Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Lawrence V. Smith Collection
Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
NMAH.AC.1314
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31 Cubic feet
31 boxes
1970 - 2010
English
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains the product of Smith's life's work as an industrial and transportation photographer. It consists of approximately 120,000 35mm color slides of various industrial and transportation subjects. Transportation is the larger subject area, including such topics as trucks, vehicles, transit, traffic, railroads, ships, etc. The slides are captioned and arranged by subject. Within the railroad photographs, a very large number of the slides relate to CSX.
Collection includes a small number of images by other photographers.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to the Archives Center in 2013 by Smith's widow, Linda L. Smith.
Preferred Citation
Archives Center, Lawrence V. Smith Photographic Collection, ca. 1970s-2009, National Museum of American History
Processing Information
Collection is unprocessed.
Color slides
Slides
Series 1
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Agriculture
1.1
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Sets-Agriculture
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1
2
Agriculture - Banannas
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1
3
Sugar Beets
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1
4
Sets - Cabbage
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1
5
Cattle
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1
6
Coconuts
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1
7
Sets - Corn
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1
8
Agriculture - Corn
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1
9
Super Slides - Agriculture - Corn
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1
10
Agriculture - Corn
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1
11
Agriculture - Corn
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1
12
Super Slides - Cotton
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1
13
Super Slides - Agriculture - Cotton
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1
14
Sets - Cottonseed
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1
15
Sets - Farmers
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1
16
Sets - Farms and Farm Houses
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1
17
Aerials - Farms and Farm Lands
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1
18
Sets - Old Antique Farm Equipment & Cars
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1
19
Fruit & Vegetables
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1
20
Agriculture - General
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1
21
Sets - Grapefruit
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1
22
Sets - Grapes
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1
23
Sets - Green Beans
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1
24
Greenhouses
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1
25
Sets - Irrigation
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1
26
Sets - Livestock
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1
27
Sets - Migrant Workers in Fields
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1
28
Occidental Chemical, Peoria, IL Shoot - Cropmate
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1
29
Sets - Okra
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1
30
Sets-apples
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1
1
Super Slides - Orange Groves
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1
31
Sets - Orange Groves
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1
32
Sets - Peaches
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1
33
Sets - Peanuts
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1
34
Agriculture - Pig Farm
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1
35
Sets - Rye
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1
36
Sets - Seeds
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1
37
Agriculture - Seed
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1
38
Storage Silos
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1
39
Sets - Grain Silos
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1
40
Agriculture - Soy Beans
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1
41
Sets - Soy Beans
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1
42
Agriculture - Sugar Cane
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1
43
Super Slides - Agriculture
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2
1-5
Tangerines
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2
6
Sets - Tobacco
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2
7
Tree Farming
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1
8
Super Slides - Spring Wheat
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1
9
Sets - Wheat
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1
10
Sets - Wheat
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1
11
Super Slides - Wheat
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1
12
Wheat
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1
13
Commuter/Transit
1.2
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1
14
Commuter/Transit
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2
14
Commuter & Transit [negatives]
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2
15
MARTA - Atlanta
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2
16
MARTA - Atlanta
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2
17
MARTA - Breda Series CO 312
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2
18
Baltimore Metro - Light & Heavy Rail
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2
19
MARC - Baltimore
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2
20
Burlington North
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2
21
Chicago CTA
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2
22
Chicago -- CTA - The Loop
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2
23
Transit - Chicago - METRA
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2
24
IC - Metra
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2
25
Chicago - Nortran
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3
1
Rapid Transit - Chicago
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3
2
Chicago, South Shore & South Bend
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3
3
Airtrans - Dallas - Fort Worth Airport
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3
4
Sets - Dallas _ DART
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3
5
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
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3
6
Sets - Dallas - DART - Doors
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3
7
Sets - Trinity Railway Express
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3
8
Trinity Railway Express
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3
