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[Study for bank-note vignette: Agriculture, Commerce/Navigation, and Industry as little boys]

[Study for bank-note vignette: Agriculture, Commerce/Navigation, and I...

Purchase, 1980, (DLC/PP-1981:026.6). Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

RCA Executive Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Edward F. McGrady, former Assistant Secretary of Labor but now in charge of labor relations for the Radio Corporation of America, as he appeared at the FCC hearing on alleged monopolistic tendencies in the radio industry

RCA Executive Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Edward F. McGrady, former Ass...

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Polish Minister of Industry talks to press club. Washington, D.C., May 10. Antoni Roman, Polish Minister of Industry and Commerce, was a speaker today before the Washington Press Club. He told members, in an 'on the record' speech, that Poland is quite able to take care of itself. Left to right: Roman, Arthur Hachton, President of the press club, and Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador from Poland

Polish Minister of Industry talks to press club. Washington, D.C., May...

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Industrial plant, possibly related to mining or metallurgical industry, in Butte, Montana

Industrial plant, possibly related to mining or metallurgical industry...

Title devised by cataloger; jacket title: Another view of plant. "Butte, Mon." on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Model of rubber industry in jungle, Milwaukee Public Museum]

[Model of rubber industry in jungle, Milwaukee Public Museum]

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FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Testifying at the Federal Communications Investigation of Purported Monopolistic Practices in the Radio Industry today, John F. Royal, NBC Vice President in charge of programs, said the programs carried by NBC cost 1000,000,000 dollars annually. Royal said this figure included programs picked up from foreign stations

FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Wa...

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Panoramic picture illustrating the pork industry

Panoramic picture illustrating the pork industry

87628 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: 2701 Indiana Ave., Chicago. Made from seven separate images of different scenes. Serial no. 1. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; July 6, 1900; DLC/PP-1900:30420.

Rack warehouse, Hiram Walker & Sons, Walkerville, Ont.

Rack warehouse, Hiram Walker & Sons, Walkerville, Ont.

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Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinity, Texas - oil industry: Refinery

Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinity, Texas - oil industry:...

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The shepherd and his flock, sheep industry, Montana

The shepherd and his flock, sheep industry, Montana

Man and dog in left foreground; large flock of sheep in backgrd. Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 13647. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dropping hides and splitting chucks, beef dept., Swift & Co.'s Packing House

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dropping hides and splitting chucks, ...

H77-14 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Ill. C-; Meat processing; Shelf.

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift & Co.'s Packing House: killing hogs, shackling pen and wheel

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift & Co.'s Packing House: killing...

H74825 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Meat processing; Shelf.

The hand that threatens our industrial life American industry - the heart of the nation / / Phifer.

The hand that threatens our industrial life American industry - the he...

Poster showing a hand "Strife, Excessive taxes, Unwise laws, Disloyalty, Agitation, Waste" threatening an industrial district shaped like a heart. A tiny bird comments, "Co-operation is what is needed most."

To prevent this - buy war savings certificates now / F. Gregory Brown ; J.W. Ltd.

To prevent this - buy war savings certificates now / F. Gregory Brown ...

Poster showing German soldiers overseeing slave labor in a factory, and whipping one of the workers. B3002 Wt 5852/2598 10M 6/18. E3114.

Oil Association spokesman at House hearing. Washington, D.C., June 22. Eric Weber, President of the Ohio Petroleum Marketers' Association, who appeared as a witness at a House Judiciary Subcommittee yesterday. The committee is holding hearings upon the Harrington Bill which affects the oil producing and distributing industry

Oil Association spokesman at House hearing. Washington, D.C., June 22....

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Uncle Sam names a committee of nine to consider legislation for Conservation of Country's Oil Resources. A Committee of None composed of three representatives of the Government, a like number from the petroleum industry and three representatives from the American Bar Association, were named by the Federal Oil Conservation Board today to consider a legislative program for the conservation of the country's natural petroleum resources. The Committee of Nine is shown standing in the photograph, left to right: W.S. Farish, Humble Oil Company, Texas; James A. Veasey, American Bar Association; Henry M. Bates, American Bar Association; Edward C. Finney, Assistant Secretary of Interior; Thes. A. O'Donnell, California Petroleum Company

Uncle Sam names a committee of nine to consider legislation for Conser...

