19th Century Industrial Crafts

Engravings depicting various 19th-century skilled trades in England, including saw making, textile printing, and weaving, showcasing industrial craftsmanship.

Engraving depicting a copperplate printer. Dated 19th century

technics printing engraver at studio with printing presses engraving by Johannes Stradanus (1523 - 1605) by Theodor Galle from ""Nova Reperta"" series circa 1580 private collection,

Machinery used in the cooling and processing of copper. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

Weaving is the art of making threads into cloth. Here the Weaver is engaged at work at the loom (a machine by which several distinct threads of any kind are woven together). Date: 1827

Manufacturing Gruyere cheese - a traditional method Date: 1870

Smelter, manufacturing of porcelain, wood engraving, about 1880

Men are working at benches with a box with wheels on a chain and a large wheel. Engraving.

Industry. 18th century. Mill used to polish diamonds. Engraving, 1758.

Allen & Hanbury, compressing tabellae

An engraving depicting a winding machine for transferring raw silk from banks to bobbins at Lombe's Silk Mill, Derby. Dated 19th century

An elastic mill, Leicester, England: Covering rubber with silk thread on the weaving beam. Engraving, London, 1882.

Potter's workshop, c1860. Artist: Unknown

Various processes in the manufacture of silk.

Three men lay a tiled floor in a grand house, being careful to measure everything exactly Date: circa 1760

Printing press. Typograph and character printer. Litography. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Coal workers, historic illustration.

Jacquard loom, with swags of punched cards from which pattern was woven. Engraving published Paris, 1876

Glassworking and glassblowing. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Glassworking

Discharged convicts making brooms, New York City, circa 1892

Rolling sheet glass, Union Works, St. Helens| Lancashire, England. A crucible of Molten glass being poured on to the rolling table. Gordon Foundry, Forge and Factory, London, 1890

Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893. Artist: Enoch Ward

Communal washhouse in the model dwellings erected by the parishes of St Lukes and Cripplegate, London 1889.

'The Brick Maker forming a brick by filling mould with clay. Bricks placed on hack barrow in foreground. In background, a stack of bricks drying out before firing. From ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

An engraving depicting a builder using a plumb line to keep a wall he is building vertical. Dated 19th century

Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

Haarlem, Numan, Hendrik, Men on a quay working with barrels of fish, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 101 mm, width 136 mm, 1736-03-21 - 1788, print maker, printmaker, 1746 - 1788, paper, papier, woodcut

Trades in Regency England: silk weaving, jewellery and iron forge. Man weaving silk cloth on a loom in Coventry 40, customers in a fancy jewellery shop in Birmingham 41, and blacksmith working with a mechanical hammer in a mill-forge in Colebrook Dale 42. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.

Engraving depicting the process of cutting piano keys: Broadwood's factory, Horseferry Road, London.

The manufacture of bombs at Woolwich Arsenal, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown

An engraving depicting French Cider press. 1870

Illustration showing cobblers joining soles and uppers, on a last, in a shoe factory. United States 1885

Engraving depicting a Dutch dairy. Dated 19th Century

A coal drawing by August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen depicting a forge workshop.

Traditional craft, printer and typesetter in a printing house around 1920, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

Drawing out the warp threads on a warping frame. From George Dodd The textile Manufactures of Great Britain, London, 1844.

The manufacture of Edison's lamps at Menlo Park, New Jersey Date: 1880

Anonymous watercolor depicting an overshoe maker at work in footwear production.

Illustration of a steaming chest in which planks were steamed before being laid on the timbers. Dated 19th Century

Detail of the illustration in the vignette of a historical stock certificate of an oil and gas company, oil pipeline, energy company, design showing a man checking the quality of oil in a pipeline in front of oil derricks, Williams Brothers Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 1971, North America

Glass: a glazier's workshop (above), the tools used for making and glazing windows (below). Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.

Workplace of a bookbinder. Interior of a bookbinding with tools used by a bookbinder. At the top left numbered: Handwerck I.

