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Title: Mouth of Susquehanna River below Conowingo Dam looking southeast
Date(s): 1931-07-14
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection ID: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70_200_06487
Collection: Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs

Title: The Pennsylvania Limited crosses the river at Old Rockville
Date(s): 1970/1979, 1970, 1979
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner)
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_072
Collection: Conrail photographs and films

Title: Red Rocks Near Allen's, Susquehanna
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 616.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_022
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Curve West of Wyalusing
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 610.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_021
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Hemlock Run Curve, near Towanda
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Lantern slide no. 621.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_023
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Building the pipeline in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Workmen unload part of the 60,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which will be used to blast a trench 2000 feet long and eight feet deep for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0724
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Blasting for pipe line in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This view shows a shot of approximately 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. It was one of several blasts made to create a trench in the river bed for the laying of Big Inch, the world's largest oil pipe line. This was the largest single dynamite charge employed, up to that time to build a trench for a pipeline river crossing. A ditch 442 feet long was blasted.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0726
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Pipe for pipeline in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This scene shows pipe for the Big Inch oil line being unloaded beside the Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania. About sixty thousand pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite were used to blast a trench 2,000 feet long and eight feet deep in the solid rock bed of the river bottom, in which the pipe line rests.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0723
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Building the pipeline in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration shows a dynamite cartridge being loaded through one of the steel tubes causing the drill holes. In all, approximately 16,000 pounds of dynamite were placed in drill holes in the bottom of the river for this one shot which was to blast a trench to lay...
Show moreThis scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration shows a dynamite cartridge being loaded through one of the steel tubes causing the drill holes. In all, approximately 16,000 pounds of dynamite were placed in drill holes in the bottom of the river for this one shot which was to blast a trench to lay Big Inch, the worlds largest pipe line, which is being rushed from the Midwest to its Eastern terminus for the purpose of bringing oil to the Eastern seaboard states. Williams Brothers Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma is the contractor. This was the largest single dynamite charge in history employed to build a trench for pipe line river crossing. A ditch 442 feet long was blasted. The loading and detonation of this and other charges were under the supervision of dynamite experts of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The blasting of ditches for pipe lines in the bottom of rivers where equipment cannot work was developed by DuPont explosives technicians. With the help of boats, barges, drills and other paraphernalia, holes are drilled in the right of way across the steam, Gelatin dynamite, which works efficiently under water, is used for the blast. Which every detail of the primary work is completed, the shots are connected to loading wires, equipment moved out of danger and the blast fired. Section by section the river is thus crossed in a fraction of the time possible by any other method known to man.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0725
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Blasting for pipe line in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A supervisor of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department prepares to set off charge of 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which helped blast a trench for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The 16,000 pound charge cut a ditch 442 feet long and eight feet deep.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0722
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs