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Plate 19: Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outside Porta S. Sebastiano, from Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

Plate 19: Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outside Por...

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A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive miles south of Boston, including an accurate draft of the harbour and town.

A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive miles so...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water, upon which the army under the command of Lt. General Burgoyne, took post on the 20th Sepr. 1777 (shewing General Frazer's funeral) / Barlow sculp.

View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water,...

Print shows a panoramic view of three hills along the west bank of the Hudson River in New York.

Colinet's Journey: Milestone Marked 'LXII Miles to London', from Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil

Colinet's Journey: Milestone Marked 'LXII Miles to London', from Thorn...

William Blake (British, London 1757–1827 London)

Freestone Culvert on the National Road 21 miles west of Zanesville O.

Freestone Culvert on the National Road 21 miles west of Zanesville O.

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Maps of Nicaragua, North and Central America : population and square miles of Nicaragua, United States, Mexico, British and Central America, with routes and distances; portraits of Gen. Walker, Col. Kinney, Parker H. French, and views of the Battle of New-Orleans and Bunker Hill.

Maps of Nicaragua, North and Central America : population and square m...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Great Falls of the Spokane River, W.T. 30 miles below the Cour D'Alene Lake.

Great Falls of the Spokane River, W.T. 30 miles below the Cour D'Alene...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 58. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Joshua Taylor from "Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colleges ... To which are added, notes upon the villages within ten miles, a map, etc"

Joshua Taylor from "Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colle...

This image has been taken from scan 000009 from "Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colleges ... To which are added, notes upon the villages within ten miles, a map, etc". The title and subject terms ... More

The George Ankeney family who lived 15 miles north west of Sargent at Cummings Park, Custer County, Nebraska

The George Ankeney family who lived 15 miles north west of Sargent at ...

summary: Mrs. Ankeney was the wife of James Cumming who was killed in the well show in this photograph in September of 1885. The well was rebuilt in 1886. Mr. Ankeney was working for Mr. Cumming at the time o... More

[Detroit, Mich., Miles Theatre]

[Detroit, Mich., Miles Theatre]

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Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. engine scooping water; train running 25 miles an hour.

Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. ...

Photograph shows train moving along track; water coming from underneath train. Copyright 1894 by F. W. Blauvelt, N. Y.

Apple orchard six miles west of Ansley, Nebraska

Apple orchard six miles west of Ansley, Nebraska

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From the summit of Fujiyama northeast over Lake Yamanka [sic] (12,000 ft. below and 10 miles distant), Japan

From the summit of Fujiyama northeast over Lake Yamanka [sic] (12,000 ...

Four Japanese men on mountain, looking out over valley. H58663 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3846.

[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the ground, covering a distance of about 14.2 miles in 25 minutes and 5 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the grou...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

Driving cattle across railroad tracks near Sumner, Nebraska, showing the Wood River Valley 2 miles to the east.

Driving cattle across railroad tracks near Sumner, Nebraska, showing t...

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SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, REAR ADMIRAL, U.S.N. FUNERAL, ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. PALLBEARERS: ADMIRAL W.P. POTER; GENERAL N.A. MILES; ADMIRAL REMEY; ADMIRAL BROWNSON; ADMIRAL G.H. WADLEIGH

SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, REAR ADMIRAL, U.S.N. FUNERAL, ST. JOHN'S CHURC...

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Gutley #2 - largest gasser in the World, 8 miles south of Sinton, Texas

Gutley #2 - largest gasser in the World, 8 miles south of Sinton, Texa...

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Ashokan Reservoir. View of Waste weir and concrete-paved Spillway. Waste water is carried through channel to Esopus creek, two miles below Olive Bridge dam. Contract 3. June 18, 1912.

Ashokan Reservoir. View of Waste weir and concrete-paved Spillway. Was...

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Miles Poindexter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Miles Poindexter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Ex Slaves - Josh Miles, Age 78

Ex Slaves - Josh Miles, Age 78

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2 boy scouts walk 800 miles to Washington. Washington, D.C., June 16. A modern odyssey ended today with the arrival in Washington of two Venezuelan Boy Scouts, starting January 11, 1935 from Caracas they tramped 25 miles a day for two years thru jungles and swamps to be here in time for the Boy Scout Jamboree, they were met on the steps of the Capitol by the Minister from Venezuela Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante, and Mrs. Juan Lecuna, wife of the Attache of the Legation, Rafael Angel Petit, and Juan Carmona, on the right

2 boy scouts walk 800 miles to Washington. Washington, D.C., June 16. ...

