Historic Engineering Projects

Images document landscapes and structures related to engineering projects, highlighting historical endeavors in earthworks and reservoirs.

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, swamp, looking westerly from a point 250 feet northwest of Sta. 14, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1939

Repaired Runoff Slabs under Cover #172. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Major Project (Dams and Reservoirs). 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Czajowice standing with wire threaters u.Span. Equestrian .

Looking southeasterly at channel between Middle Branch and East Branch of Swift River from near road, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., 3:45 PM, Apr. 5, 1940 : Parcel no. 431, parcel no. 451 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, artificial water channels

Men Laying Rock Overview. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Photos from the Collection of Engineer Dumas. Photos from the Engineer Dumas collection, including photos of his daughter Jacqueline Eveline Dumas (Eef), a series of pictures of water statements in Dutch-indie, loose photos regarding the training in Delft of Engineer Dumas (60 pieces), 6 albums and loose photos (still to find out).

Lignite mining.

Dam 158 - near Kenel. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, swamp, looking westerly from a point 250 feet northwest of Sta. 14, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1939

Technical Teaching Course Chelel. Support against East from the tribune. .

Oglala Dam (Tamping Gatewell). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking south from a point 200 feet west of Sta. 111+/-, dam 5, showing Schenck's Pond gatehouse and dam 1, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Wachusett Reservoir, bottom, Clinton, Mass., Sept. 17, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, Water levels

Farmstead, Sheridan County, Montana, with manure pile in the coulee. This is rather common practice. Manure is not usually returned to the soil. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Montana , Sheridan County

Clearing at Morton Pond, cleared summer of 1934, Enfield, Mass., Aug. 15, 1934 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, Clearing of land

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, photo no. 4 of panoramic view, looking northeast from point 'B' at site of high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Aug. 23, 1939

Overview of the daybouw Kool layer A2 at Tunnel 8. In the background Het Compressorenhuis, 1921 - 1922 photograph Overview of coal extraction in the Open Mine (daybouw). In the foreground the exposed cabbage layer with workers at Kiep carts. In the background on the left a damned lake and right factory buildings. Part of the loose-leaf photo album offered by the staff of the Boekit-Asam coal mines on Sumatra to the separating engineer director H. Tromp on January 7, 1922. Boekit-asam photographic support gelatin silver print Sumatra. Boekit-Asam

Charcoal vendor in Galicia.

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping by dumping platform 'I', Section 6, Clinton, Mass., May 6, 1902 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Technical Teaching Course Chelm.l. Line G.N.Vom Observatory 29.9.17. .

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, Sta. 889+10 looking east showing twin aqueduct line after blast, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Jan. 23, 1940

Major Project. 1939-11-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Reservoir, stripping Section A, Ashland; Hopkinton, Mass., 1892 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Wachusett Reservoir, stripping on Section 6, below South Clinton, looking westerly, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 9, 1901 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Crew Working on Dam #2. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Technical course. Concreting of a hangar. .

Position on the Typa, wire thirty with moving blocking.

Project (White Clay Dam - Reservoir Basin). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 49, Excavating Diversion Channels, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Dana, Hardwick, Greenwich, looking down channel from Sta. 35+40, middle-east channel, Hardwick, Mass., Dec. 19, 1935

Sand Spraying I/D Ground improvement, Anonymous, 1922 photograph View of the building site with the spraying of dredged sand on the site of the harbor for land improvement, July 1922. Numbered: 180a. Part of the group of individual photos about the construction of the port Belawan on the coast for Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922. Belawan photographic support harbour. building-site Belawan

Freight field at Konuchy. .

Project (Kyle Dam - Ground Grading). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Bulldozing the Spillway. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking east from Sta. 80+00, dam 4 showing possible pervious borrow area, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Apr. 30, 1940

Project 5B Finished Earth Construction. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, impervious material being placed and rolled, looking southeast from Sta. 27+30 dam 1, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Oct. 19, 1939

A.a.gr.Komdo. Cholm.lager against north. .

Belawan, Ocean harbour Belawan, Spraying of sand by the GG Idenburg. Height 2m + BP.), verso - manuscript, Spraying of sand by the GG Idenburg. Numbered: 176. Part of the group of loose photos about the construction of the harbour Belawan on the coast of Medan, Sumatra 1921-1922., photograph, photo, Indische albums, 3, 7-22, bottom right - manuscript, No 176 Spraying of sand by the GG Idenburg. Height 2m + BP.), height 160 mm, width 220 mm, photographer, 1922-07-03 - 1922-07-03, first quarter 20st century, first quarter 20th century, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

Floods 1955 , Floods, Rocks, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

White Clay Dam (Clearing Pilot Channel). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Land area in connection with the State Railway Grinding Factory in Piteå.

Large Sawmills - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Seawinds of reinforced concrete. Creating plates, thousands of plates are ready and piled against the slope of the dike. 1905

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Overview 2300 meter moker flyer, thousand meters expansion possibility. November 1953. Biak, Guinea

Project 3A Kenel to Railroad Grade. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Mill and spirit factory in Obczyna.

