| Title |
Construction - United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
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| Description |
Image 1 - An unidentified carpenter operating a saw at a construction site, undated. Image 2 - A photograph of H. O. Hackney and Earle L. Watts, two members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 396, Newport News, at the construction site for the TAC Headquarters Building at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, 1968. Published in the "Local Union News" page of "The Carpenter" February 1968. Image 3 - An illustration of two carpenters at a construction site, undated. Image 4 - A photograph of workers installing a floor truss system to the wood frame of a building, Portland, Oregon, April 1973. Photo provided by Evans Products Company. Image 5 - Workers demolishing a building, circa 1931-1950. Image 6 - A photograph of the construction site for a new Sears building, 1905. Caption reads: "Sears, Printing Bldg in Rear, Adm. Bldg in Construction - 1905." Image 7 - A worker climbing the scaffolding inside a building construction site, undated. Image 8 - A building construction site of a church in Baltimore, Maryland, May 1957. Caption reads: "Carpenters Walk Among the Stars." Image 9 - Carpenters at work at the construction site of the Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station, which was the first full-scale nuclear power plant in Canada, June 1962. Caption reads: "Construction workers preparing the timber cribs for the cofferdam at the Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station. Timber cribs, some weighing up to 20 tons, are being used in the construction of the temporary cofferdam which encloses the circulating water intake tunnel. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited is building the station with the co-operation of Ontario Hydro." Photograph provided by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Image 10 - Several carpenters at work inside the wood frame of a building, undated. Image 11 - A construction site with several carpenters and horses in the foreground, undated. Image 12 - A photograph of the construction site for the Brooklyn Trust Company Building in Brooklyn, New York City, October 13, 1914. It was built by Marc Eldlitz and Son Builders of New York City. Image 13 - A photograph of the construction site for a new Sears building, June 10, 1905. Caption reads: "Sears West Side Construction." ----------------- Not all of the photographs in the folder titled "Construction" are available online.
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| Extent |
13 images; Photographs; color; monochrome |
| Date |
1914-10-13 |
| Creator |
Cheyne, W. E. (William Ethelbert)
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| Location |
Oregon; New York; Portland; United States; Hampton; North America; Canada; Baltimore; Kincardine; Virginia; Maryland; Ontario; Toronto |
| Subject(s) |
Trucks; Construction; Religious facilities; Atomic Energy of Canada Limited; Brooklyn Trust Company; Sears, Roebuck and Company; Carpenters' unions; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; Churches; Demolition; Saws; Construction industry; Construction workers; Department stores; Building construction; Carpenters; Labor unions; Ontario Hydro; Horses; Nuclear power plants; Langley Air Force Base (Va.); Military facilities; Trusses |
| Citation |
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America archives, Accession 1995-94, Series 14, Subseries 1, Box 8, Folder 6 - Construction |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/32763
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#InC
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| Terms of Use |
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries.
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