A black and white photo of a group of people on the steps of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beatrice Tyler, hiked from Santa Fe, N.M., 2600 miles, 1/16/26

Beatrice Tyler, hiked from Santa Fe, N.M., 2600 miles, 1/16/26

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Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan, the newest cutter of the service now anchored at the Navy Yard, Washington D.C. This radio room houses three transmitters and three receiving sets. On the maiden trip she picked up an SOS and towed a schooner 1,500 miles, a record tow. The cutter cost approximately $1,000,000. Ensign Leslie B. Tollaksen, is shown in the photograph

Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Gu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

President Coolidge receives transcontinental debating team of Oregon State College. The debating team of the Oregon State College, who are making a tour of 15,000 miles through the United States debating on the subject of American Investments [...] foreign countries, were received by President Coolidge at the White House today. In the photograph, left to right: Grant McMillan; Roger Ball; W.A.Dahlberg; John R. West

President Coolidge receives transcontinental debating team of Oregon S...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hotel Gasque, Florence, S. C., 475 miles from Baltimore, 556 miles to Tampa

Hotel Gasque, Florence, S. C., 475 miles from Baltimore, 556 miles to ...

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Zinn's Modern Diner, located on Route 222 -- 12 miles from Reading and 18 miles from Lancaster, Penna.

Zinn's Modern Diner, located on Route 222 -- 12 miles from Reading and...

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Sleepy Hollow, where old friends meet, 12 miles east of Greenburg, 7 miles west of Ligonier on U.S. Route #30

Sleepy Hollow, where old friends meet, 12 miles east of Greenburg, 7 m...

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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. A river of crude oil. Result of an uncontrolled gusher

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq. Hindiyah Barrage. About 48 miles S.E. of Baghdad. Below the dam looking across the water

Iraq. Hindiyah Barrage. About 48 miles S.E. of Baghdad. Below the dam ...

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Nimrud, 20 miles S. of Mosul. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.

Nimrud, 20 miles S. of Mosul. American colony in Jerusalem public doma...

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Joyce Estate, Main Pump House, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north of County Road 335, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN

Joyce Estate, Main Pump House, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 m...

Significance: In 1917, wealthy Chicagoan David Gage Joyce erected a complex of buildings on Trout Lake to serve as a family summer resort. A description of the Joyce Estate, published in 1922, notes that the s... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Culvert 200, 136 miles above tidewater, Hancock, Washington County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Culvert 200, 136 miles above tidewater, Hanco...

Survey number: HABS MD-801 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock 46, 107.4 miles from tidewater, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock 46, 107.4 miles from tidewater, Williams...

Survey number: HABS MD-793 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joyce Estate, Privy, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north of County Road 335, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN

Joyce Estate, Privy, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north...

Significance: Little is known about the Privy, a small structure set in the woods about 40 feet behind (west of) the Maid's Cabin (HABS No. MN-146-M) in the Main Cabin Compound. ... This small, single-story str... More

Joyce Estate, Water Tank, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north of County Road 335, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN

Joyce Estate, Water Tank, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles ...

Significance: There is no documentary or pictorial evidence concerning the age or origins of the Water Tank. A description of the Joyce Estate, published in 1922, noted that the sleeping cottages in the Main C... More

Ashland, Privy & Wash House, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexington, Fayette County, KY

Ashland, Privy & Wash House, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexin...

Survey number: HABS KY-172-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000357

Harlow Lewis Calvert Farmstead, Swine House, South side of U.S. Route 50, 1.9 miles south of Guysville, Guysville, Athens County, OH

Harlow Lewis Calvert Farmstead, Swine House, South side of U.S. Route ...

Significance: The Harlow Lewis Calvert Farmstead is a rare surviving example of Allegheny Plateau agricultural practices, land uses, and farm architecture. The swine house was constructed at the end of the nine... More

Huntingdon Furnace, Office, 2 miles northwest of Colerain Mansion, Franklinville, Huntingdon County, PA

Huntingdon Furnace, Office, 2 miles northwest of Colerain Mansion, Fra...

Survey number: HAER PA-243-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rice's Gas Station Complex, Motel, Kimmerly Lots, South of Avon, 32 miles West of Helena, Avon, Powell County, MT

Rice's Gas Station Complex, Motel, Kimmerly Lots, South of Avon, 32 mi...

Significance: The gas station and motel are examples of 1930s filling station and automobile-related commercial lodging facilities made popular with new highway construction and increased automobile use at the ... More

Eleanor, West Virginia. Four-room houses occupied by workers at the Plymouth mines, five miles east of the Red House Farms project, on highway number thirty-five. New York Central Railroad water is carried from a well across the railroad tracks

Eleanor, West Virginia. Four-room houses occupied by workers at the Pl...

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEAVES FOR STUMPING TOUR. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEFT WASHINGTON TODAY FOR A NINE-DAY STUMPING TOUR WHICH WILL TAKE APPROXIMATELY 5,000 MILES THROUGH TEN STATES IN A LAST-MINUTE DRIVE FOR REELECTION. NINE OF THE STATES HE WILL VISIT ARE REGARDED IN THE 'DOUBTFUL' COLUMN. IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS, L TO R: SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE; SEC. OF COMMERCE ROPER; MRS. JAMES ROOSEVELT; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEAVES FOR STUMPING TOUR. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEFT...

A group of men standing next to each other on a train. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn and silo on farm optioned by Resettlement Administration fifty miles north of Ithaca, New York. The farm is in good condition and little money need be spent on it. Tompkins County, New York

Barn and silo on farm optioned by Resettlement Administration fifty mi...

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Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was in Corcoran

Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, Cal...

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Vernon Evans and family of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana. Leaving the grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington. Expects to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Makes about two hundred miles a day in Model T Ford. Live in tent

Vernon Evans and family of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montan...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man holding a suitcase, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man holding a suitcase, West Virginia. Fa...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. Form these earnings had to provide their transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling.She says, "I want to go back to where we can live happym live decent, and grow what we eat." He says, "We can't go the way I am now. We've got nothing in the world to farm with. I made my mistake when I came out here."

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roping a calf, rodeo, Miles City, Montana

Roping a calf, rodeo, Miles City, Montana

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Bulldogging, rodeo, Miles City, Montana

Bulldogging, rodeo, Miles City, Montana

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Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E. and R.E. Jones own ninety-nine acres and sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows and this year forty acres in tobacco, no cotton. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 91, about two miles from Wake Forest. Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E...

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Chris Ament, German-Russian dry land wheat farmer, who survived in the Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, three miles south of Quincy. See general caption number 35

Chris Ament, German-Russian dry land wheat farmer, who survived in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man kneeling on the ground next to a horse, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A man kneeling on the ground next to a horse, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a horse, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Great Depression. FSA...

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Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must be hauled thirty-five miles. (Shows homeowner on porch.) Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Great Depression. FSA...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Looking down the newly plowed wheat fields of the Umatilla Valley, Oregon. Thirteen miles south of Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon

Looking down the newly plowed wheat fields of the Umatilla Valley, Ore...

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Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Audience at rodeo, Miles City, Montana

Audience at rodeo, Miles City, Montana

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Construction worker's wife ironing in her tent home. Mission Valley, California, about three miles from San Diego

Construction worker's wife ironing in her tent home. Mission Valley, C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tenants picking cotton on Highway 15, about seven miles south of Chapel Hill. Chatham County, North Carolina

Tenants picking cotton on Highway 15, about seven miles south of Chape...

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During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset. Digging potatoes on the Woodman Potato Company farm eleven miles north of Caribou, Maine

During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset....

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A group of Gypsy children on U.S. 13 five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland

A group of Gypsy children on U.S. 13 five miles south of Salisbury, Ma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield, Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who ...

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Harvesting wheat with a combine on a share's basis, getting about forty bushels to the acre. About ten miles north of Culbertson, Montana, on the road to Froid

Harvesting wheat with a combine on a share's basis, getting about fort...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn out steel parts for a large Eastern shipyard building units of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet." Here they operate a giant shear. This plant was originally used to produce freight cars, and the shears are part of the plant's original equipment. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn ...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn out steel parts for a large Eastern shipyard building units of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet." Here they operate a giant shear. This plant was originally used to produce freight cars, and the shears are part of the plant's original equipment. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn ...

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Mr. Fred Longamore helping his brother move out of the Pine Camp expansion area to a new farm fifty-six miles away. Mr. Longamore's own farm is also in the area. Near Pine Camp, New York

Mr. Fred Longamore helping his brother move out of the Pine Camp expan...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision of the elevating mechanism assembly of a thirty-seven-millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Planes of 300 miles an hour and better present a fast-moving target which requires precision operation in the anti-aircraft gun that must follow their flight to protect America's lives and property. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision...

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

Tourists drive many miles to stand and look at the beautiful New England. Mohawk Trails, Massachusetts

Tourists drive many miles to stand and look at the beautiful New Engla...

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A display of pottery at the Virginia crafts co-op on U.S. Highway No. 1 about twenty miles north of Fredericksburg, Virginia

A display of pottery at the Virginia crafts co-op on U.S. Highway No. ...