Laundry, Industrial laundry, In the steam laundry of the Berlin Charite, Women at work, Washing clothes, Berlin, Germany, around 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

New Inventions of Modern Times Nova Reperta, The Invention of Copper Engraving, plate 19 ca. 1600 Jan Collaert I Netherlandish Nineteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of men making copper engravings. In the background men flatten copper for engraving. In the foreground on the right a man shows his engraving to a young boy. In the center 2 men prepare the engraved copper plates for printing, while a young boy creates an ink copy of a design from a copper plate. On the left several men work the press to make the engraved prints, which are then hung to dry on the racks at the back of the room.. New Inventions of Modern Times Nova Reperta, The Invention of Copper Engraving, plate 19 659685

Savonnier. Seifenfieder (no date) - Workers in a shop .

Series Wiener Pictures, Scissor grinder,

Illustration showing a male worker, at the American Watch Company, in their factory at Waltham, Mass. 1885

Workshop of a clockmaker in the Black Forest, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century model, Europe

Engraving depicting the filling of barrels with beer from vats. Dated 19th century

Fishing, processing fish, washing and gutting herrings, 1880, Kiel, Germany, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Engraving depicting Cornish miners chipping away tin-bearing quartz rock in a tin mine in the St Just region. Dated 19th century

'Ther Carpenter planing a piece of wood for use in the building being constructed in the background. Behind him is a door he has already made. Hand-coloured woodcut from ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

The sorting, stage in tea production, engraving. China, 19th century.

Distillery worker, historic illustration.

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The Progress of the Century - The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat. Publisher Currier & Ives American 1876 This scene from American history highlights a range of nineteenth-century inventions. At center, a man sends a message via telegraph that reads "Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable. Glory to God in the highest. On earth peace, good will toward men." In the background at right are a steam locomotive and steamship. In the background at left a boy uses printer's tools and two men stand at a printing press. Unlike many Currier & Ives lithograph, this example is not hand-colored.

A slate-quarry: quarrymen are working and the instruments used. Etching by Bénard after de la Croix.

Sugar refinery, New York, USA. Hatch of tank in which sugar syrup was filtered through animal charcoal. Engraving, New York, 1886.

Openig a hogshead of tobacco: Cope Brothers cigarette and tobacco factory, Liverpool, England. From ''The English Illustrated Magazine'', London, 1892.

Plate VII: representing Winding, Warping with a new improved Warping Mill, and Weaving, William Hincks, 1752-1797, after William Hincks, 1752-1797, 1791, Stipple engraving

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, textile worker. One man is breaking a cord with a swape, on the right another is swinging it by chopping it with a wooden axe, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, date unknown

Abraham van Wylick address card, Caspar Luyken, 1706 print In a workshop, two men are busy manufacturing and exciting gold thread. In the background, a man is weaving while two others preparing the fabrics. Amsterdam paper etching workshop-interior. weaving-loom

A watercolor showing a worker making arrows, shaping and assembling arrow shafts and tips.

Page from The Growth of industrial art, compiled by Benjamin Butterworth, 1892 | Library of Congress

Interior of a printing press in the early modern age. Illustration by Lluis Bargall. Watercolour.

Women operatives tending power looms in a Yorkshire woollen mill, 1883. Artist: Unknown

Detail of the illustration in the vignette of a historical stock certificate of a medical publishing house, design showing a man with paraphernalia for chemistry in front of a factory and a town, Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation, Delaware, USA, 1967, North America

A weaver at his loom ; his wife is arriving with fresh hanks of wool Date: 1568

The interior of a signal box using Saxby and Farmer's system of switches and signals. The standing man shifts the levers, his colleague uses the telegraph. Date: 1875

Watercolor depicting a tin worker engaged in shaping and crafting tin objects, showing posture, tools, and workspace.

Manufacture of sorbet in a kitchen at Rosette, Jan Luyken, 1682

Homan's Improved Cider Mill, Industrial America - Invention

Silk weaving on a loom - Japan Date: 1906

Various stages of hemp processing in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Inside the lantern of the fourth Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England. Built by the English civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792) beginning in 1756 it was in operation for 127 years. Engraving from The Sea by F Whymper (London, c1890).

