng

A signature of the mixed mesophytic system, buckeye is noted for its sensitivity to air pollution.

The Whole earth is watching - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

The Whole earth is watching - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

"Earth Day, 16 Fulton St., N.Y.C. 10038." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Exhibited: "Victor Papanek : The Politics of Design" at the Vitra Design Museum, Wien am Rheim, Germany, Sept. 2018 - March 2019.

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue...

Significance: The garage structure, building 22, was significant only as a component of the Bryant Electric Company Plant. It housed company vehicles and executive's personal automobiles. Building 32, the pow... More

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue...

Significance: The garage structure, building 22, was significant only as a component of the Bryant Electric Company Plant. It housed company vehicles and executive's personal automobiles. Building 32, the pow... More

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

Bryant Electric Company, Building Nos. 22, 25 & 32, 623 Hancock Avenue...

Significance: The garage structure, building 22, was significant only as a component of the Bryant Electric Company Plant. It housed company vehicles and executive's personal automobiles. Building 32, the pow... More

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is It... More

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington ...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: When oil baron Frank Phillips built this home, his was a lonely mansion on an oil-soaked prairie. Phillips had the streets around his house paved and streetli... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lockport, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lo...

Significance: To deal with Chicago's water supply and pollution issues, the engineers of the Sanitary District devised an innovative approach that involved diluting the city's sewage with water drawn from Lake ... More

Pollution - A picture of a bottle of alcohol and cigarettes on a table

Pollution - A picture of a bottle of alcohol and cigarettes on a table

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Larrimer interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-01

George Larrimer interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-...

George Larrimer worked the port of Houston for almost 40 years. He started his career in the U.S. Coast Guard. In the mid-1970s he joined the Marine Fire Dept (MFD). He describes the evolution of fire fighting ... More

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, PA

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, P...

Significance: The beehive coke ovens originally constructed at the site were among some 40,000 built in lower Westmoreland and Fayette counties between 1870 and 1920, in an area known as the Connellsville Coke ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Fuertes Observatory, 209 Cradit Farm Drive, Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY

Fuertes Observatory, 209 Cradit Farm Drive, Ithaca, Tompkins County, N...

2011 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: Fuertes Astronomical Observatory, Located at Cornell University on a hill overlooking the North Shore of Beebe Lake, has provided many generations of student... More

Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he keeps samples of trees with disease symptoms induced by air pollution

Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he...

Event: Visit with Joe Ailff. Joe Aliff writes, "Many school children and adults come to this modest museum to see the collection of fossils, photos and examples of the current conditions of plant life -- especi... More

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, CA

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Loomis Museum, Mineral, Tehama County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2114-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Initial Construction

Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak , Fort Hunt Park, Near loop road in Area B, Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, VA

Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak , Fort Hunt Park, Near loop road in...

See also HABS VA-1370-A for related documentation. Significance: The Fort Hunt Park Royal Visit Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) is significant because of its association with the visitation of England's King George... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Environment! - Public domain scan / drawing

Environment! - Public domain scan / drawing

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

People start pollution, people can stop it

People start pollution, people can stop it

Public domain photograph of air pollution, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on Stevens Canyon Highway, Ashford, Pierce County, WA

Muddy Fork Cowlitz River Bridge, Spanning Muddy Fork Cowlitz River on ...

Significance: The "rustic style" of architecture survived into the 1950s when the Muddy Fork Cowlitz River and Nickel Creek bridges on the Stevens Canyon Highway were constructed as stone-faced reinforced concr... More

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington ...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: When oil baron Frank Phillips built this home, his was a lonely mansion on an oil-soaked prairie. Phillips had the streets around his house paved and streetli... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

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