industrial history

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant...

Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is the last large reinforced concrete automobile plant left in the Detroit area. The Dodge factory led to the ... More

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant...

Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is the last large reinforced concrete automobile plant left in the Detroit area. The Dodge factory led to the ... More

Novelty Iron works, Foot of 12th St. E.R. New York. Stillman, Allen & ...

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

Vacuum Apparatus. Pontifex and Wood.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, mill, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Drawing of the Fog Bell at Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Lighthouse Plan for Cape Elizabeth, Maine Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of St. Louis, Mo. [Levee]

Purchase; Christie's, South Kensington; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:260). Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public ... More

Paris. Place de la Concorde, Edouard Dontenville ou Dontenvill

Place de la Concorde, 8ème arrondissement, Paris. (Artificial title) Tirage monté en 30 x 40 cm. Inscription - Inscription au recto Place de la Concorde, 8ème arrondissement, Paris.

Cincinnati, Industrial exposition, 1873

C12322 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ehrgott & Krebs.

The Old Mechanic's Bell tower [erected by shipwrights about 1800 at Go...

Erected by shipwrights about 1800 at Goerck and Stanton streets near the East River, N.Y.C. The tolling of the bell marked the end of a ten-hour day, an act of protest against the employers' practice of compell... More

London Omnibus

Description: "Photograph of omnibus marked C.H. waiting for passengers with conductor on steps." Photograph by RL Sirus...Date: 1884..Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/369/232 ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk... More

Steamboats along the levee, New Orleans

Picryl description: Public domain reproduction of a steamship, steamer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Oil wells in the sea, Summerland, Coast Highway, California

Repository: California Historical Society..Date: Undated..General note: Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif...Format: Postcard..Digital object ID: CHS2015.1885..Preferred citation: Oil wells in... More

Interieur van de suikerfabriek van de suikeronderneming Nieuw Tersana,...

Interieur van de suikerfabriek van de suikeronderneming Nieuw Tersana, Cheribon, voormalig Nederlands-Indië. Mannen zijn bezig met het vullen van rieten manden.

Illinois Steel Works & harbor entrance, Calumet Riv., So. Chicago

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Sheffield Car Co., engine & dynamo, and boiler room

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

[Chicago, Ill., 12th St. Bascule Bridge]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steamboat landing, New Orleans, U.S.A.

Stereograph showing cargo being unloaded from four steamboats docked at levee. Copyright 1891 by J.F. Jarvis. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Baltimore, Md., Ottawa-Kas, El Paso, Tex., U.S.A, Toro... More

The Rathdown crew, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 18...

Exact date unknown. Pictured: some of the officers, apprentices and crew of the British square-rigged ship, the Rathdown. This photo was taken in San Francisco in 1892 after the crew had completed a six-month v... More

[Interior view of exhibit hall at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicag...

Copyright by the Allgeier Co., Chicago.

The mince meat department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S....

Woman and men weighing and packing mince meat at table. 2364y1 U.S. Copyright Office. Title also in Spanish.

Uppställningsspår, Pennsylvania Railroad, PRR.

Uppställningsspår, Pennsylvania Railroad, PRR. Public domain image of steam locomotive, railroad, railways, Sweden, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dumping snow into the river after a blizzard, New York

Public domain photograph of train depot, warehouse, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Historical: Logging, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Machinery DIG95702 Tekniska museet, Sweden

Interiör från tråddrageriet vid Fagersta Bruk. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph of Prohibition Agents Destroying a Bar - Bureau of Indian A...

Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times

Paul Borguis in Bousson Borguis aeroplane

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

Tarascon (packet)

Photograph shows steamboat the Tarascon docked with passengers on board. Louisville and Evansville Packet Co., Louisville, Ky.

Erik Eriksson - Turbogenerator 10000 Kw, Värtan.

Turbogenerator 10000 Kw, Värtan. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Uppläggning av långbalkar på monteringsbockar vid AB Gävle Vagnverksta...

