Agrandissement de l'usine de filtration Atwater : excavatrice extrayant des palplanches du sol. - 28 juin 1932

Held by

Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)

Dates

28 juin 1932 (indexed as 1932)

Level

item

Extent

1 photographie : négatif sur verre : n&b. ; 12,6 x 17,7 cm.

Scope & content

Photo montrant une excavatrice extrayant du sol les palplanches utilisées durant les travaux de fondation pour l'agrandissement du bâtiment principal de l'usine de filtration Atwater. On aperçoit entre autre un ouvrier juché sur les matériaux suspendus au filin de l'excavatrice. On aperçoit en arrière-plan un château d'eau et les logements de la rue Joseph. Titre original de l'index : "New Pumping Station Extension - Excavator pulling out 3" sheeting - looking East."

Location

• rue Joseph · street · confidence 35% · street · found as “rue Joseph.”

Correct the location

Format

Photograph

What the image shows

A grainy, noisy black-and-white photograph of a construction site with a crawler excavator on the right, its tall boom and cable rising diagonally across the frame. Stacked timber and steel sheet piling lie on the ground in the left and right foreground, and a deep excavated trench runs along the lower left with a wooden or metal retaining wall beside it. Leafless trees and low buildings stand in the background under an overcast sky, and a vertical pole or post cuts through the centre of the image.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

In the picture

Apartment BuildingConstructionConstruction SiteExcavatorFactoryLumberSteel CableStreetStreetscapeWater TowerWater Treatment PlantWinterWorkerTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Harvested

2026-10-20T15:32:56Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

Digital objects at the source

• imageOpen original at source ↗VM117-Y-1P2770.jpg