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A display of preserves and handmade dolls at the Virginia crafts co-op on U. S. Highway No. 1, twenty miles north of Fredericksburg, Virginia

A display of preserves and handmade dolls at the Virginia crafts co-op...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A pipe fitter measures up and squares up as a new pipeline is fitted at the Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension ...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new generator unit in place at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Completed units show in the background. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new gen...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Miles of preformed aluminum alloy tubing are placed on racks in stockrooms ready for assembly in bomber and fighter planes built at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, where women are fast taking over the jobs of the stockmen. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Miles of preformed aluminum...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Section of one of the switchyards from which high-tension lines carry generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Section of one of the switchyards from whi...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Placing a dynamite charge in a blast hole in bedrock at the site of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Placing a dyn...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Little Ann Heath is eager to try out all the facilities of her parents' new four-room defense housing unit, after spending most of her life in a single furnished room. Here she pushes her footstool to the sink in order to help her mother clean up the dinner dishes. Mrs. Heath, a native of Winsted, a city some twenty-five miles away, is delighted with her new kitchen--the first she's ever had which she actually considers as a kitchen, and is trying out all the recipes she has collected in five years of married life. The Heaths pay thirty dollars monthly for their apartment

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Little Ann Heath is eager to try o...

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Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Lieutenant Benton putting his duffle bag aboard the plane

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank tender at the site of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. His job is to supply hot tar used to fill cavaties in the bed rock. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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The bicycle brigade at Lockheed Vega Aircraft Corporation. Employees living within four miles of Lockheed's plant may purchase bicycles through the company and resell them to the company when need for them no longer exists. This mode of transportation is becoming increasingly popular, and has resulted in the sale of 2400 bicycles in record time. This is part of the swing shift on the way home at 12:30 am

The bicycle brigade at Lockheed Vega Aircraft Corporation. Employees l...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro bucket man at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro bucket...

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Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Director of the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, displays a still-usable truck tire which has run 146,000 miles. The air pressure in its present condition

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Di...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" R...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Concrete work for the scroll case and draft tube is completed up to the scroll case roof. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Adjusting main exciter brushes on the top of a generator in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Adjusti...

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A girl, who is a cook in a roadside restaurant but plans to leave her job to become a nurse, on a Greyhound bus between Cincinnati, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois. She rides for several miles to her home each night

A girl, who is a cook in a roadside restaurant but plans to leave her ...

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Miles Shoes, business at 216 W. 125th St., New York City. Interior I

Miles Shoes, business at 216 W. 125th St., New York City. Interior I

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Black Brant XII Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Black Brant XII Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

The four-stage Black Brandt shown here blasting off from a launch pad at the Wallops Island Flight Facility in rural Virginia is at 66 feet (20 meters), the tallest of NASA's 13 sounding rockets. These rockets ... More

Saturn V static testing - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn V static testing - Saturn Apollo Program

The Saturn V first stages were test fired at the Mississippi Test Facility and at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Five F-1 engines powered the first stage, each developing 1.5 million pounds of thrust.... More

ASTRONAUT JAMES A. MCDIVITT - MISC. - GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-4 WELCOME - ATLANTIC

ASTRONAUT JAMES A. MCDIVITT - MISC. - GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-4 WELCOME - AT...

S65-19530 (7 June 1965) --- The red carpet treatment is given to the Gemini-Titan 4 astronauts Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt as they arrive on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp after t... More

Saturn IB - AS-201, the first Saturn IB launch vehicle

Saturn IB - AS-201, the first Saturn IB launch vehicle

AS-201, the first Saturn IB launch vehicle developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 26, 1966. This was the first flight of the S-IB and S-IVB stages... More

Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, Africa & Antarctica seen from Apollo 4

Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, Africa & Antarctica seen from Apollo 4

AS04-01-580 (9 Nov. 1967) --- Earth as viewed from 10,000 miles. In 1969, the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and o... More

Trail of the Serpent, .4 miles fron East Entrance, Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO

Trail of the Serpent, .4 miles fron East Entrance, Grand Junction, Mes...

Significance: Completed in 1921, Serpent's Trail was the only automobile access to Colorado National Monument until 1937, and continued to be the only access from the Grand Junction end of the monument until 19... More

Rainbow Hydroelectric Facility, Arbor, On north bank of Missouri River 2 miles Northeast of Great Falls, & end of Rainbow Dam Road, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Rainbow Hydroelectric Facility, Arbor, On north bank of Missouri River...

Significance: It is significant for its association with the industrial development of Montana and the consolidation of most of Montana's electric industry into the Montana Power Company. The district is also a... More

Astronauts Stafford and Young await pickup by recovery helicopter

Astronauts Stafford and Young await pickup by recovery helicopter

S69-36595 (26 May 1969) --- Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Apollo 10 commander; and John W. Young, command module pilot, await pickup by the recovery helicopter from the prime recovery ship, USS Princeton. Astr... More

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