Historical Sewer Construction

Black and white images showing various road views during sewer construction in Holden, Massachusetts in the 1940s.

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking easterly on Phillips Road from Sta. 6+00, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 31, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Phillips Road towards manhole 16B-2, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., May 28, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Bascom Parkway from intersection with Highland Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Aug. 21, 1940

Contract No. 43, Extension of Belchertown-Pelham Highway to New Salem Center, Shutesbury, New Salem (Franklin County), New Salem Center, headwall and paved gutter for drainage from New Salem hill, New Salem, Mass., Mar. 19, 1935

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Woodland Road from manhole 21B, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Mar. 26, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Williams Street from manhole 6B, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 31, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Bascom Parkway, looking towards Highland Street from near manhole 6B4-12, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 21, 1941

Contract No. 14, East Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, West Boylston, Holden, Rutland, contractors buildings, Shaft 4, Rutland, Mass., Sep. 30, 1929

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking westerly from Station 64+50 showing Section 1 access road previous to work by Contract 130, access road, Section 1, Southborough, Mass., May 6, 1941

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Woodland Road from intersection with Highland Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Sep. 5, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking easterly on Phillips Road from Sta. 6+00, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 31, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking northerly on Lovell Road from Main Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Mar. 26, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking southeasterly on Williams Street from manhole 6B-2, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., May 28, 1940

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, Main Street, looking ahead from near manhole 25C, Rutland Sewer Line, Rutland, Mass., Jul. 9, 1940

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking westerly from Station 4+00 showing access road Section 1 previous to work done by Contract 130, access road, Section 1, Marlborough, Mass., May 6, 1941

Crude Products: Bolts and Handicraft - Tennessee. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Woodland Road from manhole 21-B, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Apr. 23, 1940

Pouring Concrete - Standing Rock Avenue Curb and Gutter. 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

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, 48-inch check valve and Venturi meter throat sections at Beacon and St. Mary's Streets, Brookline, Mass., May 31, 1917 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

George W. Mathews et al., garage, North Dana, Dana, Mass., Feb. 10, 1928 : Parcel no. 471-50, Edwin C. and George W. Mathews , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, garages, automobiles

Clarence A. Moore, Swift River Garage, Greenwich, Mass., Sep. 27, 1937 : Parcel no. 351-21, Clarence A. Moore , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, service stations

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Phillips Road from manhole 16B, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Sep. 17, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Main Street, looking back from Sta. 5+60, Holden Sewer Line, Holden, Mass., Jul. 9, 1940

Contract No. 82, Constructing Quabbin Hill Road, Ware, looking ahead from Sta. 133+00, Ware, Mass., Apr. 25, 1939

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, looking ahead towards Sta. 8+75, Rutland Sewer, Rutland, Mass., Jun. 6, 1940

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, Maple Avenue, looking ahead from Sta. 16+20, Rutland Sewer Line, Rutland, Mass., Jul. 9, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking southeasterly on Bascom Parkway, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Mar. 26, 1940

Quarry work photo , Quarrying, Horses, Horse railroads. Photographs of Hopkinton Places and People

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, pipe storage pile on Pommagusset Road, Rutland Sewer Line, Rutland, Mass., Jul. 9, 1940

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, Maple Avenue, looking back at Sta. 14+25, Rutland Sewer Line, Rutland, Mass., Jun. 21, 1940

Contract No. 62, Clearing Lower Middle and East Branches, Quabbin Reservoir, Ware, New Salem, Petersham and Hardwick, moving part of Thayer house from Greenwich out of valley, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 21, 1939

Ware Woolen Co., looking north at boiler house and finishing buildings, Ware, Mass., Nov. 21, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, boiler houses

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Highland Street, looking ahead from opposite Sta. 55+00, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Oct. 10, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking westerly on Main Street from manhole 4A-5-2, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Mar. 26, 1940

Camp Pomeroy, icehouse, camp, Greenwich, Mass., Mar. 15, 1928 : Parcel no. 410-3, George Haupt et al. , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, icehouses, camps recreation areas

