Historic Manufacturing Scenes

Black and white vintage photographs of manufacturing processes, featuring workers and machinery in factories, emphasizing historical industrial activities.

Vintage Photograph. Caterpillar Tractor Co. Peoria, Ill-Drilling and boring holes in side of D8 tractor main frame.

This image shows an interior from the control department in Lidköping Mek. Work. AB. All details are intended here for control between Varjje Operation. Coarser things are checked at the work machines. The control is thus extremely effective. The department is equipped with all the measuring instruments, which today's strict requirements for the dimensions of workpieces forced. 1944.

A young man, Douglas Howard, works on batteries for the machines physicists use in the Pathology Division at the National Cancer Institute in November 1939.

Company recordings Armed workshops, February 1977.

Vintage Photograph. Men standing on furnace in factory where stainless steel pallets are baked

Workshop - Singapore Naval Dock. July 9, 1941.

1940S General Sherman Tanks In Production Chrysler Corporation Plant Factory Wartime Ww2 Wwii World War 2 Factories

catena montaggio dell'alfa romeo arese, 1960-1970

Production on the bodies of Opel AG vehicles at Plant I on 09. 12. 1975 in Bochum, Germany, Europe

Grapefruit canning plant at Winter haven, Florida. Many of these employees are migrant workers 1937

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

AB Gävle Vagnverkstad AGV. Riveting detail on the floor beams.

These Beds For Weary Bones Of 1500 Unemployed, Each Night.Beds and beds. What a welcome sight for heavy eyelids and tred bodies of unemployed men who will be sheltered each night on this transformed pier at the foot of 25th street Andeast river. Here, until the unemployment situation is abated, 1500 men will be able to find rest after sundown, while during the day from five to eight thousand men will be given hot and nourishing food. To Insure warmth the pier is heated by electricity. The pier has been renamed the municipal lodging house annex being operated by the department of public welfare. October 22, 1930. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Vintage Photograph. Pontiac Assembly lines in Michigan.

Steel industry, mechanical engineering, 1940s, Germany, Europe

12/31/1949. Inmates Working in one of the Workshops of the Carabanchel Provincial Prison.

Vintage photograph. Woman spinning cotton, Alabama, USA

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

Munitions Production on the Home Front, 1914-1918

The British Machine Tool Industry- the Manufacture of Industrial Tools and Equipment, UK, 1945 Multi-spindle drills are assembled in a machine tool factory, somewhere in Britain. According to the original caption, these machines 'are destined for aero-engine factories, and are designed to work with a high degree of speed and accuracy'.

Vintage Photograph. Assembling of 16" Powersire Fans.

Vintage Photograph. Make Ready Box cutting press Stone and Forsythe at Everett Massachusetts.

Vintage photograph. Electrical technician operating device to test regulators under simulated road conditions

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa 'Usha' Bros., barbed wire, fencing & screening. Girl at work on the metal weaving loom. 1939, Israel, Haifa

Vintage photograph. Surgeons of the cutting rooms combining years of skill and precision machining cut out 1000 or more suits and a simple Lay, or one cutting

Company recordings Armed workshops, February 1977.

Spanish industry, 1965. Workers working on their lathes. Metal stamping factory. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Arese, plant of the automobile manufacturer Alfa Romeo.

Spain, 1953. Serial assembly of media plane for the «CASA 201 Alcotán» plane.

Vintage Photograph. Group of students of Stevens Institute of Technology runs a dynamometer test of a two cycle general motors diesel engine

1930S Cloth Weaving Factory Machinery

Car production at the Ford factory on 12.02.1976 in Cologne, Germany, Europe

Soviet mass production textile factory. 1980

Company recordings Army shops, October 1976.

Part Of Motor Overhauling Division.

Women Workers Blueprints Factory 1940S Rosie Riveter Woman Wartime Worker Ww2 Wwii World War 2 Airplane Airplanes

Anefo photo collection. New Danlon factory opened to Emmen by Minister De Block. October 15, 1968. Emmen

SAAR Story - Ceramics in the SAAR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Torpedo Production on Britain's Home Front, 1940 Workers machine and polish the domed steel forgings which will form the ends of the torpedo air vessel. All parts of the torpedo must be made very accurately and are extremely strong.

Washing turkeys

Machine Shop technicians in the Technical Service Building at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The 260-person Fabrication Division, led by Dan White and John Dalgleish, created almost all of the equipment and models used at the laboratory. The Technical Services Building, referred to as the Fab Shop, contained a number of specialized shops in the 1940s and 1950s. These included a Machine Shop, Sheet Metal Shop, Wood and Pattern Shop, Instrument Shop, Thermocouple Shop, Heat Treating Shop, Metallurgical Laboratory, and Fabrication Office. The Machine Shop fabricated specialized research equipment not commercially available. During World War II these technicians produced high-speed cameras for combustion research, impellers and other supercharger components, and key equipment for the labs first supersonic wind tunnel. The Wood and Pattern Shop created everything from control panels and cabinets to aircraft model molds for sheet m

Workshop work.

