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19th Century Industrial Processes

Engravings illustrating manual processes in various industries such as paper making, baking, and signaling, showcasing historical craftsmanship.

Making paper by hand by sieving pulp in forms. Engraving c1870.
Making paper by hand by sieving pulp in forms. Engraving c1870.
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Spitalfields silk weavers, Warner's workshops, Spitalfields, London, late 19th century. This enclave of the silk industry was founded by Huguenot refugees from France after Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Engraving, 1893.
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Steam printing press machinery  for printing books - reading a page which has just  come off the machine       Date: 1877
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Engraving depicting the forging of razor blades. Dated 19th century
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Workers in a type foundry. Breaker-off boy removing superfluous metal, rubber polishing type on a grindstone, and a man setting finished type in a press. Woodblock engraving from the Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833.
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The Trinity Buoy Wharf, Blackwall, 1868. Workshop which repairs and maintains devices to warn of hazards at sea. '...if any light, buoy, or beacon is rendered unfit for service by weather or casualty, another may immediately be substituted in its place or the damage be repaired without delay...Ranged in order round the shed upon wooden sleepers are the buoys in reserve...to be painted and made tight where defective, in readiness to be shipped off on the shortest notice to replace any that may have been by damage or stress of weather carried off their stations. Most of the buoys are of one shap
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Potter at work at the Wedgwood factory, Etruria, Staffordshire, England.  The potter's throwing wheel is being turned through a belt by the man turning the wheel at the left.   From Scenes in England by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, London, 1822. Hand-coloured engraving.
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Dash wheels in which cotton cloth, soaked for about 12 hours after singeing, was washed. Engraving, London, 1860.
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Progress of cotton, # 3:Lap-frame.  Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863
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Woman working on a loom in a factory in the 19th century, United States of America.  After an illustration by Winslow Homer.
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Factory and foundry Don Leoncio Meneses. Workers in the workshop of silversmiths and lathes. Engraving from La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1872. Later coloration.
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Department with mechanical presses in the state printing company, Vienne, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 654, Volume XXVI, September 8, 1855.
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Glass making, the British flat glass factory, the manufacture of flat glass in Britain began in 1773 at this factory in Ravenhead, St Helens, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the period
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Glass: men at work inside a plate glass factory. Engraving, possibly by C. Grignion ?, 1747.
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Manufacture of cycling accessories: women trimming the casings of Dunlop tyres.     Date: 1896
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London Gas Company, Old Kent  Road: the retort house         Date: 1891
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Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Interior of a workshop with dozens of men at work, print, prints, height 79 mm, width 119 mm, Dutch, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure
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Muslins in the Drying Room  after bleaching.         Date: circa 1858
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An engraving depicting the grinding room of Fry's Chocolate factory, Bristol. Dated 19th century
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Engraving depicting a lithographic press, a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. Dated 19th century
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Dynamite workers, historic illustration.
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Engraving of Galloway's rotary steam engine. The machine was extremely powerful for its size.     Date: 20th Nov 1847
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Application of cold to industry. Raoul Pictect system. Interior view of a large beer factory. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.
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Engraving depicting convicts, from Portsmouth prison, working under supervision in a carpenter's workshop. Dated 19th century
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A department in the factory , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection
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Production of a daily newspaper, editing and printing house, 1930, Denmark, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical
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Industry around 1880, demonstration of the use of electricity, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of presentation unknown, historical
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'The Art of Grinding and Polishing of Plate-Glass', 1748. Artist: Unknown
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UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. England. Industrial Revolution. The Prince of Wales opening Mersey railway tunnel. Checking the hydraulic machinery. 'The Illustrated London News', 30th January 1886. Engraving.
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Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
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Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), inventor of an electric telegraph, in his workshop where he made his own instruments. Ca. 1830.
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Two women are working at large looms. Coloured lithograph.
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The Meat Market, Smithfield, London: arrival of an early meat train, 1870. 'Hours before daylight, the New Smithfield Market is a scene of busy traffic...it is the arrival of a Great Western meat train, by the Underground Railway from Paddington, that occasions the particular scene of bustle shown in the Illustration...The underground station, for goods traffic, beneath the Metropolitan Meat Market, is equally accessible to Great Western, Great Northern, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway trains. It is approached, by carts and waggons with horses, from the street above, descending a circ
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Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. The men are using machinery for taking the cable on board. Dated 19th Century
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Iron foundry, foundry house, mould casting of the molten iron, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century pattern
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Four men are working with moulds for candle-making. Coloured etching.
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A man plays the carillon of Dunkerque, 1851.     Date: 1851
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Print shows an interior view of a room in a mill or factory where several men are engaged in measuring, folding, and binding cloth into lengths.
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Progress of Cotton: # 10 -Weaving.  Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863
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Smith's Powered loom in a factory, used for weaving tufted pile carpets.
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Glass-blower in apron and cap blowing a glass bottle on a stool in front of a furnace or brick oven with small windows in a factory. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.
