19th Century Industrial Work

Illustrations of various 19th-century industrial scenes, including sugar factories, dynamite manufacturing, cranes at ports, and woodworking workshops.

Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland 1884

Lithograph showing various scenes from the Comstock Lode, a large silver and gold deposit worked by numerous mines in Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nevada, and the first silver strike in the United States. Depicted are the square-set timbering method first developed at the Comstock Lode, the various headframes and mills of mines, mining tools, cooling rooms, and shafts. 1877

Cross-section of a metalliferous mine in the Devon and Cornwall area of England, showing the engine house containing the steam engine which powered the man-engine or moving lift and the raising of ore in buckets in buckets in a separate shaft on the left. From 'The Popular Encyclopaedia' (London, 1862). Engraving.

Darblay's paper factory at Essonne: Continuous paper making. Engraving 1888.

Pressing a propeller, iron and steel works, Sheffield, England, in presence of Shah of Persia, 1889.

THE RECENT FIRE AT SAN FRANCISCO, RUINS OF STARKEY BROTHERS AND COMPANY'S PREMISES

19th century painting showing 1883 gasworks, gas house, industrial plant for the production of flammable gas

Rolling mill in an ironworks, woodcut 1888

United States. Philadelphia. Centennial Exposition, 1876. U.S. Presdient Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) and the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (1825-1891) switch on the Corliss Centennial Engine. Engraving.

THE GORDON OIL WELLS, CANADA WEST, 1866

An oil well in nineteenth century Pennsylvania, USA. From the book Chips From The Earth's Crust published 1894.

A chime of thirteen bells for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the foundry yard.The bells were manufactured by Henry N. Cooper and Co, of Boston. Date: 1860

United States. Philadelphia. Centennial Exposition, 1876. U.S. Presdient Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) and the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (1825-1891) switch on the Corliss Centennial Engine. Engraving.

The hammer in the Le Creusot forge, France. Europe. Le Creusot et les mines de Saone-et-Loire, 1865 by Louis Laurent Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1867

This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the apparatur for making Bessemer steel. The Bessemer process was the first method discovered for mass-producing steel. It was named for Sir Henry Bessemer of England. The vessel, converter, in which it took place, is an egg-shaped vessel, about 3.5 feet in diameter, made of wrought iron in two parts and lined in the inside with a thick infusible coating made from ground fire-bricks and a certain kind of sandstone. The two parts are united by flanges strongly bolted together, and the converter swings on trunnions, one of which is hollow and admits the airblast by the pipe (b) to the base of the vessel. The pipe, which turns on the trunnion with the converter, conducts the air to a kind of chamber (d) from which it passes into the vessel through about fifty holes of .5 inches diameter. To the other trunnion a toothed wheel is attached, which engages the teeth of the rack receiving motion from hydraulic pressure in a cylinder. The iron fo

An engraving depicting the work on a Channel Tunnel at Dover. Dated 19th century

Interior of the artificial flowers factory Compagnie Florale, Rueil, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 729, Volume XXIX, February 14, 1857.

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

Engraving depicting the process of moving chilled meat from the US to Liverpool aboard the Ohio. 1) Ice store between decks. 2) Sending meat up from the refrigerated hold. 3)Weighing of meat. 4) Loading floats (carts): the one shown bears the name of the London and North Western Railway. 5) Loading meat on the LNWR trains for distribution. Dated 19th century

THE DISTRESS AT COVENTRY, WEAVERS EMPLOYED IN LEVELLING WITLEY COMMON AND BURNING THE GORSE, 1861

The establishment for mechanical engineering from Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz

Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, 1854. Shipyard on the River Thames in London during the Crimean War, an '... industrial army of between 3000 and 4000 hands, busily engaged in the construction of vessels, not only to meet the exigencies of the war, but also the demands of our increased trade...It is almost bewildering to pass amongst the numerous punching and shearing machines, moved by steam power, cutting and piercing thick iron as readily as if it were writing paper...In this yard some of the most powerful machinery is in motion: numerous furnaces are in active operation, heating an

The stage coach, or the country inn yard , Carriages & coaches, Taverns Inns, Courtyards. William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints

Exhibition of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Agricultural Association, in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1850. 'Among the pure breeds exhibited, the show of Herefords deserves to take the highest place...Among the show of heavier stock in Broad-street was an extraordinary crossbred animal, of gigantic size, but in the framing of which nature seems to have accompanied the increased proportion with great awkwardness of build, and a wide departure from shapeliness. One of the crosses of sheep appeared to contain some admixture of foreign blood, as if an attempt had been made to increase the frame

Hides passing through the tan pits as a preliminary to further processing. Date: circa 1858

Economy. 19th century. Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Engraving. "The Art of the Illustration", 1888.

The processing of cotton, here bobbins and stretching frame, 1810, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Burning the Engine House and Machine Shops at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania during the American Civil War, 1862

Great Fire in Guildford-Street, Belvidere-Road, London, 1850. '...a fire broke out in the extensive timber yard belonging to Mr. George Myers, of the Ordnance Wharf, Belvidere-road, which, in the extent of its ravages, has exceeded any catastrophe of the kind with which the metropolis has been visited for many years past...the flames had attained so great an ascendancy, that the atmosphere was illumined for miles round, and the utmost alarm was occasioned among the inhabitants of the neighbourhood...The awful progress of the fire for some minutes previously had forewarned the inhabitants of

STEAM NAVVY Excavation machine used in making a new dock in Swansea Date: 1881

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S 'Agamemnon' prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America. The cable was successfully laid on 5th August 1858, but the connection was lost on 20th October. Despite this, 723 telegraph messages had been successfully transmitted over 2500 miles. Date: August 1st 1857

Basins of the sand filtration plant, water supply of Hamburg, Germany, historical picture, about 1893, Europe

The rotative beam engine known as the Corliss Centennial Engine which supplied power to most of the exhibits at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. After an illustration in Frank Lesl

Workshop for the manufacturing of woodwind instruments and string instruments in France. engraving 1855

Gas Holders, Retorts, and Condensers, circa 1884

Change of shift at Uckingen Ironworks, Germany. Date: 1899

An engraving depicting the process of making turpentine: here dipping is in progress and gum is being collected from buckets on barked portions of pine trees. Dated 19th century

The Chinese in New England , the work-shop. Davis, Theodore R.. Prints. 1870. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Shoemakers, Shoe industry, Shoemaking, Chinese , Massachusetts , North Adams, Factories , Massachusetts , North Adams, Men , Clothing & dress , Massachusetts , North Adams

The strikes at the South Metropolitan Gas Company's Works, Vauxhall London UK, 1889.

Loading a Cotton Steamer in the Southern USA - circa, 1860

'Diving-Bell Used in the Construction of the Thames Tunnel', (c1878). Creator: Unknown.

Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. Shows the men working on the boat. Dated 19th Century

Granajo. / Grange. / Scheune. / Floor. / Part .. view in a granary, where men are working out the grain from the corn. Through the door a look through a yard with chickens and two horses that drive a cart full of grain inside.

Engraving depicting the ironworks at Coalbrookdale. Dated 18th century

An engraving depicting the roasting of iron ore in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Dated 19th century

LARGE LOG OF HONDURAS MAHOGANY, SOLD AT BIRKENHEAD

Sugar refinery, Southampton, England, which opened in 1851. Artist: Unknown

SHEFFIELD SMOKE' factories at Sheffield,Yorkshire (England)Date: 1885

Illustration showing Otis Brothers hoist works, Yonkers, New York. 1872

Ind Coope, Burton - the brewery yard Date: 1889

Industrial plants and smoking chimneys in an English factory town in 1870, near Manchester, England, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, exact original date not known

Entrance to New Hartley Mine, Coal Mine, Northumberland, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown

An engraving depicting the railway sidings in Huntley & Palmer's biscuit factory, Reading. Dated 19th century

Paterson Iron Company were manufacturers of forgings for steamboats and railroads. Ca. 1865. Detail showing teams of men working at two massive steam hammers pounding glowing iron ingots.

Sinking caisson for one of piers of the second railway bridge over the River Tay, Scotland, 1883

Engraving depicting floating grain elevators loading direct into the hold of an ocean steamer, New York harbour.

Fighting a fire at Flemings Brewery, Camberwell Green, London.

An engraving depicting the unloading of sugarbeet utilising an electric elevator at the Sermaise sugar factory. Chretien and Felix, the engineers, generated the electricity using a Gramme machine powered by a steam engine. Dated 19th century

The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. 'The employment of the syphon is quite a novel feature in the history of drainage. Should the experiment now devised by Mr. Appold, the ingenious inventor of the centrifugal-pump, and carried out by the Messrs. Leather, under the engineering supervision of Mr. Hawkshaw, prove a success in marsh land, there are many reasons for supposing that the method of dealing with drainage-water in tidal channels not required for navigation will be more generally adopted...It occurred...to Mr. Appold that, if he could fix a number

Plant for the production of yeast for breweries and distilleries, association of German spirit manufacturers, Berlin, Germany, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1894.

An engraving depicting sluices and salt pans at the salt works in Bouches-sur-Rhone. Dated 19th century

Entrance to New Hartley Mine, Coal Mine, Northumberland, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork,...

Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper

Anchors at a naval shipyard, lithograph by Ferdinand Perrot, 19th century.

