Hoisting Collection

British torpedo after practice run, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
British torpedo after practice run, between c1915 and c1920. British sailors hoisting a spent torpedo on board a British torpedo boat destroyer after a practice run.

Loading war auto. on Sugura [i.e., Loading a truck chassis on the Suruga], between c1914 and c1915. A crane hoist lifting a truck chassis onto the American freighter Suruga as World War I began.

Brown electric hoist, unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908. Creator: Unknown
Brown electric hoist, unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908

Brown electric hoist, unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908. Creator: Unknown
Brown electric hoist, unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908

Hulett machine unloading ore, Pennsylvania [Railroad] dock, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908. Creator: Unknown
Hulett machine unloading ore, Pennsylvania [Railroad] dock, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908

Hulett machine unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908. Creator: Unknown
Hulett machine unloading ore, Buffalo, N.Y. c1908

The Steam windlass, S.S. J.H. Sheadle, between 1906 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
The Steam windlass, S.S. J.H. Sheadle, between 1906 and 1910

U.S.S. Massachusetts, steam hoisting gear, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Massachusetts, steam hoisting gear, between 1896 and 1901

The Peace Rejoicings - Hoisting the Royal Standard at the Tower of London, 1856. Creator: W Thomas
The Peace Rejoicings - Hoisting the Royal Standard at the Tower of London, 1856. Celebrating the end of the Crimean War. From "Illustrated London News", 1856

Unloading ore at Conneaut, Ohio, Brown conveying hoists, between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Unloading ore at Conneaut, Ohio, Brown conveying hoists, between 1900 and 1906

Coal dumping plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Coal dumping plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900

Clam shell ore unloading plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Clam shell ore unloading plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900

Unloading ore at Conneaut, Ohio, Brown conveying hoists, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Unloading ore at Conneaut, Ohio, Brown conveying hoists, ca 1900

Fueling lighter with clam shell hoist, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Fueling lighter with clam shell hoist, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900

Cleveland & Pittsburgh ore docks, Cleveland, Brown conveying hoists, c1901. Creator: Unknown
Cleveland & Pittsburgh ore docks, Cleveland, Brown conveying hoists, c1901

Hoover and Mason clam shell hoists, Cleveland, O[hio], between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Hoover and Mason clam shell hoists, Cleveland, O[hio], between 1900 and 1906

'The Cattle Trade -- Landing Bullocks at Tangier, Morocco, 1891 Creator: George Denholm Armour
'The Cattle Trade -- Landing Bullocks at Tangier, Morocco, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917

Getting ready to hoist a mounted gun, in Washington Navy Yard(?), 1903. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Getting ready to hoist a mounted gun, in Washington Navy Yard(?), 1903

Plan of the Victoria Tower, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Plan of the Victoria Tower, 1850. Progress of the New Houses of Parliament...the octagonal turrets at the angles...in which are the staircases...On each side, within the walls

The Victoria Tower - Elevation of the Hoisting-Screw, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Victoria Tower - Elevation of the Hoisting-Screw, 1850. Progress of the New Houses of Parliament...M M being the guide-posts

The Victoria Tower - Elevation of the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Victoria Tower - Elevation of the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850. Progress of the New Houses of Parliament...In Fig. 2 we give an elevation of the scaffold ; N N being the walls of the tower

Part of the Victoria Tower - the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Part of the Victoria Tower - the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850....there are few mechanical contrivances employed in the various works at the New Palace, Westminster

Crane being used in construction of new railway bridge, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Crane being used in construction of new railway bridge, between c1900 and c1930

Reinforcements for Canada: shipping sledges on board the Calcutta at Woolwich for guns... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Reinforcements for Canada: shipping sledges on board the Calcutta at Woolwich for guns and carriages of the battery 4th Battalion Royal Artillery, 1862

A scene in an arsenal, c1485-1490, (1943). Creator: Leonardo da Vinci
A scene in an arsenal, c1485-1490, (1943). Nude male figures hoisting a cannon with a pulley in a military storeyard or arsenal

New York Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L.I. 1905: 2 men watching sailor hoist flag, 1905. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
New York Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L.I. 1905: 2 men watching sailor hoist flag, 1905

Crane operator at TVAs Douglas Dam, Tennessee, 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Crane operator at TVAs Douglas Dam, Tennessee

Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA, 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA

Crane at a "central"sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico, 1942
Crane at a " central" sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico

Shepard hoisted from Mercury capsule, 1961. Creator: NASA
Shepard hoisted from Mercury capsule, 1961. A U.S. Marine helicopter recovery team hoists astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. from his Mercury spacecraft after a successful flight

The General Post-Office; Letter-bag hoist, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The General Post-Office; Letter-bag hoist, 1844. Worker at the main post office at St Martins Le Grand in London, using a hoist: for raising bags of letters into the Ship Letter-office above

Hoisting a Chariot manned torpedo on board a ship, World War II, 1945. Creator: Unknown
Hoisting a Chariot manned torpedo on board a ship, World War II, 1945. A human torpedo is hoisted inboard. From " His Majestys Submarines". [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1945]

Cook Taking Possession of Australia, 1923. Creator: Unknown
Cook Taking Possession of Australia, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Sabin being shipped, 1912. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Sabin being shipped, 1912

Working on the engine of Raymond Mays Vauxhall-Villiers, c1930s. Artist: Bill Brunell
Vauxhall Villiers. Place:

Hoisting the paper into a newspaper office, 20th century. A pulley system allows large rolls of paper to be taken in to the newspaper office from a horse-drawn cart

Hoisting a torpedo, HMS Courageous, 1937. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937

Hoisting a sea boat, HMS Nelson, 1937. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937

Hoisting the Royal Standard at the Tower of London, 1856. From The Illustrated London News (31 May 1856)

Hoisting the Union Jack, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, c1905
Hoisting the Union Jack on the Victoria Tower, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, c1905. A ceremony performed daily. Illustration from Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith

St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Basle, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Basle, 1489. St Ursula Shrine, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Maritime Telegraph, c1900. Sailors hoisting flags which have been assembled to convey a message to a nearby vessel. For centuries signals were sent from vessel to vessel using flags

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