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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 525 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 525 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 525 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet...

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Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord...

Significance: In service from 1888-1952, is the last structure of its kind in the U.S. still containing its original gasholder. Similar structures were a common feature in the urban areas of New England and upp... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, West Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, West Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D S...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-J Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, West Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, West Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D S...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-J Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo Gas Light Company, 249 West Genesee Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Buffalo Gas Light Company, 249 West Genesee Street, Buffalo, Erie Coun...

Significance: The Buffalo Gas Light Company began the manufacture of illuminating gas from coal in horizontal retorts in 1848. At that time the designated lamp district in the city contained 179 lights with fa... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Beacon Oil Company Gas Station, 107 Winn Street, Woburn, Middlesex County, MA

Beacon Oil Company Gas Station, 107 Winn Street, Woburn, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The Beacon Oil Company Gas Station is associated with the development of the automobile age in the early 20th century. It is one of the only intact examples surviving in the Boston area. Survey ... More

Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Avenue, Troy, Rensselaer County, NY

Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Aven...

Significance: The building of the former Troy Gas Light Company is one of the few remaining examples of a type common in Northeastern urban areas. It was designed by Sabbaton who was a prominent gas engineer i... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, East Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, East Gas Holder, December Seventh Avenue & D S...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-K Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saratoga Gas Light Company, Gasholder No. 2, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Substation Facility, intersection of Excelsior & East Avenues, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY

Saratoga Gas Light Company, Gasholder No. 2, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...

Significance: Gasholder No. 2 is significant because of the role of gasholders in general in furthering residential and commercial development in urban areas. In addition, it is one of only a few remaining gas... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Quartermaster Gas & Oil House, 8103 Hanger Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Quartermaster Gas & Oil House, 8103 Hanger Loo...

Significance: The Quartermaster Gas & Oil House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic char... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

AG&E Vice President tells S.E.C. of $5000 a month mystery man employed by his company in Capital. Washington, D.C., May 16. Fred S. Burroughs, Vice President of the Associated Gas and Electric Co., spread before the Securities and Exchange Commission today the story of how his firm retained a man at $5000 a month to 'mix with the right people' in Washington and to advise on the attitude of government officials. The man was Ben Gray and Burroughs denied that he--Gray--was a lobbyist or that his job was to attempt to influence officials

AG&E Vice President tells S.E.C. of $5000 a month mystery man employed...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Annual Banquet, American Gas Institute, Oct. 19, 1906

First Annual Banquet, American Gas Institute, Oct. 19, 1906

H44142 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; October 24 1906.

Coney Isl.: Mardi Gas - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Coney Isl.: Mardi Gas - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli, 145 Hudson St., N.Y.) Mother picks nuts in Habicht, Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Sts., N.Y. Gets $4.00 a week. The children say they make $3.00 a week. Michael is 13 yrs. old. Madeline, 6 yrs. old and has cross eyes. Were working in a very dim light (no gas or lamp used except when most necessary).  Location: New York, New York (State)

Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wash. Gas Light Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wash. Gas Light Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Major D.T. Pierce and Captain James Hazen Hyde of the American Red Cross, take one of London's "Zeppelin buggies" for an urgent official errand. Owing to the shortage of gasoline, many London automobiles for operating with ordinary illuminating gas as fuel. The gas is contained in a great rubber container above the roof of the car, strapped down with stout canvas tapes to keep it from floating away like a kite balloon

Major D.T. Pierce and Captain James Hazen Hyde of the American Red Cro...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Personnel, England. On caption card: B-364. Data: Atlantic Div. 11/18. Atlantic, 4/1919. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. Gen... More

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Roads meeting at a gas station

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Roads meeting at a gas station

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bringing in the wounded during a gas attack

Bringing in the wounded during a gas attack

J269619 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5203. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington Gas Light Co. Mr. Gordon of Washington Gas Light Co. I

Washington Gas Light Co. Mr. Gordon of Washington Gas Light Co. I

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Washington Gas Light Co. Mr. Button of Washington Gas Light Co. III

Washington Gas Light Co. Mr. Button of Washington Gas Light Co. III

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Freedom Gas Distillery. Machinery III

Freedom Gas Distillery. Machinery III

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Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity Gas station and bus I

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity Gas station and bus I

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gas station. Family of four in Chevy Chase purchasing gas I

Gas station. Family of four in Chevy Chase purchasing gas I

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First gas map in America, Washington, D.C. Sept. 24. Chairman LaFollette and Senator Elbert Thomas, Utah, of the Senate Committee investigating strike activity view what is believed to be the first gas map of America, a chart showing use and sales of tear and nauseating gas in industrial disputes. The map has been put up on the wall of the Senate's hearing room where the inquiry is to be conducted. Each pin on the map represents $500 worth of fumes or equipment sold

First gas map in America, Washington, D.C. Sept. 24. Chairman LaFollet...

Two men in suits pointing at a map, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Harris and Ewing photo. Date (year) based on date of negat... More

Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland

Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland

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

Gas station, Frederick, Maryland

Gas station, Frederick, Maryland

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water, oil and gas on farmer's car. Williston, North Dakota

Water, oil and gas on farmer's car. Williston, North Dakota

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gas station with trucker's quarters, Enfield, North Carolina

Gas station with trucker's quarters, Enfield, North Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Even the gas stations in Miami Beach are on an elaborate scale, often modern design, resembling hotels. Miami Beach, Florida

Even the gas stations in Miami Beach are on an elaborate scale, often ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

Photograph shows woman ironing. Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World's Fair. Reflective cube near Gas Exhibit

World's Fair. Reflective cube near Gas Exhibit

Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, U... More

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place on top of the coke oven. The coal is then dropped into three inverted bottle-like containers and from there fed directly into the coke ovens

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Ge...

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

Mountain cabin, general store and gas station along highway near Hyden, Kentucky

Mountain cabin, general store and gas station along highway near Hyden...

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

Gas station on rainy day. Dubuque, Iowa

Gas station on rainy day. Dubuque, Iowa

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pix from gas station, main street in Alexandria, shop signs, etc. Louisiana

Pix from gas station, main street in Alexandria, shop signs, etc. Loui...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of the zipper-covered "manhole" in the nose of a gigantic barrage balloon, this worker has finished patching, touching up and checking the great bag, and is ready to give the signal to deflate the balloon, pack it and ship it to Uncle Sam's army training fields where balloon squadrons are learning the technique of handling the blimp-sized gas bags. This ship is of the ballonet type. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of th...

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

Gas station and lunch room near Yulee, Florida

Gas station and lunch room near Yulee, Florida

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil refinery. Augusta, Kansas. White Eagle division of Mobil Gas

Oil refinery. Augusta, Kansas. White Eagle division of Mobil Gas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Operating a valve servicing on of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Op...

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

A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeance to be wrecked on the Axis powers, this little lady is contributing to their defeat. She has gathered up an old bicycle tire and other odds and ends to contribute to the scrap rubber collection drive. Reclaimed rubber made from these materials is playing an imcreasingly important part in the war effort. Large percentages of "reclaim" are now being used in many material articles, such as combat tires, self-sealing gas tanks, etc.. Help build up Uncle Sam's scrap rubbe pile by contributing any no longer used rubber articles you may have

A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeanc...

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

Gas station attendant checking ration coupons against license plate of Washington, D.C. Dodge automobile. Sign on sidewalk reads "Today's quota sold"

Gas station attendant checking ration coupons against license plate of...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gothenburg, Nebraska. Gas station and grain elevator

Gothenburg, Nebraska. Gas station and grain elevator

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moore County, Texas. Tool dresser (cable tool driller's helper) operating valve which shuts off gas pressure during drilling operations

Moore County, Texas. Tool dresser (cable tool driller's helper) operat...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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

Loading trucks with butane gas - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Loading trucks with butane gas - safety film negatives, Library of Con...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Renting bicycles at a gas station on East Potomac Park. Notice the "no gas" sign on the nearest gasoline pump

Washington, D.C. Renting bicycles at a gas station on East Potomac Par...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barrage balloon is just another job that the leathernecks take in stride as special marine units are trained at Parris Island, South Carolina. "Purging" it with fresh gas before it goes aloft again and running it up into a tactical formation under control of a steel cable are other features of a technique at which the marines have become very proficient

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Testing for proper ventilation, gas and dust.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern yard, building boats used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. Torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft are also made at this yard

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fif...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to each other in front of a gas station. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other in front of a gas station. ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

How to conserve household gas. Your stove is not a furnace! Though fuel will not be as plentiful this winter, don't make your stove do double duty. Instead dress more warmly; the wasteful practice would increase gas consumption enormously and result in curtailment of gas for all
Washington, D.C. A group of Washington Negro war workers leaving the United Service Organization (USO) branch of the Young Mens' Christian Association (YWCA). Because of the gas rationing they are using horses and wagons for their hayride

Washington, D.C. A group of Washington Negro war workers leaving the U...

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

A black and white photo of a bus parked in a parking lot. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a bus parked in a parking lot. Office of Wa...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Augustine, Texas. County Judge Robert Norvell receiving a supplemental gas ration book in the CPA (certified public accountant) office

San Augustine, Texas. County Judge Robert Norvell receiving a suppleme...

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

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Gas Co. II

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Gas Co. II

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Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Waste gas I (Ralph Lamie)

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Ca...

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New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Gas station site 12S looking north to holes, Secaucus, New Jersey

New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Gas station site 12S looking north to h...

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

[Man directing line of cars at a gas station]

[Man directing line of cars at a gas station]

Contact sheet folder caption: "Gas lines crowded stations, closed station, TOH, 6/15/79." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - ... More

Abandoned gas station in rural North Carolina

Abandoned gas station in rural North Carolina

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

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Vintage Conoco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Conoco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mosaic mural at the Columbia Gas Building in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

Mosaic mural at the Columbia Gas Building in downtown Wheeling, West V...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Starr Piano Factory & Richmond Gas Company, G Street Bridge & Main Street Bridge, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

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

Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN

Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan...

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Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Third Street, south side between Walnut Avenue & Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Thi...

Significance: Building 231 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant chiefly for its direct association with the rail system at Mare Island. The 1918 building was used ... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Third Street, south side between Walnut Avenue & Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Thi...

Significance: Building 231 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant chiefly for its direct association with the rail system at Mare Island. The 1918 building was used ... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 525 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Boiler Plant-Central Gas Heat Plant, 1022 feet...

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Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord...

Significance: In service from 1888-1952, is the last structure of its kind in the U.S. still containing its original gasholder. Similar structures were a common feature in the urban areas of New England and upp... More

Automotive Repair & Gas Station, Southwest corner of Pope Street & Olympic Avenue, Port Gamble, Kitsap County, WA

Automotive Repair & Gas Station, Southwest corner of Pope Street & Oly...

Survey number: HAER WA-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000746

Concord Gas Light Company, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Concord Gas Light Company, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack Count...

Survey number: HAER NH-18 Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andy Chambers Homestead, Barn, Approximately 25 feet east of Gas and Oil House, Kelly, Teton County, WY

Andy Chambers Homestead, Barn, Approximately 25 feet east of Gas and O...

Survey number: HABS WY-83-E Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Gas Station, South corner of Marshall & Nanumea Road, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Gas Station, South corner of Marshall &...

Significance: Although the Navy Public Works Center Compound is not within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark, it has been determined that Building SX30 meets the criteria for placement on the National... More

Wallowa Ranger Station, Gas House, 602 First Street, Wallowa, Wallowa County, OR

Wallowa Ranger Station, Gas House, 602 First Street, Wallowa, Wallowa ...

Significance: This gas house is in excellent condition and serves as an integral part of the overall ranger station design scheme. Located across from the four-car garage, the gas house served as a convenient ... More

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family.  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...

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Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Avenue, Troy, Rensselaer County, NY

Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Aven...

Significance: The building of the former Troy Gas Light Company is one of the few remaining examples of a type common in Northeastern urban areas. It was designed by Sabbaton who was a prominent gas engineer i... More

Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Avenue, Troy, Rensselaer County, NY

Troy Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, Jefferson Street & Fifth Aven...

Significance: The building of the former Troy Gas Light Company is one of the few remaining examples of a type common in Northeastern urban areas. It was designed by Sabbaton who was a prominent gas engineer i... More

Saratoga Gas Light Company, Gasholder No. 2, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Substation Facility, intersection of Excelsior & East Avenues, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY

Saratoga Gas Light Company, Gasholder No. 2, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...

Significance: Gasholder No. 2 is significant because of the role of gasholders in general in furthering residential and commercial development in urban areas. In addition, it is one of only a few remaining gas... More

Gas Station, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Gas Station, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-154 Building/structure dates: after. 1930- before. 1940 Initial Construction

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 100 block of South Washington Avenue, west side, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 10...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 100 block of South Washington Avenue, west side, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 10...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 100 block of South Washington Avenue, west side, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 10...

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Batavia Gas Light Company, Gasholder Houses, Evans & Ellicott Streets, Batavia, Genesee County, NY

Batavia Gas Light Company, Gasholder Houses, Evans & Ellicott Streets,...

Significance: The gasholders at Batavia are typical examples of structures built throughout the Northeast during the 19th Century for the storage of gas. Survey number: HAER NY-41 Building/structure dates: ca... More

Hill Field, Quatermaster Gas & Oil House, 7326 Wardleigh Road, Layton, Davis County, UT

Hill Field, Quatermaster Gas & Oil House, 7326 Wardleigh Road, Layton,...

Significance: This Gas & Oil Station provides information about the processes involved in supplying gasoline to motor vehicles used at Hill Field during and after World War II. In addition, it contributes to a... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Storehouse & Gas Cylinder Storage, Avenue D, adjacent to east side of Facility No. 29, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Storehouse & Gas Cylinder Sto...

Significance: They are among a neighborhood of historic buildings within the shipyard in the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1921 as a temporary storehouse, Facility 64 is significant for ... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little...

Significance: As of 1984, this site was the last known example of a steam powered, natural gas pumping station in West Virginia. Built as an integral part of a natural gas transmission system designed to suppl... More

[The gas lamp], gelatin silver print

[The gas lamp], gelatin silver print

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. No. 101. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factories, Turkey and Greece, Ottoman ... More

Findlay, Ohio, the Gas City. - Public domain old map

Findlay, Ohio, the Gas City. - Public domain old map

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 693 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. illus., index to points of interest... More

Independent union member tells of NLRB's refusal to certify gas workers' organization. Washington, D.C., July 5. Joseph C. Nash, member of the Independent Gas Workers' Union, organized at the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. in New York, described today to the Senate Education and Labor Committee the attempts of his organization to obtain certification from the NLRB, although a petition for certification was filed over a year ago. The board's refusal to grant the petition, he said, could be blamed upon its 'pro- C.I.O. bias.' Senator Allen Ellender read into the record a letter from the union's attorney stating that Nash did not speak for the union, but represented solely himself

Independent union member tells of NLRB's refusal to certify gas worker...

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