19th Century Agricultural Technology

Engravings depicting historical agricultural practices and machinery from the 19th century, focusing on construction methods and labor in farming.

Hornsby's Steam powered thresher 1851

Oil extraction, Well Van Slyke Pennsylvania, vintage engraving. Oil extraction, Well Van Slyke Pennsylvania, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679335

MARE AND CO.'S IRON SHIP-BUILDING WORKS, BOW-CREEK, BLACKWALL, 1854

Engraving depicts threshing with horses in Spain. Threshing is a method used to separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism. Dated 19th Century

A mountain landscape with a mine. In the foreground a miner pushes a cart loaded with ore, Emblem: mining Miners at work, print maker: Caspar Luyken, intermediary draughtsman: Jan Luyken, publisher: Christoph Weigel, Neurenberg, c. 1700, paper, etching, h 110 mm × w 124 mm

The barn of a blacksmith with several horses. A man holding the hind leg of a horse, the blacksmith pressing the hot iron against it, Farrier at work Hangar de Mar, print maker: Théodore Géricault, (mentioned on object), printer: Gottfried Engelmann, (mentioned on object), publisher: Mme. Hulin, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1823, paper, h 204 mm × w 253 mm, h 292 mm × w 424 mm

Saw Mill, Bushey, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864 British), The Huntington-San Marino, California

A Chinese silk manufactory: workers dyeing and winding the silk. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.

Khangaon cotton market, India. The cotton harvest baled up ready for sale and distribution. In the background the railway is just visible. From 'The Illustrated London News' (London, 21 May 1870).

Man working on a cart with horses in front (shovelling manure), Harmen ter Borch, 1652, draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch, (mentioned on object), Zwolle, 31-Jan-1652, paper, brush, h 118 mm × w 149 mm

An engraving depicting the making of rice-paper in China. The plant is Aralia Papyrifera from whose pulp the rice-paper was made. Dated 19th century

England (18th C.). Industrial Revolution. Explotation of a coal mine using a Newcomen's engine. Oil on canvas. UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. NORTH WEST ENGLAND. Liverpool. Walker Art Gallery.

VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE SUEZ CANAL WORKS

The farrier.

Ploughing Agriculture in Dakota, USA: Ploughing. Image source: Harpers Monthly magazine march 1880. Copyright: xZoonar.com/J.xSandvikx 2762728

A representation of the sugar-cane and the art of making sugar. Sugarcane processing, probably in the West Indies, with a white overseer directing Natives at a press and boiling operation, circa 1749

Engraving depicting Canadian loggers forming timber into rafts ready to be floated down the river. Dated 19th century

Grain harvest and processing. Sheet with 6 performances about the grain harvest and processing of the grain. Under every image a caption. Numbered at the top right: No. 3.

Charcoal burners in Mark Ash Wood in the New Forest, England. On the left one of the charcoal burners is controlling the burning of the clamp . At centre right is their cabin made of branches covered in turf and heather. From 'The Illustrated London News' (London, 21 October 1848).

Chtillon batteries (IT)

Processing of copper in Chile. Lithograph by G. Scharf, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.

Slaves harvesting cotton in South America, 19th century. From Le Savant du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques Sur Les Objets Usuels de la Vie, published 1864

Photo collection Government information service. Farmers. undated

Cultivator Forklift Khosrovani, Persia, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.

European Factories in Canton. Engraving 1858. China is open! That is the cry we hear in Britain, france, Russia and America. the ports of Canton, Swatow, taiwan and Formosa are open. Engraving 1858

United States. South Carolina. Cotton planting. Steamboat loading up cotton sacks. Colored engraving, 1888.

The mill-yard. From Views in the island of Antigua, illustrating steps of process of cane sugar making. drawings made by William Clark. 1823

Two men look at how a large beam is cut down; The saw.

1875 Engraving, by Victor GuA©rin (1821 1891), depicting farmers harvesting corn in Palestine

The Checkoo or Oil Mill, John Gantz, 1772-1853, 1828, Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slighlty textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper, Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (16.2 × 23.2 cm), genre subject, grain, mill, milling, oil mill, oxen, worker, India

LA SIEGA. GRABADO SIGLO XIX. TRABAJO DE CAMPO. BIBLIOTECA DE CATALUÑA.

