Historic Construction Sites

Archival images of construction sites and damages from the past, showcasing historical industrial architecture and equipment.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Bomb Damage To Hangar At Ciampino Airdrome Near Rome, Italy.

Sudbury Reservoir, outlet basin for pipes below overflow at dam, from the southeast, Southborough, Mass., Aug. 4, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams, construction sites

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Wachusett Dam, general view of the excavation, from the south, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, general view of the excavation, from the south, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Cob Dock Improvement, Construction of Seawall, Looking South, Monthly Progress Photo, The Snare and Triest Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Bomb damage to machine shops located on eastern tip of Cavite, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands.

Amid The Destruction Caused By The Atomic Blast On Nagasaki, Japan, The Japanese People Shown Lined Up In This Picture, Are Waiting For The Train At Urakami Railroad Station. Note The Pieces Of Corrugated Iron Roofing Still Clinging To The Mitsubishi Arm

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Walter Schmidt, Night Watchman Of The Refinery Plant At Hamburg, Germany, Is Seen Walking Thru The Storage Dock Where The Gasoline Was Loaded On The Ships. Many Of The Barrels Still Lie On The Dock, Ready For Loading, But They Were Put To Other Uses When

Dry Dock Number 2. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking North - East Half. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock No. 4, Pile of Dirt. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Aaf Bomb Damage In Oil Plants -- Symbolic Of The Destruction Visited On German Oil Plants By Army Air Force Bombers In This Post War Pictorial Evidence, A Segment Of The Rhenania- Ossag Oil Refinery Located At Harburg, Germany. Heavy Bombers Of The 8Th A

Gas works suffered heaviest damage with direct hti on gas tank, total destruction of one large building & 4 medium buildings.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Bomb Damage In The Buer-Scholven Oil Refinery At Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Sudbury Reservoir, top of overflow and south wing wall of dam, from the southwest corner of gatehouse, Southborough, Mass., Aug. 4, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams, construction sites

$Ploesti, Rumania-Concordia Vega Oil Plant. This is part of low-pressure fractionating unit smashed by bomb which made crater in foreground. Fuel comes from still in vapor form is turned into liquid in condensors (left), goes to run-off tanks right.$

A mass of rubbish and twisted metal is all that remains of this section of an oil refinery at Leghorn, Italy, after being attacked by bombers of Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.

Repairing Quay Wall East Side of Dry Dock 1, Looking South, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Part Of One Wall Is Rakishly Left Standing By The Framework Of The Lutherwerke Aircraft Factory, Which, In The Last Three Attacks, Received 128 Heavy Bombers. Attempts Were Made To Repair The Damage Caused By The First Two Attacks, And Production Was Res

Brabag Synthetic Oil Plant At Zietz, Germany Shattered -- The Size Of The Storage Tanks At The Synthetic Oil Plant Is Realized When Compared To The War Correspondent Who Surveys The Scene, Right Center. Prisoners Of War Were To Help Rebuild The Plant. M

Wachusett Dam, looking easterly, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 2, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Some Of The Bomb Damage In The Erla Aircraft Factory At Leipzig. Steel Beams Crushed The Landing Gear Of This Twin-Engined Aircraft And Drove The Propeller Blades Thru The Concrete Floor.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Wachusett Dam, looking westerly, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 6, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, the lower quarry, west end, Boylston, Mass., Sep. 3, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Wachusett Dam, getting out rock at the quarry, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 3, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Draped Like Wet Macaroni, Reinforced Concrete Floor Beams And Roof Spans Of Schweinfurt'S Kugelfischer Works, Germany'S Largest Individual Bearing Producer Believed To Have Employed 12,000 People Prior To The First Bombing Attack, Are Examined By 3 Americ

Wachusett Dam, upper quarry, northerly end, Boylston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Repairs to Second Street, Looking Northeast from Dock Street. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Cofferdam From Dock Bottom-Looking North, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Construction of Sjölundaviadukten, Northern Land Fort and Pillar 5.

