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Teeming with meticulously recorded detail, this print depicts a massive construction site in the midst of a city. The large hole of the site consumes the majority of the lower two-thirds of the image; the upper portion consists of roads and buildings. Scaffolding and building materials extrude from the site into the air. <br /> Signed on plate, recto, l.r.: "Muirhead Bone"<br /> Signed below platemark, recto, in pencil: "Muirhead Bone".
Sir Muirhead Bone (British (modern))
Manhattan Excavation
1923 – 1928
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
1988/2.23
This photograph depicts a view of the construction site of a large building. There are piles of materials, two towering cranes and a view of other buildings in the background.
Garry Winogrand (American (North American))
Toronto
1969
Gift of Stanley T. Lesser, A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953
1981/2.65.10
A photograph of the Bridge of St. Martin in Toledo, Spain. In the foreground, J. Craig Annan has captured horse-drawn wagons and men working, with the impressive architecture of the bridge set as the backdrop behind the figures. 
J. Craig Annan (British (modern))
Bridge of St. Martin - Toledo
1913 – 1914
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
2000/2.143.5
A construction site in the city of Paris. There is a large crane.
Leonard Freed (American (North American))
Construction Site at Les Halles, Paris, France
1978
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2014/2.334
The color screenprint depicts four dark skinned figures walking past a construction site—likely a family. The man is dressed in a black suit, black shoes, yellow tie, and tan hat. The woman wears a red and white dress, yellow jacket, and red cap. The little girl stands to the left of mother, holding her hand. She wears a yellow dress, white tights, brown shoes, and a red cap. A small boy wears brown pants, tan shoes, a yellow shirt, and blue jacket. He stands to the right of the father and holds his hand.  <br /><br /> In the background, there are three men working at the construction site. There are two men in blue jumpsuits, one has dark skin and the other white. A third dark skinned man wears a gray jumpsuit and holds a saw. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Jacob Lawrence 1974" in pencil.
Jacob Lawrence
Builders (The Family)
1974
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.532
This is a photograph of the mid-late 1930s construction of the Rockefeller Center AP Building in Manhattan.
Paul J. Woolf (American (North American))
Rockefeller Center—Construction of the AP Building
1937
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
2000/2.146
This photograph depicts a bird's eye view of Manhattan, framed by the towers of the Rockefeller RCA building and the International Building. In the center of the frame is located the construction site for the Rockefeller Associated Press building.
Paul J. Woolf (American (North American))
Looking Down on Construction of the AP
1937
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
2000/2.148
Photograph of a construction site with numerous cranes, silos, and smokestacks. Three men confer in the lower right.
Dmitri Baltermants (Russian (culture or style))
Building the Komsomolskaya Blast Furnace, Zhdanov City
1939 – 1990
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2016/2.428
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