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Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Colorado

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, and he even admits it's a mighty important and necessary job, but it can't compare with stopping building tanks and going to work on pie and milk. He's eating his lunch in the midst of a pile of wheels and runners for M-3 tanks at the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon plant comes this once familiar vehicle which is being built in great volume these days as a result of the rubber shortage. This worker is giving a farm wagon the final once-over

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut on the flange of a cargo winch drum for the Maritime Commission. This machine in the converted plant of a Midwestern farm implement manufacturer was used to turn inside cuts on farm tractor wheels

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut o...

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.

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wheel assemblies ready for painting in the plant of a Southern wheel company which is having boom business these days on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wh...

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a switch engine are ready to shunt cars loaded with fiberglass materials onto the main line for movement to vital war industries

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a s...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

[City Point], Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels

[City Point], Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Repairing locomotives, Penn. R.R. shops, Altoona, Pennsylvania--engine hoisted for replacing wheels

Repairing locomotives, Penn. R.R. shops, Altoona, Pennsylvania--engine...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins

This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, ...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Line. The locomotive in process of keeling over on to its wheels as the steam-wintch [i.e., winch] chuggs heavily on its weight over double its tested strength

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Li...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These wheels help make the demountable house "demountable." Frame for a section of one of the 150 demountable houses which the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is building at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for defense workers. A set of four wheels is mounted in the base of the floor frame of each section, one wheel near each corner. The

These wheels help make the demountable house "demountable." Frame for ...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. Ready for final assembly, these bogie wheel springs have been stacked in the erstwhile warehouse of a Midwest heater factory. These springs are fitted into bogie wheel assemblies for Army M-4 tanks

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. Ready for final assembly, these b...

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

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a Lompoc, California project. Electrical, water and drainage connections have been made. Heavy wooden sawhorses are slipped under each end in line with main support of trailer floor, to permit removal of wheels and re-use of tires in delivering other trailers. This trailer was made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a ...

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

Topeka, Kansas. Wheeling an engine of the 3200 freight class in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops. The engine is about to be lowered onto its wheels

Topeka, Kansas. Wheeling an engine of the 3200 freight class in the At...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Safe clothes for women war workers. Her hair tucked away under a safety cap, war worker Eunice Kimball stands beside whirling machine wheels with no wisp of hair exposed. She's completely protected from the danger of entanglement in moving machine parts. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

Safe clothes for women war workers. Her hair tucked away under a safet...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be g...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[City Point], Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels

[City Point], Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Armenians taking spinning wheels home

Armenians taking spinning wheels home

Photo shows Armenian women and boys, outside of a building in Yerevan, Armenia. (Source: similar Bain negative: LC-B2-4477-7)

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

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

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) experimental trailer-house is backed up onto its foundation in the mountains of North Carolina. The section is equipped with wheels on the underside, the foundation is equipped with tracks. The wheels are placed on the tracks and half a house rolls into

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Tennessee Valley Authority; KX-1831. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office ... More

Chicago, Illinois. Painting grease on the bearings of new car wheels just arrived from the shops at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad rip tracks

Chicago, Illinois. Painting grease on the bearings of new car wheels j...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two new tools were set in the New Britain-Gridley lathe, pictured above, to adapt it for the cutting of twenty-millimeter shell booster parts. The new parts are an eccentric spindle, which may be seen attached to a driving rod in the center of the machine, and a thread rolling attachment. In peacetime, the machine was used to turn out spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings in steel and brass

Two new tools were set in the New Britain-Gridley lathe, pictured abov...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship leaves the main assembly line of a large Western aircraft plant. The station stand has been swept clear and the ship is being lowered away to rest on its own wheels. From here it will be rolled to a test field where propellers will be installed. If trial flights and final inspections prove it satisfactory, the ship will be delivered to the Army

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another new Lockheed P-38 pu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant. Wheels are quickly bolted to Dodge Army trucks by automatic wrenches

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant....

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Greasing truck wheels

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Greasing truck wheels

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Spinning prayer wheels], gelatin silver print

[Spinning prayer wheels], gelatin silver print

Photograph shows boy standing in front of row of prayer wheels, Sikkim.

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a S...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the whe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane takes form on the production line. The wings and the Allison engines are already in place, and the ship now stands on its own wheels. It still requires many detail jobs before completion, but they are done rapidly under a well-ordered plan, and the plane will soon be rolled out for the fitting of propellers

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. War housing trailers. Multiple duty for war housing trailer tires. Back from a trailer housing site comes this Department of Agriculture truck with 150 tires on which new war housing trailers were delivered from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Upon delivery, trailers are shifted to horses. Wheels and tires are removed and sent back for the delivery of other wooden trailers. The original plan was to leave them on the trailers to make fast evacuation of trailers and workers possible. The acute tire shortage made the plan unfeasible

Production. War housing trailers. Multiple duty for war housing traile...

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

Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Roller skates. Literally helping to speed the war effort, Dolores Richardson and Geneva Carpenter are ""expeditors" at Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo, California, where they deliver inter-departmental messages on roller skates

Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Roller skates. Literally...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombers to a platform on deck insures safe transit from an American port to the bombers' destination. Crews of highly specialized workers are required to load assembled planes on shipboard and to prevent their becoming dislodged in heavy seas. These precautions are unnecessary when planes are sent unassembled in crates; however, most planes going to the Near East are shipped ready for flight within one hour after docking, since in many ports competent unloading equipment is lacking or has been demolished by Axis raids

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Wheeling an engine in the Achison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops. The engine is being lowered onto its wheels on a signal from the foreman

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Wheeling an engine in the Achison, Topeka and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Sling cart for moving heavy cannon

Sling cart for moving heavy cannon

Stereograph showing an officer leaning against the wheel of a sling cart used to carry heavy artillery. To give a sense of the size of the cart, the officer's head reaches only the hub of the wheel. No. 1151. ... More

Giant wheels ten feet in diameter, once used for carrying logs to sawmill, Michigan

Giant wheels ten feet in diameter, once used for carrying logs to sawm...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. The beginning of a wagon wheel. Worker at a Southern wagon builder's plant finishes the assembly of a wheel hub

Production. Wagon wheels. The beginning of a wagon wheel. Worker at a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. One of the huge landing wheels of a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber ready for flight tests at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. One of the huge landing wheels of a new...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Lubricating the bogie wheels of an M-3 tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army is very particular about its equipment and one of the first lessons the recruit learns is to give each vehicle the attention it requires

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Lubricating the bogie ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. The company never hired women until recently and most of these women are still learning to use the machines

Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Co...

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.

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

[The Countess sat in a bath chair]

[The Countess sat in a bath chair]

No accession number. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The White Cockatoo" by Mary Austin, Century Magazine 83:558 (Feb. 1912).

To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels. Near Bakersfield, California

To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of a Southern wagon plant is fitting spokes to the hub assembly with the aid of this machine

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American worker hooking locomotive wheels to a crane at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American worker hooking locomotive wheels t...

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

Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap Historic Village, museum of fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th century located in the small town of Buffalo Gap south of Abilene, Texas

Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap His...

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

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from December 29, 1891 to September 13, 1894
Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

[Richmond, Virginia Wheels and burned railroad cars near Richmond & Petersburg Railroad station]

[Richmond, Virginia Wheels and burned railroad cars near Richmond & Pe...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Sling-cart for moving heavy cannon

Sling-cart for moving heavy cannon

Stereograph showing an officer leaning against the wheel of a sling cart used to carry heavy artillery. To give a sense of the size of the cart, the officer's head reaches only the hub of the wheel. No. 1151. ... More

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