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
Vintage photograph. General view of ropewalk
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Argenteuil Textile Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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TRABAJADORES DE "G.H.MUMM & C" EMBOTELLANDO - FOTOGRAFIA B/N. Location: BODEGA MUMM. Reims. France.
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Interior of the Royal soap factory De Duif van Chr. Pleines on the Dolderseweg in Den Dolder: Piece soap department, while pressing the soap.
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Augusta, Georgia. Date: 1909 Jan, Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1874-1940, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Child labour, Cotton processing, A working boy at the Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Location
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Recinto de trabajo de la fábrica Melis de calzado de Inca (ca. 1930), Museo del Calzado y de la Piel , Inca ,Mallorca, balearic islands, spain, europe.
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Reichardt Kakaowerk, Wandsbek, Kollergaenge, Hamburg, Germany, postcard with text, view around ca 1910, historical, digital reproduction of a historical postcard, public domain, from that time, exact date unknown, Europe
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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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Women working in a large silk factory, From Hebert Geddes "Life in Japan" Collection: Vintage Hand Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era. Yokohama, Japan late 19th century work,. These images from various Japanese artists were sold to visitors.
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Men working in a rope factory in Turin, 1886, Italy, 19th century.
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01/01/1964. Workers from the Standard Eléctrica factory in one of the Telephone material assembly rooms. It is located at kilometer 9 of the new highway from Madrid to Toledo.
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16-year-old Tube Boy in Mule Rom at Berkshire Cotton Mills, Adams, Massachusetts, USA, circa 1916
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Flag shop, Navy Yard
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Workers manufacturing dolls made from bass wood ca. between 1909 and 1919.
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Interior from Stockholm's bulb factory.
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Poll photo collection. Diamond trade, grinders, fair. Sawing machines at Van Moppes in Amsterdam. January 1, 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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The Employment of Women in Britain, 1914-1918 Female workers in a rubber factory in Lancashire, September 1918.
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Vintage Photograph. Man overseeing quality control on newspaper production
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Bullets processing room in an ammunition factory, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 14, April 2, 1916.
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Young Teen Boy Working in Mule Room at Berkshire Cotton Mill, Adams, Massachusetts, USA, circa 1916
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Interior of a cashew nut factory. Women at work sorting and cleaning cashew nuts.
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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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Manual workers assembling television chassis in a television plant, Motorola television plant
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fabbrica di montaggio fisarmoniche a castelfidardo, 1965
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Women working in the Royal Army Clothing Factory, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). 'Uniforms were sent to the WAAC Women's Army Auxiliary Corps clothing stores where they were unpacked, measured, tested, examined and re-packed to be sent to the recruiting headquarters. The efficiency of such establishments was proverbial'. From "The Pageant of the Century". Odhams Press Ltd, 1933
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Soviet fishing collective farm in Latvia, USSR during the Soviet era. 1980
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Andrew Stefanik, Young Bobbin Boy, Full-Length Portrait with Spinning Machinery, Textile Mill, Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, November 1911
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Silk Mill in Veneto Spinning; Photographer: War Measurement 5.
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Winding bobbins in a linen mill. , Linen industry, Spinning machinery, Textile mill workers
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Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Packing up stores of rations in the ration shed.
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The device that winds the yarn off bobbins to form the warp of the web: warping-frames, 1909. 'The Romance of Cotton: Cottage to Great Factory'. The Device That Winds The Yarn Off Bobbins To Form The Warp Of The Web, Warping-Frames. Warping is a comparatively simple though all-important process. It arranges the threads in parallel order to conmpose a warp for the loom'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.
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Workers working in a textile factory, Levi Strauss & Co.
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Vintage photograph. Inspecting oranges on their way to washing and the juice extracting machines
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Packing canned salmon into cans at the Columbia River Packing Association. Astoria, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Astoria, Oregon , Clatsop County
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The Cameroon (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Munitions Production on the Home Front, 1914-1918
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Women at work during the First World War- Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, Uk, c 1917 A general scene showing workers, both male and female, amid rows and rows of shells in a large warehouse at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell.
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Automobile Assembly Line
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Inspecting newly made paper before dispatch, Kent, england. Engraving 1887.
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Young Teenage Girl Working at Cheney Silk Mills, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, 1924
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06/20/1905. Cork Stoppers Workshop in Barcelona.
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Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR during world war two.
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Young Female Worker in Favorable Working Conditions, Half-Length Portrait, Cheney Silk Mills, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, 1924
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High angle view of a group of young women working in a bottling plant, 1948
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Tuer & Hall's power loom for weaving Brussels carpets. Dated August, 1862
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Young Female Worker in Favorable Working Conditions, Three-Quarter-Length Portrait, Cheney Silk Mills, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, 1924
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Russian Communist Subbotnik (voluntary) unpaid work on weekends after the October Revolution. The tradition is continued in modern Russia and some other former Soviet Republics.1failed verification Subbotniks are mostly organized for cleaning the streets of garbage, fixing public amenities, collecting recyclable material, and other community services.
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Interior view of cigar factory, Ybor City, Tampa, Florida , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Japan, circa 1942A Japanese woman munitions worker during World War II.
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Ten-Head Stitching Machine, Stitching Postage Stamp Books. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury