Road Building Collection

Repairing Belgian Road, 22 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Repairing Belgian Road, 22 Oct 1918 (date created or published later). Men and vehicle repairing a road in Belgium during World War I.

Les peperes de la route, 1916. Creator: Georges Leroux
Les peperes de la route, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916"

Suites du macadamisage, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Suites du macadamisage, 19th century. Aftermath of macadamisation - Appearance of the boulevards in six months.... despair of the owners

Road-building by Tuskegee students, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Road-building by Tuskegee students, 1904

Wood Storage Barn. Zimov'evsko-Meshchaninovskaia Railroad, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Wood Storage Barn. Zimov'evsko-Meshchaninovskaia Railroad, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Explorer's Camp in the Taiga, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Explorer's Camp in the Taiga, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Group of Workers in the Taiga, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Group of Workers in the Taiga, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Bridge Over the Gniluiu River. Dvurechno-Durovskaya Railroad, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge Over the Gniluiu River. Dvurechno-Durovskaya Railroad, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Woman Construction School Trainee at Work in Tomsk Province, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Woman Construction School Trainee at Work in Tomsk Province, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Bridge of 8 Sazhens Length. Mal'tsevsk-Novosibirsk Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge of 8 Sazhens Length. Mal'tsevsk-Novosibirsk Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Railroad Work Acceptance Committee. Tomsk Province. October, 1908, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Railroad Work Acceptance Committee. Tomsk Province. October, 1908, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Bridge Over the Barsa River. Kedrovsko-Alekseevsk Railroad, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge Over the Barsa River. Kedrovsko-Alekseevsk Railroad, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Roadbed Before Smoothing, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Roadbed Before Smoothing, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

View of Tiazhin Bridge Spans, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
View of Tiazhin Bridge Spans, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Roadbed Before Planning. Kedrovsk-Alekseevsk Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Roadbed Before Planning. Kedrovsk-Alekseevsk Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

The Roadbed After Planning. Petropavlovsk Branch, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
The Roadbed After Planning. Petropavlovsk Branch, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Road rolling, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Road rolling, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Stub, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Stub, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers and engineers of the road-building department of the Russian Resettlement

Roadbed After Planning. Kedrovsk-Alekseevsk Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Roadbed After Planning. Kedrovsk-Alekseevsk Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Road Surveying Party in the Tomsk Region, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Road Surveying Party in the Tomsk Region, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

A Bridge of 12 Sazhens Length Across the Sosnovka River on the Votinovskoaia Railroad, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Construction of a Bridge 18 Sazhens Long Across the Khilok River on the Povarenskaia Road, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by

The final compacted road surface. Zimovyevsko-Meshchaninovskaya road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Roller for rolling road surfaces, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Roller for rolling road surfaces, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Group of Workers at the Zimov'evsko-Meshchaninovskaia Railroad, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Group of Workers at the Zimov'evsko-Meshchaninovskaia Railroad, 1906-1908. From a collection of 82 photos from the archive of Yul Brynner (1920-85), the famous Hollywood actor

The Roadbed and the Bridge on the Iverka-Romanovskaya Railroad, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
The Roadbed and the Bridge on the Iverka-Romanovskaya Railroad, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Exiled Convicts Building a Road through the Taiga, 1880-1899. Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
Exiled Convicts Building a Road through the Taiga, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s. Sakhalin was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony

Construction of Holborn Viaduct, City of London, 1869. Artist: Henry Dixon
Construction of Holborn Viaduct, City of London, 1869. View of paviours ramming granite pitching at the east end of Holborn Viaduct

J. L. Macadam, printers sample for the Worlds Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1888

Road widening works in Shoe Lane, City of London, 1871. Artist: Henry Dixon
Road widening works in Shoe Lane, City of London, 1871. View of the widening of Shoe Lane, showing the works from Stonecutter Street looking north

View of figures on Holborn Viaduct during its construction, City of London, 1870

Rebuilding and modernising roads, 20th century. An old road surface being broken up with the help of pneumatic hammers, operated by a petrol driven air-compressor

Labourers salute Hitler from packed trucks on a Nazi-built road, 1936
Labourers salute Hitler from packed trucks on a Nazi-built road, Germany, 1936. Hitler (1889-1945) ordered an ambitious programme of building the autobahn network soon after he came to power in 1933

One of many roads built by the Nazis, Germany, 1936. A typical section of autobahn passing through a forest. Hitler ordered an ambitious programme of building the autobahn network soon after he came

New road under construction, Germany, 1936. Labourers shovel dirt into carts pulled by horses. From Germany: The Olympic Year, published by Volk und Reich Verlag. (Berlin, 1936)

Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of factory workers, Germany, 1936
Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of factory workers, 1936. Thousands gather to hear Hitler (1889-1945) speak outside the Siemens factory

Adolf Hitler chatting to road workers, 1936. Hitler addresses workers in their own factories, and chats with farm hands during harvest time

Road construction work, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, November 1955. Workers from Henry Boot & Sons at work on the construction of a new factory roadway

A Bedford A3S tipper on the site of Manvers coal prep plant, South Yorkshire, 1955. The vehicle, registration number RLV 651

Henry Boot road roller and a Bedford A3S Tipper, 1955. Artist: Michael Walters
Road roller and Bedford A3S tipper, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1955. A photograph taken on the site of the Manvers coal preparation plant showing vehicles belonging to Henry Boot Construction of

Women working on the Darjeeling Highway, India. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Women working on the Darjeeling Highway, India. Stereoscopic card detail

A woman work team on the Darjeeling highway, India, 1903. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
A woman work team on the Darjeeling highway, India, 1903. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Road-building in Tunisia
Road-building in Tatouine, in Tunisia

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