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
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Little Miss Chicago, or, The novelty mill a musical perversion
Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Home industry, the most direct road to national prosperity. [183-?].
Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 56, Folder 45.
Sectional view of the Cliff Street building
Illus. in: Jacob Abbott, The Harper Establishment; or How the story books are made. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855, p. 42. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More
Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectato...
A group of men sitting next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mme. Secretary. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Secretary of Labor Frances ...
A black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
L to R: Henry C. Stewart, Virginia, Samuel W. McCall, Massachusetts., ...
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Left to Right Henry C. Stuart, Samuel W. McC... More
Zionist activities around Haifa. Haifa. Palestine oil industry "Shemen...
Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Overhead conveyor - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from jacket. Possibly made for Ford Motor Company automobile industry; cf. negatives D420-2851 to D420-2882 and D420-3041 to D420-3084. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 37538, K 3041. Gift; State Historical So... More
Pan-American Producing Co. fireworks factory. Loading of bomb shells w...
Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider ...
A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New public works program will not interfere with private industry, Sen...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1... More
Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...
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
[Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectat...
A group of men sitting next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A panel from an exhibit "In the image of America," designed by the Far...
Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. emplo...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More
Grain elevator made from abandoned waste and sawdust burner at abandon...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sonoma County, California. Vineyards and winery. The wine industry has...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Conversion. Automobile industry. Unless special war work can be secure...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
New York, New York. The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed...
Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find you...
Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aero Trades Mfg. Corp., 65 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Ext...
Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Aero Trades Mfg. Corp., 65 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Met...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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, 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, 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
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
W. B. Corkey Co. Going home 5:30 P.M. Lots of boys here. Girls go out ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 236. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
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
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
Bates Hoist Machine, 1512 Fleet Street, Baltimore, Independent City, M...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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.
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...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Buhl Sons Company Complex, 120-234 Adair Street, Detroit, Wayne County...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Wampum Manufacturing Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Superintendent refused to l...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
"Letter from a person in London", June 26, 1788, Whale Fishing Industr...
Whale Fishing Industry; Extract from John Brown Cutting Letter to Thomas Jefferson, same date; with Copy
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, 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
Tench Coxe to James Madison, May 5, 1807. Includes notes on issues imp...
Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.
Thames Tow Boat Company, Foot of Farnsworth Street, New London, New Lo...
Significance: The Thames Shipyard has been in constant use from the time of its completion in 1903 to the present (as of 1978). Originally constructed to build and repair ocean-going tugs and barges, the yard ... More
Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...
Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More
Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...
Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More
Morris Canal, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ
Significance: The Morris Canal is one of the few amphibious canals to operate in the United States. Stretching from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City on the Hudson River, the Morris Canal opene... More
Dairy Industry Building, Iowa State University campus, Ames, Story Cou...
Significance: The building is a late example of the Classical Revival style of architecture. It is of architectural significance because it is one of a group of seven buildings in this style which surround the... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Protection to home industry - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Protection to home industry - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Eighteenth Street Bridge, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Significance: The Eighteenth Street Bridge is a 1,054-foot-long through-truss and through-plate girder structure with distinctive ornamentation over each truss portal in the form of finials and cresting, and pe... More
Eighteenth Street Bridge, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Significance: The Eighteenth Street Bridge is a 1,054-foot-long through-truss and through-plate girder structure with distinctive ornamentation over each truss portal in the form of finials and cresting, and pe... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
View of the Cliff Street front. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...
Illus. in: Jacob Abbott, The Harper Establishment; or How the story books are made. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More
Promysly u kirgiz. Prigotovlenie koshm
Photograph shows preparation of felt panels for tents. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 44.
The World's International and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orlean...
Illustration shows Uncle Sam and Liberty greeting a group of women labeled "Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, La Plata, Chili, Hayti, [and] Ecuador" to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New O... More
New Chelsea piers, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073031. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Brass industrialist tells Monopoly Committee they 'follow the leader a...
A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Flax industry, hatchling flax; the first process in making the famous ...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Final act of the pen...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
General planning. Refrigerated barge designed and built by the TVA (Te...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Denounces Black-Connery bill. Washington, D.C. June 9. The pending Bla...
A black and white photo of two men in suits, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More
California's veteran republican senator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Se...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding ...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chief Executive discusses rail problems with R.R. Heads. Washington, D...
A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
J.W. Dietz, associate director, Training Within Industry, Office of Pr...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A panel from an exhibit "In the image of America," designed by the Far...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Stock for machine gun barre...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
America's automobile industry changes over to war production. A huge f...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. It there's the slightest fl...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial exper...
Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Conversion. Automobile industry. Hand tools such as these, once used t...
Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Intensity of the earth's ma...
Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New York, New York. The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed...
Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Provisions Warehouse Historic District, Kinsley & Harris Avenues, Prov...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Provisions Warehouse Historic District, Kinsley & Harris Avenues, Prov...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
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...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
War industry needs water Protect production : Use it wisely.
Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). ... More
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
Tench Coxe to James Madison, May 5, 1807. Includes notes on issues imp...
Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.
Tench Coxe to James Madison, May 5, 1807. Includes notes on issues imp...
Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.
Warner Miller, champion of the glass industry, friend of the wage-earn...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 238, Folder 7.
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
Town of Kistler, Kistler, Mifflin County, PA
See also HABS PA-5973 for related information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations, & floor plans. Significance: Kistler was built by the Mount Union Refr... More
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
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Report of the Syrian and Palestinian Relief Fund Sewing Rooms and Chri...
The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group of American and Swedish Christian fundamentali... More
Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...
Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More
Morris Canal, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ
Significance: The Morris Canal is one of the few amphibious canals to operate in the United States. Stretching from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City on the Hudson River, the Morris Canal opene... More