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[The cannon factory], gelatin silver print

[The cannon factory], gelatin silver print

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 34. In album: Naval personnel, the Imperial Naval Arsenal, military facilities, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 280, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 280, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large manufacturing shops, five ... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 28, Between Isaac Hill & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 28, Between Isaac Hill & Patterson Avenues, Wa...

Significance: Building 28 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and is... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 210, Rodman Avenue & Gronen Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 210, Rodman Avenue & Gronen Street, ...

Significance: During and immediately after World War I, the Ordnance Department erected a number of buildings on Rodman Avenue, just west of the nineteenth-century, Greek Revival stone shops. To maintain the "... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & ...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mi...

Significance: The Raritan Arsenal, originally known as the Raritan River Ordnance Base, was established in 1917 in preparation for the United States' entry into World War I. The Arsenal, initially a 2,150 acre ... More

Raritan Arsenal, Machine Shop S-3, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Machine Shop S-3, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown,...

Significance: Machine Shop S-3 is significant as a contributing structure in the World War II expansion of the shops complex. This expansion arose due to increased wartime production of artillery and motorized ... More

Raritan Arsenal, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County,...

Significance: The Raritan Arsenal, originally known as the Raritan River Ordnance Base, was established in 1917 in preparation for the United States' entry into World War I. The Arsenal, initially a 2,150 acre ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 68, Rodman Avenue between Fourth Street & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 68, Rodman Avenue between Fourth Str...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 33, Northeast corner of Patterson & Kennon Streets, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 33, Northeast corner of Patterson & Kennon Str...

Significance: Building 33 is one of 45 contributing properties within the Washington Navy Yard National historic Landmark District. The Washington Navy Yard is significant for its primary role in the developme... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 133, Gillespie Avenue between South Avenue & Ramsey Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 133, Gillespie Avenue between South ...

Significance: Situated in a manufacturing area southwest of the Greek Revival stone shops on Rodman Avenue, the Incinerator Buildings was constructed in 1917-1918 as part of an artillery shell production comple... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 66, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fourth Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 66, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fo...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 250, Gillespie Avenue between Ramsey Street & South Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 250, Gillespie Avenue between Ramsey...

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.

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Heat Treatment Plant, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Heat Treatment Plant, Along Monongahela Riv...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 182 through 189). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward inte... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 108, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fourth Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 108, Rodman Avenue between Third & F...

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

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Ordinance Administration Shop, U.S. Highway 95, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Ordinance Administration Shop, U.S. ...

Significance: The Ordnance Administration Shop, Building No. 329, was built in December 1943 during the tremendous expansion of the Depot during the World War II period. The Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot (N... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & T...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: Office Building 17 played an important support role in the shops complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. The building is significant as a contributing structure in the developmen... More

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

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

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Small Arms Factory, Stocking section. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 13. No. 85. In album: Imp... More

[The machinery for making prisms at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.

[The machinery for making prisms at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 48. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Sibley Cotton Mills and powder mill chimney, Augusta, Ga

Sibley Cotton Mills and powder mill chimney, Augusta, Ga

Negative broken through center and taped to second sheet of glass. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016443. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Chimney of old Confederate Powder Works Mill, Augusta, Ga.

Chimney of old Confederate Powder Works Mill, Augusta, Ga.

Title from jacket. "737 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033102. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Rustningernes krig. Hvorledes Storbritannien har mobiliseret sine industrier / G.K.

Rustningernes krig. Hvorledes Storbritannien har mobiliseret sine indu...

Poster showing 14 vignettes of the British munitions industry, including related descriptions and facts. Poster is in Danish. No. 15.

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Fashioning gun base

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Fashioning gun base

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.

Interior of German underground factory, run by slave laborers for Nazis prior to capture by First U.S. Army troops of the 8th Division. The factory is located in what was a railway tunnel before the war

Interior of German underground factory, run by slave laborers for Nazi...

Women working in armament factory. No. 5145-HQ(Copy) 32766. Photograph by Cannon, U.S. Army 165 Cannon.

Interior view of the Tophane Factory Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

Interior view of the Tophane Factory Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Gun Factory, South bay. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 12. No. 90. In album: Imperial Gun and ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Steam Cleaning Shop S-3-B, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Steam Cleaning Shop S-3-B, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bo...

