19th Century Crafts and Tools

Engravings depicting various crafts and tools from the 19th century, showcasing blacksmiths, gold miners, and brick manufacturing in historical settings.

River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river and water is used to wash the earth in the cradler. This is a labour saving devise allowing the diggers to yield large amounts of gold Date: 21st August 1852

Engraving depicting the different applications of the lever, such as a spade, a hammer head attached to a handle, and the shoemaker's guillotine. Dated 19th century

Japanese blacksmith at Tokyo, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river and water is used to wash the earth in the cradler. This is a labour saving devise allowing the diggers to yield large amounts of gold Date: 21st August 1852

Manufacture of channel bricks, Etienne Arnaud brick factory, Marseille, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1078, Volume XLI, October 24, 1863.

Engraving depicting the harvesting of stripped hops from the fields to the drying kilns. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting the Turon Gold Field in New South Wales: the man in the left of the picture is raising a bucket of soil which will be placed in the cradle, foreground, to be washed to extract any gold in it. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting the picking of mushrooms in an underground cave at Montrouge, Paris. Dated 19th century

A French vannier (basket maker) at work. Date: circa 1845

Illustration showing Man sharpening a blade on a grindstone which his colleague is turning with a crank-handle 1836

Historia sagrada. Trabajos de agricultura. Canalización de agua para el riego. Grabado de 1862.

Engraving depicting a beekeeper clearing honey by straining it into settling tanks and then drawing off by tap after leaving it to stand for a number of hours. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting men picking mushrooms in an underground cave at Montrouge, near Paris. Dated 19th century

Furnace plaster, vintage engraving. Furnace plaster, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678311

Miners washing for gold using cradles and pans: Californian gold fields. Wood engraving published Paris, 1849, the yeasr of the great Californian Gold Rush.

Harvest Operations - Reaping, 1858. One of our Artists, fresh from the cornfields, has forwarded to us the accompanying Illustrations of gathering in the harvest. Nothing can present a more beautiful sight than the golden fields at this period of the year; and those who have left the great metropolis on visits to their country cousins must indeed be gratified with the sights around them. Our sketch shows the reapers, busily engaged in cutting the wheat, tying it into sheaves, and stacking the sheaves into shocks stooks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

Workers in the silver mines of Nevada in 1880, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, North America

Workers in the silver mines of Nevada in 1880, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, North ...

Engraving depicting a horse-drawn ore train at the surface of a Cornish tin mine. Dated 19th century

Curing cod at Perce, Gulf of St Lawrence, 1884.

An engraving depicting a Chinese flour mill. Dated 19th century

Charcoal burner at work in Kent, England. The charcoal burners would spend the summer in the woods cutting timber and producing charcoal, living with their families in caravans or, more usually, in rough cabins constructed of wood and turf. Woodcut from 'The Saturday Magazine' (London, 9 January 1836).

Yarmouth herring fishermen bringing their catch ashore.

Illustration depicting the construction of King's Cross Station. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a Wilkinsons, Wright & Co.'s steam driven threshing and stacking machine. Dated 19th Century

Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.

Horse-drawn self-binding reaping machine by Walter A. Woods, engraving, Illustration from 'The Country Gentleman's Magazine', London, 1877

alcohol sparkling wine production plant for blending young wines winery Chateau Lafitte France wood engraving circa 1870,

Mold making in the Rouelle cannon foundry, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1361, Volume LIII, March 27, 1869.

The life of a miner in California. United States of America, drawing by Gustave Adolphe Chassevent (1818 - 1901) Trip to California, 1859 by Louis Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Adam Bede, the village carpenter, in the workshop, his dog Gyp on a pile of shavings under the bench. 'Adam Bede' by George Eliot, first published 1859. Illustration by William Small (1843-1929) from an edition published c1885.

Lumber Flotilla, Mississippi, USA, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

Lumber Flotilla, Mississippi, USA, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

Machine used in tunneling of the Alps, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION

PACKING SADDLERY IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD FOR THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION, UK, 1867

Weaving in Ceylon

Illustration showing the submarine telegraph cable between England and Belgium being laid out from the hold of the 'William Hutt'; 1853

Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart to be taken for dressing and ginning. Southern states of USA. Wood engraving, London, 1860.

