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Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling ma...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grinding aircraft parts (one with inverted lamp shade). Tiny parts for...

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.

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gasoline treaters at the Mid-continent refinery

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Platform workers loading crated machinery onto a ...

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

Safe clothes for women war workers. A closeup of Eunice's new uniform ...

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.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Auxillary machiner...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged parts of gener...

Public domain photograph - American industrial history, 1930s-1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged parts of gener...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Generator unit no. 13 at Ben...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Generator unit no. 13 at Ben...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged parts on no. 2...

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One of four generators at the Franklin County REA Power Plant Museum n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The REA was the Rural Electrification Authority, the Great Depression-era agency that provided federal loans for the installation of e... More

Young boy running machine in Vermont Marble Co., Centre Rutland, Vt. L...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1074. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

American Brass Foundry, 70 Sayre Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Survey number: HAER NY-311 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Puget Sound Power & Light Company, White River Hydroelectric Project, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Great Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, 1864

Stereograph shows machine to press tokens of copper or silver being sold at the Great Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

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

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Works, Morgan Billet Mi...

Survey number: HAER PA-48 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Watch Co., (6 boys of questionable age, but could not get photo of the...

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

Grand Canyon Power Plant, Coconino, Coconino County, AZ

Survey number: HAER AZ-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001411

San Francisco Cable Railway, Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn, 1201 Mason S...

also CAL,38-SANFRA,137- San Francisco Cable Railway Significance: San Francisco's three surviving cable car routes all operate out of this two-story brick building. Erected in 1907-08, this structure replaced ... More

Washington Water Power Clark Fork River Cabinet Gorge Hydroelectric De...

Significance: It is locally important because of its influence, along with the associated Cabinet Gorge Hydroelectric Development, on the local environment, landscape and economy. The facility is also important... More

S. U. M. Hydroelectric Plant, McBride Avenue, Paterson, Passaic County...

Significance: The S.U.M. Hydroelectric Plant was constructed in 1912-1914 to meet the electrical power needs of the mill and factory owners and tenants in the Paterson area. It superceded the power canal syste... More

[Interior of the Gallery of Machines, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lake Lynn Hydroelectric Power House & Dam, Cheat River, Morgantown, Mo...

Significance: When built, the Lake Lynn power house and dam reflected the state of the art in American hydroelectric power technology and developed a very substantial portion of West Virginia's hydrologic resou... More

Wyman-Gordon Company, Grafton Plant, 50000 Ton Press, 244 Worcester St...

Significance: The Wyman-Gordan Forging Press, along with a similar press owned by the Alcoa Company of Cleveland, Ohio, represents the culmination of many years' attempts to build heavy presses. Motivated by C... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Bamberg Cotton Mill, Main Street, Bamberg, Bamberg County, SC

Significance: This mill contained the largest collection of late 19th and early 20th century textile machinery in active production in the state until it closed in 1986. It was originally planned to house a ca... More

Ortona Lock, Lock No. 2, Machinery and Control Houses, Caloosahatchee ...

Significance: The five control houses are significant for their role in the operation of the lock and spillway gates. Survey number: HAER FL-19-B Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Ortona Lock, Lock No. 2, Machinery and Control Houses, Caloosahatchee ...

Significance: The five control houses are significant for their role in the operation of the lock and spillway gates. Survey number: HAER FL-19-B Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phas... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 6, Trempealeau,...

Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With roots in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal prop... More

Cambria Steel Company, Machine Shop, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cambria C...

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.

Lake Whitney Water Filtration Plant, Armory Street Pumphouse, North si...

Significance: This pump station represents a novel engineering solution to a problem. Reduced water supplies forced partial conversion to a more efficient pumping system. The station was originally built to s... More

Cape Cod Air Station, Technical Facility-Scanner Building & Power Plan...

Significance: The Technical Facility/Scanner Building and Power Plant is the central component of the PAVE PAWS complex and performs all the functions required for the missile detection and tracking mission, i... More

Chaĭnai︠a︡ fabrika v Chakvi︠e︡. Sortirovochnoe otdi︠e︡lenīe

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Journée memorable de Versailles le lundi 5 Octobre 1789

Print shows market women of Paris riding on a cannon drawn by two horses, one with rider, during the memorable journey from Paris to Versailles, accompanied by members of the National Guard and others carrying ... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 65, Static Structura...

Significance: The imposing Static Test Laboratory was built during Wright Field's World War II expansion. It replaced Static Test Laboratory No. 1, which was too small for testing new, larger aircraft, and had... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Buildings 25 & 24,10-foot & 2...

Significance: The 10-Foot and 20-Foot Wind Tunnel complex houses a variety of specialized testing and support facilities, most notably the tunnels themselves. Research conducted in these facilities contributed... More

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

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

Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory, End of Horton Street, Gloucester, Essex...

