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Former Packard Plant, E. Grand Blvd. at Concord, 2003

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States ...

This $1.4 billion automotive plant is one of the most advanced assembly plants in North America. This plant is spotless. Not one speck of dust anywhere. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Interior view of the Tophane Factory Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Gun Factory, South bay. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 12. No. 90. In album: Imperial Gun and ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Zheli︠e︡znodi︠e︡latelʹnyĭ Asha-Balashovskīĭ z...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, R... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Kyshtym. Zavodskīi︠a︡ poselenīi︠a︡, photograp...

In album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, LOT 10335-A, no. 200. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Bevin Brothers Bell Shops, Bevin Court, East Hampton, Middlesex County...

Significance: The Bevin Brothers Bell Factory is the best preserved of the East Hampton bell works, and the only one still used for its original purpose. Survey number: HAER CT-12 Building/structure dates: 18... More

Boy making Melon Baskets, A Basket Factory, Evansville, Ind. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 208. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

One of several youngsters I found in Tampa Fla. Cigar Box Factory. The...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 585. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Railroad tracks and cars in front of a factor...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Khlopkovyĭ zavod Samedova. Petropavlovskoe. M...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire,... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kaulinskai︠a︡ fabrika na r. Tʹmaki︠e︡, color ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the... More

United States Pipe & Foundry Company Plant, 2023 St. Louis Avenue at I...

Significance: The Bessemer plant of the U.S. Pipe Company was one of the first pipe factories established in Alabama, in a region that became synonymous with foundry production. U.S. Pipe owned and controlled ... More

Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, Mission & Washington Boulevards, Fremon...

See also HALS CA-75 for additional documentation. Significance: Restored remains of Fourteenth Mission founded by Franciscan Fathers in Alta, California. Site consecrated June 11, 1797. Church and most of the... More

Zavodskīĭ prud. Satkinskīĭ kazennyĭ zavod

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York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartle...

Significance: By the 1880s, the York Manufacturing Company was one of the nation's leading producers of refrigeration equipment. In the early 20th century it helped establish experimental and verifiable industr... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Iowa Iron Works Blacksmith Shop, Ni...

Significance: The Iowa Iron Works Blacksmith Shop is significant as one of the earliest structures - and the only remaining component - from what was once the extensive complex of one of Dubuque's most importan... More

Colt Fire Arms Company, East Armory Building, 36-150 Huyshope Avenue, ...

Survey number: HAER CT-189-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76001987, 03000171

Starr Piano Factory & Richmond Gas Company, G Street Bridge & Main Str...

Significance: The area serves as a reminder and benchmark to the early industrial development of the City with the Whitewater River as a source of power. The buildings' architectural elements represent early i... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Heating Plant, 1010 feet North of Sixth Avenue...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-CW Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Heating Plant, 1010 feet North of Sixth Avenue...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-CW Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glass works. Midnight. Location: Indiana.

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Rocky Flats Plant, Bounded by Indiana Street & Routes 93, 128 & 72, Go...

Significance: Established in 1951, it was a top-secret weapons production plant. The plant manufactured triggers for use in nuclear weapons and purified plutonium recovered from retired weapons (called site ret... More

Munk & Roberts Furniture Company, Western Avenue, Connersville, Fayett...

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Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Manufacturing Facility, North-central sec...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Manufacturing Facility, North-central sec...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

1013 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

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

Buckeye Manufacturing Company, Columbia Avenue, Anderson, Madison Coun...

Significance: Of the several automobile manufacturers established in Anderson, Indiana at the turn of the century, the Buckeye Manufacturing Company was the most successful. Initially a manufacturer of buggy a... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Herancourt Furniture Company Factor...

Significance: Reportedly the first furniture manufacturing plant opened in Dubuque, the Herancourt Furniture Company Factory is an important early representative of the burgeoning woodworking industry in the ci... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Herancourt Furniture Company Factor...

Significance: Reportedly the first furniture manufacturing plant opened in Dubuque, the Herancourt Furniture Company Factory is an important early representative of the burgeoning woodworking industry in the ci... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Herancourt Furniture Company Factor...

Significance: Reportedly the first furniture manufacturing plant opened in Dubuque, the Herancourt Furniture Company Factory is an important early representative of the burgeoning woodworking industry in the ci... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Herancourt Furniture Company Factor...

Significance: Reportedly the first furniture manufacturing plant opened in Dubuque, the Herancourt Furniture Company Factory is an important early representative of the burgeoning woodworking industry in the ci... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Herancourt Furniture Company Factor...