Oil-springs at Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1862. Engraving of Woodford and Phillips's Spouting Wells from a photograph by Alexander S. Macrae, petroleum oilbroker. 'In the foreground is shown a large vat, or cistern, in which a spouting well is running the oil. Owing to the specific lightness of the petroleum it floats upon the surface of water, and any deleterious matter which may be mixed with it is at once precipitated to the bottom, whence it is readily extricated. The oil is run into good strong forty-gallon casks, and dispatched to the refineries at home, or expor

Havana, Cuba. The new Machina at the San Fernando dock. On 21 November 1882, work was carried out to install the structure, of English construction, under the direction of the first boatswain of the Spanish Navy, Mr. Antonio Menjibar. It was a crane-tower used for the placement of masts and different rigging on ships. The dock was occupied by dependencies of the Spanish Navy. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

industry, metal, iron, blast furnace and Bessemer converter, wood engraving, ""Buch der Erfindungen"", published by Otto Spamer, Leipzig, 1872,

Balloon factory Paris, France circa 1883

An engraving depicting soap-boilers. Dated 19th century

Bell foundry: Opening hearth gate to let melt into the bell pit. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' c1751.

PROCESS OF ROLLING ARMOUR PLATES FOR HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS AT THE ATLAS STEELWORKS, SHEFFIELD

Dash wheels, Thomas Hoyle & Sons works, Dunkinfield, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Cloth and water rotated in drums, so rinsing the cloth. Engraving, London, 1843.

Print shows the interior of a factory and the wine-presses in Champagne. Dated 19th Century

Courage Brewery. Cooperage and cask-loading bank Date: 1889

Second explosion at Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, December 1866. 350 people were killed including a number who perished in the second and third explosions while they were searching for survivors and bodies. From 'The Illustrated London News', London, 1865. Wood engraving.

Madrid. Vallecas. Nuevo molino de yeso. Grabado de 1883.

Rubble transporter employed in the construction of the Havre to Tancarville canal and to be used for the works of the Panama Canal, France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883

Trial electric telpherage line erected at Weston, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, 1884.

Manufacturing workshop of balloons at the Orleans station during Franco-Prussian War for use during the defense of Paris. Date: 1870s

Unidentified Industrial complex on river bank, 1857, by James Fuller Queen. Most of James Queen's drawings and paintings were created near Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. However, in 1845 or 1846, he traveled to Pittsburgh, making it possible that this watercolor depicts an iron or steel mill in south western Pennsylvania (BSLOC_2019_7_149)

Engraving depicting a current wheel driving a mill on shore. Dated 19th century

Der Speisesaal des Gefaengnisses Sing-sing im Staat New York, Amerika, Reproduktion eines Bildes, Holzschnitt aus dem Jahr 1881, digitalrestauriert, Historisch, The dining-hall of the prison sing-sing in the state of New York, America, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical

The erection of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London 16 November 1843

Spain. Metal casting factory founded by Leoncio Meneses, named "Silver Meneses". Laborers working on the casting room. Engraving by Urrabieta in "La Ilustracio_n Espan_ola y Americana", 1872. Colored.

Ironworks at NANT-Y-GLO, Wales Date: circa 1835

Interior of a perfume manufacturer at Nice, showing large distillery. Woodcut engraving by Lambert after an illustration by E. Bourdelin from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.

Manchester; view of factories from Kersall Moor. Date: 1857

People making tar in the forests of Sweden. Etching after E. D. Clarke.

Cotton manufacture: mule spinning. Note boy on right employed to crawl under threads & sweep up. Self-acting mule of type devised by Richard Roberts 1825. Roof of building supported by iron trusses. Engraving c1830.

Excelsior Iron Works on New York City's East River at 14th street. Ca. 1855.

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 time..

Cotton manufacture: mule spinning, c1830. Artist: Unknown

Operators working in the Lanerossi textile company, lithograph by Carlo Matscheg 1871. Italy, 19th century.

Illustration depicting a rag warehouse in Paris, France. Dated 19th century

The Gare d'Orleans is converted into a factory for balloons to carry mail - and sometimes passengers - from the besieged city Date: September 1870

Archive illustration: Illustrated description of the Broadway pneumatic underground railway, with a full description of the atmospheric machinery, and the great tunneling machine, 1870. Digger advancing the shield- Interior of the Tunnel

Feeding telephone cable from drum, down manhole and into conduit: New York. The Electric Telephone, New York, 1890.

A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Steam navvy used to make the new dock at Swansea. By the late nineteenth century, chores traditionally done by workmen were being performed by steam engines. Date: October 22nd 1881

Illustration depicting a view of Leeds, showing the pollution of factory and mill chimneys. Dated 19th century

View of the coal pit Glyn, near Pontypool. vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1865).

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