Caption: "Lowering conveyors load railways cars with coal after it has been given its preliminary cleaning and sizing. These cars are sent to the central preparation plant a few miles away where the product is finally prepared for marker by the...
Text from back of image: "Two "Bristol" 840 h.p. Mercury engines. The first all-metal modern twin-engined monoplane for the R. A. F. to carry the whole of the military load within the structure. Saw service with all the Commands of the R. A. F. and...
The album contains photographs taken during an inspection trip made by a party from the Coal Lands Securities Company to properties in West Virginia owned by the Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Company and the Highland Lumber Company. This trip was made...
Typed caption: "Transparent sheet of light-sensitive film is inspected at DuPont's new plant for 'Dycril' printing plates at Parlin, New Jersey. The complex technology utilized in the country's first full-scale plant for making photopolymer...
Map of mine workings under the St. Clair tract. Original in TN823.P4A2. Used in A. F. C. Wallace, St. Clair: A nineteenth-century coal town's experience with a disaster-prone industry (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)
From Book of Trades (London, 1805). Written caption on back: "The blowpipe was probably invented by the Phoenicians a few centuries B.C. It changed little over a period of 2,000 years and was used up to the time machines such as the F.C. Ball...
written on back of image: "Greyhound - Scenicruiser Designed in 1942 by RL Launched 1954" stamped on back of image: "Harold Kite & Associates, Inc. 'Photography For Industry' 1714 N. Wells St. - Chicago 14, ILL Michigan 2-1661." sticker on...
On back: "Colorful reminders of the early years of the Twentieth Century are the 'morning glory' horn of this ancient Victor Talking Machine Company phonograph and the broad-brimmed 'sailor' hat and checked, long-skirted jacket of the model....
