Historic Mining Operations

Images depict various underground mining scenes, showcasing miners, machinery, and rock formations in a historical context.

Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, Shaft 7, looking east into Shaft 6, Rutland, Mass., Oct. 25, 1929

A so -called clogging room in the mine in Boliden.

Water line CISMON-BERETTA .. (3rd pumping station in the cavern). .

Honor Friedersdorf. Erzbergbau. "United field". Funding operation (slide)

Predilstraße, construction of the street tunnel instead of the avalanche roof.

This 1901 albumin photograph by Nadar shows the Port of Marseille during the construction of the Pinède basin, highlighting masonry joints between structural massifs and early 20th-century port infrastructure.

Four men's chopping coal; Coal layer ....

Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, Shaft 7, looking east into Shaft 6, Rutland, Mass., Oct. 25, 1929

Skidding with Animals - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The sweat grape. Driving the large tunnel, old mine in 1918.

Construction of the Paris Metropolitan Metropolitan Railway: workers in an underground line of line 5. "Line 5 / same view as previous". Anonymous. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123881-16

In the tunnel of a coal mine, Pittsburg, Penn'a. Perfec" stereograph. 13220. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1907. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal miners

Rio Martino Cave: bivouac of speleologists from the Piedmont Speleological Group CAI-UGET Turin during explorations that revealed new branches of significant hydrological interest, relatively poor in concretions but with notable depth and extent.

Ventilation fan and lighting transformer of 100 meters of the industry in the springfall mine 1912.

Workers in the ombilin coal field on Sumatra. Part of photo album from a journey by the United States, Honolulu, Dutch East Indies, Aden, Zanzibar and Southern Africa.

Installing Pipe Spillway on #122-9. 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. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, heading through at Sta. 1230+08, looking east from east heading of Shaft 12, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 14, 1933

On the line between Noresund and Floda. Double track building between Alingsås - Olskroken. The tunnel roof is blown down.

A Rock-Drill End, East Pool Mine. John Charles Burrow (British, 1850 - 1914)

Contract No. 14, East Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, West Boylston, Holden, Rutland, car lifter, Shaft 3, Holden, Mass., May 5, 1930

Stone drilling machine.

Men standing over unfinished sewer , Sewers, Waterways, Construction Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

8 mm M.07/12 Mg. .

Contract No. 45, Exploration by Shovel Cuts of Borrow Areas for Main Dam and Dike, Belchertown, Enfield, Ware, view of left bank at Sta. 1+90, shovel cut 'H', dike borrow area no. 10, Belchertown, Mass., Oct. 19, 1934

Surveyors at work, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Erzbergbau, Freiberg, Archement and processing

From the castings in the roof of the machine hall in Porjus power plant.

Bossea Cave: speleologists ascending a narrow passage.

City Hall Station. Clearing from the inner core. May 9, 1899. City Hall Station. Clearing from the inner core. 4th arrondissement, Paris. May 9, 1899. Construction of Parisian metropolitan. "Town Hall Station. Interior core clearing. Paris (IVE), May 9, 1899". Photograph of Charles Maindron (1861-1940). Gélatino-Chloride Draw Developed.

Engineer Allen Inspecting Fire Damage. 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. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, relocation of 6 in. water pipe around manhole 8B, shovel on center of manhole 8B, Maple Avenue, Rutland Sewer, Rutland, Mass., Oct. 10, 1940

159-45 Spring Development at White Cloud's near Wakpala. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Placing a hydrant , Fire hydrants, Construction workers. Wayland Free Public Library Cage Collection

Leading stope over no. 4 level, Woodstock Gold Mine, New Zealand, by Beattie & Sanderson.

Mangahao Power Station black-and-white prints

Placing a hydrant , Fire hydrants, Construction workers. Wayland Free Public Library Cage Collection

Spring 119. 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

Ore in Spacious IV, Anonymous, 1921 photograph Look in the hold where it is to be unloaded. The Indonesian workers and some European supervisors, September 1921, are unnumbered around the body. 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 crew ~ ship. steamsailer Belawan

Flip ravel icing. Temporary team. .

Ore train in mining town in Boliden.

The picture shows a stone wall in the cable shaft in Porjus.

The water tunnel at Olidan power plant, Trollhättan.

The master cuts away the upper part of the pile with gas, at Skövde.

Mangahao Power Electric Station black-and-white prints

Coal layer in the Open Mine, 1921 - 1922 photograph Wall of the open mine in which the coal layer is clearly visible, a standing man in front of the wall. 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

Battery delivery northwest Josefowka at Konuchy.

Miner Drilling and Laborer Loading Anthracite, Scranton, Pa, Single Image of Stereo Card, Circa 1915

Three Young Coalminers with Mules, Pennsylvania. Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874 - 1940)

Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, looking west into Shaft 7, Rutland, Mass., Oct. 25, 1929

The track is linked together for the railway construction in Ånge.

Distribution Department, Cochituate Aqueduct, looking south from station 642+0, Newton, Mass., May 6, 1909 , waterworks, aqueducts, water tunnels

Drivers and Mules with young laborers in a West Virginia coal mine. October 1908 photo by Lewis Hine.

Coal mining on the shaft bottom.

The foreman on the work site in the southern mouth of the Simplon tunnel, Italy, photograph by J Enderli, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 35, August 30, 1903.