9
Disney World/Epcot - Monorail
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3
10
Sets - Walt Disney - Monorail
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3
11
Sets - Eurostar
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3
12
Eurostar Passenger Train
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3
13
ICE
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3
14
Sets - Los Angeles - Red Line
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3
15
Sets - Los Angeles - Blue Line
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3
16
Metroline - Los Angeles
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3
17
Slides in Sets - Mass Transit
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3
18
People Mover - Miami International Airport
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3
19
Sets - Transit - Miami Metrorail
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3
20
Sets - Miami Metrorail - Doors
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3
21
Sets - Trirail - Miami, Florida
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3
22
Sets - Tri-Rail - Miami - Doors
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3
23
St. Charles Street Car - New Orleans
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3
24
Sets - New Orleans Street Car - Doors
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3
25
New Orleans - Riverfront Street Cars
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3
26
Orlando International Airport - People Mover
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3
27
Rapid Transit - London & Port Stanly
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3
28
SEPTA - Red Arrow Lines
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3
29
SEPTA - Philadelphia, PA
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3
30
SEPTA - Philadelphia, PA
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3
31
San Francisco - BART
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3
32
Slides in Sets - San Francisco Cable Cars
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3
33
Teco-Tampa Light Rail
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3
34
Tampa International Airport - People Mover
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3
35
Thrall Car Manufacturing Plant - Cartersville, Georgia
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3
36
Sets - Toronto GO
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3
37
Virginia Railway Express
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3
38
Washington - MARC - Heavy Rail
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3
39
Washington METRO
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3
40
Washington, DC - METRO
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4
1
Sets - Washington METRO - Doors
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4
2
Sets - Washington METRO - People
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4
3
Tri-rail
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4
4
WABCO LA
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4
5
Electronics
1.3
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Electronics
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4
6
Electronic Components
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4
7
Scanners
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4
8
Floods
1.4
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Sets - Flood - 1994
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4
9
Super Slides - Flood Damage
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4
10
Sets - West Virginia Flood
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4
11
Flood - Cumberland, MD - 1996
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4
12
Floods
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4
13
West Virginia Floods - Red Cross
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4
14
Industries
1.5
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Industrials
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4
15
Super Slides - Industrials
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4
16
Chemical Companies
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4
17
Sets - Aerials - Chemical Plants
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4
18
Occidental Chemical
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4
19
Occidental Chemical
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4
20
Occidental Chemical - Aerials
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4
21
Occidental Chemical
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4
22
Occidental Chemical - White Springs
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4
23
Oxy [negatives]
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4
24
Recycle - Southern Recycling
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4
25
Set - Metal Recycling & Paper
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4
26
Sets - Scrap Metal
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4
27
Reynolds Metals - Coil Storage
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4
28
Reynolds Metals - End of Pipe
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4
29
Reynolds Metals - Gainsharing
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4
30
Reynolds Metals - Poster
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4
31
Reynolds Metals - Shipping
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4
32
Reynolds Metals - 5 Cold Stand Mill
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4
33
Steel Mill
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4
34
Laboratories
1.6
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Sets - Laboratory Scenes
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5
1
Slides in Sets - Testing
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5
2
Labs - Testing
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5
3
Tampa Bay Research Institute
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5
4
Mining
1.7
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Sets - Phosphate Plant
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5
5
Sets - Rock Quarry
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5
6
Sets - Aerials - Elk Run Coal Mine
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5
7
Ports and Shipping
1.8
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Ships - unidentified [negatives]
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5
8
Shipping - Unidentified
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5
9
Ships & Ports - including Jaxport
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5
10
Ship Yard - Bollanger Texas City
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5
11
Aerials - Cruise Ships
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5
12
Charleston, SC - Loading
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5
13
Ships - Houston, Texas - Military Moves
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5