Significance: Reportedly the first furniture manufacturing plant opened in Dubuque, the Herancourt Furniture Company Factory is an important early representative of the burgeoning woodworking industry in the ci... More

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamt...

Significance: Artillery Shop S-3-A is significant for its contribution to World War II tank and artillery production. The poured concrete structure is an unusual construction type amid the brick and frame struc... More

William T. Glidden-Austin Block, Intersection of U.S. Route 1 (Main St...

Significance: This is a mid-18th century ships store and tenement, a large building for the period in this area. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-42 Survey number: HABS ME-81 Bu... More

Midnight in a Glass Works in Grafton, West Virginia. Boys at the "Glor...

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Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Maizewood Insulation Company Factor...

Significance: The Maizewood Insulation Company Factory is one of the more recent plants built in Dubuque's industrial district to service the building trades. The buildings reflect the prevailing architecture ... More

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N773 Survey number: HAER MI-325 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001516

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N773 Survey number: HAER MI-325 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001516

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Loca...

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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Wall paper manufactory of Janeway & Carpender, New Brunswick, N.J. / C...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the "Janeway & Carpender Manufacturers of Wall Paper" plant in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with pedestrians and vehicular traffic on the streets, as well as passenger and freight... More

Cigarmakers in factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. Work was sla...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Sarin Manufacturing Building, 3350 feet South ...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Sarin Manufacturing Building, 3350 feet South ...

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Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Co...

Significance: The Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company Annex is historically significant in its association with one of Dubuque's largest manufacturing firms, although its 1917 construction date places it... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Co...

Significance: The Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company Annex is historically significant in its association with one of Dubuque's largest manufacturing firms, although its 1917 construction date places it... More

Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, Building A, 119 South Dexter Street,...

Significance: This factory building served as the principal manufacturing facility of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company from 1913 until 1948. It was the major manufacturing facility for the Ionia Manufactur... More

Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, Building A, 119 South Dexter Street,...

Significance: This factory building served as the principal manufacturing facility of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company from 1913 until 1948. It was the major manufacturing facility for the Ionia Manufactur... More

Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, Building A, 119 South Dexter Street,...

Significance: This factory building served as the principal manufacturing facility of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company from 1913 until 1948. It was the major manufacturing facility for the Ionia Manufactur... More

American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue, North, Birm...

Significance: From its inception in 1905, the company established a tradition for innovative pipemaking practices. During World War I, ACIPCO experimented with the direct delivery of molten pig iron from the b... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Chlorinated Paraffin Manufacturing Building, 4...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BK Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Chlorinated Paraffin Manufacturing Building, 4...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BK Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Chlorinated Paraffin Manufacturing Building, 4...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BK Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Chlorinated Paraffin Manufacturing Building, 4...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BK Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond, Virginia. Woolen factories and pontoon bridge

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three years in the Glass House and no chance for promotion yet. Boy in...

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Greenbank Mill, Greenbank Road, Marshallton, New Castle County, DE

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with a watermill, water, decayed building, 18th, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Historic Speedwell, Factory Building, 333 Speedwell Avenue, Morristown...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Phoenix Mill, North bank of Still River, Phoenixville, Windham County,...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Phoenix Mill, North bank of Still River, Phoenixville, Windham County,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Line Waiting for Pay in an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., ...

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The Line Waiting for Pay in an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., ...

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116 Main Street (Commercial), Bentleyville, Washington County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5384 Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work

Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, 309 River Road, Edgewater...

Significance: This complex is an excellent example of Albert Kahn's achievement in industrial architecture, standing midway between the early multi-story plants built in Detroit for Ford and Dodge, and the late... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, t...

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Kregel Windmill Company Factory, 1416 Central Avenue, Nebraska City, O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kregel Windmill Company Factory, 1416 Central Avenue, Nebraska City, O...

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[Laborers loading sacks onto railway at factory warehouse]

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Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Lewisite-Distilled Mustard Manufacturing Build...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BN Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Lewisite-Distilled Mustard Manufacturing Build...

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Commercial & Industrial Buildings, James Beach & Sons Company Factory ...

Significance: As the third generation plant of what was at one time Dubuque's oldest industrial firm, the Beach factory is historically important to the interpretation of the city's history. Architecturally, t... More

Kynovskoĭ [sic] zavod grafa S.A. Stroganova (prekrashchena rabota)

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Henry Gun Factory, Belfast, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-122 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction

Henry Gun Factory, Belfast, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-122 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction