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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

William Snedigar machine shop, Stevensville, Montana

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

Machine shop of William Snedigar, Stevensville, Montana

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William Snedigar machine shop, Stevensville, Montana

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of indust...

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Mariinskii canal and river sy...

Photographic survey of the Mariinskii canal and river system linking the Volga River with the Baltic Sea. Images document the waterway itself (harbors, rivers, rapids, lakes, canals, and islands) as well as wat... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of indust...

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Mariinskii canal and river sy...

Photographic survey of the Mariinskii canal and river system linking the Volga River with the Baltic Sea. Images document the waterway itself (harbors, rivers, rapids, lakes, canals, and islands) as well as wat... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of indust...

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Mariinskii canal and river sy...

Photographic survey of the Mariinskii canal and river system linking the Volga River with the Baltic Sea. Images document the waterway itself (harbors, rivers, rapids, lakes, canals, and islands) as well as wat... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the Mariinskii canal and river sy...

Photographic survey of the Mariinskii canal and river system linking the Volga River with the Baltic Sea. Images document the waterway itself (harbors, rivers, rapids, lakes, canals, and islands) as well as wat... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of indust...

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of indust...

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Wendover Air Force Base, Building 104, Wendover Air Force Base, Wendov...

Significance: The machine shop derives its historical significance from association with Wendover Air Force Base, Established in 1940, the base served as an ideal training ground for heavy bombing and gunnery p... More

Hughes Aircraft Company, Engineering-Administration Building, 6775 Cen...

Significance: Construction of Building 2 began in the fall of 1942, soon after the receipt of the Flying Boat contract. Designed by architect H.L. Gogerty, it was conceived to house many of the non-manufacturi... More

Woodward coal breaker, Kingston, Pennsylvania

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Ammo-Explosive Maintenance...

Significance: This building serves as an excellent example of military construction from the 1940s, and is significant as part of the WWII buildup of the base. This structure is the only remaining Quonset at t... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Machine Shop, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgar Thomson Works, Carnegie Steel Co., Braddock, Pennsylvania

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Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co.'s furnaces, Ensley, Alabama

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

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River,...

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 134 & 135). Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation... More

Black Hawk Mill, Colorado 19th century sterescope card.

No. 30 1/2. Part of series: Chas. Weitfle's stereoscopic views : Views on the Colorado Central R.R. from Black Hawk to Central City.

Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah R...

Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first ind... More

[Boston, Massachusetts. from Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts.]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. Naval Base Charleston, Building No. 32 Smokestack, Hobson Avenue,...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern Pacific Railroad, Carlin Shops, Foot of Sixth Street, Carlin,...

Significance: The Central Pacific First Transcontinental Railroad is a segment of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California to Promontory Summit, Utah between 18... More

Oldman Boiler Works, Office/Machine Shop, 32 Illinois Street, Buffalo,...

Significance: The building contains a number of early to mid-20th Century metal-cutting machine tools. This equipment was used in conjunction with Oldman Boiler Works' business of repairing steam generators as... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Machine Shop, Sixth Street opposite 10-...

Significance: They are located within the Controlled Industrial Area of the Naval Shipyard within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Facility 67 was the first major shop building constructed at the Sh... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Machine Shop, California Avenue, southwest...

Significance: Building 680 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 680 is significant historically and architecturally. Historically, this 1940 building was the heart of the s... More

Bartlett-Hayward Industrial Complex, 200 Scott Street, Baltimore, Inde...

Significance: Bartlett-Hayward was an important Baltimore manufacturer during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was particularly noted as a producer of decorative architectural ironwork. The Sc... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 1, Along Monongahela River,...

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 131 through 133). Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the ... More

Butte mines, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

J195798 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Todd Photographic Co.; September 5, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44837. On front: "Exposition series #5153."

Lawrence Machine Shop, Building No. 14, Union & Canal Streets, Lawrenc...

Survey number: HABS MA-988-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard, Machine Shop, 1201-1321 Hudson Stree...

Significance: The Machine Shop is the most recognizable structure within the Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard complex as a consequence of its siting on the yard's Hudson Street frontage. The oldest section of ... More

Great Lakes Engineering Works - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Nevada Test Site, Engine Maintenance Assembly & Disassembly Facility, ...

Significance: The Engine Maintenance Assembly and Disassembly Facility is significant for its role in the U.S. space program. The facility was part of a project that envisioned a nuclear-propelled launch vehic... More

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, State Route 994, West of U.S. ...

Significance: One of the last narrow-gauge steam railroads in the United States, the EBT shop complex at Rockhill Furnace contains an intact machine shop, blacksmith shop, foundry, turntable and roundhouse, as ... More

Adirondack Iron & Steel Company, New Furnace, Hudson River, Tahawus, E...

Significance: The surviving remains of the "New Furnace" contain several very rare items, including the stack, a Nielsen-type hot blast stove, and the blowing engine, built by the Hudson River Iron and Machine ... More

Raritan Arsenal, Lunch Room, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middl...

Significance: The Lunch Room is a part of the machine shop complex which formed the industrial and manufacturing core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-K Building/structure dates: 1934 Initial Const... More

Lawrence Machine Shop, Union & Canal Streets, Lawrence, Essex County, ...

Significance: This building was built over a two year interval beginning in 1846 for the purpose of manufacturing and repairing textile machinery for the newly established mills of Lawrence. It is one of the t... More

Shaker Church Family Washhouse & Machine Shop, U.S. Route 20, Hancock,...

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

Shaker Church Family Washhouse & Machine Shop, U.S. Route 20, Hancock,...

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

Fort MacArthur, Raw Salt Storage & Processing Buildings, Pacific Avenu...

Significance: The Trona Plant (Building 425) at Fort MacArthur is one of the largest remaining wood timber buildings in southern California. As such, it represents an impressive example of an early west coast ... More

National Radium Institute, 500 South Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Denver Co...

Significance: It was incorporated in September 1913 to extract radium from domestic ores for use in career treatment and other technical studies, and in the process, to develop cost-effective methods of radium ... More

W. J. Young Machine Shop, South Tenth Street & Second Avenue, Clinton,...

Significance: The W.J. Young Company machine shop building is a two-story industrial structure situated on the Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa. The building possesses local historical significance because o... More

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Machine Shop, Sixth ...

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

Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, Repair Shops, Van Trees & Seventeenth Str...

Significance: The Repair Shops in Washington were constructed by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1889, and were a large installation for their day. The original complex consisted of a roundhouse, machine ... More

Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, Repair Shops, Van Trees & Seventeenth Str...

Significance: The Repair Shops in Washington were constructed by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1889, and were a large installation for their day. The original complex consisted of a roundhouse, machine ... More

American Can Company, Boston & Hudson Streets, Baltimore, Independent ...

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

American Can Company, Boston & Hudson Streets, Baltimore, Independent ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sullivan Machinery Company, Main Street between Pearl & Water Streets,...

Significance: The complex of buildings was built between 1868-1927 by the Sullivan Machinery Company, manufacturers of mining and quarrying equipment. The firm had been founded in 1868 by J.P. Upham, Albert Bal... More

Sullivan Machinery Company, Main Street between Pearl & Water Streets,...

Significance: The complex of buildings was built between 1868-1927 by the Sullivan Machinery Company, manufacturers of mining and quarrying equipment. The firm had been founded in 1868 by J.P. Upham, Albert Bal... More

Independent Coal & Coke Company, Kenilworth, Carbon County, UT

Significance: The opening of the Kenilworth Mine in 1907 marked the beginning of the second phase of development in Utah's coal industry. The first phase was marked by a complete monopoly of the railroads over... More

Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pennsylvania

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

Dry Dock Engine Works, 1801 Atwater Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: The Dry Dock Engine Works is significance, first of all, because of its role in manufacturing and repairing marine steam engines and boilers for Great Lakes freighters and passenger vessels from 1... More

Great Falls S. U. M. Historic District, Oliver Street, Paterson, Passa...