Wachusett Dam, lower quarry, easterly end, Boylston, Mass., Jul. 2, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Wachusett Dam, looking southerly from main flume, Clinton, Mass., Dec. 2, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Interior work.. 1903. Photographs. New York Public Library Archives. New York Public Library, New York Public Library. Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Library architecture, Building construction , New York (State) , New York, Building materials, Foundations , New York (State) , New York

Bomb Damaged Henschel Tiger Tank Assembly Plant In Kassel, Germany.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

The Remainder Of What Was Once A Chemical And Chlorosuplhonic Acid Plant For Smoke Screen Manufacture Is Shown. The I.G. Farben Plant Produced Plastics, Dye-Stuffs And Butanol, And, It Was Later Discovered, Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide For Jet-Propulsi

Relocation Central Massachusetts Railroad, rock cut, west of station 85, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 12, 1902 , waterworks, railroads infrastructure, construction sites

Wachusett Dam, looking northwesterly, Clinton, Mass., Jun. 2, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Spot Pond Pumping Station, Eastern Gatehouse, from the south, Stoneham, Mass., Sep. 27, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, gatehouses

People working, 1880-1925, maker unknown.

Wachusett Dam, looking southeasterly, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 6, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pumping Station, foundations, looking west, Brighton, Mass., Dec. 31, 1898 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Wachusett Dam, pumps at the northerly end of the excavation, Clinton, Mass., Jun. 3, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Dry Dock 4, Laying Brick, North West Side, Looking Northwest, Holbrook Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Synthetic Oil Plant, Oppau, Germany, Chemical Industry -- Great Bomb Craters, Results Of Allied Air Attacks, Punctuate The Synthetic Oil Plant. Vigorous Efforts At Reconstruction To Keep This Plant In Operation And The Luftwaffe Supplied With Fuel Were F

SKF Plant in Paris, France, like all important continental manufacturers, is part of tight European cartel organized by Swedish interests. This ground photo testifies to wreckage caused on 31 December 43 when 131 Boeing B-17s dropped 349 tons.

The Skeletonized Building That Used To House The Deurag- Nerag Oil Refinery. Dr. Albrecht Told The American Photographers That He Is Very Happy Now That The Refinery Is In Allied Hands. He Is Tired Of Salvaging And Rebuilding His Complicated Refinery, H

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

In this building 2,500 barrels of oil were destroyed by fire during and after the 8th USAF attack on the Standard Oil Plant at Gennevilliers, suburb of Paris. Beneath the ground floor, 6,000 empty barrels were stored for further use, and these were

The wreckage of storage tanks at the Astra-Romano oil refinery at Ploesti. This refinery is the largest in Rumania, and one of the 15 at Ploesti attacked 23 times between April 5 and August 19, 1943 from the air.

View of the foundation work for the construction of the administration office of the municipal electricity and tram company (Nicolaas Beetsstraat 3) in Utrecht.

Monthly Progress Photo, Foundation Piles, Building 131, Foundation for Latrine, Dry Dock 4, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

View of the destroyed railway bridge in Westervoort.

Quarry with crane. Stenbrott med kran.

Dry Dock Number 2. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, January 11, 1910, Monthly Progress Photo. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking Southwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Sewer Front of Building 20, After Storm. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

A large steam press (lower right) and several heavy castings were stored in this building. The traveling crane was dislodged by one or more of three bomb hits in the far corner of the building. The railway used to transport heavy parts into the shop

Sheet metal shop layout tables are overturned and a press in center of picture is broken. Smoke is from solder pots. At right is small truck.

Wachusett Dam, Waste Weir, looking easterly, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 5, 1904 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, spillways

Porjus power plant during construction. The intake seen from within.

Progress Photo, Hot Water Heating System, Looking Northwest Along Chauncey Avenue from Fourth Street Towards Third Street. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Shipbuilding during the First World War

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

The roof of a grease manufacturing shop collapsed over a rail siding full of tank cars during the 8th USAAF attack of 22 Jun 44, on the Standard Oil plant at Gennevilliers, on the outskirts of Paris. Grease made in this shop was used to lubricate

Wachusett Dam, upper quarry, Boylston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1903 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Kv. Näckström 21, Spring 1913.

Log Transportation: Rafts/ Rafting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Under construction a new building for AB de Laval's steam turbine.

Wachusett Dam, looking southeasterly, Clinton, Mass., Nov. 11, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Washout at coal trestle, looking southerly towards boiler house, George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co., Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 22, 1940 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, damage condition, floods natural events

Ruemmerfrau, 1955, Leplaystrasse, Leipzig, Saxony, GDR, Germany, Europe

Bomb damage to factory north of Rome, Italy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

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