Historic Industrial Labor

A collection of vintage photographs documenting labor in factories, including brick making, metal forging, and ship maintenance, reflecting mid-20th-century industry.

Vintage Photograph. Male worker overseeing molten iron being poured from the blast furnace into a bucket before going into a mould at an iron foundry

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 10x15 Dust spreading brick factory Opheusden. 1948. Opheusden

Wash And Brush Up - Workmen busy on one of the giant screws of the "Queen Elizabeth" in the King George V Graving Dock at Southampton to-daay (Thursday).The 85,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner "Queen Elizabeth" undergoing conversion at Southampton from a war trooper to a luxury peacetime passenger vessel, is now in the King George V Graving Dock for cleaning and overhaul of her hull and propellers. August 08, 1946.

Vintage photograph. Steel Industry - "charging an open hearth furnace"

Sandviken's ironworks (Sandvikens Jernverk). In front of one of the ovens in the steam hammer media. Here, mainly transmitted machinery parts and some high-leading steel grades.

The Electrolux laboratory. LUX Branden 1936.

Vintage Photograph. Male worker overseeing molten iron being poured from the blast furnace into a bucket before going into a mould at an iron foundry

Ship repairs in war, NSW, Day I. December 9, 1943.

SAAR Story - Iron & Steel Industry Reaches Postwar High. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage photograph. A huge steel ingot is pressed out under a pressure of 1500 tons into a longer and narrower shape at a British Steel factory

Iron being smelted at the Stalin Iron and Steel Works in Kuznetsk. April 28, 1944. (Photo by Sovfoto).

Kept Cool, Saved From Fall -- Presence of mind saved the life of Eli Brammall, foreman carpenter, at the new Wade House private hospital. Picture above shows his fall from the sixth floor of the building to the scaffolding projecting from the fifth floor. The ledge was barely wide enough to hold him. His head projected over a 75ft. drop. Had he attempted to move he would have crashed down on a concrete square below. Suffering great pain, he lay perfectly still until workmates rescued him from hi

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. NPC, pipelines, apply insulation layers, men. 1965

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Djokja: Museum, Pasar, Torpedoes. In a steel factory in Djocja, an ex-German sailor worked on a single-man porpedo. Its invention failed. With the first test, the Iron Sank. January 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The work of the steelworkers, like here on 31 August 1971 at the Mannesmann-Huettenwerke in Duisburg, is a hard job, Germany, Europe

Steel production at the Hoesch AG steelworks in the Westfalenhuette on 4.12.1974 at the blast furnace and Siemens Martin furnace (SM) in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

The production of steel products, as here at the Neunkirch ironworks in 1969, already seemed outdated at the time, is now a museum, Germany, Europe

First Shipload Of Record Australian Wheat Crop Discharged In London -- A suction pipe is seen transferring wheat from the amicus (not seen in picture) into a sailing barge at Millwall Docks, London, Feb. 16.The first shipload of wheat from the record Australian crop arrived in London over the week-end aboard the amicus (7120 tons). February 16, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Co8d welding of undercarriage

The work of the steelworkers, like here on 31 August 1971 at the Mannesmann-Huettenwerke in Duisburg, is a hard job, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. Limburg

Anefo photo collection. New Gasonsinker in Amstel. October 8, 1951. Amstel, Noord-Holland

Ford Värtan ()

CO8D undercarriage, intermediate party hoisted in traverses

SAAR Story - Iron & Steel Industry Reaches Postwar High. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

SAAR Story - Iron & Steel Industry Reaches Postwar High. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Coentunnel approaches completion, workers lay the final hand to lighting. March 29, 1966

Panto Factory -- Dogs, in ever decreasing sizes, are kept on the store's shelves, and brought out for productions of Humpty Dumpty. July 12, 1951.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 5x5 scaffolding. undated

Jack Donelly, waterside work - loading wheat yesterday - he worked with a team of 15 men 11 his a day since Monday last. So that the Empire Honduras would be ready for sail to-day. She is a Mercy ship for India. May 05, 1946.

Anefo photo collection. Concrete mortar center Nieuwe-Poortkade employed by the Amsterdam alderman of public works mr. G. van T Hull. March 19, 1957

Wachusett Dam, Load Testing Experiment, Clinton, Mass., Mar. 3, 1897 , waterworks, dams, testing equipment

Anefo photo collection. Fire in Rotterdam at Everest furniture factory, extinguishing firefighters. January 19, 1965. Rotterdam, South Holland

Vintage Photograph. Steel Plant in Cleveland Ohio.

