Collection Items
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Film, VideoBeginning of a skyscraper
Starting a skyscraper The scene is an excavation site in New York City. A large group of workmen with picks and shovels are digging. Carts drawn by pairs of horses can be seen emerging from...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoA perilous proceeding The film follows a group of approximately ten men who are suspended on the cable of a large crane atop a building under construction. As the men are lifted over the site...
- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Congdon, James - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoExcavating for a New York foundation
Lifting a wagon from a New York foundation The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoThe skyscrapers of New York
Skyscrapers The story involves a construction foreman who fires one of his crew for fighting, which leads the disgruntled employee to steal. He then cause the blame to be put on the foreman,...- Contributor: Slevin, Jim - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Dobson, F. A. - Gauntier, Gene - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906-01-01