Uppläggning av långbalkar på monteringsbockar vid AB Gävle Vagnverkstad. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pi... More

Rotationspress hos Åhlén & Åkerlund, Stockholm.

Rotationspress hos Åhlén & Åkerlund, Stockholm. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bryggeriet Victoria.. Falköping, Sweden

Bryggeriet Victoria.. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gamla Katarinahissen i Stockholm.

Gamla Katarinahissen i Stockholm. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Disponentbostad och Redskapsfabrik i Ransta.

Disponentbostad och Redskapsfabrik i Ransta. Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Looking up 22d St. from corner of Avenue T, ruins of Galveston, Texas,...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Texas Galveston 1900; Storms Hurricanes Tex. 1900; Disasters; Geogr.; Shelf.

Fisherman at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, Oregon

This is a photograph of dipnet fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River. Fishermen stand on wooden platforms over the water with dipnets. Celilo Falls

Nedläggning av 87-pipiga kabelblock enligt ingenjör Hultmans patent, i...

Nedläggning av 87-pipiga kabelblock enligt ingenjör Hultmans patent, i Malmskillnadsgatan mittför huset nr 32 för Allmänna Bolagets räkning.

[Pa. - Carlisle Indian School - student wheelwrights working in shop]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Detroit Iron and Steel Co., Detroit, Mich.

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

Skioptikonbild från A.W. Cronquists besök i Baku- oljedistrikt 1903.

Skioptikonbild från A.W. Cronquists besök i Baku- oljedistrikt 1903. Public domain image of Industrial development in Sweden, 1900s, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

Source of the world's most gigantic fortunes-- pumping wells in the oi...

Stereograph showing men standing in oil field next to large oil rig. H30011 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. On mount: Works and Studios, Washington, D.C., Arlington, N.J.,... More

[U.S. Naval Gun Factory. Wash. D.C. 2 men working at bench]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Guns; Tools; Occupations; Geogr.

[Baltimore fire, 1904] Jones Falls, where fire was checked

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Board of Trade during session, Chicago, Ill

Also available as photographic print, copyrighted 1905, in LOT 9088 with copy negative LC-USZ62-80352 (b&w film copy neg.). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018831. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Just up, Hecla [i.e. Calumet and Hecla Mine] shaft No. 2, Calumet, Mic...

The city of San Francisco on fire after the earthquake. On April 18, 1...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Francisco State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public C... More

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift's Packing House: automatic scr...

H73967 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Meat processing; Shelf.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Oil field. Photoprint copyrighted by Robbins, Bradford, Pa. No copyright r... More

The Future of Trinity Church

Cartoon showing church with a large building built around it. Wood engraving by Albert Levering. Illus. in: Puck, 1907 March 6. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4249. This record contains unverified, old data from capti... More

Bureau Engraving & Printing, Washington, D.C

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

[Machine shop in the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.] / T...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cincinnati NL baseball team

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Back row (standing): Billy Campbell, Ducky P... More

In the spool cotton dept. Bibb Mfg. Co., No. 1, Macon, Ga. Jan. 19, 19...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 524. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Westbrook Train Wreck

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

Gammelbo bruk. "Kopia af Gabriel Thorings karta af år 1694".Kartor, ri...

Gammelbo bruk. "Kopia af Gabriel Thorings karta af år 1694".Kartor, ritningar och aktiebrev rörande bruks- och gruvföretag.Ur Carl Sahlins bergshistoriska samling.

Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine, June 16, 1911

J158092 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; American Photo Co.; July 26, 1911. Copyright claimant's address: Havana, Cuba. No. C.

N. Y. Post Office -- assorting [i.e., sorting] mail

Photograph shows men sorting mail at the Pennsylvania Terminal Post Office (General Post Office Building), now called the James A. Farley Building, located at 421 Eighth Avenue, New York City. (Source: Flickr C... More

A. Hansens Bakeri, Bogstadveien 54, Oslo, 1915. Interiør med bakere i ...

Fra serie fotografier med motiver fra ulike deler av virksomheten til A. Hansens Bakeri, Oslo, innen årene 1896-1915. Bildene er tatt av Oslofotografene Gustav Borgen og Narve Skarpmoen.