Anefo photo collection. Fire at Shell in Pernis; Overview of extinguishing work. October 14, 1974. Pernis

Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from motorcycle ship Damco 230: Switzerland. Landfill of grain in a freight train in the port of Bazel-Kleinhüningen. April 1, 1955. Basel, Switzerland

Mt. Lyall 1941 -- This tipping truck has 18 wheels and can carry 16 tons of ore. Complete set of tyres costs £300.This tipping truck, used by Mt Lyell, carries 18-tons of ore. They are in continual use by the company. January 22, 1942.

Beep bridge ironwork in Västmanland. Hotvallsverket. Götvällugen, 1924.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Oil tank fire, in bone leak. January 13, 1968

Harnes Thermal Plant - Roubaix Wool Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

AB Svenska Railway Workshops Falun, 3-4/10-61. Casting

Sandviken's ironworks (Sandvikens Jernverk). Vintage of high frequency furnace.

Vintage photograph. Tapping a carbide furnace at the plants of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited.

War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 Shipbuilding:

Anefo photo collection. Night work IJ tunnel. April 1, 1957

Photo collection Government information service. Fire in workshop for the blind to the Amstel, overview of extinguishing work. October 20, 1964. Amsterdam

Exterior and interior details on mine sweepers, probably country .. External and interior details on minesvepare, probably country.

The work of the steelworkers, like here on 31 August 1971 at the Mannesmann-Huettenwerke in Duisburg, is a hard job, Germany, Europe

Old station tower Bonatzbau, crane, Construction Site Open Day 2023, Stuttgart 21 underground railway project, Stuttgart Main Station, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Coentunnel approaches completion, workers lay the final hand to lighting. March 29, 1966

Vintage Photograph. Man on steel beam.

Surahammar's use. Wheel ring rolling mill, 1921.

In the workshop of a metallurgical plant. Soviet street foundry 1967.

Spray painting the Hutt Road railway overbridge, circa 1936, Wellington, by Ken Niven, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Pottery in the Making- the work of J and G Meakin Pottery, Hanley, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, England, 1942 The raw materials, once weighed and blended, form a composition known as 'slip'. The slip is passed through presses to squeeze out all the water, leaving behind cakes of clay. Here T J Lloyd watches as the water drips through the press.

Interior of the Geertekerk (Geertekerkhof) in Utrecht: ship from the choir.

Dry Dock Number 4, Caisson Experiment. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Anefo photo collection. Fishing. February 5, 1946

The smithy.

Anefo photo collection. Large fire at AGA-ELECTROOUM N.V. in Amsterdam Noord the fire. January 30, 1969

Steel production at the Hoesch AG steelworks in the Westfalenhuette on 4.12.1974 at the blast furnace and Siemens Martin furnace (SM) in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Munitions and arms manufacture in England during world war one 1916

Vintage Photograph. Looking up at workers on steel construction on new building on 47th Street, New York City, Frame 11

Vintage Photograph. Unloading railroad ties in South Fork Colorado.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch dock society. January 4, 1946

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Vintage Photograph. Looking up at workers on steel construction on new building on 47th Street, New York City, Frame 3

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Dry Dock Number 4, Pumpwell at Subgrade, West Half, Holbrook Cabot and Rollins Corporation, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Vintage photograph. Man working on Locomotive at American Locomotive Plant

The Oxygen steelworks Phoenix of Hoesch AG on 25. 7. 1973 produced steel. Today, the former steelworks is an amusement park on the Phoenixsee lake in Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany, Europe

Rugles, Eure. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Cavitation research on scratches of submarines performed at the submarine Hr.Ms. Swordfish (S 806) around 1980.

Anefo photo collection. Construction of Essotanker at Verolme. August 11, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Closure last dike hole at Ouwerkerk. November 6, 1953. Ouwerkerk

Image of pouring grain into a cover truck of the N.S. in Rotterdam.

Workers and employees used the last casting of the Suedwestfalen steelworks in Hagen for a demonstrative protest at the loss of their jobs at the steelworks on 31.03.1976, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Fire in vacant factory in Amsterdam; The burning building. September 21, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Construction of metro in Rotterdam, the construction of the metro station. September 23, 1964. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Visit Queen Juliana to North and Central Limburg. Queen visits Limburg (Melick). May 14, 1956. Limburg, Melick

Firefighter pouring water on burning building near fire engine

Heinz Blankenstein works on an English Farm -- His day's work done, he knows contentment as he makes a sunset inspection of the farm, a good pipe between his teeth and a good fill of tobacco in it. June 11, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

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