The trucking industry is the largest freight sector, making up about 70 percent of all domestic shipment in the United States and contributes greatly the American economy. About 10 billion tons of goods are shipped annually and of that, about...
Three men stand in a mineshaft in front of a car filled with coal while four more stand behind it. They are each wearing caps with headlamps. Title: 7057 Loading Cage with Car of Coal at Bottom of Shaft, Scranton, Pa. Text on left: Keystone View...
Large factory room filled with locomotive cars being built. Title: 7090 - General View of the Erecting Shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. Text on left: Keystone View Company. Copyrighted. Manufacturers. Publishers. Made in U.S.A....
"A full-scale replica of the ship in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey." (Caption, p. 315); "Without doubt it was a royal cargo. And an exceptional one, at that. We can only guess how its loss, toward the end of...
"Artifacts from the wreck include: the ivory figurine of a female acrobat with her feet on her head; a gold pendant of a nude fertility goddess holding gazelles in her hands; a partly gold-clad bronze figurine of a goddess, perhaps the ship's...
A man drives a truck with a sign reading, "Arctic Ice Co. No. 72." Lettering indicates the truck is capable of hauling 2 1/2 tons. Unidentified buildings and a car are in the background.
Railroad tracks; Electric railroads; Railroads; Canals
Four sets of railroad tracks with fields on either side. Electric poles and lines run parallel to the tracks. A train is on the left set of tracks with a person sitting on the top of one of the cars. A second train is on one of the middle sets of...
Freight cars filled with iron ore. A man stands on top of one car guiding a bucket of ore. Beyond the trains are a barge and smaller ships in the water. Title: (75)-7965-Unloading iron ore from lake vessels - old and new methods - Cleveland, O....
Historic sites; Monuments & memorials; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Obelisk-shaped monument made of granite with a small building next to it on a grassy area. A city skyline is in the background. Title: Bunker Hill Monument. Text on left: Boston & Suburbs....
“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
"The heavy walls of Tiryns and other Mycenaean palaces contrast sharply with the open Cretan palaces and clearly reveal their defensive character. Those of Tiryns average about 20 feet in thickness, and in one section they house a long gallery...
"Over 3,000 of them still stand in a two-mile stretch near Menec. Each of these squared-off stones weighs several tons. [...] There are thirteen rows of alignments, their stones graduated in height from about 3 feet on the eastern end to...