Significance: The Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory is significant as the first U.S. manufacturer of copper paint, which was used on the bottom of boats to prevent marine growth. Survey number: HAER MA-166 Build... More

Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory, End of Horton Street, Gloucester, Essex...

Marshall Space Flight Center, Saturn Propulsion & Structural Test Faci...

Survey number: HAER AL-129-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002804

San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco...

also CAL, 38-SANFRA-137-A- San Francisco Railway: Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn Significance: The last operating cable railroad in the world. Representative of an important type of urban transportation system in... More

San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco...

Schatzkammer mechanischer Künste, des Capitains Herrn Augustini de Ram...

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mount Pleasant Grist Mill, Warwick Furnace & County Park Roads, Saint ...

Significance: Christopher Knauer had his Mount Pleasant Grist Mill built along the South Branch of French Creek ca. 1805 as a replacement to an earlier mill built by Henry Hockley in the 1730s. Knauer's impress... More

[A man operating a lathe with fixed cutting tool driven by the action ...

Illus. in: Theatrvm instrvmentorvm et machinarum / Jacques Besson. Lvgdvni : Apud B. Vincentium, 1578. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washi... More

To the right hon'ble Lord Bangor, this plate representing a complete p...

Print shows an interior view of a mill where three men and a woman are engaged in washing, rubbing, glazing and boiling fabric. Plate IX. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms. First published 1782. DC... More

[Block making machine that produced wooden blocks for block and tackle...

Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The tradition of tech... More

Keystone marble works S.F. Jacoby & Co. Market St. betw: 20th & 21st P...

Print shows five vignettes, at top, an exterior view, from the street, of the Keystone Marble Works, S.F. Jacoby & Co., with four interior views showing the "Cutting Room", "Machine Room", "Polishing Room", and... More

[Unidentified man] / A. E. Alden's new style carte de visite, by machi...

Photograph shows older man in suit. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

International Exhibition, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania: Krupp Exhibit f...

Stereo copyrighted by the Centennial Photo. Co. No. 2894?. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machinery; Japan Misc.; Shelf.

The extension of American trade - Visit of the United States Industria...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. From sketches by H.A. Ogden. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 48, no. 1224 (1879 Mar. 15), pp. 24-25.

The "Obelisk" cased & machinery attached for lowering

Cleopatra's Needle, prepared to be moved to New York City. Photo copyrighted by Geo. Wright. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY NYC Cleopatra's Needle; Egypt;... More

[Interior view of the Tophane Factory] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frèr...

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Small Arms Factory, Turnery. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 11. No. 87. In album: Imperial Gun... More

Boiler room, Cramps Ship Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

No. 7801. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View between Transportation and Machinery Buildings, World's Fair, St....

H53168 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 228. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From West Pavilion, N. over lagoon between Electricity (R.) and Machin...

H53822 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 48. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

West front of Transportation Building, from Machinery Gardens, Louisia...

H54607 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 15064. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flowery garden-beds and statuary before Machinery Building at the Worl...

H51035 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Machinery Hall, south and east fronts

H50891 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18. Public domain photograph of cathedral, church, 19th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Punching machine in boiler shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphi...

H70652 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7081. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Puck's inventions / Ehrhart. - coin, public domain photograph

Illustration shows John D. Rockefeller standing on a ladder, dumping coins into a "Patent Disinfector" as a member of the clergy opens a slot and coins pour into a bucket labeled "Purified Cash for Missions". A... More

Other junk (See #2962). A pile of scrap machinery outside the Carolina...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woman grinding small gear cutter, and woman sweeping at Midvale Steel...

U.S. Army Industrial Service Section, Women's Branch photo. No. 31724. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fall River Technical High, Millwrighting course Mechanics. Location: ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Elite Laundry. Machinery for cleaning laundry

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Drive shaft showing damag...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Closeups of turbine ma...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Interior view of newspaper delivery room showing man taking stack of ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

[Telephone machinery?] - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Blowers at Buzzard Poi...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Map depicts significant story on pickup in American industry. Washingt...

A man standing in front of a white board. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in J St. station

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Transformer explosion IV

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edward Walker. Drying equipment for press

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. No. 6 unit in substation no. 2...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in L St. station

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. View to machinery and stairs...

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

A black and white photo of a large building. Great Depression FFSA / O...

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Convoyeur mécanique souterrain entre la bibliothèque et la capitole; l...

Lantern slide showing the book conveyor system at the Library of Congress.

Machinery not in use at steel mill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

Irrigation well machinery on truck farm, Tom Green County, near San An...

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

Farm machinery exhibit, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been...

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

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