Tailors working in a garment factory

Anefo photo collection. With closure, Rotterdam Dry Dock Society. Workers at work in the assembly hall. March 25, 1983. Rotterdam, South Holland

Manual labour in the car industry, as here at Opel in Bochum in 1970, was still dominant over automation, Germany, Europe

The final inspection on a motor car assembly line ensures perfection of workmanship throughout. 1955

Training at the Volkswagen plant is sought after by apprentices and is considered exemplary 11.05.1979 in Wolfsburg, Germany, Europe

1970s FOOD PROCESSING FACTORY MEN AND WOMEN ON CONVEYOR BELT LINE SORTING ASPARAGUS - i5902 HAR001 HARS PROCESSING MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN HIGH ANGLE AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BLACK ETHNICITY LABOR EMPLOYMENT OCCUPATIONS ASPARAGUS CONVEYOR EMPLOYEE COOPERATION MID-ADULT MID-ADULT WOMAN BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY FOOD PROCESSING HAR001 LABORING OLD FASHIONED AFRICAN AMERICANS

Wiring Airplane Controls Douglas Aircraft Assembly Line 1940S Women Wartime Workers Wwii Factory Woman World War 2 Ii

Drags AB. Carding, beginning (for Kamgarn).

Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Sally Schwartzman works on a capstan lathe at Slough Training Centre.

The Nerve Centre For Coronation Sound Broadcast. A section of the sound control with technicians checking quality of broadcasts from various sections of the Coronation route in the B.B.C.'s temporary building in Trafalgar Square. In a large wooden building in the centre of Trafalgar Square, sound control of two domestic and 27 foreign lines will be dealt with by the B.B.C. on Coronation Day. May 28, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Assembly line of F-86 Sabre Jets under construction

British Bicycles For The World -- Cycles for Wholesale and retail traders are despatched fully assembled. The foreman is seen here checking the guarantee and despatch notes before the cycles are loaded for despatch. July 09, 1951. (Photo by Central Office Of Information photograph).

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa Near Acre, Kfar-Ata. The 'Ata' Textile Co. The Weaving Department. 1939, Israel, Ḳiryat Ata

Wolfsburg. VW plant ca. 1972-75. Production

1940S Workers Blueprints Industry Women Woman Wartime Worker Wwii Factory World War 2 Ww2

Poll photo collection. Reporting Kerko Haarlem. Sewing machine at Kerko shirts company. August 9, 1954. Haarlem

Women's jobs at the appliance manufacturer Krups on 24.06.1975 in Bottrop, Germany, Europe

Revision of electric motors for locomotives.

Vintage photograph. Sorting rolls for size on a Timken-designed gaging machine in the Canton Bearing Factory of the Timken Roller Bearing Company

Poll photo collection. Product photos; silverware. Workplace with metalworking machines at the fa. Gerritsen & Van Kempen in Zeist. January 1, 1930. The Netherlands, Zeist

Women's jobs at the appliance manufacturer Krups on 24.06.1975 in Bottrop, Germany, Europe

Bielefeld. Textile company ca. 1982. Production of textiles

Training at the Volkswagen plant is sought after by apprentices and is considered exemplary 11.05.1979 in Wolfsburg, Germany, Europe

Production of the Golf at the VW plant on 10. 05. 1979 in Wolfsburg, Germany, Europe

Two manual workers working in a textile factory

Anefo photo collection. Strike at Workspoor Utrecht continues. Strikers do games. November 13, 1969. Utrecht

Photo reportage Rijkswerf Willemsoord.TurbineWerkplaats.

Jönköping Mek. Werkstad, interior. Graders in the mounting hall at June works. June graders were first hydraulic maneuvering, making the handling smooth and easy for the driver.

Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel

Anefo photo collection. One of the manufacturing halls of company geniers in Velsen-Noord where radioactive waste will be stored. factories, nuclear energy, storage sites, employees. December 7, 1982. Noord-Holland, Velsen

The production of electronic devices by female workers at the Siemens company on 23.11.1974 in Kamp-Lintfort, DEU, Germany, Kamp, Europe

Production of engines, axles and other car manufacturing parts at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, 08.07.1975, Europe

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 1970s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Dortmund. Workplace at SEL ca. 1965

Jobs in a chocolate factory of the Coop Group 9.7.1974 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Electrical Class, Armature Winding Section. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Anefo photo collection. Flower parade in Aalsmeer, one was busy on Friday to boast the cars. September 7, 1962. Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland

The Thyssen pipe mill, here in Duisburg in 1968, produced large pipes for the international market, Germany, Europe

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

Women sewing American Flags in Brooklyn, New York City on July 24, 1940. Photo from the Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, by Margaret Bourke-White. - (BSLOC_2015_1_196)

Moroccan Types - Ploughman, Weaver. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Production of engines, axles and other car manufacturing parts at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, 08.07.1975, Europe

The production of electronic devices by female workers at the Siemens company on 23.11.1974 in Kamp-Lintfort, DEU, Germany, Kamp, Europe

Vintage photograph. Cotton Beamer

Anti-Aircraft Guns In Mass Production -- Scores of the famous Swedish-designed Bofors 40-MM anti-aircraft gun, mounts and carriages on the final assembly line at a Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plant in the U.S. Only a year ago the company received the first blueprints of this effective weapon. Since then a five-acre factory has been erected, and a battalion of skilled workers is mass-producing the guns. August 23, 1942.

Copper, Trefileries et Laminoire du Havre. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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