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Lowe's industrial photographs make up a significant portion of the HAER images collected since the founding of HAER in 1969. The National Park Service, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Library of Congress reached an agreement to document historic sites and structures related to engineering and industry.
The Industrial Revolution altered the U.S. economy and set the stage for the United States to dominate technological change and growth in the Second Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age. [28] The Industrial Revolution also saw a decrease in labor shortages which had characterized the U.S. economy through its early years. [29]
Harris and Ewing collection images (14 F) Media in category "Images from the Library of Congress" The following 99 files are in this category, out of 99 total. 8.
Keppler's 1889 cartoon depicts monopolists as dominating American politics as the "Bosses of the Senate". The Bosses of the Senate is an American political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, [1] [2] published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine. [3] [4] The cartoon depicts the United States Senate as a body under the control of "captain of ...
American colonies gained independence in 1783 just as profound changes in industrial production and coordination were beginning to shift production from artisans to factories. Growth of the nation's transportation infrastructure with internal improvements and a confluence of technological innovations before the Civil War facilitated an ...
During the 1980s, the scope of the field of industrial archaeology in Great Britain shifted away from what was taken place in North America, where the theories of social archaeology that were developed in the historical archaeology field began to be applied to the study of industrial sites. British industrial archaeologists meanwhile mainly ...
The Brady-Handy collection is a historical photo archive of the United States. The collection is a cache of "mostly Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views" purchased by the Library of Congress in 1954, from descendants of Levin C. Handy, nephew and apprentice of photographer Mathew Brady. [1]
Barnard's work is included in the American Memory collection, Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1861–1865. [5] The J. Paul Getty Museum , in Los Angeles , has one of his works [ 2 ] and the MoMA also has his work in their collection.