Significance: In 1791 Alexander Hamilton and others founded an industrial venture known as the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.). The formation of this Society embodied the theory pr... More

A black and white photo of people working in an office. Dodge Brothers...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Groups about the sugar mill, Temasopa sic

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly at Hacienda Tamasopo; possibly a sugar plantation. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8387. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Quinneseo sic Falls, Mich - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "456" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04745. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Green Lake, Wis., old mill at railway station

Title from Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04805. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Racine, Wis., Root River rapids, old cement mills

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "544" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04840. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Industrial plant, possibly related to mining or metallurgical industr...

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pettit's brickyard, South River, New Jersey by Jacob August Riis

Photograph shows men with horses with carts near a pit in the ground under a wooden frame structure, Pettit's brickyard, South River, New Jersey. Title from microfilm captions compiled by Library staff. (LOT 12412 (M)).

Unloading cane at a modern mill

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "270" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09223. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Paper mills, Holyoke, Massachusetts - Public domain image. Dry plate n...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017764. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Entrance, Natural Food Conservatory, Niagara, N.Y

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "G 1841" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017598. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Foyer and lunch room, Natural Food Conservatory, Niagara, N.Y

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "G 1843" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017600. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

International (Upper Steel Arch) Bridge, Niagara, N.Y.

Title from jacket. Includes mills along the gorge, Niagara Falls, New York. "G 5575" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 035049. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Plant of the Consolidated Naval Stores Company, Pensacola, Fla

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "595-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016285. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Packard Motor Car Company Auto Plant, Detroit, Mich

Possibly left section of a panorama. "G 6675 L" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 047051. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[The testing room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich...

Photo shows men working in foundry and machine shop that produced automobile engines and merged with Cadillac Motor Co. in 1905.

Where Main Street crosses the Genesee, Rochester, N.Y

"G 2377" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017932. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Buhl Stamping Co. building, Detroit, Mich.

Title devised by cataloger. Title on jacket: Standard Traction and Tread Co., front view, Detroit, Mich. "X703" and McLalech (?) on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043686. Gift; State Historical Society of... More

Plant of F. i.e. Frederick Stearns and Co., Detroit, Mich

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018757. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Looking up Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y

Steamship North Land at dock. "2560 A" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018743. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Shaft No. 2, Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Mich

Shadow of photographer at left. "G 3337" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019057. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

12,000 H.P. compound pump, Calumet and Hecla stamp mill, Lake Linden, ...

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

Smith and Wesson factory, Springfield, Massachusetts.

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

Universal Portland Cement Co., Plant No. 2 at South Chicago

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The Timken-Detroit Axle Co., Detroit, Mich.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Building engines for the allies J. Pennell

Drawing shows an interior view of a railroad locomotive factory with many men working, building locomotives. Title from Beall. Signed on stone at top and in pencil at bottom center. Edition of 50. Library has t... More

Sugar from corn - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Glenn L. Martin Co. airplane factory. Airplanes in factory I

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Lone Star Cement Co. Lone Star and negative of adjacent property II

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

Woodward & Lothrop. Views inside of Woodward & Lothrop factory VII

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

National Capitol Press Inc. Doorway of National Capitol Press Inc., da...

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

Woodward & Lothrop. Views inside of Woodward & Lothrop factory VIII

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

Steel mill, Massillon, Ohio. General view of electric furnace

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lennox Furnace Co. Smoke collars for furnaces

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hamilton Watch Factory. Portrait of C.F. Miller II

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Noland Plumbing Co., Inc. Two men working on machinery

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Construction of a railroad engine. Boiler shell

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lennox Furnace Co. Tearing down furnace for shipment

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Radite, the raw mate...

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Bowman Grist Mill. Exterior of Bowman Grist Mill I

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More