Building Materials Collection

Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, [South Kensington, London], 1864. Demolition of an '...arch which supported the eastern gable end of the nave of the International

Building proposed to be erected in the Alexandra-Park, Muswell-Hill, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Building proposed to be erected in the Alexandra-Park, Muswell-Hill, 1864. 'The directors [of the Alexandra Park Company] have entered into a contract with Messrs

The works of the Metropolitan extension railway in Smithfield, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The works of the Metropolitan extension railway in Smithfield, [London], 1864. View from the bottom of Cow-cross and St. John-street towards the south-west

Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, (1864). Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, [London], (1864). Engraving from a sketch '...looking in an easterly direction along the Cromwell-road...The grand central entrance appears in

The Livingstone Expedition in Africa - Dr. Livingstone's station [on] the Kongone River... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Livingstone Expedition in Africa - Dr. Livingstone's station at the mouth of the Kongone River, on the Zambezi Delta, 1860. Engraving from a sketch by...T. Baines, Esq

The Granite Quarries at Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Granite Quarries at Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, [Scotland], 1857. The pavement of London, extending through more than 5000 streets, and exceeding 2000 miles in length

Unloading lumber, Saginaw, Mich. between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Unloading lumber, Saginaw, Mich. between 1900 and 1910. "Langell Boys" on freighter

Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Collapsed timber buildings

District of Columbia Supreme Court Being Remodeled, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
District of Columbia Supreme Court Being Remodeled, 1917

Food Administration, U.S. Construction of Headquarters Building, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Food Administration, U.S. Construction of Headquarters Building, 1917

Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio?, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio?, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Flood Scenes, Dayton, Ohio?, 1913. Collapsed timber buildings

Temporary Building, Under Construction...Washington, D.C. 1917. Creator: Unknown
Temporary Building, Under Construction...Washington, D.C. 1917. Built in 1917, For The [First World] War, Washington Monument in Background

Temporary Building, Under Construction...Washington, D.C. 1917. Creator: Unknown
Temporary Building, Under Construction...Washington, D.C. 1917. Built in 1917, For The [First World] War, Washington Monument in Background

Three trucks: S.M. Frazier, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Three trucks: S.M
Three trucks: S.M. Frazier, between 1909 and 1914. USA. Your Credit is Good at Grogan's'. S.M. Frazier, Building Materials, Anacostia, [Washington] D.C

The Tanner's Council, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. The Tanner's Council
The Tanner's [sic] Council, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Signs: Rooms for Rent; Furnished Rooms; The Tanners Council of the United States of America; Drugs'

Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Va. between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Va
Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Virginia, between 1910 and 1917. Black and white workers, USA. SSS 120 patented brick machine: Made by The Arnold Creager Co. New London, Ohio, USA

Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917

Making adobe bricks, Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Making adobe bricks. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico. These bricks are to be used in construction of the new school building

Turpentine plant near Marianna, Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine plant near Marianna, Florida

Concrete mixing plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Concrete mixing plant. Birmingham, Alabama

Concrete mixing plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Concrete mixing plant. Birmingham, Alabama

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California

Bosque Farms project - making adobe brick for school and permanent houses, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses. New Mexico

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers, Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers, Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers, Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Farm woman beside her barn door, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm woman beside her barn door. Tulare County, California. No more horseshoes!

Transferring of Cargo along the Shore, 1889. Creator: Unknown
Transferring of Cargo along the Shore, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of the clipper ship Razboinik (Pirate)

Another Phase of Unloading, 12 July, 1889. Creator: Unknown
Another Phase of Unloading, 12 July, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of the clipper ship Razboinik (Pirate)

The First Day of Unloading Construction Material at Cape Aleksandr, 1889. Creator: Unknown
The First Day of Unloading Construction Material at Cape Aleksandr, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of the clipper

Lumber for the Anadyr Expedition on the Booms Deck, 1889. Creator: Unknown
Lumber for the Anadyr Expedition on the Booms Deck, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of the clipper ship Razboinik

The Right Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. Creator: Unknown
The Right Side of the Quarterdeck with Cargo for the Anadyr Expedition, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs that document the Arctic voyage in 1889 of

Bamboo workshop, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Bamboo workshop, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Factory building in Georgia - note monument featuring tall lengths of bamboo

Mugan; inn in Petropavlovskoe, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Mugan; inn in Petropavlovskoe, between 1905 and 1915. Note stacks of mud bricks on right. The Mughan plain is an area stretching from northwestern Iran to the southern part of the Republic of

Hard Labor Convicts Hauling Construction Materials to Worksites in Gornyi Zerentui, 1891. Creator: Aleksei Kuznetsov
Hard Labor Convicts Hauling Construction Materials to Worksites in Gornyi Zerentui, 1891. One of 74 views taken in July 1891 and contained in the albumTipy i vidy Nerchinskoi katorgi

Moozo bamboo, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Moozo bamboo, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Man sitting in a bamboo grove. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857. One of the vast natural depots is the granite quarries at Rubislaw (pronounced Robsley), within a mile of Aberdeen [in Scotland]...The area already worked is several

Above the construction work, the aggregate storage pile which... Fort Loudoun Dam, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Above the construction work, the aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand, Fort Loudon [i.e. Loudoun] Dam, Tenn

Possibly: Preparing the ground for the construction of emergency buildings
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Washington, D.C. Preparing the ground for the construction of emergency buildings on Independence Avenue]

House in camp of carrot pullers, near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
House in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican family migratory workers, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Triangular Brick with Horse, Phoenix, and Tigers, Western Han dynasty, c. 1st cent. B. C
Triangular Brick with Horse, Phoenix, and Tigers, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), c. 1st century B.C

A Mat House - Skokomish, 1912. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Mat House - Skokomish, 1912. [Native American house, northwestern coast of North America]. Photogravure, plate 301 from " The North American Indian, volume 9" (1913)

Men cutting rushes, 1892. Creator: James Leon Williams
Men cutting rushes, 1892. [Rural scene: men cutting reeds or rushes, possibly for use in thatching]. From " The Home and Haunts of Shakespeare"

Building brick from Spelman Colleges Upton Hall, ca. 1905. Creator: Unknown
Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, historically Black, womens liberal arts college. A clay brick that was once part of the structure of Spelman Colleges Upton Hall

Present state of the British Museum, 1845. Creator: Ebenezer Landells
Present state of the British Museum, 1845. Entrance gate of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London. The New Museum will occupy a site further north than its predecessor;

Columbia from the Capitol, 1860s. Creator: George N. Barnard
Columbia from the Capitol, 1860s

Carriere aux Sables de Macherin, 1863. Creator: Eugene Cuvelier
Carriere aux Sables de Macherin, 1863

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