14
Houston
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5
15
Jaxport - Tallyrand - Chilean Grapes
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5
16
Ships & Ports - Aerial Views - Jaxport
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5
17
Ships - Aerials - Auto Carriers - Jaxport
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5
18
Jaxport - Tallyrand Docks - Rubber-tired Gantry Crane (11/8/00)
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5
19
Sets - Auto Ship - Perseus Leader - NYK (3/25/99)
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5
20
Rubber-tired Gantry Crane - Jaxport (11/8/00)
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5
21
Sets - Lifeboats
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5
22
Pacific Express Line - Port of Long Beach, CA
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5
23
Aerials - Port of Long Beach (10/97)
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5
24
Hanjin - Port of Long Beach
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5
25
"K" Line - Port of Long Beach (9/15/96)
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5
26
Aerials - "K" Line - Port of Long Beach
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5
27
Aerials - Port of Long Beach
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5
28
Aerials - Port of Long Beach
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5
29
Aerial - Tanker Unloading - Port of Long Beach
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5
30
Sets - Port of Long Beach
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5
31
Port of Long Beach - Ground
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5
32
Port of Long Beach - Ground
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5
33
Port of Long Beach - Ground
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5
34
Port of Long Beach - Ground
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5
35
Sets - Aerials - Zim Lines - Port of Long Beach
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5
36
Aerials - Port of Los Angeles (10/97)
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5
37
Sets - Aerials - Auto - Port of Los Angeles
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5
38
Aerials - Auto - Port of Los Angeles
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5
39
Sets - Aerials - Electric Dredge - Port of Los Angeles
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5
40
Aerials - Los Angeles Marina
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5
41
APL Facilities - Port of Los Angeles (10/97)
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5
42
Sets - APL Facilities - Port of Los Angeles
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5
43
Aerials - APL Terminal - Port of Los Angeles (10/97)
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5
44
Aerials - Port of Los Angeles
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5
45
Aerials - Port of Los Angeles
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6
1
Aerials - Port of Los Angeles
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6
2
Sets - Maersk Line
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6
3
Matson Line - Port of Los Angeles
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6
4
Mexican Line - Port of Long Beach
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6
5
Sets - Port of New Jersey - Maher Terminal
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6
6
Ships - Port of New York
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6
7
Newport News Shipbuilding - Newport News, VA
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6
8
Aerials - Ohio River Lock
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6
9
Aerials - Port Everglades
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6
10
Portland, Maine - Port
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6
11
Savannah, Georgia - Port
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6
12
Sets - Ro-Ro Ships & Facilities - Savannah, Georgia
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6
13
Savannah State Docks - Night & Mood
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6
14
Ships - Sea/Land - Aerials at Sea
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6
15
Slides in Sets - Port of Seattle
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6
16
Seattle - Port of
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6
17
Sets - Ships at Sea
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6
18
Ships - Nite, Sunsets & Mood Shots
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6
19
Sets - Ships - Moods, Sunsets & Nite
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6
20
Sets - Ships - Moods, Sunsets & Nite
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6
21
Ships - Nite, Sunsets & Mood Shots
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6
22
Sets - Tankers at Sea
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6
23
Sets - Aerials - Tankers Unloading
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6
24
Ports and Shipping - Cargo
1.9
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Sets - Ammonia Barge
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6
25
Sets - Aerials - Cargo - Steel
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6
26
Sets - Aluminum Ingots
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6
27
Sets - Cargo - Autos & Trucks
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6
28
Mercedes-Benz - Unloading from the Haul Tropicana (2/13/03)
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6
29
Sets - Cargo - Autos & Trucks
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6
30
Cargo - Brazil Nuts
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6
31
Boats
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6
32
Ships - Barber Blue Sea
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6
33
Ships - Del Monte - Port of Savannah
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6
34
Cargo - Break Bulk
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6
35
Sets - Cargo - Buses
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6
36
Sets - Cargo - Bananas & Cardboard
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6
37
Containers - Cargo
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7
1
Loading Frozen Chicken Parts
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7
2
Sets - Cargo - Chemicals
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7
3
Cargo - Collodal Clay
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7
4
Sets - Cargo - Copper
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7
5
Coal Loading Facility - Port of Los Angeles
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7
6
Sets - Unloading Coal - Blount Island
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7
7
Loading Frozen Chicken & Turkey Parts & Products Made From Them
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7
8
Sets - Aerials - Coal Loading - Port of Los Angeles