Cotton bales being loaded onto a boat at the bottom of a shoot on the Alabama River, USA. Overseer, right, directing slave labour. Woodcut, London, 1861.

Horse-powered sugar cane mill, Arkansas, USA. Engraving, New York, 1886.

Harvesting rice in Hong Kong Date: 1858

Harvesting and food preparing machinery. From A Concise History of The International Exhibition of 1862, published 1862.

Heckling and scutching flax, grown in the field in the background, for the production of linen. Engraving after Nicholas Chodowieki (1726-1801) 'the Hogarth of Germany'.

An engraving depicting a stage in the shipbuilding process: Forming a bar of hot angle steel to the correct shape on the bending slab. Dated 19th century

19th century engraving showing tank at the sewage farm near Barking, UK where household sewage is used for fertilizing agricultural land

GRABADO-CULTIVO Y PLANTACION DE ALGODON - S XVIII.

Pitmen hewing the coal, South Durham : a pit pony waits to haul the coal away Date: 1871

Thomas Barker, Tilemakers, 1803 Tilemakers

Engraving depicting harvesting of maize and the preparation of cornflour at Brown and Polson's factory. London. Dated 19th century

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: workmen loading dromedaries, 1869. 'The Engraving on our front page shows one or two groups of the fellahs, or native Egyptian labourers, of whom 4000 are now at work on the canal. They are using camels and donkeys to carry away the earth from the excavation. Parts of the line have to be constructed in this way by manual labour; the other parts are done by the use of dredging-machines...The canal, with its ports at each end, when finished, was to be the property of the company for ninety-nine years, after which it would belong to the Egyptian Government...Th

An engraving depicting the construction of the Panama Canal: excavator and earth transporters at Tabemilla. Dated 19th century

1790s ILLUSTRATION AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES OPERATING ELI WHITNEY'S COTTON GIN INVENTED 1793 WHICH MADE COTTON A PROFITABLE CROP

Cheshire Salt Mines, England: Miners gathering loose rock salt after blasting and loading it into horse-drawn tub for hoisting to surface. Most rock salt was exported as it was cheaper to obtain salt from brine. Engraving 1889.

The brick factory ..

Fisherman's house on Nordeney, East Frisia, North Sea, Lower Saxony, family, fisherman, profession, wooden rack, drying fish, dried fish, basket, barrel, mending net, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Sawing and a standing boy, Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1812 print A boy who saw a branch. Next to him is a second boy with a finger in his mouth. A farm in the background. Amsterdam paper etching tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: saw. sawing (industrial process). youth, adolescent

CONSTRUCTION OF THE PYRAMIDS,EGYPT

The rice mill, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Illustration depicting the Weser workmen destroying Denis Papin's steamboat. Denis Papin (1647-1713) a French psychist, mathematician and inventor. Dated 18th Century

Gold mining in Australia in 1880, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Fascist Italy. Workers preparing the demolition of a hillside to build the tunnel of the Apennines, new railway line Bologna-Florence, one of the great engineering feats of the fascist regime. Engraving.

A coal miner cleaning up after work with the help of his wife. Before the days of piped water and pit-head baths, after a day hewing coal underground the miner had only a tub on the living room floor filled with water from an outside pump to wash away the coal dust from his skin. Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, England. Engraving from 'The Graphic' (London, 18 February 1871).

Tunnel construction, removal of rock debris during the construction of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, a 13.7-kilometer-long railway tunnel in the Alps between the French Maurienne Valley and the Italian Susa Valley, around 1865, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th-century original, historical, exact date unknown.

An engraving depicting Chinese men grinding and sifting rice. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting London dust sorters removing anything reusable from garbage collected in the city. Dated 19th century

Agriculture implements in the 19th century, threshing machine or thresher: steam-driven thresher with straw elevator, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century model

Crop Rotation: Sowing and harrowing corn. In Norfolk 4-course system, wheat planted first year, followed by turnips, then barley, often underplanted with grass or grass and clover ley to be used for hay or grazing in 4th year. Engraving 1855

In the hold of an oyster fishing ship, fishermen sorting the oysters and the boss checking the quality, 1880, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Drilling barley Date: 1886

Water well with lever; Fifth suite. Water well with lever. Some buckets in the foreground.