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Chairman Legge of Farm Board appears before Senate Agricultural Committee. Chairman Alexander H. Legge of the Federal Farm Board today related his past connections with farming industry and with the International Havester Company, before the Senate Agricultural Committee. The committee today began the consideration of the nominations of board members who have been serving under recess appointments since the board was organized early in the summer. In the photograph, left to right: Senator L.J. Frazier of North Dakota; Senator John Thomas of Idaho Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, chairman; Chairman Legge (standing)and Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina

Chairman Legge of Farm Board appears before Senate Agricultural Commit...

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Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Radite, the raw material for pens

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

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Bending steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. Officials of the steel industry and the U.S. Bureau of Standards inspect one of the large riveted steel frame knees that were placed thru the test [...] U.S. Bureau today. This frame designed to withstand 68,000 lbs carried a maximum load of 168,000 lbs before it showed signs of weakening. Photo shows left to right inspecting the beam after the test: Dr. A.H. Starng of the Bureau of Standards, Everett Chapman, President of the Lukeneeld Inc. of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and F.H. Frankland, Chief Engineer of the American Institute of Steel Construction, New York City, N.Y., 9/23/37

Bending steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. Officials of the st...

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More furs for the modern woman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Dr. Thora M. Plitt, formerly with the Bureau of Standards and now with the Dept. of Agriculture starts research work at the Agriculture Dept. today, because current fashions are demanding more and more furs, despite a diminishing supply of wild life pelts. The fur industry is turning to fur bearing animals raised in captivity. Dr. Plitt, will investigate fur fiber structure and shape, pigment distribution, density, and relative distribution of underfur and guard hairs of such fur animals as silver foxes, minks, martens, and muskrats. She is shown with a sample giving it the once over, 11/2/38

More furs for the modern woman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Dr. Thora M....

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Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President Roosevelt and western private utility operators today discussed elimination of duplicating utility facilities and creation of investor confidence in the industry, the President conferred with, left to right: John Carpenter, President of the Texas Light and Power Co., Dallas, Tex.; Daniel C. Green, of the Central Service Corp. of Chicago; and A.B. West, Head of the Nevada-California Electric Corp. The discussion was one of the series he is holding with public utility officials in an effort to revive utility expenditures and pour billions of dollars into trade channels, 1/11/38

Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President...

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California's veteran republican senator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, veteran republican legislator from California, pictured in a series of poses while he listened to testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee now investigating the country's maritime industry. Senator Johnson is a member of the committee, 1/19/38

California's veteran republican senator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Se...

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Day laborer in the sugarcane industry near New Iberia, Louisiana

Day laborer in the sugarcane industry near New Iberia, Louisiana

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Monopoly huddle. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. At this informal conference just before the Monopoly Committee opened today's hearing can be seen, left to right: Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney, S.E.C. Commissioner Jerome Frank, and Hugh B. Cox, Special Assistant to the Attorney General. In opening today's hearing on the glass industry's patent policies, Cox said the Justice Department seeks to disclose the relation between patent laws and enforcement of anti-trust laws, 12/12/38

Monopoly huddle. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. At this informal conferenc...

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Auto manufacturers confer with Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. Big shots of the auto industry shown leaving the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt, the group approved the President's credit selling recommendations and forecast as spring upturn in motor sales which should improve business generally. Left to right, front row: K.T. Keller, Chrysler President; Edsel Ford; Sen. Prentiss M. Brown of Mich, who arranged the meeting; William S. Knudsen, President of General Motors; and A.E. Duncan, President of Comm. Credit. Co., 1/21/38

Auto manufacturers confer with Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. B...

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Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleig...

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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...

