19th Century Industrial Scenes

Historical depictions of factories and mills from the 19th century, showcasing diverse manufacturing processes and workers engaged in various tasks.

The Grand Junction Railway locomotive manufactory at Crewe : the heavy machine shop, containing large machine tools such as planing machines and a lathe 1849

Lancashire Cotton Famine: Provisions sent from New York for the distressed mill workers of Lancashire out of work because of disruption cotton supplies by blockade of Southern ports. Liverpool, 1863. During American Civil War.

Engraving depicting Neckinger Mills tannery, Bermondsey. Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Dated 19th century

Interior image from Rakters Kautju factory in Paris 1855. From illustrated newspaper June 14, 1856.

Ice Industry; U.S.A.; 1881; winter; view; vertical ice screw elevator; practical operation

WORKS AT BARKING CREEK OUTFALL, LONDON MAIN DRAINAGE

J & J Clark's Anchor Thread Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Clarks were known for their sewing threads and mercerised cotton for more than a century. From 'Great Industries of Great Britain' (London, c1880). Engraving.

The spinning room in the Shadwell rope works, c1880. Artist: Unknown

Machinery Court at the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, with the hydraulic press for raising the tubes of the Britannia Bridge in pride of place.

The Grand Junction Railway locomotive manufactory at Crewe : the heavy machine shop, containing large machine tools such as planing machines and a lathe 1849

EXPLOSION AT THE GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER-WORKS NEAR WALTHAM

Steam-engines and Thrashing-machines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 1854. 'This new display in the Exhibition of Agricultural Implements and Machinery at King-street Bazaar proved more forcibly...the great progress that is making in the application of steam to agricultural purposes, and also the improved class of machinery that is being brought into use...Thrashing-machines are being made larger, more elaborate in their details, and necessarily more expensive...they are no longer the noisy, rudely-constructed contrivances of times past, but are now truly fine machines, capable of executing an

J & J Clark's Anchor Thread Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Clarks were known for their sewing threads and mercerised cotton for more than a century. From Great Industries of Great Britain (London, c1880). Engraving.

Illustration showing Mule spinning in a shed lit by gas flares. Self-acting mule of the type devised by Richard Roberts (1825). Boy in foreground is sweeping up debris: he would continue to do this as the mules passed back and forth over him. (ca 1851)

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. Industrial Revolution. Cotton fabrics factiry. Engraving.

Night work for the construction of buildings, 1869, Moniteur, Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exa...

Exhibition in Perugia, agricultural and industrial section, from the Italian Illustration, October 5, 1879. Italy, 19th century.

Industrial plant around 1890, soap production, soap production, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of presentation unknown, historical

The iron-clad screw-frigate 'Northumberland' in the course of construction by the Millwall Ironworks and Ship- Building Company, on the Thames Date: 1863

Sherman's Campaign - Ruins of Cars and rolling mill destroyed by the Rebels in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864 - American Civil War

Steam powered machineries and locomotives, London

An engraving depicting the furnaces of Felling Chemical Works: Sodium sulphate is mixed with lime and coal and then heated to produce sodium carbonate. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting power looms and spinning mules on show at the Crystal Palace. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the polishing shop at M. Coster's Diamond Works, Amsterdam. Dated 19th century

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Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors watching beer fermenting in a large brewhouse. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Josep Mestres Cabanes / Painting workshop, Gran Teatre del Liceu, 1984. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION.

Workshops to build Boulton and Watt steam engines at Soho, near Birmingham

An engraving depicting the production of arrowroot on the estate of Messrs Raw and Faggitt, Durban, Port Natal, South Africa. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the unloading of coal barges at a gas works. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting the making of a steam engine: Vulcan Foundry, Washington Street, Glasgow. Dated 19th century

Blast furnaces at the Phoenix Iron and Bridge Works, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA. Wood engraving New York 1873

Aberdeen, Granholm Tweed Mills, 1885, UK, Warping Machines

Goodwin's sewing machine factory, Quai de Jemmapes, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1176, Volume XLVI, September 9, 1865.