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Iron foundry, casting house, mould casting of molten iron  /  Eisengießerei, Gießhaus, Formenguß des geschmolzenen Eisen, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
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Production of copperravures, Philips Galle (attributed to workshop or), after Jan van der Straet, 1589 - 1593 print The interior of a printing company. On the right, the print maker uses a Burin to cut a show in a copper engraving. Copperravures are heated, sucked in and wiped in the middle. On the left the plate is turned by the press and the print is pressed. The paper is then hung. In the foreground, a leather boy learns to engrave. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a nineteen -part series about new inventions and discoveries. print maker: Antwerpafter design by: Florencepublisher: Antwerp paper engraving invention, discovery ~ science and technology. printing press (+ in workshop, laboratory). printing press. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph (+ stadia of production of work of art). print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph (+ artist at work)
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Making the steel wires for the Atlantic telegraph cable of 1865, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume XLIX, September 15, 1866. Digitally colorized image.
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Die stellmacher werkstaltt (no date) Cart-wrights workshop, Men making carts in Berlin.
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 Women in an American factory  making bullets for the Civil War       Date: circa 1863
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An engraving depicting the packing room at Peek, Frean & Co.'s biscuit factory, Southwark Park, London. Dated 19th century
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A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
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 Hop sampling at Guinness' Brewery in Dublin.        Date: 1905
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Man turning the handle of a large roasting spit holding fifty six geese for the Old Men's Hospital, Norwich. The spit is composed of 10 rods, each having six geese on each. They were cooked in such a manner for 29th September each year, appropriately named Roast Goose Day in the hospital.     Date: 1859
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Silk production, Ourdissage, winding machine, creel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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French sapeurs-pompiers in the  workshop of a fire station  carry out maintenance and  repairs on their engines.       Date: circa 1900
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Krupp's factory, Essen:  casting process in Martinwerk  III        Date: 1911
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The Marvels of Industry, or a Description of the Principal Modern Industries, by Louis Figuier (1819-1894), from Il Giro del mondo (World Tour), Journal of geography, travel and costumes, Volume IV, Issue 22, October 26, 1876.
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Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Folding frame, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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An engraving depicting water carriers filling casks in Madrid, Spain. Dated 19th century
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"Jim, it's the boss of the diggins." Adams & Westlake improved wire gauze, non-explosive oil stove.. "Jim, it's the boss of the diggins." Adams & Westlake improved wire gauze, non-explosive oil stove.
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Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864: New England Kitchen, A. Brown and Company, Chromolithograph on paper, A large kitchen, with open heart. The visitors sample foods cooked there. A group in eighteenth-century costume, at left, is seen spinning. Below: 'Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864 / New England Kitchen'. (Plate from History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, 22 February, 1864, p. 75)., USA, 1864, Print, Print
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An engraving depicting the polishing shop at M. Coster's Diamond Works, Amsterdam. Dated 19th century
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Working Men's Industrial Exhibition at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1865. Bingley Hall was the first purpose-built exhibition hall in Britain. 'The articles displayed are of a miscellaneous character. The staples of the local industry of course figure prominently; in stamping there are one or two wonderful specimens; of mechanism there is a great variety; of iron manufacture, furniture, saddlery, brassfoundry, jewellery, papier-maché wares, carving and gilding, there is a good display. There are numerous models in which much of skill and clever workmanship is displayed; one of these represen
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Workman in the fill house pouring liquid sugar from the heaters into conical moulds, London, 1841
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Progress of cotton, #6:Spinning.  Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863
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Perkins Harnly, Fire Station, 1935 1942 Fire Station
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Racking a keg of  beer, circa 1890
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Textile industry, machine room of Marshall's spinning mill in Leeds in 1860, England, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, exact original date not known
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Progress of Cotton: #2 -Willowing.  Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863
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Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Weaving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century.
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Decoration of a mechanic, 1894. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
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industry paper manufacture hand papermaking washing and watering of rags colour engraving second half 18th century private collection historic historical Europe Germany production occupation occupations work workers basin water,
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Illustration showing workers making gilt buttons, Elliotts factory, Birmingham: die-stamping button blanks. 1844. A skilled worker could stamp 28-30 button a minute.
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Working brewery in Soissons, France, watercolour
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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.
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British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 6 of 12. Spinning machines are attended by two women and a man as they create spun thread from cotton roving. A small girl works within the frame of the machine. The multi-spindle spinning frame, was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving. The technique was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, in Lancashire in England  (BSLOC_2019_7_131)
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Interior of a sugar refinery, 1860. Artist: Unknown
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Baltimore Steam Gun, Industrial America - Invention
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Silk spinning machine: in this process the threads from the cocoons were joined into a continuous thread: Lombe's silk mill, Derby. 1843.
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English arms factory with female workers in 1915. World War I
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Two operatives are required  for the Embroidering Machine  which produces carpets with  floral and other designs for  the Victorian home.      Date: circa 1858
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Traditional craft, beer production in a brewery in Denmark, 1930, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical
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Women handling lathe machine in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) c1940
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Interior of Jas. B. Smith & Co. Booksellers & Manufacturers, with women and men working and various machines used to make books 1850 USA
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White sewing machine, best in the world.. White sewing machine, best in the world.
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