![Wireless towers, Arlington, [Virginia]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvd2lyZWxlc3MtdG93ZXJzLWFybGluZ3Rvbi12aXJnaW5pYS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "Wireless towers, Arlington, [Virginia]")
Wireless towers, Arlington, [Virginia]
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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Powerlines II
Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More
Potomac Electric Power Co. Power line near Washington Grove I
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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. High tension wires
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A black and white photo of electrical equipment. Great Depression FFSA...
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A black and white photo of power lines. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...
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Electric transformers. Taylor, Texas
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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...
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A black and white photo of an electricity tower. Great Depression FFSA...
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Electrical wiring left to disintegrate following the slowdown of minin...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...
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Tennessee Valley Authority. Section of one of the switchyards from whi...
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Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Christmas Valley Radar Sit...
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Country road in Franklin County, Iowa
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Country road in Franklin County, IowaThe power poles, or more correctly their predecessors more than seven decades earlier, are signif... More
Scene in Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Christmas Valley Radar Sit...
Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tra... More
Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...
Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More
Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...
Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More
Twin Falls-Jerome Bridge, U.S. Highway 93 Spanning Snake River, Twin F...
Significance: The bridge was built by The Union Bridge Company of Portland, Oregon. It is a cantilever deck truss that rises 550 feet above the height of the River. At the time of construction it was reported... More
Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, South Hills Junction, Pittsburgh...
Significance: This former 40-inch, narrow-guage railroad was purchased in 1871 by the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad Company. In 1909, Pittsburgh Railways Company, lessee, began electrifying and convertin... More
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...
Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More
Hoover Dam, Kingman Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark C...
Significance: It was constructed in 1938 to provide Hoover Dam electricity to Kingman and surrounding areas of Arizona. This is the only switchyard built entirely by a utility, rather than the Bureau of Reclama... More
Hoover Dam, Metropolitan Water District Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, B...
Significance: It was the second-largest Federal switchyard at Hoover Dam, the switchyard provided needed power for expansion of irrigation and municipal water supplies in California during and after WWII, but i... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Cos Cob Power Plant, Sound Sh...
Significance: The electrification of the New Haven Railroad was an innovative technological venture. The pioneering engineers of Westinghouse and the New Haven Railroad created the first long distance railroad... More
Davis Dam, Switchyards, Southeast of Davis Dam, Kingman, Mohave County...
Significance: Davis Dam is significant for its role in control of the lower Colorado River, fulfillment of obligations under the Mexican Treaty of 1944, and economic development of the Southwest after World War... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
A black and white photo of power lines. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...
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Power lines which cross the channel of the port of Houston, Texas
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Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current gen...
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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...
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Power lines along highway in Dawson County, Texas
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Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. One side of the dam under const...
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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. I...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmiss...
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Water Street Bridge, US Route 1 spanning Metro-North Commuter Railroad...
Significance: The Water Street Bridge is historically and archaeologically significant for its example of late 19th century Baltimore through truss bridge construction, which is being phased out of existence. ... More
Los Angeles Aqueduct, Haiwee Power Plant, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Cou...
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Hoover Dam, Southern California Edison 138-KV Switchyard, U.S. Highway...
Significance: It was the second of six major Federal switchyards built at Hoover Dam. The switchyard was built to replace the Southern Sierras Power Company substation that had provided electricity for construc... More
Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highwa...
Significance: The transmission lines included pioneering technology in high-voltage transmission. The lines were crucial elements of the Hoover Dam electrical complex, particularly in the role played by Hoover ... More
Hoover Dam, Hoover-Basic Magnesium North & South Lines, U.S. Highway 9...
Significance: The transmission lines served a vital function during WWII by providing electricity generated at Hoover Dam to the Basic Magnesium plant to the south of Las Vegas. After the war, these transmissio... More
Shoshone Hydroelectric Plant Complex, 60111 U.S. Highway 6, Glenwood S...
Significance: The Shoshone complex is significant for being one of the earliest hydroelectric plants on the Colorado River and one of the largest in the Rocky Mountain Region to depend upon the flow of a river ... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...
Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More
Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California
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Hoover Dam, U.S. Construction Railroad, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City,...
Significance: The railroad was one of three railroads built and operated specifically to support construction of Hoover Dam and the power plant at the toe of the dam. Survey number: HAER NV-27-Q National Regi... More
Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Switch Yard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Cl...
Significance: It was the first and largest of the six major Federal switchyards at Hoover Dam. When the first stage of the switchyard began operations in 1936, it provided electricity at the highest voltages ev... More
Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, M...
Significance: The Transmission Line is significant as a contributing element of the Fort Peck Town Site and Dam Multiple Resource Property. It maintains its integrity and is directly associated with the constru... More
Hoover Dam, Circuits 1-15, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County...
Significance: Transformer Circuits are integral elements of the Hoover Dam electrical generation and transmission system. The circuits contributed to the importance of Hoover Dam power in the WWII and post-war ... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Pacific Shortline Bridge, U.S. Route 20,spanning Missouri River, Sioux...
