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Did they think it was a dirigible? / Keppler.

Did they think it was a dirigible? / Keppler.

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers, looking worried, in a hot air balloon labeled "Labor Vote" caught in an electrical storm with lightning labeled "Revolt" and driven by winds to an u... More

Printing Industry Labor Union The melting pot

Printing Industry Labor Union The melting pot

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brian Diskin interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-08-14

Brian Diskin interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-08-14

Brian Diskin, business manager for IWU Local #380, reviews his personal background, his history as an iron worker, his union activities, the current state of the trade, and Local #380, as well as the iron worke... More

Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest: supplementary materials, 2012-06-26

Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest: supplem...

This supplementary material folder contains 33 fieldwork photographs taken by Clark Douglas Halker documenting display and exhibit materials at the 2011 Iron Workers Union National Convention in Chicago. It als... More

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-08

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview focuses on Bill Kerwin's experiences as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bill Kerwin's home, Waunakee, Wisconsin, July 8, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest :... More

Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest: supplementary materials, 2012-06-26

Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest: supplem...

This supplementary material folder contains 33 fieldwork photographs taken by Clark Douglas Halker documenting display and exhibit materials at the 2011 Iron Workers Union National Convention in Chicago. It als... More

Richard Sisson and Sharon Sisson interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-10-11

Richard Sisson and Sharon Sisson interview conducted by Clark Douglas ...

Sharon, a 25-year veteran iron worker and an Iron Workers Union (IWU) #63 member. Her husband, Richard Sisson, is an even more experienced veteran iron worker. They review their personal background, entry into ... More

Al Bass and Craig Satalic interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-11-22

Al Bass and Craig Satalic interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker,...

Craig Satalic and Al Bass, both officials for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local 1, review their entrance into and history in the trade, the importance of the union, the apprenticeship program, labor relations in C... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-13

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-13

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

NWTUL Convention, N.Y.C., 1924 - Public domain portrait print

NWTUL Convention, N.Y.C., 1924 - Public domain portrait print

Photographer's address: 216 West 104th Street. Picture made at the home of Mrs. O'Day. Forms part of National Women's Trade Union League of America collection. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1952.

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works,...

See also HAER PA-200-F for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Rated with an annual capacity of six hundred thous... More

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Significance: The Granite Townsite was laid out in the summer of 1884. Known as the Silver Queen City she reached her heyday in 1889 when the production of the mines ran as high as $250,000 to $275,000 a month... More

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Significance: The Granite Townsite was laid out in the summer of 1884. Known as the Silver Queen City she reached her heyday in 1889 when the production of the mines ran as high as $250,000 to $275,000 a month... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Significance: The company town of McPhee, Colorado, owned and operated by the New Mexico Lumber Company, lasted from 1924-1948, serving as an important economic and cultural town of the Delores River Valley. Du... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth A...

Significance: Established in 1879, Homestead Works is one of six plants (Homestead, Edgar Thomson, Duquesne, Irvin, National and Clairton) which, until the collapse in 1982, comprised U.S. Steel's Mon Valley wo... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth A...

Significance: Established in 1879, Homestead Works is one of six plants (Homestead, Edgar Thomson, Duquesne, Irvin, National and Clairton) which, until the collapse in 1982, comprised U.S. Steel's Mon Valley wo... More

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme, Ventura County, CA

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil ...

Significance: The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Hall is significant for its associations with the labor movement of the World War II-era and for its role in the operations of the Port Hu... More

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: The village of Claysburg more than doubled in size when the Standard Refractories Company built a refractory brickyar... More

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: The village of Claysburg more than doubled in size when the Standard Refractories Company built a refractory brickyar... More

Town of Sproul, Sproul, Blair County, PA

Town of Sproul, Sproul, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: Sproul is an example of a classic company town built and owned entirely by one company to facilitate the operation of... More

Town of Sproul, Sproul, Blair County, PA

Town of Sproul, Sproul, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: Sproul is an example of a classic company town built and owned entirely by one company to facilitate the operation of... More

Knights of Pythias Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Knights of Pythias Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton St...

See also HABS NV-15-20 for related documentation. Significance: The picturesque Miners' Union and Knights of Pythias Halls are two of the few unaltered false-fronted buildings remaining in Virginia City. "Neva... More

Town of Blandburg, Blandburg, Cambria County, PA

Town of Blandburg, Blandburg, Cambria County, PA

See HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations & floor plans for some of the housing. Significance: Blandburg was formal... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

See also HAER PA-321 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: Most of the houses in Star Junction were built by the Washington Coal & Coke Company in the 1890s. The company operated a cok... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

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

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

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

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Unionism or the National Guard? / Ehrhart.

Unionism or the National Guard? / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a laborer standing at center holding a rifle labeled "Law and Order" and a National Guard uniform labeled "Patriotism" which he is offering to Uncle Sam who is standing on the left with his h... More

Puck magazine cover - "Here, Puss, Puss!" / L.M. Glackens.