Dalcoath copper mine, Cambourne, Cornwall (later also tin), showing engine houses and 'Bolling Maidens' who broke ore into small pieces. Engraving c1830.

Peasants loading a cart with straw bales. 19th century. Colored engraving.

THE EXPLOSION AT SAMUDA'S WORKS, BLACKWALL

Architect and client, and workmen, on a building site. Date: 1828

CASTING A MONSTER CYLINDER, AT MESSRS. SCOTT RUSSELL AND CO.'S BUILDING-YARD, MILLWALL, 1854. THE CYLINDER IS INTENDED FOR THE IRON STEAMSHIP BEING BUILT BY MESSRS. SCOTT RUSSELL AND CO., FOR THE EASTERN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul sic Ford, 1856. '...Evigtok...in Arksuk Arsuk Fiord, with the miners' houses, smithy, store-house...and the lead ore being wheeled over the ice to the ship...the Danish Government...granted permission to a Danish Association...to explore and work mines...giving them the monopoly of all mines and mineral wealth they should discover for a term of years...an expedition was sent out...under the charge of Mr. Tayler, who...commenced working the vein of silver-lead ore...Arksuk Fiord is well known to mineralogists as being the only spot in the world in which the

Harvesting, ginning and picking cotton. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' c1751.

Irish Linen manufacture, 1782. Removing flax from a bog where is was placed for one or two weeks and then spread on grass for partial drying, and then stoving (background) to complete drying. After this process the flax was ready for braking or scutching.

New England factory life--'Bell-time' , Factories, Employees

Seem Moolen mill (title on object) Windmills in landscapes (series title), A chamois and leather mill. In the right foreground a figure near a shed. Numbered lower right: 1, windmill, Dirk Eversen Lons (mentioned on object), 1631, paper, etching, h 208 mm × w 168 mm

British Iron Company's Works at Corngraves. Corngraves or Corngreaves, near Halesowen, lies 7 miles south west of Birmingham and 5 miles south of Dudley, in the heart of the Black Country of the West Midlands. An entry appears in Pigot & Co's directory of 1835 under Iron Masters. (1835). Engraving.

Mainz, Scholz, firm Jos., Europa, Scotti, J., Granajo., Grange., Scheune., Floor., Part., Europe, verso - stamped, View into a granary, where men are busy beating the grain from the corn. Through the door a view of a yard with chickens and two horses driving a cart full of grain into the barn., print, engraving, volksprent, prints, engravings, volksprenten, height 345 mm, width 418 mm, print maker, engraving maker, 1829 - 1880, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), kleuren, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Duits, publisher

Reijmyre glassworks.

Factory Agricultural Machinery u. Device W. Hamm in Eutrizsch at Leipzig

The workshops of the craftsmen, A round show about more than crafts, arts and industrial branches, with explanatory texts by Hermann Wagner, Eßlingen - Plate XVI, Great iron industry

UNLOADING A TRAIN OF GOODS, bzw, RUSSIAN WORKMEN BEGINNING A RUSSIAN HOUSE und THE VIENNA EXHIBITION, Uploading a Train of Goods und Russian Workmen Beginning a House Illustrationen zur Wiener Weltausstellung aus The Illustrated London News, Mai, Unknown

French rustic distillery: yokel smokes his pipe as he watches the still. Date: late 19th Century

Toggle factory of the brothers Zschille in Grossenhain

Hoefsmid in conversation with Man, Charles Rochussen, 1847 - 1865 print A farrier in conversation with a (feed) man with whip. On the left is a rigged horse. In the background, a farrier is working in the workshop. The Hague paper farrier, shoeing-smith. conversation, dialogue; conversation piece. horse

Miners pause in a quarry of Les Montalais, Louis Albert Bacler d'Albe, 1822 - 1824 print Paris paper quarry. miner. industries ~ clay, sand, chalk, etc. Domaine des Montalais

A coal mine: miners at work above and below ground. Coloured lithograph.

Rechusenwehr Beschst Vollstädter Paper Mill 1663, Figure 48

Agriculture. Hay harvest. Raking hay and loading it onto a wagon. Engraving. Color. 1874.

