Historic Manufacturing Interiors

Black and white images showcasing vintage manufacturing scenes, featuring workers in various factories, machinery, and production processes.

Vintage photograph. General view of ropewalk

1900s FOOD PROCESSING FACTORY PRIMARILY STAFF OF WOMEN FILLING JARS WITH OLIVES CALIFORNIA USA

Lazio. Fiuggi establishment. 1910-20

Bullets finishing room in an ammunition factory, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 14, April 2, 1916.

Weaving room, Laurel cotton mill. Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel

Bureau Printing & Engraving, Washington, D.C. ca. between 1910 and 1925.

Here, how the rotor and stator are wrapped in quick special machines.

Middle east, israel, industry in rehovot, packing of oranges, 1960.

Photo collection First World War. Womens Work. Aeroplane Factory Near Birmingham. British Women Aeroplane workers in the Midlands. Distinction Mark Painting. 1914-1918}. Birmingham, Great Britain

Norrahammar's use. Radiator workshop around 1915.

A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga. ca. 1909.

Anefo photo collection. Commissioning new automatic telegraafrelay at Schiphol. December 12, 1961. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Spooler Tenders, 14 years old, Berkshire Cotton Mills, Adams, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, July 1916

Workers working at Welding Gasoline Tanks station . Vintage Automobile factory workers photography, cirac 1928

Chinamen filling the cans-interior of a canning establishment, Astoria, Ore., USA, 1905

Renault Plant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Interior of the Denova cigar factory (Kanaalweg 95) in Utrecht: department where the cigars are prepared for shipment.

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

Switchgear where you handle the signals and gears.

Manufacture of Chessels at Rörstrand's porcelain factories, Stockholm.

Trefileries des Vosges. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

01/01/1910. Abc. Linotype Section.

Sheep Supp. - At John Vicars Pty Ltd Marrickville. The roving operation in the drawing dept. Here the operator is fitting a full spool in the machine which draws the combed wool into fine slivers ready for spinning. May 28, 1952. (Photo by Frank Albert Charles Burke/Fairfax Media).

Toulouse (France), May 1917. First World War. In a French ammunition factory. Rifle cartridge preparation workshop served by women (Toulouse arsenal).

Interior of the factory of the Royal Tobacco and Cigar Factory G. Ribbius Peletier Jr. (Oudegracht B 191) in Utrecht: De Kleine Mannenzaal.n.b. The address Oudegracht B 191 was changed in 1890 in Oudegracht Tolsteegzijde 200 and in 1917 in Oudegracht 364.

August 1937. A workshop dedicated to the manufacture of war material.

The clothing company Junex.

Unpainted and unaffected cars on running ties for painting on one of General Motors factories.

12/31/1929. Image of the Work of Classifying Olives for Export, Performed by Women.

Cotton Mill Workers, South Carolina. Lewis W. Hine, photographer (American, 1874 - 1940) 1908 Inscribed on verso print in pencil: "378". Secondary Inscription: Inscribed on verso print in pencil: "Hine 5".

Untitled (Woman at Threading Machine) Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). , 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm). Photography 1936-1937

Poll photo collection. Diamond trade, grinders, fair. Editing machine in the diamond industry at Van Moppes in Amsterdam. January 1, 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

General view in large printing room of cotton mills, Lawrence, Mass. , Textile industry

Group looking at machinery , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Shoe Factory (USIS pix). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

France Monte Carlo Scene in the Casino View of the Repair Shop. May 23, 1953.;France Monte Carlo Scene in the Casino View of the Repair Shop.

Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass. , Textile industry

Jobs at the company Eurovia Textil GmbH on 25.7.1974 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Europe

Textile Mill in Lille (Craven's Pix). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

General view of machines where cotton thread is wound onto spools from spindles. Laurel Mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel

The Makings of a Modern Newspaper- the Production of 'the Daily Mail' in Wartime, London, UK, 1944 Once a story has been prepared by the sub-editors, it is blown through a tube to the copy desk in the composing room. Here we see a busy scene in the composing room of the Daily Mail, showing men at work on the linotype machines, setting the copy which has been passed to them by the copy desk.

Women at work during the First World War- Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, 1917 A general view of a warehouse containing 12' shells at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell. A soldier checks a shell and writes in a notebook, whilst a woman war worker tightens the top of a shell.

passaggio dal fiocco di lana al filato, 1964

Women at work in an unidentified factory. Date: circa 1914 - 1918

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Women working in the shell-painting room at the Royal Naval Armament Depot at Priddy's Hard. Empty shells are being attended to on a table in the centre of the room. Note the narrow gauge railway in the centre of the room used to take shells between buildings.

Vintage photograph. Culling line were oysters are sorted and graded then placed in barrels for shipment

She was working steadily when the investigator found her. The mills seem full of youngsters who just happened in or are helping sister, December 1908.

Children and overseer at work in the spinning shed of an American cotton mill, 1910. At this date the use of child labour was widespread in US factories and in the South one quarter of the 'hands' were under sixteen.