Significance: The Pacific Short Line Combination Bridge was the work of three prominent names in the late 19th century American engineering: J.A.L. Waddell (chief engineer), Charles Sooysmith's Sooysmith & Comp... More
Electric power lines. Electric wires overhead on Georgia Ave.
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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Takoma substation
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Potomac Electric Power Co. Linemen on poles
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![Int. [i.e., international] broadcasting station, Ramallah. Various of tower. Close up](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzQvMDEvMDEvaW50LWllLWludGVybmF0aW9uYWwtYnJvYWRjYXN0aW5nLXN0YXRpb24tcmFtYWxsYWgtdmFyaW91cy1vZi10b3dlci1jbG9zZS11cC00LTEwMjQuanBn/40/54/webp "Int. [i.e., international] broadcasting station, Ramallah. Various of tower. Close up")
Int. [i.e., international] broadcasting station, Ramallah. Various of ...
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A black and white photo of power lines, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...
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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. B.J. Rogan (right), defense worke...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam gene...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmiss...
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Tennessee Valley Authority. Pole line carrying 110-volt current genera...
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Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Moscow Radar Site Transmit...
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Lush green hills frame rows of power lines west of Modesto in Californ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Sunset scene in rural Tom Green County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Hoover Dam, Henderson-Mead Transmission Line 2, Spanning Colorado Rive...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Previously known as a segment of the Davis-Hoover and the Hoover-Mead Transmission Lines, the documented segment of the Henderson-Mead Transmission Line 2 was con... More
Ryan Hydroelectric Facility, Ryan-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission Line,...
Significance: The transmission line is an early and well preserved example of an important innovation in electric power transmission line technology, the H-frame support structure. Comprised of two-wood poles c... More
Puget Sound Power & Light Company, White River Hydroelectric Project, ...
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Puget Sound Power & Light Company, White River Hydroelectric Project, ...
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Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, ...
Significance: It is one of six switchyards built between 1935 and 1952 to provide terminals for major transmission lines carrying electricity to markets in California, Nevada, and Arizona. All of these faciliti... More
Mystic Lake Hydroelectric Facility, Electric Transmission A Line, Alon...
Survey number: HAER MT-130-A Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction
Hoover Dam, Cable Hoist House, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark Co...
Significance: It provided access to control cable tunnels from the power plant to the switchyard relay house, and a transformer in the lower level of the hoist house provided operating electricity to the switch... More
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
March Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command, Utility Building, 5220 Ri...
Significance: Building 2605 (HABS CA-2788-A), with its support Building 2606 was determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 1995 under Criterion Consideration ... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...
Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More
Chollas Heights Naval Radio Transmitting Facility, Tower 32, 6410 Zero...
Survey number: HAER CA-154-P Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction
Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California
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New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, Shell Interlocking Tower, Ne...
Significance: Although the Shell Interlocking Tower no longer contains its original interlocking equipment, it is architecturally significant as representative of the type of structure built by the New York, Ne... More
Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, M...
Significance: The Transmission Line is significant as a contributing element of the Fort Peck Town Site and Dam Multiple Resource Property. It maintains its integrity and is directly associated with the constru... More
Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, M...
Significance: The Transmission Line is significant as a contributing element of the Fort Peck Town Site and Dam Multiple Resource Property. It maintains its integrity and is directly associated with the constru... More
Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...
Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More
Cedar Falls Hydroelectric Works, Cedar Falls Road, 3.5 miles south of ...
Significance: The assemblage of industrial structures and architectural features that comprise the Cedar Falls Hydroelectric Works Historic District occupies an important position in the political and social ev... More
Oakland Naval Supply Center, Maritime Street at Seventh Street, Oaklan...
Significance: The Oakland Naval Supply center possesses significance as one of the primary supply center for operations in the Pacific Theater of World War II. During the period 194-1950, the supply center was... More
Red Cross Siberian Commission - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...
Title and date attribution based on information and events depicted in series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is... More
Potomac Electric Power Co. Workers looking up at pole
Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More
Potomac Electric Power Co. Power line near Washington Grove VII
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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Powerlines I
Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More
Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Power lines at Conowingo II
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Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Power lines at Conowingo I
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A black and white photo of electrical equipment. Great Depression FFSA...
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A black and white photo of power lines. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...
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Oil derricks. Kilgore, Texas - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...
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Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry ...
12002-36. 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
A black and white photo of a telephone pole, Great Depression. FSA/OWI...
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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of hi...
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Electric wiring. Telluride, Colorado
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A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Great Depression ...
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Making electricity available for the prefabricated houses at the FSA (...
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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric swit...
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Norris Dam, Tennessee. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domai...
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A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for th...
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Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...
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Long Island Lighting Co., Hicksville. Wires I
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Power towers and lines near Italy, Texas, in Ellis County
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Colorful late-summer soybean field, ready for harvesting near West Laf...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More