A salt works: one man is feeding a furnace as others use shovels to transfer the dried salt from the pans into barrels. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Bruner.

From old-wien, VI, Volume, No, Fire of the Apollo candles in Zieglergasse, On January , After, Fritz Gareis -, Water-Colourist

Village Blacksmith.

The Gold Rush, gold mining in California, ca. 1849, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1871

To the right hon'ble Lord Bangor, this plate representing a complete perspective view of all the machinery of a bleach mill, upon the newest and most approved constructions, consisting of the wash mill, rubbing boards moved by a crank, and beetling engine for glazing the cloth, with a view of the boiling house; is most respectfully inscribed by ... Wm. Hincks / Wm. Hincks, delin. et sculp.; Hincks, William, artist; London : Publish'd as the Act directs, by R. Pollard, Spafields, 1791 June 20.; 1

Brazil (18th c.). Slaves cleaning precious stones guarded by a 'feitor' with a whip. Painting.

Turkishroth yarn dyeing of Gebr. Roman in Hainsberg

QUICKSILVER MINES, NEW ALMADEN, CALIFORNIA, attributed to Harrison Eastman, ca. 1850s. As the gold mining evolved, it integrated related industrial operations. This mining complex has factory buildings and other structures of the Hacienda Reduction Works, along the Alamitos Creek. The reduction process mixed mercury into the gold ore, creating a mercury-gold amalga. The mixture was heated to a temperature that vaporized the mercury, leaving the gold behind (BSLOC_2020_1_35)

The Ziners sugar refinery after the fire excerpt from a picture sheet for the revolution , Unknown

This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows Nasmyth's Steam Hammer. James Nasmyth was a Scottish engineer who gained fame for his development of the steam hammer. He was co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools. With the steam hammer, the steam is admitted below the piston, which is thus raised to any required height within the limits of the stroke. When the communication with the boiler is shut off and the steam below the piston is allowed to escape, the piston, with the mass of ironforming the hammer attached to the piston-rod, falls by its own weight. Thi

Althuts, iron mine, blast furnaces, iron hammers so on the rule Bürglitz, Rakonitzer Kr. Submitted by J. Venuto 1822.

Russia (1891). Picking up wood for the winter in Wecheimbakskoi (Siberia). Engraving after a drawing by Julius M. Price. Etching.

Two men perhaps milling foodstuffs in a vat with a millwheel driven by two oxen. Gouache drawing, 18--.

Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Company, Farm Machinery

Arts et Métiers featuring two artisans 1. The pipe maker and 2. The tobacco piler. Created between 1809 and 1828, published by the Impr. impériale in Paris in 1817. The work measures 70 x 50 cm and depicts the craft of tobacco workers and smoking paraphernalia

Canton Culvert and Silo Company Culverts in Egypt. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Dutch people build ships and houses; Olandus Carauellam, & Casas Aedificare Curat; India Occidentalis IV. Dutch people who have crashed off a new ship. The wooden construction can already be recognized. Two men with a large wood saw saw in the foreground. The old ship can be seen on the coast. In the background, other Dutch people are busy building houses and barns and to work on land.

Men unloading sugar from the West Indies at Bristol Docks. Date: 1823

Paterson Iron Company in New Jersey were manufacturers of forgings for steamboats and railroads. Ca. 1866.

Seen the Koperfabriek and the Gas Factory of Mr. W. H. de Heus of the Vreeburg.

A tea plantation in China: workers pack the tea into canisters for export. Coloured lithograph.

Tea, a tea plantation in China, workers cutting the tea leaves, 1810, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Leather manufactur of D. Beck in Döbel

A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.

Processing of herrings in the harbour of Wick in Scotland in 1880, the fishermen are put into wooden barrels with salt, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Advertisement for Liebig products; the process of fishing and extracting mother-of-pearl.

Image of a few carriage trays under construction for diesel-electrical train sets the 3 (series 11-50) of the N.S. at Werkspoor in Zuilen.

Advertising poster for the Laconda Reaper, one of first machines that revolutionized 19th century agriculture. The horse drawn reaper mowed down grain, and laborers hand binding the sheaves.

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