The closure of water pipeline at Älvsbyn

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking easterly on Boydon Road from Main Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Mar. 26, 1940

Contract No. 72, Clearing a Portion of the Site of Quabbin Reservoir on the Upper Middle and East Branches of the Swift River, Quabbin Reservoir, New Salem, Petersham and Hardwick, looking westerly towards Frank Doubleday house on Petersham-North Dana Road, Dana, Mass., Mar. 21, 1939

Quarry work photo , Quarrying, Horses, Horse railroads. Photographs of Hopkinton Places and People

Contract No. 120, Drilling a Well for Water Supply for Quabbin Hill Buildings, Ware, looking southeasterly at drill right on Quabbin Hill, Ware, Mass., Aug. 27, 1940

Harry W. Haskins, grain storehouse, North Dana, Dana, Mass., Oct. 10, 1928 : Parcel no. 471-15, on property of B&A Railroad , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, storehouses, automobiles

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking southwesterly showing rebuilt access road at Sta. 53+00, Section 1, Southborough, Mass., May 16, 1941

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking ahead from Reservoir Street towards Laurelwood Road at manhole 2A, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Apr. 2, 1941

Smalltown volunteer fire department at work. Aledo, Illinois. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Aledo, Illinois , Mercer County

White House Grounds, Road Machinery (roadbed Grader) DC. Original caption: White House Grounds--road machinery (roadbed grader) D.C. Photo by J. K. Hillers, Jul. 1937.

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking southerly on Holt Road from Main Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Feb. 27, 1940

Hattie M. Doubleday executrix, shop, Dana, Mass., Mar. 19, 1929 : Parcel no. 471-66, Frank A. Doubleday estate , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, workshop buildings

Otis Co., Ware Mills, waste house #13, looking westerly, Ware, Mass., Jan. 30, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, general views

Contract No. 39, Trunk Line Sewer, Rutland, Holden, Fred C. and Lucy Allen, Holden, Rutland-Holden Sewer Line, Holden, Mass., Mar. 31, 1936

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking northerly at Holden High School from near manhole 6B-4, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Apr. 23, 1940

Barre Wool Combing Co. Ltd., showing where lagoon overflowed dike, Barre, Mass., Jan. 4, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, looking ahead towards manhole 1-C, Rutland Sewer, Rutland, Mass., Jun. 6, 1940

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking westerly from Sta. 36+00 showing rebuilt access road, Section 1, Marlborough, Mass., May 16, 1941

Barre Wool Combing Co., outlet pipe from dye house, Barre, Mass., 2:40 PM, May 22, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, settling tanks

Contract No. 70, WPA Sewer Construction, Rutland, 'C' line, looking back from near Sta. 44+50 towards manhole 10C, Rutland Sewer, Rutland, Mass., Jan. 21, 1941

Foresters At Work: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Home of Migratory paper mill worker. Coos County, New Hampshire. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Hampshire , Coos County

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Laurelwood Road, looking back from manhole 2A-4, Holden Sewer Line, Holden, Mass., Jul. 9, 1940

Flat Rock Brook at dam at mouth, looking upstream, drainage area - 6 square miles, flow - 40 cubic feet per second - 6.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:10 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Internal migrants, Labor camps, Migrant agricultural laborers

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Main Street, looking ahead from near manhole 6B4-31, showing backfill on line of sidewalk, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 9, 1941

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Highland Street, looking back from Sta. 9+80 towards manhole 6B-4-14, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jan. 9, 1941

Cotton pickers at close of day, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Agnes A. and H. Eliza Merriam, barn, New Salem, Mass., Jan. 16, 1939 : Parcel no. 548-8 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns

Negro rehabilitation client mixing cement to be used in construction of his new home, near Raleigh, North Carolina, December 1938. African American man, a Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, mixing cement to be used in construction of his new home, near Raleigh, North Carolina, December 1938.. 1938. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. North Carolina, Building construction, Houses, African American men, Cement

Forebay at Station D, Boston Duck Co., Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., Jan. 4, 1940 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures

Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, looking east from a point 25 feet left of Sta. 79+00, dam 4 showing grading operations, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., May 29, 1940

Flat Rock Brook at dam at mouth, looking upstream, drainage area - 6 square miles, flow - 40 cubic feet per second - 6.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:10 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Otis Co., Ware Mills, waste house #13, looking westerly, Ware, Mass., Jan. 30, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, general views

Distribution Department, Weston Aqueduct Supply Mains, Section 7, Francis Pettee's land, Newton, Mass., May 26, 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Gravel road between the strip mine and raw elections.

