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
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland 1884
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Mare and Company's iron ship- building works, Bow Creek, Blackwall, on the Thames Date: 1854
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The Duke of Wellington cuts the first facet during the re-cutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. It had been exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851, but was discovered to be not quite perfect. The re-cutting operation was supervised by Prince Albert, with the technical expertise of Professor James Tennant. Date: 1852
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Sugar plantation in the French Caribbean circa 1860
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THE INDO-CHINESE OPIUM TRADE, AT AN OPIUM FACTORY AT PATNA
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Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Weaving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Construction of the Panama Canal. Works in the estuary of the Rio Grande. Colored engraving, 1886.
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THE PRINCE OF WALES OPENING THE WAREHOUSEMEN AND CLERKS' NEW SCHOOLS
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Industry, weaving mill of Arnold Staub in Kuchen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe
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Our Centennial-President Grant and Dom Pedro Starting the Corliss Engine, for Harpers Weekly. Woodcutter: Unknown After: Theodore Russell Davis, American, 1840-1894
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Interior of the Smelterij/Vormerij van de Nederlandsche Staalfabrieken v/h J.M. De Muinck Keizer N.V. (Demka, Havenweg 7) in Utrecht with the casting of liquid steel from a bessemer pear from a cast pan in a shape; In the foreground a row of shape cabinets.
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Lifting loads in quarries by a wheel, driven by human power, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th-century model, historical, exact date unknown.
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United States (1862). Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufactory. Litography.
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Lazell, Perkins & Co. Bridgewater, Mass, ca. 1860, manufactured industrial equipment. The plant includes a foundry, forge, machine shop, and rolling mill, which produced custom crafted products for steam ships, and railroads. Within the factory compound, a team of oxen pull a four car train of flatcars loaded with metal products (BSLOC_2019_7_148)
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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 Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.
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Blast furnaces. Maximillien Luce (France, Paris, 1858-1941). Germany, circa 1898. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph printed in blue, yellow, burgundy, and blue-green on chine volant paper
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The Royal Stables, Copenhagen - grooms and coachmen tend and inspect the horses. Date: 1888
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Pork packing in Cincinnati. Print showing four scenes in a packing house: Killing, Cutting, Rendering, and Salting.
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Riveting the Bases of the Tower by Means of Hydraulic Power by unknown artist
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Pen slitting room, Hinks, Wells & Co factory in Birmingham, Illustration from 'The Illustrated Midland News', 22 February 1851
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Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, England, at night, showing glowing furnaces and chimneys belching smoke. Engraving from Staffordshire and Warwickshire Past and Present by John Alfred Langford (1872).
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Illustration depicting a typical signal box. Dated 19th century
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Shoppers at the Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Company store in New York City. Patented in the 1840s, sewing machines were mass produced in the 1850s. Grover and Baker belonged to the Sewing Machine Combination, formed in 1856, consisting of Singer, Howe, Wheeler & Wilson, who combined their patents and licensed them to other manufacturers for $15 per sewing machine.
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Meaulle and Virgin (Daniel Urratieta Ortiz y virgin). "La Poste during the first week of January: aspect of the factory room". Paris, Carnavalet museum. 53364-1 Parcels, factor, January, package, post, first week, ptt, room
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Engraving showing the belly of a cargo ship, being unloaded of oranges at Fresh Wharf, London. The oranges, in rectangular crates, are being lifted out of the hold by winches then carried ashore by dockworkers. In this picture one can clearly see the large cushions the dockers wore over their head and shoulders, in order to protect them from the crates that they carried on their heads. The oranges were a special cargo brought to London, from warmer climes, just in time for Christmas. Date: 1
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Industriestadt Swansea im Süden von Wales, Großbritannien, im Jahre 1870, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhund...
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Construction of Panama Canal. Engraving, 1886.
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Armour Company's pig slaughterhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1895. Artist: Unknown
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Copper plant, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1865).
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industry locomotive construction procsession to celebrate the 400th locomotive of J. A. Maffei Company Ludwigstrasse Munich wood engraving 1861 private collection,
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Laying telephone cables under a New York street, showing sectional view of manholes and conduits. Metropolitan Telephone Co. The Electric Telephone, New York, 1890.