Salpêtre Manufacturing (IT)

Miners' Lamp. Miners at work

African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.

Coal miner working a narrow seam, c1864. Artist: Anon

A ploughing contest at Mr White's farm, Mickleover - the Quantock Hills are in the distance Date: 1843

Coaling by night at Singapore; an important function of the world's ports is to supply coal, and teams of workers are needed to carry out the operation basket by basket... Date: 1876

The Shaft - Descent of the Bucket, Marston Salt-Pit, 1850. Scene at Marston Mine, near Northwich, in Cheshire. '...every facility was shown to strangers who were desirous of seeing the wonders of the mines...we provided ourselves with a few shillings'-worth of blue lights - an essential preliminary to those who wish to see the mine to advantage...The mine extends under about thirty-five acres, and the shaft is 250 yards in depth...the empty bucket ascended, and our turn came to be let down into the bowels of the earth. The motion was pleasant, and the descent, unlike that into a coal mine, w

Site of the Building of the Great Exhibition of 1851, 1850. Workmen erecting fencing around the '...the portion of Hyde Park to be appropriated to the building for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The builders have already commenced the works for the reception of Mr. Paxton's beautiful design, to be executed in Birmingham and the neighbourhood.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Miners working on alluvial gold exploitation, Cauca Department, Colombia. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Travel to New Granada by Charles Saffray from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

'Large stones and the iron bars and other tools used in the mining operations...', c1934. Artist: Unknown.

PREPARING FISH FOR MARKET, CANADA, NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING

Model farm in Zealand in 1896, cheese cellar, Denmark, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

Making bottles in a glass factory, France. Date: 1862

Agriculture. Threshing with threshing board. Engraving by R. Milliet. 19th century.

Striking it rich in a Nevada silver mine by William Ralston for The Rich Time I Once Had by Mark Twain, engraving

Fishing for sturgeon (the source of caviar) in the Volga River, Russia Date: circa 1870

Entrance to the Worsley tunnel on the Duke of Bridgewaters Canal. Engineer, James Bindley. Building stone is being loaded onto a barge. Engraving from A Six Months Tour Through the North of England, London, 1770, by Arthur Young.

Foundry of a bell foundry, historical woodcut, circa 1870, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date n...

Steam-powered sewing machine designed by C.T. Judkin of Manchester in use at Holloway & Co.'s clothing factory, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Holloways introduced division of labour in their factory. One pair of trousers passed through 16 pairs of hands, each operative carrying out a specific task. From 'The Illustrated London News', December 1854. Woodcut

Blacksmiths, print

Taking sacks of grain to the mill for grinding.

Lime Kilns, burning limestone to produce lime, wood engraving, 1872,

A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants. The machine is also referred to as a cotton harvester.

Production of ceramics using a kick wheel - China. Engraving, 1812.

Coaling a boat, Hamburg, Germany. Steam ships had to carry enough coal in their holds to power their engines until they could reach the next port where they could refuel. Engraving from 'Good Words' (London, 1893).

Underground scene in coal mine in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area of England: Miners hewing coal and carrying it away in corves (baskets). From Rev. Isaac Taylor 'Scenes of British Wealth' London 1823. Engraving

Miners using dynamite for blasting. Wood engraving, Paris, 1879, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Engraving depicting the process of tanning goatskins in a sumach solution. To ensure that the whole surface of the skin was exposed to the tanning solution, the skins were sewn into bags with the grain outside, and blown and floated in the tub.

Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pinivora, Traumatocampa pinivora, Cutting of the spun bales by forest workers to control the forest pest, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Hydraulic mining for gold in the Malakoff mines, California, USA / Hydraulischer Bergbau auf Gold in den Malakoffgruben, Kalifornien, USA, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

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