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Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. ...

12002-22. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of underbrush. There are several of these abandoned groves in this section, due to lack of finances for cultivation and irrigation. There is also much absentee ownership in the citrus industry

Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of u...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...

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President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. The legislative program of the American Farm Bureau, calling for modification of hours and wages of relief labor and suggesting that both industry and labor refrain from advancing prices and wage rates, was presented to President Roosevelt today. In the group, left to right: O.O. Wolf of Kansas; E.A. O'Neal of Alabama, President of the American Farm Bureau; George M. Putnam of New Hampshire; H.J. King of Wyoming; Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel; J.F. Porter of Tennessee; and W.R. Ogg of the Research Division of the Bureau, 1/10/39

President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washin...

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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Smoke stacks - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transparencies

Smoke stacks - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transparencies

12002-28. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still training engineer, American Telephone and Telegraph, New York

M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still trainin...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Assembling the elevating mechanism of a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. This and other control mechanisms of an anti-aircraft gun mounting must operate as easily as your automobile controls so that the gunner may stay trained on his swiftly moving target. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Assembling the elevating mechanism of a thi...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A huge stockpile of equilibrator springs await assembly into the carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A huge stockpile of equilibrator springs aw...

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A panel from an exhibit "In the Image of America," designed by the Farm Security Administration as part of the Science and Industry Exhibit held in Rockefeller Center, New York City, in 1941

A panel from an exhibit "In the Image of America," designed by the Far...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engineers and layout experts work on the complete conversion of the great automobile assembly plant to war work. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engi...

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Yauco, Puerto Rico. In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made for local consumption and sell for about two cents

Yauco, Puerto Rico. In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made fo...

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Elizabeth Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The dietician baking cookies

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Children painting and coloring

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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Aero Trades Mfg. Corp., 65 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Exterior I

Aero Trades Mfg. Corp., 65 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Ext...

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Sculpture: "Providence as Independent Thought, Flanked by Industry and Education" by John Massey Rhind, located at the Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse Providence, Rhode Island

Sculpture: "Providence as Independent Thought, Flanked by Industry and...

GSA Fine Arts Program. 1908. Dimensions: 13' x 7' x 7'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More

Oil paintings "Cabbage Truck Farming," "Dairy Industry" and "Orange Groves," at the Golden-Collum Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Ocala Florida

Oil paintings "Cabbage Truck Farming," "Dairy Industry" and "Orange Gr...

Artist: Hollis Holbrook, 1964. Dimensions: 81" x 59.5", 81" x 59.5", 81" x 59.75". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provid... More

Sculptures "Industry," "Science," "Agriculture" and "Literature" at the Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Sculptures "Industry," "Science," "Agriculture" and "Literature" at th...

Artist: John Massey Rhind. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First National Bank Building, now (as of 2014) abandoned, in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Details on the building celebrate Beaumont industry and depict various workers and professionals in carved limestone

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First Nationa...

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 Ph... More

Industrial scene along the road from Port Arthur to Sabine Pass, Texas

Industrial scene along the road from Port Arthur to Sabine Pass, 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

Industrial scene along the road from Port Arthur to Sabine Pass, Texas

Industrial scene along the road from Port Arthur to Sabine Pass, 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

The good husband: the fruits of temperance and industry

The good husband: the fruits of temperance and industry

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2636

San Juan & New York Mining & Smelting Company, Smelter Stack, State Route 160, Durango, La Plata County, CO

San Juan & New York Mining & Smelting Company, Smelter Stack, State Ro...

Significance: The extant smelter stack is the first of two identical stacks at the San Juan and New York Mining and Smelting Company (SJ&NY) plant in Durango. It stands at the south end of the site of the origi... More

Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourteenth Streets, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourte...

Significance: The nearly continuous eight block facade along the west side of Front Avenue (4,300 feet) represents a rare survival of the late 19th century commercial and industrial architecture. The integrity... More

Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourteenth Streets, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourte...