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Sacramento (Calif.), California , Sacramento County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers

Mary E. Archer, barn, Enfield, Mass., May 25, 1928 : Parcel no. 249-41, Mary E. Archer , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns, automobiles

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Internal migrants, Labor camps, Migrant agricultural laborers

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

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, shaft enclosure at Shaft 12, looking southwesterly, aggregate hopper at right, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 1, 1935

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

Lagoon at Barre Wool Combing Co. Ltd., showing how rocks were plugged, causing ridge to form, Barre, Mass., Apr. 6, 1935 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, Beacon Street at St. Mary's Street, Brookline, Mass., May 31, 1917 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Sunnyside Avenue looking ahead from manhole 2F showing scarified and rolled road surface, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Oct. 7, 1942

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Sunnyside Avenue from intersection of Pleasant Street looking toward manhole 2G showing scarified and rolled road surface, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Oct. 7, 1942

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, Highland Street, looking back from opposite Sta. 51+75, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Aug. 21, 1940

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, applying seal-coat to new tar walk, looking northwesterly on Main Street from intersection with Maple Street, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., May 22, 1941

Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Mining town. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

David Carpenter, barn, New Salem, Mass., Dec. 23, 1936 : Parcel no. 488-6 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns

Box shop, Boston Duck Co., Bondsville, Palmer, Mass., Jan. 3, 1940 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, automobiles

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Pipe Lines, Section 35, New Ocean Street, north of Eastern Avenue, after laying 16-inch main, Lynn, Mass., May 6, 1910 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, streetscapes

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking southwesterly on Highland Street from near manhole 9A, Holden Sewer, Holden, Mass., Jun. 6, 1940

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking northerly showing rebuilt MDC access road at Station 6, Terminal Chamber, Marlborough, Mass., May 16, 1941

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Pipe Lines, Hancock Street at Broadway, relaying 15-inch surface water drain to provide for 24-inch main, Everett, Mass., Dec. 11, 1909 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites, streetscapes

Contract No. 96, Chlorine Storage House and Equipment and Chlorinating Equipment for Gate House at Norumbega Reservoir, Weston, looking north showing south and east sides of chlorinator storage house, chlorinator house, Weston, Mass., Jul. 23, 1940

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, location of spoil bank, Shaft 9, looking northwest, Barre, Mass., Jul. 10, 1931

Contract No. 82, Constructing Quabbin Hill Road, Ware, looking ahead from Sta. 38+75, Ware, Mass., Jun. 14, 1940

Contract No. 130, Grading, Loaming, and Grassing Vicinity of Shaft 4, Pressure Aqueduct, Southborough, and Improvement of Access Roads to the Intake Works and at Norumbega Reservoir, Marlborough, Southborough, Weston, looking southeasterly showing completed grading operations, headhouse at Shaft 4, Southborough, Mass., May 22, 1941

Bulldozer pushing back snow on west access road to Administration Building, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Feb. 15, 1940 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, snow removal

Lorin Bosworth, barn, Dana, Mass., Jan. 10, 1928 : Parcel no. 412-3, Lorin Bosworth , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Otis Co., Ware Mills, dye house #1, looking easterly, Ware, Mass., Jan. 30, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, factories structures, general views

Piles of lumber on the Greendale project. Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Greendale, Wisconsin , Milwaukee County

Distribution Department, Northern Extra High Service Pipe Lines, Section 45, backfilling trench in Park Avenue near Appleton Street, Arlington, Mass., Nov. 4, 1919 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

General view of sump end of sluicing test bin, Enfield, Mass., Nov. 24, 1933 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, sluices, pre-construction sites

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