16581. World's Largest - The Carborundum Co. uses this 80-ton surface grinder to taper aluminum aircraft skins. The 80-ton monster takes an 88-inch-wide abrasive belt. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. October 1955] Institution: Boston Public Library
16582. The world's largest department store, Macy's, has the world's emptiest aisles as well 1/11 as the 11-day-old transit strike is keeping customers out of the city and... Creator: United Press International Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. January 1966] Institution: Boston Public Library
16583. World's Largest Diamond is Cut Succesfully - The 726 carat gem - known as the Jonker diamond - which was yesterday the world's largest and finest diamond., is being... Creator: Associated Press Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. April 1936] Institution: Boston Public Library
16584. World's Largest Dredger Hunts Treasure The Karimaya, world's largest tin-dredger, photographed off the island of Terschelling, at the entrance to the Zuyder Zee,... Creator: Wide World Photos, Inc. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. June 1938] Institution: Boston Public Library
16585. World’s Largest Faceted Sapphire, which will be on display at Smith Patterson for week beginning tomorrow, draws an excited gasp from Martha Lee, Wellesley, as she... Creator: Fay Foto Service (Boston, Mass.) Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. March 1951] Institution: Boston Public Library
16586. World's Largest Graving Dock, Into Which the Queen Mary Will Ride for Tuning Up Prior to Her Sea Trials. The dock resembles a section of the Panama Canal locks. It is... Creator: Cunard White Star, ltd. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. 1933] Institution: Boston Public Library
16587. World's Largest Hydraulic Pipeline Dredge being towed backwards from launching site to the Beauharnois Canal, Quebec, Canada where it recently started work. Uniquely... Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. January 1953] Institution: Boston Public Library
16588. World’s Largest Open Hearth--Molten pig iron is charged into the world’s largest open hearth furnace, a 600 ton per heat giant, at the Weirton Steel Co. Division of... Creator: Associated Press Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. December 1956] Institution: Boston Public Library
16589. The world's largest rubber life boat, built by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, reaches a new peak of efficiency. Built to carry 25 men, the boat is put through... Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. May 1944] Institution: Boston Public Library
16590. World's youngest patient wired to a heart pacemaker, it is believed, is 7-week old Lisa Jane Parker, shown here in the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children with Drs.... Creator: United Press International Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. May 1965] Institution: Boston Public Library
16591. Worried Boat Owners watch from the porch rail of the Squantum Yacht Club as the hurricane's slashing winds and abnormally high tides tossed small craft at their moorings. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. August 1954] Institution: Boston Public Library
16592. Worst of the Flood- Here is a view of Foster St., Peabody, which was flooded the deepest when a mill dam broke last night. The flash flood has left $1 million damage... Creator: Hill, Ernest (Photographer) Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. May 1954] Institution: Boston Public Library
16593. The worst outbreak of violence at UC this year. Creator: United Press International Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. February 1969] Institution: Boston Public Library
16594. Would Forecast Hurricnes. This comparatively simple -- looking device would forecast progress of hurricanes very accurately were it installed in the carribbean and... Creator: Associated Press Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. July 1957] Institution: Boston Public Library
16595. I would like to see these Pictures framed. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. May 1927] Institution: Boston Public Library
16596. Would You Believe? He 'Runs' on a Flower-Power Platform! By Arline Grimes. Abolafia. Picture, please, a White House painted lavender - "because lavender is a beautiful... Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. May 1967] Institution: Boston Public Library
16597. Would You Care for her Job? The chances are that you would’nt care for her job or the chances she takes. At any rate this young lade doesn’t seem to mind the knives... Creator: Wide World Photos, Inc. Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. September 1933] Institution: Boston Public Library
16598. Would-be subway passengers 1/1 were faced with locked turnstiles as the new year crashed in with a city-wide transit strike. With little hope for a settlement in sigh,... Creator: United Press International Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. January 1965] Institution: Boston Public Library
16599. Wounder Tigers -- An unsmiling, Detroit Tigers manager, Bob Scheffing (center) chats with two of his injured regulars in dressing room today as second place Tigers... Creator: Associated Press Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. August 1961] Institution: Boston Public Library
16600. WPA Protest Parade. Thousands of Detroit WPA workers, protesting changes in hourly wage rates and the cessation of some WPA projects, paraded Detroit streets July 11,... Creator: Associated Press Format: Photographs Collection: Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue Date: [ca. July 1939] Institution: Boston Public Library