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Construction workers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on all types of laborers, both skilled and unskilled, employed in the construction industry. Works on the construction business, including finance, planning, management, and skills are entered under [Construction industry.] Works on the skilled trades employed in building construction are entered under [Building trades.]

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

frid00226

 Item
Identifier: frid00226
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925-1964

frid01690, unknown

 Item
Identifier: frid01690
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: unknown

frid01735, unknown

 Item
Identifier: frid01735
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: unknown

frid01736, unknown

 Item
Identifier: frid01736
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: unknown

frid01737, unknown

 Item
Identifier: frid01737
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: unknown

Moving in from Bel. Water Job, 1929

 File
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0005
Abstract

File contains image of construction equipment and houses in the background.

Dates: 1929

Photographs, between 1919-1953

 Series
Identifier: B207.01
Abstract

The series contains photographs of Northwestern Engineering Company worksites and a photograph of Kadoka, South Dakota.

Dates: between 1919-1953

Road Construction, 1919

 Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00002
Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew in South Dakota. There are two children on a horse, eleven men, and two women. Four of the men are astride saddled horses inside a corral. Behind the people are an automobile, a truck, and two tents. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several counties in South Dakota. Morris Adelstein and his banker founded the...
Dates: 1919

Road Construction, 1919

 Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00003
Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road and a culvert in South Dakota. There are three four-hitch teams of horses with grading implements and eight men. The men are by a newly constructed culvert and road. Two automobiles are parked on the dirt road and in the distance on the prairie is a wagon. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the county engineer for several...
Dates: 1919

University of Denver Apartments, circa 1955

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0012.0003.00013
Abstract

Exterior view of the construction of one of the University of Denver apartment buildings in Denver, Colorado. A construction worker wearing a hat and smoking a pipe uses a hammer on top of a cement wall. A second construction worker is also on top of the foundation. Mary Reed Building is in the background.

Dates: circa 1955