Historic Mining Equipment and Workers

Black and white images of miners using vintage electric loading machines and modern equipment in underground coal and steel operations, showcasing industrial history.

Vintage photograph. Electric loading machine being used to get pole into the cars

Anefo photo collection. The peace clock in the bell foundry of Mr Fritsen in Aarle-Rixtel intended for the H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg in Brussels is almost ready: the last work on the clock. 10 June 1964. Aarle-Rixtel, Brussels, Noord-Brabant

Operator standing at printing press

General Motors. Cold room. Test rooms for engines. In here, the engineers had to use fur-clad clothes intended for aviators.

Lokstal in Gävle. Forge

Elsevier photo collection. Look Dutch steel factory. Foundry Hoogovens. 1945. Noord-Holland, Velsen

Anefo photo collection. Rice pellars work on the Zaan region again. August 13, 1948. Noord-Holland, Zaanstreek

In the workshop I verkstaden

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. The power plant.

Shipbuilding during the First World War Female labourers at work on a British shipyard during the First World War.

Anefo photo collection. Demolition of the Westergasfabriek dating from 1885, slopers put cutting burners at the factory. January 16, 1961

English journalists' journey to Kiruna

Soviet soldiers in process of removing industrial equipment from Manchurian factories, during the second world war

Production. Zinc. Loading zinc ore in a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort - January 1943

Anefo photo collection. St. Lambertuskerk under soot layer covered in Eindhoven, workers engaged in hot water and chemical agents. January 10, 1964. Eindhoven

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Oak, storage, fucks, desmolens. November 1958. Spijk

Barcelona, December 1927. Furnace and pickling section of the Sociedad General de Electro Metalurgia, S. A.

Örebro Central Workshop.

Anefo photo collection. Factory boffing Aviation street Amsterdam. August 30, 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Disaster exercise BB in Amsterdam West. September 22, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Coal miner, hewer working underground in shaft, extracting coal by hand with shovel and pneumatic hammer, pick in colliery, coal mine, coal pit

State Railways, SJ OF 91

Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Rubber - ECA Imports of Carbon Black Help French Rubber Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

French Potash Mines. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Pennsylvania coal miners after they have come up from the shaft, early 1900s

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Coarse mintage, Kaard scratch machine. undated

Eskilstuna: Interior of the Rademachersmedjan Nordic

Workers with safety gear "tinning" refrigerator parts at the Crosley Corporation Richmond Plant in Richmond, Indiana

Anefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. Limburg

Unemployed Workers in front of Shack next to pile of rubble, East 12th Street, New York City, New York, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, January 1938

Anefo photo collection. Metal workers hold factory occupied in belgium, day and night the guard is involved. June 1, 1967. Belgium

German state munition factory, World War I, 1917. Artist: Unknown

Skiopticone image with motifs from unknown peat preparation factory.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A white hot girder being drawn from the furnace in the smithy, during merchant ship construction at Greenock.

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Dyeing the skins

The production of steel products, as here at the Neunkircher Eisenwerke in 1969, already seemed outdated at the time, is now a museum. Manual work on rolled steel, Germany, Europe

Vintage photograph. Adding a length of drill stem, Shell Oil Company's Sealy-Smith #7 well, near Monahans, in the West Texas fields

State Railways, Sj Cement foundry

At the absorption house in the Fiedler-Gut

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Rebuilding Tower St. Eusebius church in Arnhem. November 30, 1959. Arnhem

English journalists' journey to Kiruna. SJ DM3

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Ironworks Järnverksarbetare

Anefo photo collection. Glass blowing Leerdam. January 3, 1947. Leerdam

Vintage Photograph. Sissal Plants for Hemp production in Yucatan Mexico.