The construction of the tunnel under the Seine River for the Paris subway, France, drawing by Frantisek Kupka from L'Illustration, No 3274, November 25, 1905.

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, heading through at Sta. 1230+08, looking west from west heading of Shaft 11, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 14, 1933

Men standing in opening of unfinished sewer , Construction, Sewers Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

Contract No. 51, East Branch Baffle, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Greenwich, Hardwick, No. 3 quarry tunnel from cross 'T' of tunnel no. 1, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 21, 1937

Apuan Alps: two speleologists in a cave.

Excavation site of the church Saint-Germain-l'auserrois, Place du Louvre, 1st arrondissement, Paris Excavation Site of Saint-Germain Church-Louvre Place du Louvre, Paris (IER ARR.). Anonymous Photography. Draw on Albuminum Paper.

Several African American men working on hillside at the iron ore bank at Elizabeth Furnace in Virginia, 1878. Photo by Jedediah Hotchkiss.

Ground work for casting Kassun 4.

Balance Box at Dolcoath Mine. John Charles Burrow (British, 1850 - 1914)

Mining coal three miles under ground, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1895. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Coal mining , Pennsylvania

Afro-Caribbean laborers, including one woman, in the stone quarries, Jamaica in 1900.

Construction of the Municipal Metropolitan Railway from Paris: Underground running under Franklin Street, Gallery of Advancement, 16th Arrondissement, Paris Parisian metro. "Construction of the Municipal Metropolitan Railway of Paris: Underground running under Franklin Street, Progress Gallery, Paris (16th arrest)". Photograph of Charles Maindron (1861-1940). Gélatino-Chloride Draw Developed. October 23, 1902.

Personnel inside the Falu mine.

Vintage Photograph. Installation of storm sewer in Miami Florida.

Interior of Virginia City, Nevada Mine, 800 Feet Below. Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

Elsevier photo collection. Gold mine discovered. town Kotamabagoe located 240 km south-west Menado. 2-5-2 R.I. listed fulfill duty, mainly consists 2 3 weeks patrols. 1-day patrol recently newly discovered gold mine, approximately 16 km Kotamabagoe. Arriving Goudveld ore mountain diligent native hands, resting now. August 1948. Celebes, Indonesia, Indonesia, Kotamabagu, Dutch East Indies, Sulawesi

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, 4A line, looking back from Sta. 3+75, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Apr. 2, 1941

Kalmar stations and cable work. 1900. Cable work.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 former mining. undated

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, heading through Shafts 11 to 12 at Sta. 1230+08, engineering force of Shaft 12, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 14, 1933

The cave used to artificially cultivate mushrooms 1963. Gravere, Italy

Contract No. 14, East Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, West Boylston, Holden, Rutland, heading through Shaft 2 to 1 looking east, Sta. 29+34, Holden, Mass., Jun. 15, 1930

Ore mining in Dannemora mine.

Pillars in a mine in Cornwall; The 66, Blue Hills Mine; Above the 406, Cook's Kitchen Mine. Above a pier in the Blue Hills Mine, under a pier in the Cook's Kitchen Mine.

12/31/1958. The Carts go to the same pit to extract the Stones Released by the Dynamite Explosions. During the loading tasks of a wagon, the laborer Amador Vilches, victim number sixteen of the Deception tunnel, lost his life due to a landslide.

Project (Building Root Cellar). 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

Riprapping on Downstream Outlet Pipe Spillway, # 9 Wakpala District. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Marmolataglescher: Cleanliness in the underground gears.

A miner from New Saza Mines at work drilling quartz rock that will later be torn apart by mines.

The sweat grape. Checking the transport route in the mine.

Description: General views of Aden, produced by the Aden Public Relations Department Location: Aden, Yemen Date: 1950-1959

Miners in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, Anonymous, Strohmeyer & Wyman, 1895 stereograph Pennsylvaniapublisher: New York (city)publisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print shafts and galleries (of a mine) Pennsylvania

Distribution Department, Cochituate Aqueduct, looking south from station 628+0, Newton, Mass., May 6, 1909 , waterworks, aqueducts, water tunnels

Archaeological excavations in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LVI, No 18, May 5, 1929.

Cavern in the right wing section. Machine operation M.Press air. .

Elsevier photo collection. "Merdeka" series. VII aftermath events. ruins, population looking worth. 1947. Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang

Japanese foundry showing husband and wife working at a forge. 1890

Work Mitterberg, Kavernen.

Contract No. 30, Stream Control Works at Main Dam, Swift River Reservoir, Belchertown, Enfield, Ware, drill carriages used in diversion tunnel of stream control works, Belchertown, Mass., Mar. 24, 1932

Making gunpowder at Beit Jibrin. Boiling the liquid 1900, Israel, Bet Guvrin

Conveyer line for carrying bird's-eye coal to bin, Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Scranton (Pa.)

Transparency - Interior of coal mine, AB, about 1935

12/31/1958. The head of Works, Mr. Pedro Escoda, on the left, and the Public Works Assistants, Messrs. Prado and Sainz de la Mora - in the background and on the right - are pictured together with the author of this report in the place where the construction crews met. Workers coming from the north mouth with those coming from the south mouth.

Interior of cutting shed at Quarry, construction of the McKim Building , Granite quarrying, Stone cutting, Boston Public Library

Construction of Trelleborg F Stationshuset.

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

Olive crushing and pressing. Putting crushed olives into basket-containers for pressing. 1920, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

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