Significance: The nearly continuous eight block facade along the west side of Front Avenue (4,300 feet) represents a rare survival of the late 19th century commercial and industrial architecture. The integrity... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Orange Factory Village, Old Orange Factory Road (State Route 1628), Durham, Durham County, NC

Orange Factory Village, Old Orange Factory Road (State Route 1628), Du...

Significance: The Orange Factory houses, dating to the 1860s, were built to accommodate employees of one of the earliest cotton mills in North Carolina. They assume historical significance as components of a co... More

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Honouliuli Plain, near intersection of Renton Road & Park Row, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Honouliuli Plain, near inter...

Significance: Sugar plantations had a pivotal role in Hawaii's history. They were the main economic engines that fueled Hawaii's change from subsistence agriculture to a commodity-based system. Sugar plantati... More

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, Industry, Los Angeles County, CA

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...

Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, Industry, Los Angeles County, CA

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...

Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, Industry, Los Angeles County, CA

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...

Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519

Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet northeast of Randolph Avenue, opposite & in line with East Clifton Avenue, Clifton, Passaic County, NJ

Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet north...

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Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet northeast of Randolph Avenue, opposite & in line with East Clifton Avenue, Clifton, Passaic County, NJ

Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet north...

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Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet northeast of Randolph Avenue, opposite & in line with East Clifton Avenue, Clifton, Passaic County, NJ

Dundee Canal, Headgates, Guardlock & Uppermost Section, 250 feet north...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buhl Sons Company Complex, 120-234 Adair Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Buhl Sons Company Complex, 120-234 Adair Street, Detroit, Wayne County...

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

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

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

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

Headed for Industry. An Inducement to Remain in School Until Fit to go to Work. Boston 1915 Exhibit.

Headed for Industry. An Inducement to Remain in School Until Fit to g...

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.

National Institutes of Health, Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Montgomery County, MD

National Institutes of Health, Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, 9000 Roc...

Significance: The Industrial Hygeine Laboratory, constructed in 1938, is one of the original laboratory buildings built for the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, and the first laboratory built sol... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River between Groton & Stonington, Groton, New London County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Mystic River Bridge, Spanning...

Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is a center bearing, through truss swing bridge. It is significant as part of the transportation link in the shoreline route of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railro... More

Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1450 Greene Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1450 Greene Street, Augusta Canal, A...

Significance: The Granite Mill, built shortly after the completion of the original canal, is the oldest industrial building in Augusta. The later Enterprise Manufacturing Company was the first large-scale mill... More

Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1450 Greene Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1450 Greene Street, Augusta Canal, A...

Significance: The Granite Mill, built shortly after the completion of the original canal, is the oldest industrial building in Augusta. The later Enterprise Manufacturing Company was the first large-scale mill... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning Shaw's Cove, New London, New London County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning ...

Significance: The Shaw Cove's Bridge is a forged steel rim-bearing swing bridge. It is a single-span, pin-connected Pratt through truss with thin diagonal eye-bars serving as tension members. It is significan... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning Shaw's Cove, New London, New London County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning ...

Significance: The Shaw Cove's Bridge is a forged steel rim-bearing swing bridge. It is a single-span, pin-connected Pratt through truss with thin diagonal eye-bars serving as tension members. It is significan... More

Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop, 2200 Webster Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop, 2200 Webster Street, Alameda, A...

Significance: The Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop building is both historically and architecturally significant. As the nucleus of a major West Coast shipyard which made important contributions to ship b... More

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The City of Lowell is generally considered to be the birthplace of large-scale manufacturing in the U.S. Begun as a transportation canal, the Lowell Canal System evolved, during the 19th century,... More

San Juan & New York Mining & Smelting Company, Superintendent's House, State Route 160, Durango, La Plata County, CO

San Juan & New York Mining & Smelting Company, Superintendent's House,...