Puck magazine cover - "Here, Puss, Puss!" / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan offering a bowl of "Anti-Injunction Cream" and William H. Taft offering a sprig of "Anti-Injunction Catnip" to a cat labeled "Labor Vote" that has the face of Samuel Go... More

7th annual conv., Int'. Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chaffeurs [sic], Stablemen & Helpers, Peoria, Ill., Aug. 5, '10

7th annual conv., Int'. Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chaffeurs [sic], Sta...

J144935 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; International Stereograph Co.; September 3, 1910. On front: "Copyright 1910 by International Stereograph Co., general photographers, Decatur, Ill.".

NWTUL Convention, St. Louis, 1913,  Panoramic Photograph

NWTUL Convention, St. Louis, 1913, Panoramic Photograph

Photographer's address: Temple Bldg., St. Louis. Forms part of National Women's Trade Union League of America collection. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1952.

A.R. Clas buildings. Electric Union Building drawing

A.R. Clas buildings. Electric Union Building drawing

Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City employees picket City Hall / World Telegram photo by Dick DeMarsico.

City employees picket City Hall / World Telegram photo by Dick DeMarsi...

Teamster Union members holding picket signs supporting higher raises and pensions. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

So then, to every man his chance; to every man, regardless of his birth, golden opportunity ... this seeker is the promise of America

So then, to every man his chance; to every man, regardless of his birt...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Objections, legal, economic, and social, against the closed shop are so strong ...

Objections, legal, economic, and social, against the closed shop are s...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for

Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...

Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.

Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-26

Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011...

Two interviews were done with Henry "Bud" Martens. Both were recorded on July 26, 2011. Part 1 (38:39) is longer and more general and concerns his upbringing, early iron worker career, welding, the trade, and s... More

John Ryan interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-27

John Ryan interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-27

John Ryan discusses his background, his entrance into the ironworkers trade, important sites he has worked on in Chicago, unions, strikes, the labor-management situation in Chicago, jokes and ritual. The audio ... More

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-08

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview focuses on Bill Kerwin's experiences as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bill Kerwin's home, Waunakee, Wisconsin, July 8, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest :... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-26

Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011...

Two interviews were done with Henry "Bud" Martens. Both were recorded on July 26, 2011. Part 1 (38:39) is longer and more general and concerns his upbringing, early iron worker career, welding, the trade, and s... More

David F. Olby interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-10-29

David F. Olby interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-10-29

Interview focuses on David Olby's experiences as an ironworker, including accounts of his dad, DeWain Olby, also an ironworker, with additional accounts of deer hunting, David's work in a sawmill and doing carp... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-12

Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-0...

Interview focuses on Gus Peplinski's experiences as an ironworker and member of Local 383 Recorded at Gus Peplinski's home, Custer, Wisconsin, July 12, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Uppe... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-12

Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-0...

Interview focuses on Gus Peplinski's experiences as an ironworker and member of Local 383 Recorded at Gus Peplinski's home, Custer, Wisconsin, July 12, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Uppe... More

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Miners Union Hall, Main Street, Granite, Granite County, MT

Significance: The Granite Townsite was laid out in the summer of 1884. Known as the Silver Queen City she reached her heyday in 1889 when the production of the mines ran as high as $250,000 to $275,000 a month... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme, Ventura County, CA

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil ...

Significance: The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Hall is significant for its associations with the labor movement of the World War II-era and for its role in the operations of the Port Hu... More

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme, Ventura County, CA

International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Hall, Naval Civil ...

Significance: The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Hall is significant for its associations with the labor movement of the World War II-era and for its role in the operations of the Port Hu... More

American Federation of Labor Convention, El Paso, Texas, Nov. 15 to 30, 1924

American Federation of Labor Convention, El Paso, Texas, Nov. 15 to 30...

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1952. Forms part of National Women's Trade Union League of America collection.

United Automobile Workers Union Hall, Local No. 7, 1551 Hart Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

United Automobile Workers Union Hall, Local No. 7, 1551 Hart Street, D...

Significance: The building was constructed in 1914 as a combined school and assembly hall for the German-speaking Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church. Germans had concentrated in the East Side since the mid-19... More

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: The village of Claysburg more than doubled in size when the Standard Refractories Company built a refractory brickyar... More

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

Town of Claysburg, Claysburg, Blair County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Significance: The village of Claysburg more than doubled in size when the Standard Refractories Company built a refractory brickyar... More

Knights of Pythias Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Knights of Pythias Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton St...

See also HABS NV-15-20 for related documentation. Significance: The picturesque Miners' Union and Knights of Pythias Halls are two of the few unaltered false-fronted buildings remaining in Virginia City. "Neva... More

Town of Blandburg, Blandburg, Cambria County, PA

Town of Blandburg, Blandburg, Cambria County, PA

See HABS PA-5973 for additional information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations & floor plans for some of the housing. Significance: Blandburg was formal... More

Miners' Union Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Miners' Union Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton Streets...

See also HABS NV-15-11 for additional documentation (measured drawings). Significance: The picturesque Miners' Union and Knights of Pythias Halls are two of the few unaltered false-fronted buildings remaining i... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

See also HAER PA-321 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: Most of the houses in Star Junction were built by the Washington Coal & Coke Company in the 1890s. The company operated a cok... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

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

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

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

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Continental Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Historic District, Bounded by Copper, Arizona, Mercury & Contine...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

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