Spreading Topsoil. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 82, Constructing Quabbin Hill Road, Ware, panorama from summit of Quabbin Hill, compass bearing north 65 degrees west, Ware, Mass., May 10, 1940

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, spoil area looking north from a point 350 feet+/- northwest of southwest end of dam 3, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1939

Project 5B Construction. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Pulp & Paper Mills - Abandoned Pulp/Paper Mill. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Farming (Field). Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Image of the excavation work for the basin and channel of the Soestduinen pumping station of the Utrecht water supply company.n.b. The basin as a method for winning drinking water only fuctioned from 1883 to 1897.

Junction of channel between Middle Branch and East Branch of Swift River and Middle Branch, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., 4:15 PM, Apr. 2, 1940 : Parcel no. 450-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering

Egyptian irrigating wheel with camel 1900, Egypt

Archaeological excavations in Hungary, Jan Lanting (attributed to), Albert Egges van Giffen, 1928 photograph Hungary Paper. baryta paper gelatin silver print excavation ~ archaeology Hungary

Project (Oglala Dam Site - Beginning Construction). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Road construction camp. Canyon County, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Canyon County

View of an open tingroeve with workers in Belinyu, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of photo album about the Tinwinning on Bangka. Belinyu photographic support gelatin silver print minerals and metals: tin. mining. working class, labourers Belinyu

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion; from the west, Clinton; Sterling, Mass., Sep. 7, 1900 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Warehouse of a buzzing colone.9.9.17. .

Sudbury Department, Hopkinton Reservoir, stripping, looking upstream from dam, Ashland; Hopkinton, Mass., 1893 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Leveling a hill in west end, Lawrence , Art Work of Lawrence and Vicinity Photograph Collection

Discharge of 14' sewer, west side of Bondsville lower pond about 100' below Depot Street, taken from east bank, Boston Duck Co., Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., Oct. 14, 1939 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, ponds water, sewage disposal

Peat heap on Torvmosse in Stanfsjö, Sweden.

Sudbury Department, Sudbury Reservoir, Section K, stripping muck, looking north, Southborough, Mass., Aug. 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Mining - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Transport of heavy machinery for the assembly of the steam kick, 1921 - 1922 photograph Transport of machine parts for mounting the excavator over a trail through the open mine. Part of the loose-leaf photo album offered by the staff of the Boekit-Asam coal mines on Sumatra to the separating engineer director H. Tromp on January 7, 1922. Boekit-asam photographic support gelatin silver print Sumatra. Boekit-Asam

Wheat land and railroad. Eureka Flats, Walla Walla County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Eureka, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, photo no. 1 of panoramic view looking west from point 'A' at site of high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Oct. 2, 1939

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, looking south at river bed from near headwall of culvert, east branch baffle, Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 21, 1936

Grade and Culvert Carried Away. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Project (Spillway Construction). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Falu copper mine.

Discharge of 14' sewer, west side of Bondsville lower pond about 100' below Depot Street, taken from east bank, Boston Duck Co., Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., Oct. 14, 1939 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, ponds water, sewage disposal

Tingroeve in Pangkalpinang with steam winch and pump installation; Pangkalpinang. My 25. quarry with steam winch in sloping surface, steam pump installation and water channels in the quarry. Part of photo album about the tin reclamation on Bangka.

Oglala Dam Project. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Wachusett Reservoir, soil stripping, northern part of Section 4, from the north, Clinton, Mass., May 23, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Tingroeve with employees in Pangkalpinang; Pangkalpinang. My 10. Soil property through a steam winch. Part of photo album about the tin reclamation on Bangka.

Location of Hospital Pump House. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Major Projects. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Irrigation Canal Under Construction. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Vladimir-Wolynskij: bottle warehouse. (28 / II.1918.).

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, stratification on east side of main cut-off trench, station 42+50, Clinton, Mass., May 29, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking east from point 'A', 100 feet east of Sta. 52+50, dam 2 showing reservoir area and swamp 1, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Wachusett Department, Wachusett Watershed, Gates Brook Improvement, preliminary ditch at Bowles Avenue, looking west and east, showing connection with small arm of brook; preliminary ditch at Bowles Avenue crossing,, West Boylston, Mass., Dec. 1915 , waterworks, brooks, drainage, watershed sanitary improvement

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, dam 8 and basin 2, looking east from Sta. 8+00, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Jul. 26, 1940

Elsevier photo collection. dyke breach Nederasselt land Maas Waal. Creating dyke. 1926. Nederasselt

Bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, easterly portion, stratification on east side of main cut-off trench, station 42+50, Clinton, Mass., May 29, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Indian Team at Work on Sandy River. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Project (White Clay dam - Ground Grading). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Oglala Dam Project. 1939-01-01T00:00:00.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking north from right side of Sta. 883+80+/- showing overburden and bedrock, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Apr. 16, 1940

Excavation. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 108, Utility Wharves, Quabbin Reservoir, Ware, view of retaining wall from turn around, looking southwesterly; and view of work boat and wharf looking southwesterly, Ware, Mass., Aug. 17, 1945

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, looking northwesterly from Sta. 13+50 along center line of east branch baffle, Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 7, 1936

Bolidens mine. Removal of surface layers for open pit. The so -called soil spray.

Project (White Clay Spillway Construction). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

DIEN. View from StPT.48 left on the edge of the Basson, next to the factory Lagers, Lady from the works, Tonezzaspitze visible; .

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