Engraving showing the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) officially opening (by starting the engines) the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness in April 1865. Date: 15 April 1865

Smelting of railroad tracks, historical illustration, ca. 1893

The Derosne et Cail factory's workshop where machines are finished, Chaillot, in the vicinity of Paris, France, illustration from the magazine L'Illustration, Journal Universel, vol 13, no 324, May 12, 1849.

Steam hammer being used in an ironworks. Hand-coloured woodcut Paris, 1867.

Interior of cotton mill: girls and women tend carding, drawing and roving machinery. Date: 1835

Engraving depicting a view of the St Peter and St Paul pits in Le Creusot coal field , south-east of France. Dated 19th century

FOOD SUPPLY, MANUFACTURE OF CONDENSED SOUPS, CUTTING-UP THE BEEF, THE CONCENTRATING BOILERS-SORTING ROOM-DRYING STOVES-PACKING IN CANISTERS. ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Engraving depicting the production of sodium carbonate with the Leblanc process which was introduced in 1818. St Rollox Chemical Works, Glasgow.

Engraving depicting the Railway Carriage Company's works in Oldbury. Dated 19th century

Borsig is a German engineering company, hammer mill, hammer forge or hammer mill, circa 1885, based in Berlin, Germany, Historic, digitally restored r...

Illustration depicting the boiling down of sheep for tallow in Australia. Before refrigeration, apart from the small amount that could be consumed locally, the meat was valueless as there was no means of transporting or preserving it, and so it was burned or buried. Dated 19th century

The paper factory of Heinrich Voelter at the World's Fair in Paris, France, paper production, industry of the Decker brothers, Historic, digitally res...

Rolling armour plate, Cyclops steel works Sheffield, England. Engraving 1870

Bunker's Hill mine, in North Staffordshire, the scene of a fatal explosion on April 30th 1875. Date: 1875

1856 lithograph showing African slaves and Chinese wage-laborers working in the La Ponina sugar factory near Cardenas, Cuba, Central America

Illustration showing Main machine room at Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machine factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut 1879

PARIS, - Les Expériences de M, Jamin Au Laboratoire de la Campagnie d`eclairage Électrique, Avenue du Maine , Experiments by Jules Célestin Jamin in the experimental institution of the Society for Electrical Light in Paris from L´Ilustation , Unknown

Coaling station for steamers Date: 1854

Industrial plant around 1890, paper mill, production of paper, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of presentation unknown, historical

An engraving depicting the J & J Clark Anchor Thread Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Clark was known for their sewing threads and mercerised cotton for more than a century. Dated 19th century

The doubling room at Dean Mills, Lancashire, a cotton mill. Date: 1851

Women working in the doubling- room at Dean Mills cotton-mill (between Bolton & Manchester, Lancashire) Date: 1851

Illustration depicting Bottomley's Shelf Mills; near Halifax; Yorkshire. Alpaca and worsted were produced. Dated 19th Century

The Daily Telegraph ten-feeder printing machine in operation. Date: 1860

Press room, offices of the Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street, London, 1882. Artist: Unknown

Interior of a workshop with dozens of men at work. .

Department in the factory where the talking dolls patented by Edison are produced. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Cotton factory floor in 1830s showing workers mule spinning. Drawn by T. Allom. Engraved by J. Tingle.

Men and boys at Aspley Pellatts Falcon Glass Works, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, 1842. Note cast iron roof trusses. Between 1824-1827) Michael Faraday began investigations of optical glass here before a furnace was built in the Royal Institution.

The Shell Factory. Dated: 1916. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Pennell.