Significance: It is one of two remaining structures at the San Juan and New York Mining and Smelting Company (SJ&NY) plant in Durango. It is located approximately .2 miles north of the stack. SJ&NY grew to beco... More

Brookrace Estate, Bounded to north by Roxiticus Road, west by Union School House Road, south by Pleasant Valley Road, & east by private lands, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Brookrace Estate, Bounded to north by Roxiticus Road, west by Union Sc...

Significance: Bookrace Estate includes buildings and structural remains from three centuries of use. 18th century land uses included two homes, a grist mill and structures related to an adjacent iron forge. In ... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 135, Gillespie Road, South of Parker Road, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 135, Gillespie Road, South of Parker ...

Significance: The building is a major component of manufacturing facilities constructed at Watervliet Arsenal during World War II and is a building in which advanced technology was employed in the manufacture o... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 135, Gillespie Road, South of Parker Road, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 135, Gillespie Road, South of Parker ...

Significance: The building is a major component of manufacturing facilities constructed at Watervliet Arsenal during World War II and is a building in which advanced technology was employed in the manufacture o... More

Home Industry Foundry, 250 North Water Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Home Industry Foundry, 250 North Water Street, Mobile, Mobile County, ...

Survey number: HABS AL-809 Building/structure dates: 1884 Initial Construction

Industry Mill, Van Houten & Prospect Street, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Industry Mill, Van Houten & Prospect Street, Paterson, Passaic County,...

Significance: The Industry Mill was, like many others in Paterson, used throughout the nineteenth century for the manufacture of textiles and textile goods. Unlike many of the mill buildings, however, the Indu... More

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worcester County, MA

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...

Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worcester County, MA

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...

Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worcester County, MA

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...

Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worcester County, MA

Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...

Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More

Asa Packer Mansion, Packer Hill, Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, PA

Asa Packer Mansion, Packer Hill, Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, PA

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ponakin Road Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Ponakin Road, Lancaster, Worcester County, MA

Ponakin Road Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Ponakin Road, Lancaster,...

Significance: The single span Ponakin Road Bridge is 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, with vertical end posts. The bridge has diagonal compression members and diagonal eye-bar tension members that extend two pa... More

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade Cou...

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

Osgood Bridge, Spanning Beebe River, Perch Pond Road, Campton Station, Grafton County, NH

Osgood Bridge, Spanning Beebe River, Perch Pond Road, Campton Station,...

Significance: The bridge is one of 25 low Warren truss metal highway bridges extant in New Hampshire. Constructed in 1899, the bridge is one of the state's earliest examples of short-span highway bridges employ... More

Osgood Bridge, Spanning Beebe River, Perch Pond Road, Campton Station, Grafton County, NH

Osgood Bridge, Spanning Beebe River, Perch Pond Road, Campton Station,...

Significance: The bridge is one of 25 low Warren truss metal highway bridges extant in New Hampshire. Constructed in 1899, the bridge is one of the state's earliest examples of short-span highway bridges employ... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East How...

Significance: The XYZ Crane & Towers is significant for its association with nearly 70 years of shipbuilding at the Quincy-Fore River shipyard, functioning as an assembly crane for early submarine construction ... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East How...

Significance: The XYZ Crane & Towers is significant for its association with nearly 70 years of shipbuilding at the Quincy-Fore River shipyard, functioning as an assembly crane for early submarine construction ... More

Thomas Mill, Crum Creek (Willistown Township), Whitehorse, Chester County, PA

Thomas Mill, Crum Creek (Willistown Township), Whitehorse, Chester Cou...

Significance: This mill, erected in 1774 by the miller himself, is little changed and was in running order within the last decade. Survey number: HABS PA-1214 Building/structure dates: 1774 Initial Construction

Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Christina Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Christina Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle Co...

Significance: An important example of heavy industry in Delaware, and at one time, the largest manufacturer of chilled cast-iron wheels in the United States. Survey number: HAER DE-15 Building/structure dates... More

Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Christina Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Christina Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle Co...

Significance: An important example of heavy industry in Delaware, and at one time, the largest manufacturer of chilled cast-iron wheels in the United States. Survey number: HAER DE-15 Building/structure dates... More

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