Significance: Steam Cleaning Shop S-3-B is significant as a support structure in the machine shops complex, which formed the industrial core of the arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-F Building/structure da... More

Raritan Arsenal, Fire Station, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Fire Station, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mid...

Significance: Building 228 is significant as the main fire station at the Raritan Arsenal. Because of the potential fire danger of munitions stored at the installation, it played a critical role in maintaining ... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 28, Between Isaac Hill & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 28, Between Isaac Hill & Patterson Avenues, Wa...

Significance: Building 28 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and is... More

Fort Gibson, Powder Magazine, Garrison Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK

Fort Gibson, Powder Magazine, Garrison Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS OK-34-6 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000631

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 110, Rodman Avenue between Fourth Street & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 110, Rodman Avenue between Fourth St...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & ...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: The Upholstery Shop is a part of the machine shop complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-L Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Bui... More

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamt...

Significance: Artillery Shop S-3-A is significant for its contribution to World War II tank and artillery production. The poured concrete structure is an unusual construction type amid the brick and frame struc... More

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mi...

Significance: The Raritan Arsenal, originally known as the Raritan River Ordnance Base, was established in 1917 in preparation for the United States' entry into World War I. The Arsenal, initially a 2,150 acre ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 220, Rodman Avenue between Flager & Gronen Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 220, Rodman Avenue between Flager & ...

Significance: During and immediately after World War I, the Ordnance Department erected several buildings on Rodman Avenue, just west of the nineteenth-century, Greek Revival stone shops. To maintain the "gran... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Significance: Building 143 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 66, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fourth Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 66, Rodman Avenue between Third & Fo...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant J1, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant J1, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown...

Significance: Assembly Plant J1 is significant as a typical industrial building constructed at the Arsenal during World War I. The building is significant as a core structure in the initial development of the m... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 251, Gillespie Avenue & Ramsey Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 251, Gillespie Avenue & Ramsey Stree...

Significance: Situated in a manufacturing area southwest of the Greek Revival stone shops on Rodman Avenue, the TNT Building was constructed in 1917-1918 as part of an artillery shell production complex. The b... More

[The wheel production workshop in the Tophane Factory] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[The wheel production workshop in the Tophane Factory] / Constantinopl...

English Caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Small Arms Factory, Carpenter's Shop, Eastside. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 10. No. 91. In ... More

Old powder house, North Somerville, Massachusetts

Old powder house, North Somerville, Massachusetts

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "26" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011893. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

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

Assembling fuses--Frankford Arsenal, Frankford, Pennsylvania

Assembling fuses--Frankford Arsenal, Frankford, Pennsylvania

Women working in arsenal. No. 35813. U.S. Army, Industrial Service Section photo.

To skilled workmen. Give your strength and your skill to your country. ... God save the king / Hall the Printer Ltd., 3a Queen Street, Oxford ; Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., Lith., London.

To skilled workmen. Give your strength and your skill to your country....

Poster is text only, with monogram and arms of George V at top.

Mars appeals to Vulcan. Daily Chronicle war cartoon by Frank Brangwyn A.R.A.

Mars appeals to Vulcan. Daily Chronicle war cartoon by Frank Brangwyn ...

Poster showing god of war Mars, in Roman dress, encouraging British munitions workers (i.e., god of fire Vulcan) to supply armaments for the troops seen in the background.

The war of munitions. How Great Britain has mobilised her industries / G.K.

The war of munitions. How Great Britain has mobilised her industries /...

Poster showing 14 vignettes of the British munitions industry, including related descriptions and facts.

The gun pit, no. 1 / Pennell. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

The gun pit, no. 1 / Pennell. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of ...

From American war work series. Wuerth, 491 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 360 Gift; Pennell Collection.

Honeywell annual report, 1971

Honeywell annual report, 1971

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Raritan Arsenal, General Storehouse, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, General Storehouse, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtow...

Significance: Building 12 is significant for its role in the manufacturing activities at Raritan Arsenal. This support structure played a role in the overhaul, repair, service, and maintenance of small arms and... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: Building 197 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: Building 197 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

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

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 280, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 280, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large manufacturing shops, five ... More

Raritan Arsenal, Fire Station, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Fire Station, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mid...

