Fred J. Ulmer World War I naval photograph and postcard album, 1918 to 1919, documenting service aboard USS "Terry" as the Allies fought German U boats. Photographs show convoy escort, torpedo firing, smoke screens, damaged and torpedoed ships, coaling operations, and the destroyers and sailors engaged in the campaign. "Terry".....
[Environmentalism and Green Energy][Engineering and Technology] Serpollet, Léon. “Machine a Vapeur” blueprint circa 1895–1905, a record of the height steam powered automotive engineering, capturing a moment when steam power competed directly with internal combustion and electric propulsion in the formative years of motor transport. Serpollet, in partnership with Frank Gardner.....
Operation Deep Freeze U.S. Navy photo archive documenting the preparation and execution of the first flight from Africa to Antarctica, September 27 to October 1, 1963, a 4,700-mile airlift that demonstrated the expanding reach of the American Antarctic logistics network. The flight occurred as the United States was transforming its.....
[WWI][National Guard][WWII] Primary-source archive documenting U.S. Army transportation command operations supporting Allied logistics following the Normandy landings, centered on the development of Cherbourg as a critical supply hub. Assembled from the career of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Sullivan, the collection spans World War I mobilization through World War II and.....
7th Avenue Original Subway construction album documenting cut and cover excavation, timber bracing, and utility rerouting in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1914, a ground-level record of the Dual Contracts expansion that extended the IRT south along Seventh Avenue Extension and Varick Street to meet rising transit demand on.....
Porsche 956 engineering and workshop photograph archive documenting the construction, assembly, and mechanical development of one of the defining endurance racing prototypes of the Group C era, circa early to mid 1980s. Introduced in 1982, the Porsche 956 transformed international sports car racing through its aluminum monocoque chassis, turbocharged flat-six.....
California photo Album documenting 1930's roadside commerce's, Oil and logging industries, and desert sightseeing across Southern California and Death Valley, circa 1930s. Include logging photographs made when steam power still ran the woods, before the gasoline tractor and chainsaw displaced the steam donkey engine and the logging railroad. The photographs.....
Garrels, Robert. Manual of Instructions for Operating the Ballasting Control System Tank Landing Craft, 1943 documents the engineering procedures governing ballast systems in amphibious vessels designed for World War II assault operations. Prepared during the peak of Allied amphibious planning, the manual addresses the controlled flooding of well decks, lowering.....
U.S. Navy Pacific fleet cruise photo album documenting naval service and Indigenous encounters during Admiral Robert E. Coontz’s 1925 deployment to Australia and New Zealand. The inscription “Property of J. J. Prieskop. U.S.S. Seattle, band” identifies its owner as a musician associated with the fleet flagship. Following major exercises in.....
New Deal-era western construction and industrial expansion across California, Oregon, and Washington, recorded in an extensive family photo album with inscribed dates, locations and details. The album records the surge of dam, bridge, road, harbor, and flood-control work that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal public works programs. The photographs record.....
An extensive early twentieth-century photographic album documenting American tourists traveling from Miami through Cuba and the Caribbean, circa 1905, during the expansion of United States political and commercial influence throughout the region. Particularly significant are the photographs of Havana and Matanzas in the years immediately following the Spanish-American War of.....
Chinese Eastern Railway and rural Manchuria photo archive depicting railway travel across Manchuria in 1903, documenting the rapid transformation of northeastern China into one of the most contested transportation corridors of the early twentieth century. Created only months before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the photographs record a landscape.....
American soldier’s World War II photo album, 1942 to 1945, documenting the movement of American servicemen from stateside departure through transatlantic military transport, field encampments, rail and truck transit, and recently liberated France, including the physical ravages left by the fighting, bombing, sabotage, and German retreat. An inscription dated June.....
A substantial archive documenting the trucks, drivers, terminals, accidents, repairs, freight operations, and working life of the Michigan Tri-State Motor Express trucking company of Benton Harbor, Michigan, dating primarily from the late 1930s through the 1950s. The company grew from the Mammina Brothers transport business established by Joseph and Benjamin.....
Continental Airlines Flight 603 disaster photographs documenting the burned wreckage and structural damage of the DC 10 runway overrun at Los Angeles International Airport on March 1, 1978, one of the most consequential American aviation accidents of the late 1970s and a major catalyst for changes in tire safety standards.....
Massachusetts oil delivery photographs documenting the horse drawn transport system that moved petroleum products through small town New England before motor trucks displaced wagon distribution. Images depict oil wagons, teamsters, and tank rigs tied to local commercial delivery via horse and carriage. The turn of the century marked an industrial.....
Early twentieth century American travel photograph album with accompanying handwritten identification notes, circa 1900 to 1905, documenting the travels of the family of Texas & Pacific Railway official C. G. Warner through the railroad, steamship, and hotel networks that connected the American Southwest with Europe during the mature era of.....
Whitney, Asa. A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific, 1849, a programmatic proposal that advances one of the earliest sustained arguments for a transcontinental railroad linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Written at a moment when westward expansion intensified following the Mexican American War and.....
Indian railway archive spanning 1869 to 1946, documenting the construction, financing, administration, and everyday operation of one of the largest transportation systems created under colonial rule. Railways transformed the movement of people, commodities, troops, and information across the subcontinent, linking port cities, pilgrimage centers, agricultural districts, and frontier regions through.....
Carquinez Bridge construction photo archive documenting the industrial development of the 1927 cantilever crossing at the Carquinez Strait, a transportation project driven by California’s rapid automobile growth and the mounting inadequacy of the Vallejo ferry connection between the Bay Area and Sacramento. By the early 1920s California vehicle registrations had.....
Philadelphia Transportation Company accident investigation photo archive, circa 1953 to 1956, documenting the bureaucratic infrastructure that sustained one of the nation's largest privately operated urban transit systems during the postwar era. Produced as internal evidence for accident reporting, liability assessment, vehicle repair, and operational review, the photographs were an essential.....
California railroad and industrial development photo album documenting Southern Pacific workers, locomotives, rail yards, derailments, logging settlements, and expanding cities in 1924, when rail transport remained the principal link between the state’s resource districts, agricultural regions, ports, and urban markets. The album follows railway personnel through working landscapes and recreational.....
[Public Transit][Massachusetts] Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area, including Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence, Saugus, Marblehead, Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars, trolley routes, terminals, and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition.....
Michigan Tri-State Motor Express trucks, trailers, and drivers photo archive depicting a first-generation American interstate trucking company based in Benton Harbor, Michigan and photographed across more than a decade, circa 1941 to 1952. Long-haul motor freight had barely existed a decade before these snapshots were taken; the Motor Carrier Act.....
Iron lung transport press archive documenting the movement of respirator-dependent polio patients through rail terminals, ships, ramps, aircraft, hospitals, and Coast Guard facilities during the years before the Salk vaccine changed American polio care in 1955. The iron lung, developed in 1928 by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, kept.....
