industrial history

Persepolis. (Vue des ruines.)

In the tin shop

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The silk manufacturing in China; Weaving; Reeling & doubling; Warping;...

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Section of the Staten Island Ship Building Company's Plant, Mariners(s...

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Warping Room, Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia.

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Steamer on a river. New York Sterecope Card.

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Fire engine and water hose factory and equipment in use against fires.

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[Knowles Patent Steam Pump.] New York Sterecope Card.

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Central Park, N.Y. New York Sterecope Card.

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Speed boss at work, Page 74, pl. 9

The blacksmith shop

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Building a Skyscraper, Placing Steel Beams, Metropolitan Tower, New Yo...

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Building a Skyscraper, Placing Steel Beams, Metropolitan Tower, New Yo...

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The colossal elephant of Coney Island

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Elevated road and Bowery, New York

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Great lake traffic, grain elevators and lake steamboats [?].

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Chicago fire views: Field, Leiter & Co.'s store.

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The wonder of the age, Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition.

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U.S. Government building, Main Avenue, looking E.

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Elevated railroad, New York. New York Sterecope Card.

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A Street Plant, Cleveland, Ohio

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Oil Wells, Fresno, Calif.

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North side water works [waterworks]. Chicago Stereoscope Card Collecti...

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Suspension Bridge, Pittsburgh. 19th century stereoscopic views of Penn...

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[Promenade, New York & Brooklyn bridge, N.Y.]

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Monotype operators; Modern typesetting machines; A.M. Sunday School Pu...

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Port of New-York

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Negro girls and women employed in a lamp-shade factory

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Colliery, Schuylkill County. 19th century stereoscopic views of Pennsy...

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Old building where the tea plot was said to have been formed in 1773, ...

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View of a train crossing the Kinzua Bridge.

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Just Up, Hecla Shaft No. 2, Calumet, Mich.

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Chicago waterworks. Chicago Stereoscope Card Collection

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View of elevated railway with stone wall.

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Brooklyn Bridge, near view, U.S.A. New York Sterecope Card.

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Mormon tabernacle [under construction], Salt Lake City.

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How the Metropolis Invites Disease and Epidemics - Appearance of the S...

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C. G. V. Automobiles factory at Puteaux, France.

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Canyon Diablo, Ariz.

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Plans and diagrams of various machinery for Olive oil mills.

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Buckingham's elevator "A". Chicago Stereoscope Card Collection

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Lowell girls

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Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Lou...

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The silk manufacturing in China; Winding from the cods in the cauldron...

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Brooklyn Bridge from World building, New York, U.S.A.

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[Assemblage of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, showing the bottom half...

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New Jersey.

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Wood-turning machinery

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Carnegie Blast Furnaces, Homestead, Pa.

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S.G. & C. Iron R.R. bridge over Watkins Glen.

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Over the Potomac River at Long Bridge.

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Public square, Cleveland. Cleveland Ohio. 19th century stereoscope car...

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Asylum for the insane, Dayton, Ohio.

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Steam hammer. Cigarette Card

Axminster carpet loom. Cigarette Card

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Interior work : construction of walls, looking southwest.

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Lumber yards. Savannah, GA. Stereoscope Card.

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Chicago waterworks, North Side. Chicago Stereoscope Card Collection

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Live alligator. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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[Saratoga Water Works.] New York Sterecope Card.

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Filling shell with nitro-glycerine, preparatory to shooting the well, ...

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Vicksburg street. Mississippi

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Shucking Oysters, Biloxi, Miss., Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishin...

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Halstead Street Lift Bridge, Chicago, Ill.

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Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass.

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Moving west side wall to widen subway for third track - 135th Street a...

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Plate No. 2 - Rear axle [Drawing].

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Kensico reservoir. General view of excavation and foundation for Kensi...

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Moodna pressure tunnel. View at top of Shaft 7. Hudson river about 150...

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In Fighting for Fuel - Fighting for Revolution

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Interior view of 148th Street repair shops.

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Bookbinding and bookbinding machinery; piano manufacture

Pocket Map of Broadway, N. Y. City [from the Battery to W. 3rd & Great...

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Moucharabiéh., Egypt

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San Francisco's magnificent City Hall and Hall of Records, destroyed b...

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Looking up Grant Ave. from Market St.

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Safes being guarded. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

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Railroad wreck on Tariffville bridge, January 15, 1878.

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Road Bed, N. & W.R.R. [Norwich & Worcester Railroad], Feb. 15, 1886.

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Drawing machines for combing out and straightening the fibres. Silk in...

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Passenger Depot, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, GA. Sterescope Card.

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Lumber yards. Savannah, GA. Stereoscope Card.

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Birds-eye view from Water Works tower.

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Clark Street north from Washington [Street].

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View showing Bigelow House and Post Office.

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Tribune Building, cor. Madison & Dearborn Streets, looking east.

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Showing mode of constructing the mammoth Supply Well for the Des Moine...

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Southern Exposition, 1883: machinery exhibit. 19th Century Stereoscope...

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Government and States building from east gallery.

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Woolen Mill, Madison, Me. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

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State Street. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

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[View of the lumber industry.] Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

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View down the river from Depot.

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Horticultural exhibition at City Hall, 1869.

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Pearl Street, from Federal, looking down.

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Brown's Sugar Refinery. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

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Burnt district, looking north-east from U.S. Custom House, showing St....

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Pearl Street, from Federal, looking down.

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Looking up Exchange from Fore Street, Custom House and City Hall in di...

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Shot Tower. Baltimore Maryland. 19th century stereoscope card.

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