Significance: Building 228 is significant as the main fire station at the Raritan Arsenal. Because of the potential fire danger of munitions stored at the installation, it played a critical role in maintaining ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 110, Rodman Avenue between Fourth Street & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 110, Rodman Avenue between Fourth St...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamt...

Significance: Artillery Shop S-3-A is significant for its contribution to World War II tank and artillery production. The poured concrete structure is an unusual construction type amid the brick and frame struc... More

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Artillery Shop S-3-A, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamt...

Significance: Artillery Shop S-3-A is significant for its contribution to World War II tank and artillery production. The poured concrete structure is an unusual construction type amid the brick and frame struc... More

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse N-5, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mi...

Significance: The Raritan Arsenal, originally known as the Raritan River Ordnance Base, was established in 1917 in preparation for the United States' entry into World War I. The Arsenal, initially a 2,150 acre ... More

Raritan Arsenal, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County,...

Significance: The Raritan Arsenal, originally known as the Raritan River Ordnance Base, was established in 1917 in preparation for the United States' entry into World War I. The Arsenal, initially a 2,150 acre ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten, stone Greek Revival manufacturi... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten, stone Greek Revival manufacturi... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten, stone Greek Revival manufacturi... More

Raritan Arsenal, Machine Shop S-3-C, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Machine Shop S-3-C, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtow...

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

Navy Yard, Building No. 33, Northeast corner of Patterson & Kennon Streets, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 33, Northeast corner of Patterson & Kennon Str...

Significance: Building 33 is one of 45 contributing properties within the Washington Navy Yard National historic Landmark District. The Washington Navy Yard is significant for its primary role in the developme... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 60, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 60, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie ...

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

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 133, Gillespie Avenue between South Avenue & Ramsey Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 133, Gillespie Avenue between South ...

Significance: Situated in a manufacturing area southwest of the Greek Revival stone shops on Rodman Avenue, the Incinerator Buildings was constructed in 1917-1918 as part of an artillery shell production comple... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant J1, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant J1, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown...

Significance: Assembly Plant J1 is significant as a typical industrial building constructed at the Arsenal during World War I. The building is significant as a core structure in the initial development of the m... More

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

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

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Smithery. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 16. No. 84. In album: Imperial Gun and Small Arms Fac... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & T...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 64, Rodman Avenue between Second & T...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 201, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 201, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

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

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: Office Building 17 played an important support role in the shops complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. The building is significant as a contributing structure in the developmen... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 109, Smith Quadrangle, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 109, Smith Quadrangle, Washington, District of...

Significance: Building 109 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

[The roller for the willow coal at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.

[The roller for the willow coal at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / t...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[Interior of U.S. gun shop, Washington Navy Yard]

[Interior of U.S. gun shop, Washington Navy Yard]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

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

Don't buy bombs when you buy bread!

Don't buy bombs when you buy bread!

Possibly a call for boycotting Wonder Bread. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: Building 197 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 210, Rodman Avenue & Gronen Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 210, Rodman Avenue & Gronen Street, ...

Significance: During and immediately after World War I, the Ordnance Department erected a number of buildings on Rodman Avenue, just west of the nineteenth-century, Greek Revival stone shops. To maintain the "... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & ...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & Third Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 106, Rodman Avenue between Second & ...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: The Upholstery Shop is a part of the machine shop complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-L Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Bui... More

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: The Upholstery Shop is a part of the machine shop complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-L Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Bui... More

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Upholstery Shop, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: The Upholstery Shop is a part of the machine shop complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-L Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Bui... More

Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown,...

Significance: Ricks manufactured the Covington coke puller, the most widely-used mechanical coke-drawing machine in the Connellsville Region. Survey number: HAER PA-366 Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Init... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 56, North Avenue & East Avenue, Rock...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten, stone Greek Revival manufacturi... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 220, Rodman Avenue between Flager & Gronen Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 220, Rodman Avenue between Flager & ...

Significance: During and immediately after World War I, the Ordnance Department erected several buildings on Rodman Avenue, just west of the nineteenth-century, Greek Revival stone shops. To maintain the "gran... 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

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