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

Construction work in progress on the world's first underground railway near King's Cross, Central London. 1861

'General Post Office. Letter Carriers Room arranged for dispatch of Newspapers', c1841. Artist: Thomas H Ellis.

Fish market Canton - street scene at a fish market in Canton, China, circa 1856

Work in a cut on the south. The binding track

The Bianchi motorcycle factory in Italy Date: 1917

Illustration depicting a general view of a bindery. In the foreground a woman is sewing signatures in a sewing press. Dated 19th century

Shipbuilding. The timber and its use. Shipbuilding in 17th century Holland

Great Industries of France - Manufacture of Parisian shoes of Mr. F. PINET Coste. "Great Industries of France - M. F. Pinet's Parisian shoes factory". Photomechanical printing.

Engraving depicting the Central Power Station, Liverpool

Wentworth Works, file and steel manufacturers and exporters of iron in Sheffield, England. Ca. 1860.

Factory of the industrial city of Lavrion, Attica, Greece. Voyage in Greece by Henri Belle

Engraving showing men and barges in the River Thames at the commencement of the Thames Embankment works, near Westminster Bridge, 1864. Date: 6 February 1864

Chemical-Technical Factory by Thenius Grahl u. Co. in Dresden

BILLINGSGATE FISH MARKET Date: 1886

President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil started the Corliss Engine at the opening ceremonies of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876. (BSLOC_2018_10_123)

Burbacher Huette steelworks in Saarbruecken, today Voelklinger Huette steelworks, a former ironworks founded in 1873 in Voelklingen, Saarland, Germany, woodcut 1888, Europe

A department in the factory , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection

THE HAEMATITE IRON AND STEEL WORKS, HINDPOOL, NEAR BARROW-IN-FURNESS, UK, 1867

The Bakery and Brewery in Cainsdorf near Zwickau, Germany, photo or illustration published in 1892, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19t...

The colliery near Durham, England where 204 miners were killed, trapped below ground when a pumping engine beam broke and fell into the pit. January 1862

Bird's-eye view of the Wason railroad car manufacturing company facilities at Springfield, Massachusetts, with the Connecticut River in the background. 1872.

Launderers, Lavandieres Trimolet. Launderers, 1881. Lead Mine. Paris, Carnvalet Museum.

Women are working at large cotton machines, a child is carrying a basket on his head, and other people are sitting on benches at the side of the room. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Machine hall in the establishment of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz

Morley Main Colliery after an explosion of inflammable gas which cost the lives of approximately 40 men and boys. 1872

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, AT MUNICH, 1854, GERMANY

Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre, London, 1856. Inquiry into the cause of the fire: 'John Drake Palmer, gasman, said he had the entire management of the gas-fittings of the theatre, and had fitted up the carpenter's shop with gas just previously to Christmas last. The whole arrangements for lighting the theatre were under the control of himself or his assistants. It was impossible, he thought, for the fire to have originated by reason of any escape of gas in the carpenter's shop. Mr. Henry Sloman, machinist and carpenter to the theatre during the last thirty years, was next examined. He said

View of the American Watch Manufactory of Appleton, Tracy & Co., at Waltham, Mass. , Factories, Clock & watch industry, American Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection

Colliery explosion at Llanerch, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1890

The Horse Competition of the Palace of Industry

Factories in the Taff Valley, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1865).

Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. railway car builders, car wheels and general railway, work sketched & on stone by Parsons & Atwater. 1821-1910 Published 1872. Print showing birds-eye view of the Wason railroad car manufacturing company facilities at Springfield, Massachusetts, with the Connecticut River in the background.

Meissen. Trieichtal, Masch. Factory Schindler & Grünewald

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864

Throughout the second half of the 19th century, many technologies converged to advance elevator speed, strength and safety. In the 1860s William Miller developed a steam powered, belt driven model with screw-and-cog gearing.

Industry, weaving mill of Arnold Staub in Kuchen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, ex...

OUR COLONIAL WOOL TRADE

General view of kitchen at Richie & McCall's Cannery, Houndsditch, London. Wood engraving, 1852

India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Company, Silvertown, London. Wood engraving 1887

Orleans factory of E. F. Könitzer in Zittau

Progress of cotton, #12:Printing. Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863

Unloading and processing of imported bananas in New Orleans, USA. The fruit is conveyed directly from the holds of the arriving ships into the dock into the refrigeration wagons (right). Date: circa 1930s

Brooklyn sanitary fair, 1864. New England kitchen / lith. of A. Brown & Co. 47 Nassau St. N.Y. for Henry McCloskey's Manual of 1864..

