Historic Manufacturing and Production

Black and white images from mid-20th century factories showing assembly lines for car engines and machinery being assembled.

USA - 1926 - A large crane is used to remove part of a ship from a scrapped hull to a Ford manufacturing plant, where men are on a tour.

Female Welder at Shipyard, Richmond, California, USA, Ann Rosener, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, February 1943

Agriculture Department fabric technician examines the cotton stockings that would replace those made by Japanese silk, after FDR froze all Japanese credits in the United States in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

Interior View of Hangar S

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "Judaica" in Waaggebouw, the final hand is laid at the exhibition. July 13, 1964

Distribution Department, system of small meters used in waste investigations, Mass., Mar. 12, 1906 , waterworks, flowmeters, Hersey Meters

Vintage Photograph. Crane operator at construction side of building at 3rd Avenue between 41st and 42nd Street, New York City, Frame 5

Operator of Electric Furnace Pouring Molten Metal into Molds, Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for office of War Information, February 1942

Photo reportage Rijkswerf Willemsoord.Ende work.

K.U.K.Mobiles Schanzeugdepot 7.Tarbad-Villach, Monteurhalle. .

C.L. Saxton, Driller, J.G. Betz, Cathead Man and L.C. Westerman, eating Lunch around Oil Well, Continental Oil Company, Moundridge, Kansas, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1941

George Metcalfe on duty as a fire watcher at a factory in Upper Norwood, South London, 1944.

Ned Greenslade (left), champion British miner, with fellow coal miners at the canteen. He set a record by digging 120 tons of coal in a week of 6 shifts at the International Colliery, Bleangarw, Wales. Dec. 26, 1946. (BSLOC_2014_13_235)

Sign in Copper and Brass Plant Reminding the Workers that their Job is Vital to War Effort, Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for office of War Information, February 1942

Road works. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Elmer J. Pace, NYA Trainee working inside Nose of PBY Plane, learning the Construction of Navy Planes, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, photograph by Howard R. Hollem, U.S. Office of War Information, August 1942

Three Day Laborers Weighing Bushel of String Bean, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, July 1941

Two men working on roof , Construction, Roofs. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

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