At Blacksmith Paul

Riveting up the penstock; Niagara Falls Power Plant, Black and white photograph taken circa 1890s

Borax - Borax Processing Plant in Dunkirk. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Underground Factory- Everyday Life in An Underground Factory, Probably Spring Quarry, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, 1942 Betty Turner and a colleague at work in the underground factory, the roughly-cut stone walls and roof of the former quarry clearly visible behind them as they work. Betty was a housekeeper before the war and her job in the factory is as a 'research work inspector'. According to the original caption, she was chosen out of many applicants at a government training centre where she trained for 6 months and is 'keenly interested in her work'.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Women Railway Workers during the First World War A female oiler employed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at work at Bolton station in May 1917.

Putting up the castings to form the second tunnel beneath the Thames. (Isambard's Rotherhithe Tunnel being the first) The tunnel passes from Tower Hill to Tooley Street, near the London Bridge Station. Made from a circular iron tube 7 foot in diameter laid deep in the clay of the river bed. Date: 30th Oct 1869

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Radiator Factory. October 14, 1946

Häafla use, Östergötland.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women workers preparing oil for varnish in the paint Works of Messrs. Sissons & Co. Ltd., Bankside, Hull, November, 1918.

Production image.The old manufacturing method, i.e. They lost axes with potted egg steel.

Borax - Borax Processing Plant in Dunkirk. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Coal miner, hewer working underground in shaft, extracting coal by hand with pneumatic hammer, pick in colliery, coal mine, coal pit

Potash, Lorraine. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Ironworks Järnverksarbetare

Accounting chancellery and rusk edition.

Three munitions workers, wearing white caps, overalls and trousers, smile for the camera as they push a wagon laden with cartridge cases in the sunshine at Woolwich Arsenal.

Hagfors use. Bar steel rolling at medium plant.

***** in Summer kitchen made of Polem Lapland.The summer kitchen in use. November 14, 1932. (Photo by Atlantic).

Man spraying paint on a door

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Steam supply for air locomotives, construction of the Simplon Tunnel, 1898-1905, Italy-Switzerland, 19th-20th century.

Anefo photo collection. In the water-running laboratory in Delft, director prof. J.Th. Thijsse on the basis of a model of the flow hole at Ouwerkerk An explanation given for the press how this dike hole can be closed with caissons. November 17, 1953. Delft, South Holland

Women in the First World War Industry, Transport and Agriculture: A girl burning an electric cable for scrap to save the lead and copper content at the Govan Shipbuilding Yard of Harland and Wolff, Glasgow.

Anefo photo collection. New vases for Westertoren / Gas negative. May 10, 1950

Miners Preparing

Mine, worker with trolley, 1920s, Germany, Europe

The Construction of Magnitogorsk, Alpert, Max Vladimirovich (1899-1980)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

SAAR Story - Coal - Apprentice Training. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Essen, DEU, 17.11.85 - Workers at the Zollverein coking plant. The coking plant was discontinued in 1993. Together with Zollverein Colliery, the former coking plant was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001, Essen, Germany

Hot weather delights, Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photographer, Lewis Wickes 1874--1940. August 1908.

Anefo photo collection. Press day IJtunnel, the construction of IJtunnel. October 6, 1964

Locomotive workshop in Nairobi. A publicity photograph illustrating the multiracial nature of the workforce in the locomotive workshop of the East African Railways and Harbours Administration (EAR&H). A European, a Sikh and an African work together on a railway bogie. Nairobi, Kenya, circa 1960. Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.

Steelworks, foundry with workers

The blacksmith's shop on board the battleship HMS 'Nelson', 1937. Artist: Unknown

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Group of women sludge pit workers, in a Lancashire Glass Works, 1918.

Women Making London's Gas -- The engineers of the South Metropolitan Gas company have trained a staff of women in the work, & it is now being entirely run by women loading the lorries. June 02, 1918.

Workshop workers were standing in the lubrication pit in front of the electricity.

Workers and employees used the last casting of the Suedwestfalen steelworks in Hagen for a demonstrative protest at the loss of their jobs at the steelworks on 31.03.1976, Germany, Europe

Men and women workers at a combine harvester factory, Rostov-on-Don, USSR, 1930-1940

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