Salt production, saltworks on the Mediterranean Sea in Italy, in 1870 / Salzgewinnung, Saline am Mittelmeer in Italien, im Jahre 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Mammoth tusks are imported from Siberia to Britain, enough of them to fill a warehouse at London Docks Date: 1873

Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Bleaching, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Engraving depicting a general view of soap vats in a factory in Paris. Dated 19th century

Stern's portland cement works at Funkenwalde, near Stettin Date: 1899

Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. 'The progress of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, next year, is sufficiently advanced to enable us to commence a series of Illustrations by which we hope to inform our readers of the general character and details of the structure, and also of the various ingenious modes and contrivances adopted by the contractors for executing the works with the greatest certainty and rapidity.Our view exhibits the commencement of the erection of the central avenue, which will present a corridor, uninterrupted, 1848 feet in len

History of France. Paris. Universal Exhibition of 1878. It was held from May 1 to November 10, 1878. The Creusot Steam Hammer presented by the Creusot factory at the Trocadero Garden. A full-scale wooden replica of the towering hammer was built and displayed at the event. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1878.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Cottow thread spinning mill, Appretur u. Bleach v. Naumann & Lohse in Schlettau

Joseph Crosfield & Son's soap factory at Bank Quarry, Warrington. A: Glycerine Plant B: Silicate Plant C: Alkali Plant 1: General view of works 2: Display at Liverpool Exhibition 3: Frame Room 4: Stamping 5: Packaging Room 6: Box Making 7: Bar of soap.

Progress of Cotton: #4 -Carding. Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 2 of 12. Willowing was the process of opening and loosening the fibers of ginned cotton (BSLOC_2019_7_127)

United States (19th c.). Oil exploitation in Pennsylvania. Picture from 'L'Illustration'. Engraving.

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

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 11 of 12. The long length of woven fabric is dyed in mechanized vats (BSLOC_2019_7_136)

The presses , Presses, Iron industry, Industrial facilities, Iron & steel workers. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Deepening the Fllet Sewer, ondon, 1845.

Skövde foundry and mechanical workshop.

Interior of the Smelterij/Vormerij van de Nederlandsche Staalfabrieken v/h J.M. De Muinck Keizer N.V. (Demka, Havenweg 7) in Utrecht with on the left the pouring of liquid steel from a bessemer pear in a cast pan and in the middle the pouring of liquid steel from a cast pan in a shape.

Åmmeberg's mines.

Construction of the free port, Hamburg, Germany, historical illustration, circa 1886, Europe

Amerique Septentrionale - Etat de Pensylvanie. N. 50, pl.2.Walet works on the Schylkill river.. After: Jacques Gerard Milbert, French, 1766-1840

Paris. The slaughterhouses of La Villette: New Halle of Slaughtering Pigs.

English miners voting on strike action. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 1920.

Stevedores unloading cotton from blockade runners, at Nassau, New Providence Island in the Bahamas, 1861-65, during the US Civil War. Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News (BSLOC_2018_8_49)

Blast furnaces at Hanley, Staffordshire. Date: circa 1858

Oswego starch factory, Oswego, N.Y. ca.1850s. The large factory was likely producing for the export market. Midwest and New York State Farm products arrived at the port. Establishing a factory to convert a commodity, such as corn, into a processed product, added value, resulting in more profit (BSLOC_2019_7_146)

Progress of cotton, #7:Bleaching. Artist: James Richard Barfoot, British, 1794-1863

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 7 of 12. Before bleaching, the cotton fabric is passed over a red-hot Iron Plate, which burns off the ends of the fibers or nap, making the surface even for Printing. It goes through other processes, before it is put into a stone cistern filled with chloride of lime and water, which is called 'Bleaching Liquor'. More processes follow, before it is dried in a hot stove (BSLOC_2019_7_132)

H.A. Bosshardt Jr. / Warehouse of manufactures / knitted goods, yarn band etc.

Cloth factory of A. G. Fiedler in Falkenau

Series Industrial Plants, Meat Extract Factory, Fray-Bentos, Argentina, Fertiliser Factory, upper floor, digitally enhanced reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, South America

Jas. B. Smith & Co's. Philadelphia blank book manufactory. Print shows interior of Jas. B. Smith & Co. Booksellers and Blank Book Manufacturers, 207 Market St. above 5th Philadelphia, with women and men working and various machines used to make books.

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