Mechanics Corral 1 - National Parks Gallery

Mechanics Corral 1

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Mass.

Two women working in foreground. J218087 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22080.

Cliff House Train - National Parks Gallery

Cliff House steam train going around Sutro Heights Casino. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich.

Men working in plant. J224177 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 22148. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ind. Auto.; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

Maurice Dallongeville (left) and Maxime Leduc (right), refugee childre...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

ARMY, U.S. BUYING ARMY FOOD, SOLD AT FISH MARKET

Burkburnett, Texas oil field

J232962 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Rufus Buchanan; February 17, 1919. Photographer's address: Oklahoma City.

Times Oil Co.

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

Employees of Southern Bell & Telegraph Company at work: Miami, Florida

: floridamemory.com/items/show/35077 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/35077 ) ..Local call number: RC12682..Title: Employees of Southern Bell & Telegraph Company at work: Miami, Florida..Date: 1921..Photog... More

Fasadereklame for Flag sigaretter og Tiedemanns Teddy sigaretter på Kr...

Foto fra Tiedemanns reklame- og tobakksmuseum. Samlingen består av gjenstander, fotografier og arkivalia knyttet til J. L. Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik (etablert 1778). Fabrikken var en sentral og ledende aktør inne... More

[Bishop James E. Freeman watching a stone cutter of the George A. Full...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laying foundation for Arlington Memorial Bridge

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. factory no. 12, Clarksburg, West Virginia. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reservlagret vid Ford Motor Company Aktiebolag, Frihamnen, Stockholm.

Reservlagret vid Ford Motor Company Aktiebolag, Frihamnen, Stockholm. Public domain image of Industry in 20th-century Sweden, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Jersey Zinc Company, Palmerton Plant, Between Route 248 & Hazard R...

Significance: The New Jersey Zinc Company opened its Palmerton Plant to produce metalic zinc, zinc oxide, spelter, and spiegeleisen from ores mined in Sussex County, New Jersey. The plant included over 31 buil... More

Remains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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

Concrete mixing plant. Birmingham, Alabama

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

And now a beer meter. Washington, D.C., May 1. To aid Uncle Same in co...

Part of caption cut off. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch six.

Skoghallsverken i Skoghall.

Skoghallsverken i Skoghall. Public domain image of Industry in 20th-century Sweden, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal miners returning to and from work and children going from school ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Färjeläget i Sassnitz.Tullhus (zollamt) till vänster i bild.

Färjeläget i Sassnitz.Tullhus (zollamt) till vänster i bild. Public domain image of a car, industrial site, Sweden, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hot coffee is always on the kitchen stove. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, M...

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

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Workers watch the launch of a ship at the Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouve...

This photograph by Louis Lee shows a completed Liberty ship leaving its dry dock at the Vancouver Kaiser Shipyards.

General view of machines where cotton thread is wound onto spools from...

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

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of...

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

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

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

"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Co...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

In a grading station at Camden, North Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold miner operating pneumatic drill at Mogollon, New Mexico

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

Old textile mills in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

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

Sea jeeps. This picture shows the Ford amphibian reconnaissance car in...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; U... More

Photograph of Rathborne, Hair, and Ridgeway Sawmill and Box Factory

Original caption: Rathborne, Hair, & Ridgeway Sawmill & Box Factory at Cass Lake, Minn., a subsidiary of the Armour Packing Co. Makes packing boxes of all types. Used about 10 million bd.ft., of all species p... More

Grain storage elevators and flour mill. Great Falls, Montana

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

Children playing under the elevated on the southside of Chicago, Illin...

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

Carnegie-Illinois steel company. Etna, Pennslyvania

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stacks at the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Corporation in Midland, Pennsy...

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

Coal dock. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. Ventura bomber. Along the well-lighted length of the "MacA...

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

Inglewood, California. Interior view of the engine assembly department...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.