7 8x10 images, some linen backed, mainly VG, some soil. The church was designed by John Notman in 1856. In 1929, the church building, which includes the parish house and rectory, and weighs 5000 tons, was lifted onto steel rollers and moved forty feet west to allow for the widening.....
1 8x10 photo and 2 7x5 photos, showing the moving of the Post Officer 150 ft. to make way for the Lockerman St. extension. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses.....
3 8x10 linen backed photos in very good condition with some soil, showing the track's steel and concrete 240 ft. grandstand that was turned 180 degrees. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company.....
3 8x10 photos showing the move of the General Winfield Scott statue at 16th St. NW and Rhode Island Ave. NW. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses, buildings, etc., intact.....
2 8x10 linen backed photos showing the progress of moving the small Bayer office building in 1927. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses, buildings, etc., intact, from one location to.....
Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair, C. 1920. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, maroon cloth gilt, very good, light restoration to spine ends, SIGNED by Eugene Debs. Poems plus lengthy notes on the poets. 99 pp. plus ads.
1 9.5 x 7.5 photo, linen backed, from late 1921, showing raising a 100 ft. wide stone and brich building 12 ft. up to move it 300 ft. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural.....
3 8x10 photos of the blast furnace of Colorado Fuel & Iron, that Eichleay Co. was contracted to move. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses, buildings, etc., intact, from one.....
3 Linen backed 8x10 photos showing SW Bell Building before and after it was moved 15 ft. (looks no different to us!). Photos in very good condition. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving.....
2 linen backed 8x10 photos showing the huge steel car dumper that was moved 214 ft. Good with quite a bit of soil and handling. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving.....
4 linen backed 9.5 x 7.5 inch photos, all the same image, showing how they raised the building 4 ft. and moved it 700 ft. Mainly very good, some handling and soil, one with corner chip. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family.....
3 9.5 x 7.5 inch photos (one a duplicate), documenting the moving of the 192 ft. building 70 ft. as part of a project involving the NYNH & H Railroad. Some varnish stains on back of them. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under.....
6 8x10 linen backed photos in very good condition, showing preparations for moving the entire warehouse to make way for the widening of the street. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving.....
6 8x10 vintage photos accompanied by newspaper clippings & articles. The PA Railroad's bridge across the Monongahela, near Second Ave. & Bates St., needed to be moved 60 ft. for the construction of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway (Rt. 376). The bridge weighed 14,000,000 pounds and was moved in its entirety. The.....
2 8x10 and 4 7x5 photos, those stamped Restricted. "The Jumbo device was designed by the X2-A section of the Los Alamos laboratory to act as a failsafe device for the Trinity test explosion. General Groves spent $12 million on Jumbo, a steel cylinder 10 feet in diameter and 25.....
Several images, mainly very good. Undated but 1920s; the company was tasked with splitting the 80 x 45' structure to accommodate the installation of a pipe organ. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving.....
Images are very good, light soil and handling. The M. A. Hanna & Co. bridge in Detroit was 240 ft. long, with towers 50 ft. high, and was moved in its entirety 400 ft. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to.....
Very good condition overall, documenting an ingenious solution to replacing a blast furnace for Youngstown Sheet & Tube. "To keep the 30-year old No. 1 blast furnace in operation as long as possible before a new furnace was installed...with the help of [Eichleay] the new furnace was erected on a......
Mainly cranes, photos in very good condition, many labeled on the backs. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses, buildings, etc., intact, from one location to another. It was a very.....
Mainly linen backed, and mainly in VG condition with one or two exceptions. The apartment building was moved 350 feet in 1926 to its present location, to make room for the Alfred E. Smith Building. These photos show exactly what it took to perform this amazing engineering feat. The Eichleay.....
Accordion style album with 25 real photo postcards of an open air play in the foothills of the Pyrenees, probably at the foot of Castel-Viehl in Luchon. It was well attended: photos show hundreds of playgoers and include shots of the stage, the play, the characters in their costumes, etc......
Mainly linen backed, all in very good condition. The 8,000 ton 9-story building was moved 112 feet and had to be "skewed" slightly to fit its new location. Subsidance was less than half an inch. Included is an issue of "L'Ossature Metallique" from 1938 with an article on this. These.....
Linen backed, all in very good condition. The Indiana Bell Telephone Building, a 12,000 ton structure in Indianapolis, IN, was moved 52 ft., pivoted 90 degrees, and rolled another 100 ft. without disturbing the 600 employees inside. These photos show exactly what it took to perform this amazing engineering feat.....
1 8x10 photo, 3 7x5 photos, and 1 5x3 photo, all showing various stages of installation of the penstock pipes at Boulder Dam, plus large 41 x 27 plan, with some hand-coloring, showing the plan for where the penstock pipes would go, plus two smaller folding plans relating to the.....
Images in good to very good condition, some soil and handling. Shows the tanks before being moved, of workers raising them up, with Eichleay sign wrapped around one of the tanks, and of them wending their way up the Chicago River to their new home on California Ave., moved by.....