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A page from the May 1878 Illustrated London News, detailing the cotton riots in Lancashire, which were the response to a proprosed 10% reduction in workers wages. The pictures clockwise from top right are as follows: - Drawing room and part of the kitchen in Colonel Jackson's house, destroyed by rioters - Hopwood's Mill - Bivouac of Lancers in Volunteer Artillery drill shed, Blackburn - Colonel Raynsford Jackson's Mill - Haslingden Mill in ruins Date: May 1878
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A coalmine in England, early 19th century
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Mainz, Scholz, firm Jos., Europe, Scotti, J., Ricinto di cantiere., Chantier., Timmerhof., Timber-yard., Timmerplaats, verso - stamped, View of a carpentry yard, where a group of construction workers are busy building a wooden frame for a house. In the background a city., print, engraving, volksprent, prints, engravings, volksprenten, height 342 mm, width 420 mm, print maker, engraving maker, 1829 - 1880, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), kleuren, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Duits, publisher
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CULTIVO AGRICOLA - PLANTACION DE ALGODON CON ESCLAVOS DEL SUR EN LA CUENCA DEL MISSISSIPPI.
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Engraving depicting a steam shovel, also known as a steam navvy, which used a large ladle to remove earth from the working surface. Dated 19th century
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Oil wells at Hyde and Egbert's Farm, Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Engraving from 'Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century' by Robert Routledge (London. 1876). Hydrocarbon.
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The Heidelberg Tun - an immense wine vat contained within the cellars of Heidelberg Castle, Germany. The present barrel (there have been four in history) has a staggering capacity of approximately 220,000 litres, but has never been filled. Date: circa 1904
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Pottery: various shallow pits outside a factory, with workmen standing by. Engraving by Defehrt after Lucotte.
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Production of glass cylinders used to produce window plate glass, engraving from L'Illustrazione Italiana, No 51, December 23, 1877. Digitally colorized image.
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Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Printing, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century template.
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Engineering: a steam engine, with a pump irrigating fields. Coloured lithograph, post 1875.
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Contraband liquor is poured down the drain in Zion City, Illinois, USA. Date: 1921
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Enslaved blacks planting sugar cane in the fields, more slaves carrying bundles of sugar cane for planting, 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Coal Breakers, Shenandoah, Virginia - Drawing by Joseph Pennell, circa 1915
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Four scenes in a pork packing house: Killing, Cutting, Rendering, and Salting are depicted in a poster of the Cincinnati Pork Packers' Association, 1873.
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The European and American factories. Date: 1858
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On the Mississippi, Loading Cotton.
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Dennis Harris, New Congress Steam SugarRefinery. Artist: Thomas Bonar, American, 1848-1867 After: John L. Magee, American, 1804-1904
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Clayton Glass Works, Advertising
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Blast furnaces for production of iron at Coalbrookdale, Monmouthshire, c1830. This scene is on the river Severn a few miles from Ironbridge. On the left, behind the tall chimney, it is possible to see the iron walkway giving access to the two blast furnaces in order to charge them with ore and fuel.
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Telpherage: Sussex Cement Company's wire rope railway across the Glynde Valley, Sussex, England, 1885.
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Clayton Glass Works was one of the largest glass manufacturers in the U.S. in the 1860s. The southern New Jersey complex contained four large glass factories producing all sorts of bottles. Within this large area there was supporting shops and railroad tracks.
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Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century colored engraving.
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Boring the cylinder for the hydraulic press (lift) used to raise the prefabricated sections of the Britannia Tubular Bridge across the Menai Straits, Wales. Wood engraving 1851
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Tabacco Factory, (17th century), 1920s. Artist: Unknown
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A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.
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WATCH AND CLOCK MANUFACTURE A watch and clock factory workshop in the rear of Benson's showrooms Date: 1884
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Series Industrial Plants, Meat Extract Factory, Fray-Bentos, Argentina, Slaughterhouse, Slaughter Hall, digitally enhanced reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900, South America
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Series Industrial Plants, Meat Extract Manufacturing, Fray-Bentos, Argentina, Fertilizer Factory, Grinding and Packing, digitally enhanced reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, South America
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World War I 1914-1918: American poster issued by United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1918. On the Job for Victory showing a panoramic view of a busy shipyard.
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Arms manufacturing industry, St Etienne, 1896. Artist: Unknown