'Girl workers in a munitions factory', 1915. Artist: Unknown.

Three Girls Working in Spool Cotton Department, Bibb Manufacturing Company, Macon, Georgia, USA, circa 1909

Illustration depicting a double-feed printing machine using stereo plates, and capable of high-speed operation. Dated 19th century

Spinning Room, Flint Cotton Mill, Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine, photographer (American, 1874 - 1940) Jan-12 View of a spinning room in a cotton mill, filled with spinning machinery. Two women are standing among the rows of machines at the right edge of the image. A third figure can be seen among the machines to the far left. (Verso, print) pencil: "2759";

Men and women at factory work, 1920s, Germany, Europe

Flint Cotton Mill, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, January 1912

Girls at Weaving Machines, Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Indiana, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, October 1908

Women at work in a Lancashire Rubber Factory A general scene in a rubber factory in Lancashire. A row of women stand at benches to build up the rubber tread on tyres.

Stiff Hat Finishing Room, Hat Factory, circa 1900

Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot. 1941-01-01T00:00:00.

General View in Large Printing Room of Cotton Mills, Lawrence, Mass., Single Image of Stereo Card, circa 1916

Photo collection First World War. Womens Work. Aeroplane Factory Near Birmingham. British Women Aeroplane workers in the Midlands. Round Pinning, Intermediate Struts. 1914-1918}. Birmingham, Great Britain

Poll photo collection. Ford - the Netherlands. Chassis from Ford Trucks prepared T.B.V. Assembly. January 1, 1932. Rotterdam, South Holland

Cotton and the French Textile Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Spinners and Doffers, Newberry, South Carolina, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, December 1908

Portrait of Adrienne Pagnette, French Immigrant Teen Girl, 1 of 17 Family Members Working at Cotton Mill, Winchendon, Massachusetts, USA, circa 1911

The various sections of Electrolux cooling apparatus are assembled by acetylene gas welding.

Child labor, inspector in a Lincolnton, industry, North Carolina, 1918, photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1874-1940, historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from that time .

Making toys, Germany

Cotonificio cantoni, legnano, italy, 70's

Industry during the First World War Female munitions workers operating lathes in a British shell factory during the First World War.

Industry during the First World War Female munitions workers operating lathes in a British shell factory during the First World War.

Photographic print of a tinning factory in Britain. Dated 19th Century

Long lines of factory workers use microscopes to assemble transistors and other small electrical parts, soldering the ultra-fine wires by hand, 1961. (Photo by United States Information Agency)

Weaving room, Laurel cotton mill. Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, market life; Traffic in Paramaribo. April 1, 1975. Paramaribo, Suriname

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.

The Arms Production in Britain in the First World War Women war workers tap shells at the Royal Shell Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, May 1918.

Cotton weaving looms in factory

Women manufacturing dolls, Philadelphia, PA ca. between 1909 and 1919.

Nynäshamn. The coil winding department.

Royal Air Force Maintenance Command, 1939-1945. Re-serviced and repaired aircraft engines being prepared for despatch overseas at No, 54 Maintenance Unit, Newmarket, Suffolk.

Illustration depicting an instrument panel for pneumatic signalling system at the Pittsburgh Yards, Pennsylvania Railroad. All movements were displayed electrically on the model of the track above the keyboard. Dated 19th century

Timer Workshop at Waltham Factory, United States. Old illustration from La Nature 1887

Agricultural Department grading samples in grain inspecting Office ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Girl tending a spinning machine, c1900. At this date it was estimated that up to 1,752,000 children under sixteen worked in USA factories. In the Southern cotton mills one quarter of the 'hands' were children like the one pictured here.

America, california, workers to wash the fruit store, 1920.

Worker at Mary-Leila Cotton Mill, Greensboro, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, October 1941

Industry during the First World War- Sheffield The interior of a shell factory operated by Sir Robert Hadfield Ltd in Sheffield during the First World War.

Hª DE CATALUÑA-FOTOGRAFIA-HUELGA DE ESTIBADORES DE PUERTOS-1910. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Two Young Spinners in Favorable Working Conditions, Cheney Silk Mills, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, 1924

Spinning area in the Riunite Tuscan Manufacturing plant, Pontedera, Tuscany, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LI, No 48, November 30, 1924.

State Railway's washing facility in Hagalund.

Photograph of the workings at the De Beers diamond mines founded by Cecil Rhodes. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Dated 19th century

Anefo photo collection. Textile industry Miss with bobbins. January 23, 1946

Interior View of Homesteaders Working at Cooperative Garment Factory at Jersey Homesteads, Hightstown, New Jersey, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Resettlement Administration, November 1936

07/31/1938. In the Ambobinados a skillful demonstration of competition in two days. An amazing job Finished.

Solification and Bomber at Gamlestaden's factories, about 1900.

Print depicting the bottling of wine in Champagne, France. Dated 19th Century

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