Historic Industrial Workspaces

Black and white images of various industrial settings featuring workers in manufacturing environments, showcasing machinery and equipment from the early 20th century.

Women working in an auxiliary plant, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 20, May 20, 1917.
Women working in an auxiliary plant, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 20, May 20, 1917.
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At work in an aeroplane factory, circa 1909
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Engraving depicting The Machine House of the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. Dated 19th century
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Interior of an assembly and mounting workshop at Marconi Española.
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Zetterij. View in the setter with Javanese employees on the printing company of the Deli Courant in Medan. Part of a group of 18 photos from 1921 within the group of 49 loose black and white photos of different format about the publisher and printing of the Deli Courant newspaper in Medan in the period 1885-1947.
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women Workers arranging a packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordinance Works.
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Printing room,American Print Works. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Fall River (Mass.), Printers, Interiors, Printing industry, Printing machinery
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Italy. umbria. perugia. luisa spagnoli. textile industry. wool of angora rabbit 1950-1960.
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Print showing the interior of a tinning factory in Brittany. Dated 19th Century
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Indian workers sorting tobacco leaves under the supervision of Europeans in a fermentation shed in Sumatra, c. 1900, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Shipbuilding during the First World War Female workers assemble light fittings at the shipbuilding yard of Armstrong Whitworth and Company at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, during the First World War.
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09/30/1908. Exhibition of machinery from the Carlos Hinderer house. Borsig Centrifugal Pump Room.
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The Ford Assembly line in 1928 Date: 8 March 1928
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Food fishes of the sea...United States Building | Library of Congress
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Large linier machine. A large linier machine in the printing company of the Deli Courant in Medan. Javanese employees are at the machine. Part of a group of 18 photos from 1921 within the group of 49 loose black and white photos of different format about the publisher and printing of the Deli Courant newspaper in Medan in the period 1885-1947.
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Norrahammar's use. The lawnmaster workshop in 1928.
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Machining of medium caliber grenades in an ammunition factory, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 14, April 2, 1916.
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Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona. Assembly section in the workshops of "La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima". Drawing by A. Rigalt. Engraving by Tomás Carlos Capuz. Detail. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver.
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Doubling frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass., 1850 - 1930, Massachusetts, Lawrence (Mass.), Textile industry, Spinning, Wool fabrics, Albumen prints
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Assembly line at the Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1920s
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Putnam Machine Company's shop, interior view. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Fitchburg (Mass.), Interiors, Machinery industry
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: c. 1922 A scene in a women's silk hosiery factory. The women are working on the seaming machines which sew the seam up the back of the stocking.
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Illustration showing Price's candle factory, Battersea, London 1887
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Local telephone exchange in Hamburg in 1900.
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Weave room, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C. 1909. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Greensboro (N.C.), White Oak Cotton Mills, Cotton industry , North Carolina , Greensboro
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Stirrup Pump Manufacture, England, UK, 1941 The completed stirrup pumps are placed on a conveyor belt, ready for packing and distribution. The female workers are giving the finished pumps one last check before they leave the factory.
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USA, Michigan, Highland Park, Model T Ford assembly line, 1923
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Women at work during the First World War Women war workers tap shells at the Royal Shell Factory, Woolwich Arsenal.
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The Carding Room, great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina..
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italy, parma, food industry, 1920-1930
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Textile Mill in Lille (Craven's Pix). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Switchgear interior
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1930s GROUP MEN WEARING HATS PLAYING MARBLE PINBALL MACHINES IN BROADWAY AMUSEMENT ARCADE TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK CITY USA
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Women at work during the First World War Women war workers gauge shells at Royal Shell Factory 3 at Woolwich Arsenal.
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Interior of museum rooms before change.Interior of Museilokals before change
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2015.14.2.. Photograph Album: WWII Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, Birmingham 1940-46. Manufacturers: Vickers Armstrong. From album containing approximately 50 black and white photographs. Including Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, and other factories across the country, during the Second World War
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Visitors to General Svenska Elektriska AB, in Västerås.
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Doubling frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Lawrence (Mass.), Textile industry, Spinning, Wool fabrics
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American Waltham Watch Factory , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, American Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection
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Women workers at a French munitions factory in World War One
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American Waltham Watch Factory , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Interiors, American Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection
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The international exhibition: Tuer and hall's power-loom for weaving carpets
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Industry during the First World War A female worker drills out high explosive shell cases from bars of steel in a British factory during the First World War.
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Photograph of the signal box in Dusseldorf station. Dated 19th century
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Spinning Mill Near Rouen Menibus Co.. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa Near Acre, Kfar-Ata. The 'Ata' Textile Co. Second process in the spinning of the yarn. 1939, Israel, Ḳiryat Ata
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Women twisting yarn into thread at J & P Coats, Paisley. Date: 1920
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A photograph of a French lady as she sits at her bench, in a French factory, machining brass striker-pins for artillery shells. Date: 1916
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The International Exhibition: Tuer and Hall's power-loom for weaving carpets - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1862. 'This is for the weaving of pile, velvet, patent tapestry, or ordinary Brussels carpet any width required, either with or without jacquard. All the working motions are outside the loom, except the crank from which it is driven, by which means free access to the working parts is obtained, so removing an hitherto much-complained-of inconvenience. It will admit larger yam beams in the same space than any other loom we know of...The whole of the motion is governed in