Historic Naval Dock Construction

Glass plate negatives showcasing the construction of dry docks at the New York Navy Yard, highlighting industrial progress in early 20th century.

Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pumping Station, northwest corner, engine room, Brighton, Mass., Dec. 31, 1898 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

Dry Dock No. 4 Panorama (162-165). 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, 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, West Wall Backing, Head of Dock, 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.

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

Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pumping Station, northwest corner, engine room, Brighton, Mass., Dec. 31, 1898 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Sewer Junction, Looking Northeast, 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.

Dry Dock 4, South End Looking Southwest, Monthly Progress Photo, Contract 1399, 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.

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.

Dry Dock Number 4, Pits Numbers 3 and 2 B, Showing Curve in Sheet Filing. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking South, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins, Accident at Caisson T. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Repairs to Sea Wall Between Slip and Little Street, Looking Southeast, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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

Monthly Progress Photo, Extension to Pier D, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Pier D, along Centerline from Mainland, E. D. V. Tompkins, Contractor, 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 North, 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 North. 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier C Looking Outward From Near Shore End, Snare & Triest Company, 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.

Cob Dock Improvement, Dredging and Seawall Construction, Contract 1423, The Snare and Triest Company, Contractor, Looking Northwest. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, South End, North Wall, 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.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking East from Building Number 131. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, South End East Rail Gantry Track, East of Launching Ways, Looking North, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Paving Back of Sea Wall Between Dry Docks 1 and 4, Looking West, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 6, Malden River crossing on Medford Street, station 424, from the west, Malden, Mass., Nov. 16, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Conduit Pipe and Bollards for Piers E and F, New York State Construction Company, Contractors. 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier F Looking Northeast, New York State Construction Company, 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.

Dry Dock Number 4, Caissons, T U W UU. 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier E, Looking West, New York State Construction Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 6, Malden River crossing on Medford Street, station 424, from the west, Malden, Mass., Nov. 16, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, 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.

Pier 2, Coaling Plant. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 6, general view of crossing at Malden River on Medford Street, station 424, from the east on top of coal shed, Malden, Mass., Nov. 16, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

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

Site of Dry Dock 4, From Building 131, Looking East. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

launching Ways, Looking North. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock No. 4, Changing Entrance Bracing from Horizontal to Batter, Looking Southeast, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Section 6, general view of crossing at Malden River on Medford Street, station 424, from the east on top of coal shed, Malden, Mass., Nov. 16, 1897 , waterworks, pipes conduits, 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.

AM-432 Dynamic , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Kauri timber mill, 1880-1925, New Zealand, by Mr Seamer.

Dry Dock No. 4 Looking Northeast from Building No. 131. 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.

Pier D, Looking Along and from Mainland, Monthly Progress Photo, E. D. V. Tompkins, Contractor. 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.

Dry Dock Number 4. 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.

Electrolysis, effect of electrolysis on rails, which were connected with and buried near 48-inch water pipe No. 64 from July 1903 to November 1910, Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Electrolysis, effect of electrolysis on rails, which were connected with and buried near 48-inch water pipe No. 64 from July 1903 to November 1910, Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, electrolysis

Monthly Progress Photo, Roundhouse, Interior View, North Side, Looking Northeast, Yard labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock Number 4, Coffer Dam Excavation, Elevation 60 +/-, General View Looking Along the Landward Sheeting, 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.

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Foundry.

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.

Monthly Progress Photo, East Rail, Gantry Track, East of Launching Ways, Looking North. 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.

Railroad Track Scales Foundation, Looking East, Monthly Progress Photo, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

U.S.S. New York Stringer Raised for Riveting, Port Side of the Ship. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, tunnel at Chelsea North Bridge, shaft and air lock, Mystic River; Charlestown; Chelsea, Mass., Oct. 2, 1900 , waterworks, water tunnels, construction sites, air locks airtight spaces

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.

Floating Crane Hercules and Three Destroyers in Dry Dock Number 4 Looking North. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier F, Railroad Track Connections, Looking North, New York State Construction Company, 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Trolley Runway between Buildings 115 (26) and 116 (27), Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Exterior marble work : construction of the Fifth Avenue facade.. 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, Masonry , New York (State) , New York

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

New Railroad Track on Athletic Field, Back of Blocks for Submarine Chasers, Looking Northwest, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Launching Ways. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

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

General Motors Plant - Petone gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Launching Ways U.S.S Connecticut Looking Southeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Railroad Track Rebuilt on 3rd Street, Looking Northeast from 3rd Street and Morris Avenue, Yard Labor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, Caissons Y-Z, Looking North, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractors. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Matfors power plant.

Dry Dock 4, Looking North, Contract 1399, The 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.

Monthly Progress Photo, Paving Coal Plant Pier, Southwest Bay, Looking Shoreward, Joseph Balaban Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 4, East Wall Looking Southeast, Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Site of Dry Dock 4, From Building 131, Looking East. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Monthly Progress Photo, Pier D from Cob Dock, E.D.V. Tompkins, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Cantilever Crane, Looking South. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Dry Dock 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Looking North, Contract 1399, 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.

Dry Dock Number 4, Looking Northeast from Building 131. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Brabag Synthetic Oil Plant At Zietz, Germany Shattered -- Bomb Craters, Bombed Out Railway Tracks And Wrecked Pipelines Were The Results Of Such Bombings As The Final Attack Made By The Us 8Th Air force Heavies On 31 March 1945, By Which Time The Plant Was Almos

Monthly Progress Photo, Dry Dock No. 2, Repairs to Altars, East Side Near Head End, Looking North West, Yard Labor. 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, getting out rock at the quarry, Boylston, Mass., Jun. 3, 1901 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Building No. 41 Looking North. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, tunnel at Chelsea North Bridge, sections of shield, Mystic River; Charlestown; Chelsea, Mass., Oct. 10, 1900 , waterworks, water tunnels, 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.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, Grading and Paving Looking Northeast, Yard Labor. 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.

The steam center building at Gothenburg station.

Launching Ways, U.S.S. Connecticut, Looking Northeast. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

The foundation for the joint American-Russian theatre rises above the ground at Poltava Airbase, one of the shuttle mission bases in Russia. Here, Russian girls continue excavation work. November 1944.

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