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384 historic pictures in the Work & Industry collection, in 14 sections, part of Subjects. Each one can be ordered as a print or licensed, and the collection is a starting point for telling stories about the past.

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Inventions Science · Edison

Program of Edison's moving pictures at Donnelly Hotel ([no date recorded on)Thomas A. Edison inspecting the E 2 submarine[Thomas Edison and Miller Reese Hutchison] ([no date recorded on)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1914.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (1924 May 13.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1914 Sept. 8.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 ([no date recorded on)Thomas Alva Edison and his most important pioneer associates: Francis R. Upton, Charles Ba (c1929.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1892.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1902.)Edison and his electric light. Scenes at Menlo Park on New Year's Eve (1880)Young Edison rescuing a child [from front of train at Mt. Clemens Mich. depot] ([no date recorded on)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1931.)Thomas A. Edison's new radio phonograph makes its bow in Washington (1928)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (1878)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1880.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1878.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (1894)Thomas A. Edison and son(?) in automobile and large housein background (c1907.)Thomas A. Edison and son(?) in automobile and large house in background (c1907.)Thomas A. Edison's birthplace, Milan, Ohio (c1947.)Thomas A. Edison with his dictating machine, and A.A. bratton. (c1921.)Edison and Ford in a friendly chat (c1925.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1913.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1913.)Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 (c1928.)Mr. Thomas A. Edison shaking hands with winner of Grand Prix [runner] (c1920.)Mina (Miller) Edison (c1906.)[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded] (1922)Thomas Edison and his original dynamo, Edison Works, Orange, N.J., U.S.A. (c1906.)Ford-Edison camping party ([ca. 1921])[Thomas Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, writing in his labo ([between 1910 and 19)[Thomas Edison, half-length portrait, facing front] / J.M. White & Co. (c1893.)[Thomas Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] (c1880.)Edison and most of his Orange laboratory staff (c1893.)[Mr. Thomas A. Edison standing next to flag presented to him for the forty-third anniversa (c1920.)[Thomas Edison, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with phonograph] ([ca. 1878])[Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, and Henry Ford posed standing, full-length, at Mr. Edison' (c1914.)Edison phonograph (1912)[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] (c1922.)[Thomas Alva Edison, full-length portrait, seated at his desk, facing left, with Mr. Wilso (c1913.)T.A. Edison (c1911.)Edison's phonographic doll--the built-in phonograph [1894] / Poyet. (London : John Murray)Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis. (1880)[Thomas Alva Edison, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, between two phonograph ca (c1912.)[Thomas Alva Edison, half-length portrait, seated, facing left] (c1922.)Edison power plant at East 35th Street (Corona, New York Cit)Brooklyn Edison Co. Bldg., Pearl & Willoughby Sts., Brooklyn (c1932.)[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, with family gro (c1920 March 9.)Mr. Thomas Edison walking in laboratory yard with Messrs. Miller Reese Hutchinson and Mill (c1914.)T.A. Edison, J. Daniels (n/a)Mrs. T.A. Edison (n/a)Mrs. T.A. Edison (n/a)Mrs. T.A. Edison, Mme. Jusserand, J.J. Jusserand (n/a)Mrs. T.A. Edison, Mme. Jusserand, J.J. Jusserand (n/a)Mrs. T.A. Edison, Mme. Jusserand, J.J. Jusserand (n/a)The New Edison: Thomas A. Edison's Final Achievement phonograph advertisement

Mills

Red mill buildings and tailings pile below forested mountain slopesMill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, ColoradoSteel mill smokestacks rising behind rows of housesSteel mill stacks rising above small houses in foregroundTall industrial smokestacks against a blue sky, film transparencyTwo smokestacks emitting white smoke against a blue skyAssabet Manufacturing Co., Maynard, Mass. / /C.H. Vogt, lith. (Boston : Published b)Mill on the Brandywine, Delaware ([ca. 1828])[River view with factory] ([ca. 1857])Wall paper manufactory of Janeway & Carpender, New Brunswick, N.J. / Chas. Hart lith. ([between 1880 and 19)Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932. (1932)Niagara, mills on American shore ([ca. 1900])L. Candee & Co., Rubber Works, manufacturers of all kinds of rubber boots & shoes. New Hav ([no date recorded on)

Natural Resources Utility

Loading / Clare Leighton.Wind eroded volcanic ash - Kleifarvatn (1975)Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture / Beall. ([193-])Power for defense. Rural Electrification Administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture / ([between 1940 and 19)[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada: Rigger on cableway headtower during er (1934)Blackout means black / CH. (1941)[Electric power line tower]Book page of numbered lanterns titled LANTERNSSection and plan of a revolving catoptric lighthouse lightWindmill beside brick buildings and tall treesWoorden windmill with buildings and trees, handwritten captionWooden windmill and country road and fieldWooden windmill and brick windmill, two photographs on mount

Natural Resources Utility · Mining

Gold mining in California (New York : Published)United Mine-Workers of America ([no date recorded on)Mining on the Comstock / drawn by T.L. Dawes ; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., Sa (Gold Hill, Nev. : pu)Miners prospecting / Remington. ([c188-])Salt mines ([ca. 1893])54 hour week, low wages / Ellis. ([between 1930 and 19)[Miner Joe] / Elizabeth Olds, 1940. (1940)To the miner / J.L.R. ; A.B. Graha Co. Litho., Washington, D.C. ([1917])Stand by the boys in the trenches--Mine more coal / Walter Whitehead 1918. (Chicago: Edwards & D)mining on the comstockMining on the Comstock

Natural Resources Utility · Oil

The old and the new., the first oil well..., modern oil well... (c1891 ? [date faded])E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico ([no date recorded on)[An oil well, Oklahoma] (c1922.)[Miner working in coal mine] ([between 1909 and 19)Mine tunnel with rail tracks under a "SAFETY FIRST" signR.T. Coverdale engineer & contractor for the erection of gas works, Cincinnati, O. / lith. (c1868.)Long Beach Oil Field, California, May 1923Panoramic photograph of oil derricks across an oil fieldPanoramic view of oil derricks over a town[Wastelands] / Joe Jones c37. (c1937.)BP ethyl anti-knock controls horse-power (1934)

Natural Resources Utility · Telephone Telegraph

Automatic transmitter type 703-A ([1944(?)])Signal Telegraph Machine and operator - Fredericksburg ([1862 ca. December])Night signalling ([1864 October])The Eighth wonder of the world - the Atlantic cable (N.Y. : Kimmel & Fors)The signal telegraph train as used at the battle of Fredericksburg ([1862 December 13])I'll tell - tell her on the telephone--I'll tell Tilly I want her for my own (1909)Hello there! When are you coming to see me? (1908)[Postcard, addressed to Miss Nellie Bonjour, Chapin, Iowa, showing two frames surrounded b ([between 1900 and 19)Pershing cables: The support of the united army of shipbuilders at home is essential to th ([1917])2 inspiring cablegrams / Krieg Hoff ; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York. (Philadelphia : Unite)

Natural Resources Utility · Water

Milwaukee water works. Engine house, water tower & reservoir ([no date recorded on)[Optical illusion disc with man pumping water] (Haymarket, [London] )Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : (1941)Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile :Do u (1941)Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not use more water in the kitchen than is nece (1941)

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