19th Century Industrial Activities

Illustrations of various labor activities in the 19th century, highlighting workers in mining, construction, and tool usage. The scenes depict a historical industrial landscape.

1840s 1850s DRAWING GATHERING SUGAR CANE ANTEBELLUM AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKERS SLAVES HARVESTING SUGAR CANE IN OLD SOUTH USA

Old Shaduf for irrigation on the Nile River, Egypt. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Engraving depicting workmen using a Burleigh compressed air drilling machine in the Hoosac Tunnel, the first rock tunnel in America.

Engraving depicting the making of wine in Bordeaux, France. Dated 19th century

Process of washing and extracting iron ore. Etching, 17--.

Radish harvest in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, woodcut circa 1871, Europe

Poor people scavenging garbage dump looking for rags, coal, and bones, on a barge docked at the foot of Beach Street, New York City.

Testing the London Pneumatic Despatch at Battersea Fields, London in 1861

Mackay, Australia. Eastern coast of Queensland. Sugar cane production. Steam train for transporting sugar cane from the plantation to the factory. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Sketches in the Bank of England in the City of London: burning returned bank-notes, 1872. 'The bank-notes once issued as they find their way back to the Bank, are cancelled and withdrawn from circulation, while fresh notes are created to supply their place. At certain periods the old notes are destroyed by burning, which process is the subject of our Illustration. The accounts of the Banking Department, with reference to the receipt of money deposited by the Government or private customers, the business of the National Debt, and the discounting of bills, are kept entirely separate from the I

Washing for gold, California, c1850. The Californian Gold Rush begand in 1849. Wood engraving.

Engraving depicting a bird's-eye view of Niagara Falls, showing docks, and factories, etc. A scheme put forward to run a tunnel 10m in diameter from the base of American Falls to a point 1 or 2 miles up river finishing 30m below the surface. Water drawn from river into tunnel would give sufficient head to drive dynamos, 1 million hp expected. Dated 19th century

Mackay, Australia. Eastern coast of Queensland. Sugar cane production. Steam train for transporting sugar cane from the plantation to the factory. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Slave labour carting sugar cane to mill where it was crushed and then juice expressed. 1833.

Scene of the gun-cotton explosion at Stowmarket, 1871. '...twenty-four persons were killed and seventy-two others injured...The scene of the accident is one of perfect ruin. The only thing that appears intact is the...brick chimney shaft. At the base of this lies a confused mass, extending over a wide area, of broken walls, rafters, tiles, slates, masses of half-burned cotton, iron rods and beams, twisted into the most fantastic shapes...The site of the magazines is the most telling of all the strange and horrible spectacles...the only thing to be seen is a huge chasm,...more than 100 feet in

Small portable fire engine carrying an initial charge of 36 gallons of water.

The last days of harvest , Harvesting, Hay, Corn husking

Mine survey in progress. When this was done, rails were lifted and as much metal as possible was removed so as to minimise any influence on the compass. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

'Digging and Washing For Gold In Australia In 1851', c1930. Creator: Unknown.

Railway construction in Russia. 19th century.

General view of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, showing smoke pouring from the chimneys of the numerous foundries and rolling mills. From 'Scenes of American Wealth and Industry', Boston, 1833. Woodcut

Cotton Famine making up parcels of clothing donated for the victims of the Lancashire cotton famine caused by the American Civil War. Industrial Institution, Manchester. Dated 22nd November 1862.

Laying an electric telegraph cable across the bed of an American river. Dated 1868.

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, fisherman when scraping whale bone, whale bones, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, recording date unknown

Engraving depicting workmen removing a large piece of metal from the furnace for putting in to the steam hammer, Right.

A European salt mine in the nineteenth century. From the book Chips From The Earth's Crust published 1894.