Illustration depicting the fixing of teazle heads into frames which would be used to hand raise the nap on woollen cloth. Dated 19th Century

Stone Cutter, European Trades - 1820

Manufacture of Dynamite at Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland: filling cartridges. 1893

A cartoon depicting a workman smoking his pipe as he mends a roof. Dated 19th century

Doubling silk: Lombes silk mill, Derby, In this process two or more of the spun threads were laid parallel on a bobbin ready to be twisted on the throwing machine.1843.

Itinerant Knife Grinder sharpening blade by turning grindwheel with treadle. Red can over grindwheel contains lubricant. Brazier hangs on handle of cart. Chromolithograph c1867

Self-Portrait in the Garden, Hippolyte Bayard, French, 1801 - 1887; Paris neighbourhood, France, Europe; 1847; Salted paper print; Image: 16.5 x 12.3 cm (6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.), Sheet: 17.1 x 12.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.)

Textiles: Crompton's belt-driven power loom, with a man standing by and a woman working. Watercolour.

Prototype studio, manufacturing of porcelain, wood engraving, about 1880

The Shipwright's Workshop. Alexander Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1902. 22 1/2 x 30in

This illustration dates to the 1870s and showsa circular saw, a very effective machine for cutting pieces of wood of moderate dimensions. Here there is a steel disc, having its rim formed into teeth; and the disc is made to revolve with very great speed, in some cases making as many as five hundred turns in a minute, or more than eight in a second. On the bench is an adjustable straight guide, or fence, and when this has been fixed, the workman has only to press the piece of wood against it, and push the wood at the same time towards the saw, which cuts it at a very rapid rate. Sometimes the circular saw is provided with apparatus by which the machine itself pushes the wood forwards, and the only attention required from the workman is the fixing of the wood upon the bench, and the setting of the machine in gear with the driving-shaft. Similar saws are used for squaring the ends of the iron rails for railways, two circular saws being fixed upon one axle at a distance apart equal to the

Anglo-Swiss condensed milk - Anglo-Swiss milk food , Boys, Hoisting machinery, Canned foods, Dairy products, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Machado's cigar factory, Jamaica: Packing the cigars. Engraving from ''The Graphic'', London, 1889.

Engraving depicting women working in a linen factory

The Blacksmith's Forge, Alfred Provis (Chippenham, England, 1818 - 1890) 1875-1886

Interior of sugar refinery. Metal cones are being filled with liquid syrup which will crystallise to form sugar loaves. Wood engraving, London 1860.

Finishing sparkling wine - Pleasant Valley vineyards, Hammondsport, N.Y., circa 1872

Gold: Minting gold coins in a stamping press at the Paris Mint. On the right, coins are being weighed to ascertain quality. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Coinage Currency Quality Control Measurement Weight Balance

A munitions worker is featured on this propaganda postcard appealing for contributions to the Russian War Loan. Date: 1916

Off-Hand Blowing Glass by Edmund M. Ashe, oil on canvas, 20th Century, USA, Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection

Farmer company indoors. .

Pork packing in Cincinnati - the Cutting process. From a print showing four scenes in a packing house: Killing, Cutting, Rendering, and Salting.

Learning to Splice Rope on the St Mary's Training Ship, New York City, circa 1892

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Cassava processing, 1892, by Modesto Brocos y Gomes, Brazil 19th Century.

New Year's wish from the Amsterdam Waldiepers for the year 1845, Jacob Coldewijn, 1844 - 1845 print New Year's wish from the Amsterdam Waldiepers (dredgers) for the year 1845. View of an Amsterdam canal where two men in a barge are working out the canal, another man raises money at a house. With a verse in two columns. On behalf of the Waldieper H. Blom. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing canals, waters (in city) - II - ideal city. dredging (industrial process) Amsterdam

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