Mining and Quarry Activities

Vintage photographs depicting laborers in mining and quarry operations, highlighting both gold mining techniques and construction of railways in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Repairs on Lydda-Jerusalem railroad, Sept. 5, 1938, Israel, Lod

Installing 12" Pipe. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Bystanders watch as crew 'drifting mining' for gold below Discovery Point, in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Drift mining technique tunnels horizontally into the gold bearing layer of earth beneath the surface. Photograph by S. J. Morrow, ca. 1876. (BSLOC_2020_1_40)

Working in the quarry at Dennia. .

South Africa: De Beer's diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

Rangerbangården in Lund where shaft work is almost completed.

Twin 36" Pipes Being Installed on Dam #184. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Forebay Area Completed with Chute Slopes Being Finished with Drag Line. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Repairs on Lydda-Jerusalem railroad, Sept. 5, 1938, Israel, Lod

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

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

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

Excl.Hofmann at her.308 kotuzow.

Piling work on the road port building in Skövde.

Old man with gold rocker. Alaska

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Improvement Twente Canal. Reinforcement sheet pile. undated. Twente channel

Major Project (Dams and Reservoirs). 1938-12-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Major Project (Dams and Reservoirs). 1938-12-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Digging out Irrigation Ditch #182. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

The bridge construction over the Öre River, test load of concrete pile.

Wachusett Dam, work at west end of cut-off, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1903 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Skiopticone image. Peat preparation. Stonemason.

Repairing seawall near administration Building, Squantum , Maintenance & repair, Sea walls. Photographs of the First Naval District

Mountain cutting at the national border track.

Contract No. 66, Regulating Dams, Middle Branch (New Salem), and East Branch of the Swift River, Hardwick and Petersham (formerly Dana), looking westerly across river, east branch regulating dam, Hardwick, Mass., Jun. 5, 1939

Pouring Concrete around Elbows - Dam #122-140. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Working in the quarry at Dennia. .

Harvesting sugar beets, Adams County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Elsevier photo collection. Renovation repair Maasdijk (De Sluis Urling) Limburg. June 1928. Limburg

Lund.Rangérbangården, excavation work closely completed.

Staff standing on a gravel train in Finnhyttan's gravel pit

Wachusett Dam, work at west end of cut-off, Clinton, Mass., Jul. 1, 1903 , waterworks, dams, construction sites

Italian workers in granite quarries during the construction of the Aswan Dam, Egypt, photo by Giuntini, from L'illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIX, No 50, December 21, 1902.

Day break

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

Laying pipe black-and-white prints

Concreting of a Masch.Raufstandes a.d.isonzofront. .

Channel blasting at the Suorva Dam.

Technical course.Minenbrunnen under construction. .

Clearing work after landslides near Straumsnes on the line between the national border and Narvik August 1937.

Technical course.Hood box with wooden ceiling. .

Rock and Wire Being Laid in Creek. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Senior Foreman Kurtz Tells How to Place the Rock Around Box; Dam #131. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Men Working on Spring #2. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Wachusett Dam, upper quarry, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

Sveagry. Planning of building for mechanical workshop.

Other Project. 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

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

Wachusett Dam, upper quarry, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1902 , waterworks, dams, construction sites, quarries extracting complexes

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

The beginning of the work on road wearing and widening to normal tracks on the line between Överum OSH Storsjö.

Image of filling sandbags for the recovery of the railway line through Zeeland, after the flood disaster, near Rilland-Bath.

Jerusalem Water Works. Steep grade. Pipe laying just outside Jerusalem. 1934, Israel

Installation of machinery at the main excavation of Portao de Ferro Brazil. South America. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884

Avalanche Blocks Railway Tracks -- Swiss railway workers as they clear away the snow and earth which had tumbled with the avalanche across the railway line, blocking the Arch, at Gurtnellen station. January 23, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Reservoir Construction. 1938-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Riprapping Rock on Dam 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

Skiopticone image with motifs of burning drill, Anrup-Svedala. Persson's Torfut Line.

Road Construction - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mesticanescitunnel West entrance top Tunnel base.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Reclamations at Sellingerbeetse. Excavation peat through workers. 1949. Groningen (province), Sellingen

Logging Camps and Crews - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Road Construction - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Project (Constructing Cellar). 1937-10-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Bergras at Bodasjö.

Taking out Section of 5" Pipe Dam #165. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Sudbury Reservoir, laying riprap on north end of Sudbury Dam, from the north, Southborough, Mass., Sep. 26, 1896 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, dams, construction sites

Finnhyttan's gravel pit (Stora Bergslagsbanan) BJ Gruståg.BJ Building BJ, Bergslagernas Railway

Project (Constructing Cellar). 1937-09-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

A method of raising water from a river to the top of an embankment. Reproduction of a photograph.

Other Project. 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

Exposing quartz reefs. Exposed from golden quartz reefs for gold mining in Eastern Suriname, probably on Placer Jeanapau.

1930s 1932 GREAT DEPRESSION HOOVERVILLE HOME CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK USA

Photograph of a Dutch farmer construction a polder from land reclaimed for the sea bed. Dated 20th Century

undefined. 1913 - 1921. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Negative. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939. Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. photos. 1915

Wachusett Reservoir, North Dike, westerly portion, rock uncovered, between stations 7+50 and 8+00; from the south, Clinton, Mass., Jan. 5, 1898 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites

Men panning gold , Panning. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Gold miners,Alaska,Nome,1890-1930, Gold mining,Alaska,Nome,1890-1930, Gold mining equipment,Alaska,Nome,1890-1930, United States,Alaska,Nome

Construction of concrete machine guns of the bridgehead at Siemikowce.

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

Northern views. The excavations at Bethshean. Excavations in progress. 1921, Israel, Bet Sheʾan

Coal mine no. 8., 1850 - 1930. Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Albumen prints

Beato Antonio, water wheel with workers and oxen (without date): View. Photo on cardboard, 24.1 x 31.8 cm (including scan edges) Beato Antonio : Wasserrad mit Arbeitern und Ochsen

Track building, orebanan.rikskärnsbanan

Tiryns, Greece , Farmers, Plowing, Plows, Croplands. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

P.E.C., Palestine Electric Corporation, Rutenberg plant. 1927, Jordan

Men Working. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 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

Project (Red Water - "Siphon, Irrigation Pipe, Etc"). 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

Anefo photo collection. WI West Indies / Anefo London series. Moengoe. Bauxite mine. {1940-1945}. Moengoe, Suriname

Porteurs d'eau.. Schroder & Co. (Firm). Photographs. 1870 - 1875. General Research Division. Egypt , Antiquities, Egypt, Obelisks , Egypt, Water carriers , Egypt , 19th century, Nile River

Steinbruchmaschine a.d.Isonzofront. .

Skiopticone image. Peat drying.

Miners with pit lamps in front of a tunnel entrance. Erzbergbau, Freiberger Revier

Other Project (Excavating). 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

Cleaning of the river under the railway.

Wachusett Aqueduct, excavation, Section 6, station 263+, from the north, Northborough, Mass., Aug. 6, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction sites

The national border track probably Torneträsk gravel group.

Anefo photo collection. Construction of motorway on Dutch New Guinea, work in the heavy mountain site above the village of Mos. August 25, 1959. New Guinea

Historical picture of workmen at the railway track

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