Scene showing Ritchie & M'Call's preserved meat establishment in Houndsditch, London. Various workers wearing caps and aprons are tending vats while meat cuts and carcasses fill the tables and worktops. Date: 1852

The Prince of Wales at Shireoaks Coalmine, Notts, the property of the Duke of Newcastle: the shaft engine-house, 1861. The future King Edward VII visits a coalmine in Nottinghamshire. 'The Prince there inspected the engine-house, the machinery for lifting the coals, &c...The surface machinery...is of the most improved description, the engines being beautiful specimens of mechanical art...More than 300 men are now employed at the colliery, and about 300 tons of coal are sent out daily. Though the seam contains little gas, the pits are worked exclusively with Davy lamps, and on what is calle

An engraving depicting a factory producing cakes of toilet soap. Dated 19th century

Illustration showing Assembly room at Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machine factory. Bridgeport, Connecticut 1879

Engraving depicting a factory at Aubervilliers for making, recharging and servicing electric cabs used in Paris, France.

'Carting the Ice', 1861. Artist: Unknown

Depot at Rue Cardinet where electrically driven Paris cabs were fitted with freshly charged batteries. At front right are glass carboys in protective wicker jackets. These contained acid used in batteries From 'La Nature' Paris 1899.

THE LEYCETT COLLIERY DISASTER, NEAR NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE

United States. 19th century. South Boston Iron Company. Engraving, 1884.

The iron steam derrick, steam crane, A derrick is a lifting device consisting of at least one guyed mast, such as a gin mast, which can be articulated...

SCHLESINGER AND CO.'S AMMUNITION WORKS AT NORTHFLEET, BALL-CARTRIDGE-MAKING, 1854

Great Britain London harbour docks unloading of ships East India Dock wood engraving from ""Illustrated London News"" 1867,

Bartram's method for cotinuous paper making from tank of pulp at left. Engraving c1870.

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Metropolitan telephone company's central station, Cartlant Street, New York: the switchboard. The electric telephone, New York, 1890.

A pharmaceutical company, John Bell & Co, rooms for manufacturing, dispensing and business. London, a manufacturing laboratory where galenics and chemicals were manufactured for a pharmacy, photograph circa 1890, England.

The docks at New Orleans, USA, in 1881. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana of 1881

Embanking the Thames : driving the first pile in front of the duke of Buccleuch's mansion. Date: 1862

Universal Exposition: Workshop mecanical presses. Paris, France, Exposition Universelle. An international Exhibition held on the Champs-Elysees in 1855, consisting of an industrial and an beaux Arts exposition. Engraving

A 19th century European print shop. After a late 19th century work.

The shoemaking department inthe boy's refuge, Great Queen Street in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Date: 1889

A great display of newly imported pineapples in a London warehouse - they are still a rarity in Britain Date: 1853

The great wool floor at the London docks. Date: 1850

Saltaire, the model textile factory and town near Bradford, Yorkshire, England, founded in 1851 by the industrialist Titus Salt (1803-1876). Salt had government contracts to produce cloth for military uniforms. From 'Great Industries of Great Britain' (London, c1809).

Building of Noah's Ark.

An engraving depicting a weaving shed fitted with power looms at Orrell's cotton mill, Stockport, Lancashire. Dated 19th century

Building of Noah's Ark.

The turning and milling department in the Prinetti and Stucchi bicycle factory, Milan, Italy, photograph by Fratelli Treves, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXII, No 12, March 24, 1895.

Water supply for the waterfall, The Refrigerated ship, Great Crane, Pavilion of Navigation, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: horses and workers in the stables. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Spinning wool and silk factory in flames, M. Th Cheneviere, Elbeuf, France. Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie. engraving 1855

Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured aquatint.

The Forge of Le Buisson, Marne, France. From Paris to Bucharest by Victor Duruy 1860

The United States. Boston (Massachusetts). 19th century. South Boston Iron Company, 1827. Foundry in the port area. Engraving, 1884.

The Paris Agricultural Exhibition - the Cattle - general view, 1856. 'The total prizes amounted to nearly £18,000, and these seem to have been distributed on the principle of rewarding every class and every nation that exhibited without any serious attempt to ascertain, in a few days, the respective and exact merits of many hundred animals, machines, and articles. All who have carefully followed the course of exhibitions, whether agricultural or industrial, must have come to the conclusion that, in nine cases out of ten, it is impossible to discoverwhat is the absolutely best animal, and

Interior of the Austrian floating battery at Venice. Date: summer 1860

Machine Hall of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown, Europe

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