Placer Mining Date: 1904

Illustration showing Pole lathe in use in North Africa 1880

Panama Canal: excavating with steam-powered earth excavators and earth transporters at Tabemilla during the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal. Wood engraving, 1888

Men Working at a Sand Quarry David Cox (British, 1783-1859). , ca. 1840-1850. Watercolor, 5 7/8 x 8 5/8in. (14.9 x 21.9cm). European Art ca. 1840-1850

Putting cotton bolls through whipping press before putting it through a saw gin. Slave plantation labour in southern states of America. Woodcut 1860

Picking and weighing cotton, 1872., 1872., New York. Publisher, American News Co. Subjects include African Americans, Southern States, cotton pickers, and cotton plantation workers in the United States

industry metall amalgamation works and smelting plant Freiberg Saxony exterior view wood engraving 1857,

Planting sugar cane in the West Indies.

Blacksmith forge in Kruiningen, Netherlands, Europe. Trip to the Zeeland by Charles De Coster 1873

Threshing wheat, 19th century French engraving

''The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; The Condensers', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

Freiwillige Rettungsgesellschaft in Wien, Österreich. Hilfe beim Einsturz eines Gerüsts, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus d...

An engraving depicting the process of sorting diamonds in South Africa. Dated 19th century

Old Method of Crushing the Ore at a silver mine, apparently using slave labor. Originally published in Harpers New Monthly Magazine December, 1878

The mining shaft at Nordmark's mine.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, stretching the warp threads on a loom. Engraving.

The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving. .

The heap of Cyfarthfa ironworks, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1865).

Austernbänke, Austernzucht in der Bucht von Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Frankreich, Illustration, Historisch, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt 1f-4999904

Putting cotton bolls through whipping press before putting it through a saw gin. Slave plantation labour in southern states of America. Woodcut 1860

Cutting sugar cane: West Indies, 1833

An engraving depicting Canadian loggers forming timber into rafts ready to be floated down river.

Steam engine pulling granite column for New York Cathedral, addition on the east, including a Lady chapel, constructed from 1901 to 1906

Loading of sheep in the Port of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, historical illustration, circa 1886, Europe

An engraving depicting taking grapes from the vineyard for pressing. France 1780

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

Various stages in the production of tobacco, Virginia, USA, 1750. Artist: Unknown

Pit pony pulling a coal wagon on rails underground in a Welsh coal mine. Engraving, Paris, 1885.

The fire in Goldsmedsgränd in 1883 photo örlogsvarvet after wooden cut.

The United States. Virginia. 19th century. Workers smelting and refining silver. Engraving in "Frank Leslie's", 1878.

The explosion on Wednesday week at Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. 'Instantly a dense column of black smoke sprang from the cupola, like a gigantic tower, towards heaven. Its height is estimated at more than 100ft., and it remained for a few moments as clearly and sharply defined as the steeple of a church. The explosion was so violent that it not only forced back the current of air which was descending the downcast-shafts, but vomited from them also an immense volume of smoke, carried on a blast which hurled away the planks placed across the mouth of the shaft, snapping some of them i

Carting sugar in barrels for shipment, Jamaica, West Indies Date: 1849

Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Marchena. Detail from the blacksmiths working. Madrid, National Library. Author: BRAUN GEORG 1541-1622 / HOGENBERG FRANS. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Construction of the transcontinental telegrpah. Ilustration of 1867 from Harper's Weekly. A Pony Express rider gallops past workers building the nesw line. US.

Spreading Manure. Engraving 1825.

FERNDALE COLLIERY, RHONDDA VALLEY, SOUTH WALES, THE SCENE OF THE LATE DISASTROUS EXPLOSION, UK, 1867

Manufacturing indigo in Tirhoot (Muzaffarpur), Lower Bengal, 1869. Artist: Unknown

Miner working in a narrow seam holing out or 'scuffling' coal with a pick. Wood engraving from L Simonin 'Mines and Miners', London, c1868 .

