Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

transmission towers

public
102 media by topicpage 1 of 2
Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

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

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection Bushkill to Roseland Transmission Line, From Roseland Borough, Essex County, through Morris County and Sussex County to Hardwick Township, Warren County, Roseland, Essex County, NJ

Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection Bushkill to Roseland Transmiss...

Significance: The creation of the 210-mile-long transmission line known as the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection (PNJ) was a significant step in the extension of efficient and reliable electrical supply t... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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

A black and white photo of a train crossing a bridge. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train crossing a bridge. Office of War In...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Procession of electrical transmission towers in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas

Procession of electrical transmission towers in Van Zandt County in no...

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

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Office of War Inf...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn.

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn.

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

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 an electrical substation. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Office of War Inf...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Procession of electrical transmission towers in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas

Procession of electrical transmission towers in Van Zandt County in no...

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

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission towers

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission tow...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, power plant, electric generator, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Informat...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission towers

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission ...

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

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission towers on farmland

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmissio...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission towers

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission ...

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

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near C...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near C...

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 power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Helix House No. 2, Base of Radio Antenna Structure No. 427, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: Helix House No. 2 (Structure 87) is an octagonal, cast-in-place concrete building constructed in 1945-46. It is nearly identical to the first Helix House (Structure 3) built at RTF-Lualualei in 1... More

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Informat...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection Bushkill to Roseland Transmission Line, From Roseland Borough, Essex County, through Morris County and Sussex County to Hardwick Township, Warren County, Roseland, Essex County, NJ

Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection Bushkill to Roseland Transmiss...

Significance: The creation of the 210-mile-long transmission line known as the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection (PNJ) was a significant step in the extension of efficient and reliable electrical supply t... More

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmission towers on farmland

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Transmissio...

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

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northeast of intersection of State Highway 16 and Indian Service Road 841, La Bajada, Santa Fe County, NM

La Bajada Historic Trails and Roads, Approximately 1 mile East/Northea...

Significance: La Bajada is a prominent geologic and geographic landmark in central New Mexico, and includes trail and road traces that represents major cultural changes resulting from geopolitical activity, tec... More

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of power lines. Office of War Information Phot...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

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

Previous

of 2

Next