Large photo archive documenting the businesses, utilities, and construction trades within Pinellas County, Florida, during the region’s extraordinary population expansion in the 1950s. Clearwater Historical Society's notable photographer George Fulmer’s assignments record the businesses within this economic moment as it rapidly aimed to accommodate the postwar migration to the Sunbelt.....

Southern cotton commerce documents spanning 1815 to 1850 recording the shipment, pricing, and commercial circulation of cotton during the formative decades of the antebellum cotton economy. These records document the infrastructure of the American cotton trade connecting southern ports such as Savannah and New Orleans with northern commercial centers including.....

Ford Lima Engine Plant photo archive documenting one Ford's Ohio engine factory from steel-frame construction through twenty years of production and UAW strike activity. Ford opened the Lima plant in 1957 on farmland north of Lima, Ohio, producing six-cylinder engines for its postwar lineup and reaching its five millionth six-cylinder.....

[Labor] Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory, yard, and field settings, circa 1960s, recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed, serviced, and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills, compressor-fed hose systems, and rail-mounted heavy equipment.....

[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict, picketing, and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of.....

Panama City photograph archive, ca. 1920s, documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal’s opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering, international commerce, tourism, and everyday street life that developed as Panama.....

[Texas History][Industrial Disaster] Texas City Disaster photo archive, documenting search and recovery work, emergency relief, and widespread damage after the Grandcamp and High Flyer explosions, the 1947 catastrophe that became the deadliest industrial accident in United States history and a defining early test of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The.....

India glass lantern slide archive documenting class hierarchy dichotomy in British India, with scenes of village labor, bazaar exchange, railway movement, industrialization, Sikhs, and colonial cavalry, circa 1900-20. Images clearly depict the class divide and caste system; villagers and laborers are shown seated on bare ground in carpentry work, men.....

Brea Chemicals construction and early operations archive documenting the transformation of open Orange County foothill land into a Union Oil chemical manufacturing complex producing ammonia, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, dry ice, and related fertilizer products. In 1953, The Petroleum Engineer reported that Homer Reed, president of the newly organized Union.....

Texas City disaster press photographs recording emergency treatment, industrial fire, body recovery, and civic mourning in Texas City, Texas, in the immediate aftermath of the April 16, 1947 port explosions. The SS Grandcamp, loaded with 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer manufactured from surplus WWII munitions material and bound for.....

American Agricultural Chemical Company corporate promotional album, c. 1955, advertising Florida phosphate extraction and its conversion into fertilizer, elemental phosphorus, and chemical products during postwar agricultural expansion. The company presented phosphorus as essential to agricultural productivity and its mining operations as the means of supplying it. By World War I......

[Labor Organizing][Industry] General Electric strike photo archive documenting the 1960 IUE Local 201 strike at the GE River Works plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, press photographs of workers and labor organizers resisting GE’s take-it-or-leave-it bargaining practice at the factory gate. These images record the early days of the national IUE walkout.....

Press photograph archive, 1935–1978, documenting the transformation of ranching in Texas across the twentieth century, with emphasis on livestock management, environmental conditions, and shifting labor systems. The images include scenes of cattle herding, bison and cattle enclosed together, and ranch operations at varying scales, alongside evidence of severe weather events.....