An engraving depicting a bank of furnaces, Lymington Iron Works, Tyneside. Illustrated by Thomas Allom. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting Lake District craftsmen making 'swills'. These were baskets of split oak on an oval ash or hazel frame used for coaling steamers and agricultural work. A good worker could make seven 50cm baskets a day, and these sold at 1 shilling each. Dated 19th century

Jumbo the large African elephant sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) for his circus which became known as the 'Greatest Show on Earth'. Jumbo in his crate, his keeper on platform to keep him calm, hoisted from a barge onto the 'Assyrian Monarch' in Millwall Docks, London. From 'The Illustrated London News' (London, 1 April 1882). Wood engraving.

'The Mining Business in Four Pictures', 19th century (1937).Artist: Britton & Rey

Study sheet with a wood brooker and a man with saw; Study pictures / Etudes Gravées. Study magazine with a wood sawing man and a man who binds branches together in the background trees.

Economic stoves: a meat distribution

Engraving depicting a sectional view of Devon Great Consols Copper Mine. Dated 19th century

USA. The Gold Rush. A Chinese mining camp,California. Harper's Weekly, 1857. Author: J. D. Borthwick.

Engraving depicting a portable autoclave worked by a steam engine being used to sterilise bedding during an outbreak of miliaria. Dated 19th century

Scene in a German metalliferous mine just the change of shift. The miners and the women pit-head workers listen while the mine engineer reads prayer. The foreman is descending the shaft, foreground, to supervise the change of shift, his oil lamp in his hand. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

In the Valley of Wyoming, Pennsylvania (Interior of a Coal Mine, Susquehanna) 1852 Thomas Addison Richards This is one of two drawings (see also 1974.197.3) Richards executed as designs for wood-engraved illustrations to accompany an article he wrote for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,” published in October 1853. Like John Hazelhurst Latrobe, who had visited the area earlier, Richards made scenic views of the Susquehanna River region, but here he depicted mining activity in the coal-rich Wyoming Valley of the Susquehanna. The glowing lights in the two drawings are probably candles affixed to the miners’ headgear, which sometimes induced explosions.. In the Valley of Wyoming, Pennsylvania (Interior of a Coal Mine, Susquehanna) 11879

Miners in Chihuahua, Mexico, ascending a mineshaft by means of crude steps carrying candles attached to sticks to light their way. Descending and ascending such shafts was a daily hazard. The state of Chihuahua has been a source of silver, gold and mercury for many centuries. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

An engraving depicting a man carting firewood from Surrey for the London market.

Harvest time. Loading sheaves of corn onto a horse-drawn cart. The cart would be taken back to the farmyard and the sheaves either stored in a barn or built into stacks to be stored until it was a convenient time to separate the corn from the straw by threshing. Kronheim chromolithograph from 'Pictures from Nature' by Mary Howitt (London, 1869).

Blast furnaces, South Wales, 1885. Artist: Unknown

Manufacture of rubber footwear, in Para, Brazil, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1855.

Workers strike in Jumet (Belgium) on 26 March 1886. Strikers destroying an smelter in the H. Bandoux glass factory. Engraving.

Engraving depicting workmen unloading lighters at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Haying time the first load. Farmers gathering hay

Lord Armstrong (inset) and The Elswick Works, seen here from the River Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, 1810 - 1900. English engineer and industriali

Sugar refinery, New York, USA. The mixing room. Engraving, New York, 1886.

Industrial Revolution. Enclousure. Process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. It changed into fenced land entitled for one or more owners and it is being worked by machinery. Engraving.

Puck Magazine: Ship-Building for Repairs, Puck Magazine

Coffee production. Traditional coffee drying. Plantation of Guatemala. Engraving by "The Spanish and American illustration", 1877. Later colouration.

Squaws winnowing wheat

Engraving depicting fossil tree trunks in a coal mine at Treuil near St Etienne, France. Dated 19th century

Man constructing a hut, Japan

Images from Transvaal, The gold mines on the edge of the official claims, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century orig...

Weaver, Africa

Salmon fishing (commercial) in British Columbia, on the Fraser River Date: circa 1906

Jamaica - Harvesting the Sugar Cane Crop on a large Estate Date: circa 1910s

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