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7
9
Sets - Cargo - Coffee
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7
10
Sets - Cargo - Cardboard
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7
11
Cargo - Cotton Bales
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7
12
Cargo - Corn Syrup
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7
13
Cargo - Drums - Chemicals
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7
14
Sets - Cargo - Earth Moving Tractors
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7
15
Cargo - Eurotainers
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7
17
Cargo - Tractors - Earth Moving Equipment
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7
16
Cargo - Fertilizer
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7
18
Sets - Cargo - General Locations
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7
19
Cargo - Grain
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7
20
Cargo - Lumber
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7
21
Sets - returning Military Cargo
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7
22
Cargo - Military Load & Unloading
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7
23
Loading Military Ships - 10st Airborne - Blount Island - Jaxport (2/13/03)
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7
24
Loading Military Ships - 101st Airborne - Blount Island - Jaxport (2/13/03)
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7
25
Ships - Military Cargo
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7
26
Sets - Natural Gas Carrier
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7
27
Sets - Cargo - Nuts
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7
28
Cargo - Paper
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7
29
Cargo - Petroleum Products
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7
30
Sets - Cargo - Raw Rubber
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7
31
Sets - Cargo - Rice
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7
32
Sets - Cargo - Sugar
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7
33
Sets - Cargo - Steel
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7
34
Sets - Cargo - Steel Coils
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7
35
Sets - Cargo - Trains
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7
36
Cargo Tie Downs
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7
37
Sets - Transformers
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7
38
Uploading Aggregates - Cleveland, Ohio
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7
39
Cargo - Unusual Shape or Size
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7
40
Sets - Cargo - White Printing Paper
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7
41
Ports and Shipping - Containers
1.10
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Ships - Container - Blount Island
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7
42
Aerials - Container Ships - At Dock or in the River
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7
43
Aerials - Container Ships - At Dock or in the River
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7
44
Sets - Containers - Stacked & on Dock
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7
45
Sets - Containers - Dockside
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7
46
Sets - Containers - Reefers
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7
47
Containers in Yards - Aerials
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7
48
Containers on Board Ships
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8
1
Sets - Container Ships at Sea
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8
2
Cargo - Containers
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8
3
Cargo - Euro-tainers - Unloading - Savannah State bDocks - Savannah, Georgia
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8
4
Sets - Containers
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8
5
Slides in Sets - Containers
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8
6
Power Industry
1.11
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Aerial - Oil-fired Electric Plant
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8
7
Off Shore Oil Rigs
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8
8
Oil Wells
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8
9
Oil Wells
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8
10
Oil Wells
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8
11
Natural Gas Pipeline
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8
12
Nuclear Power Plant
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8
13
Sets - Petroleum Pipe Line - Laying
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8
14
Refiners
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8
15
Slides in Sets - Refineries
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8
16
Aerials - Oil Refineries
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8
17
Industrial Siding - Oil Refinery
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8
18
Oil Refineries
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8
19
Sets - Windmill Generators
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8
20
Railroads
1.12
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Railroads - not CSX (mostly) and Steam
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8
21
Aerials - Railroad Trains
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8
22-23
Aerials - Railroad Yards
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8
24-25
Aggregate
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8
26
AMTRAK
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8
27
AMTRAK Wrecks
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8
28
Sets - APL & ACL Containers
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8
29
ATSF - Division Dispatch Center Kansas City, KS
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8
30
Sets - Railroads - Arty Shots
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8
31
Sets - Auto Racks
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8
32-33
Auto Racks & Auto Rack Facilities
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8
34
Sets - Yards - BN/SF - Los Angeles, CA
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9
1
Sets - BN/SF Belen, NM Yard
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9
2
Sets - Blurred Trains
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9
3
Sets - Brake Wheels
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9
4
Sets - Box Cars
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9
5
Sets - Bridges
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9
6
Aerials - Cleburne Railway Shops
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9
7
Cleburne Railway Shops
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9
8-9
Couplers
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9
10
Sets - Locomotive Cabs - with People
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9
11