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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. 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. 60, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

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

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

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 photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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 department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Raritan Arsenal, Lunch Room, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middl...

Significance: The Lunch Room is a part of the machine shop complex which formed the industrial and manufacturing core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-K Building/structure dates: 1934 Initial Const... More

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 203, Southeast corner of Heath Street & Hagner Road, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 203, Southeast corner of Heath Street ...

Significance: Building 203 is one of many small sheds and storehouses scattered throughout the grounds of the Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's principal manufacturer of small arms ammunition. Survey number: ... More

Filling cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

Filling cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachu...

Illustration showing women seated around a table filling cartridges and view below of four men inserting powder. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, 1861 July 20, p. 449 (cover).

Munhall Homesteads, Longfellow Drive, Munhall, Allegheny County, PA

Munhall Homesteads, Longfellow Drive, Munhall, Allegheny County, PA

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Redwood Cooling Tower, U.S. Highway 95, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Redwood Cooling Tower, U.S. Highway ...

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

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

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Greenhouse, Personnel & Industrial Area, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Greenhouse, Personnel & Industrial A...

Significance: The Greenhouse, Building No. 20, was one of the original thirty-three industrial structures built in the Personnel & Industrial Area of the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot during the initial cons... More

[Front view of the carpentry workshop of the Imperial Tophane Factory] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Front view of the carpentry workshop of the Imperial Tophane Factory]...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 24. No. 71. In album: Imperial Gun and Small Arms Factory, barracks and cannons, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-... More

[The machinery section of the cartridge factory in the imperial factory in Zeytinburnu] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.

[The machinery section of the cartridge factory in the imperial factor...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 8. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empire... 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

Fort Totten, Magazine, 12 miles southwest of Devils Lake City off Route 57, Devils Lake, Ramsey County, ND

Fort Totten, Magazine, 12 miles southwest of Devils Lake City off Rout...

Significance: An excellent, well-preserved example of a military post of the Indian War period in the trans-Mississippi West. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HAB... 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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

[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

[Interior view of the tools of production workshop] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Interior view of the tools of production workshop] / Constantinople, ...

English caption: Imperial Ottoman Gun and Small Arms Factories, Small Arms Factory, Milling section. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 6. No. 92. In album: Imper... More

The men behind the man behind the gun / Banks, Ltd.

The men behind the man behind the gun / Banks, Ltd.

Poster showing two scenes, of men arriving for work at a shipyard, and of a sailor firing on a submarine.

Old mills along Cobb's Creek Frank H. Taylor 1924

Old mills along Cobb's Creek Frank H. Taylor 1924

Drawing shows exterior views, numbered 1-3, of three mills along Cobbs' Creek engaged in the various functions of the manufacture of gunpowder and the processing of grains. At top is a building known as the "Ol... More

G.E. off campus! and G.E. products too! War profit is their most important product.

G.E. off campus! and G.E. products too! War profit is their most impor...

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

Government gunshop, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C

Government gunshop, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C

H8247 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by C. H. Graves. No. 3775. On mount: Offices: Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill., New York, London, Paris, Hamburg.

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. 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. 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. 142, Intersection of Sicard Street & Patterson Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 142, Intersection of Sicard Street & Patterson...

Significance: Building 142 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 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. 49. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Old Powder House, Marblehead - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Old Powder House, Marblehead - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011372. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Huge gun boring lathe

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Huge gun boring lathe

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.

Navy Yard, Building No. 198, Corner of Sicard Street & Isaac Hull Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 198, Corner of Sicard Street & Isaac Hull Aven...

Significance: Building 198 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

Interior of Starr Arms Factory, no. 844 / George Stacy.

Interior of Starr Arms Factory, no. 844 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows machinery inside a gun factory. Card number: "No. 844." Gottheim collection code: GCW 61. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of C... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 39, Smith Quadrangle, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 39, Smith Quadrangle, Washington, District of ...

Significance: Building 39 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. 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

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 62, Rodman Avenue between First & Second Streets, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 62, Rodman Avenue between First & Se...

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. 60, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Raritan Arsenal, Lunch Room, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middl...

Significance: The Lunch Room is a part of the machine shop complex which formed the industrial and manufacturing core of the Arsenal. Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-K Building/structure dates: 1934 Initial Const... More

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Gun forging I

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Gun forging I

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

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Shaping up of gun II

Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Shaping up of gun II

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

Government gunshop, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C

Government gunshop, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C

H8247 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by C. H. Graves. No. 3775. On mount: Offices: Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill., New York, London, Paris, Hamburg.

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

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant K2, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant K2, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown...

Significance: Assembly Plant K2 is significant as a typical industrial building constructed at the Arsenal during World War I. The building is a core structure in the initial development of the manufacturing pl... 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

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. 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.

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