Historical Canal Landscapes

Engravings showing pastoral scenes of farms near a canal with workers and rural life, reflecting serene and historical landscapes.

Bradford, Yorkshire: an industrial landscapeDate: circa 1840

Ein Strömungserzeuger oder Strömungsmotor an einem Fluss, für die Wasserversorgung von Dörfern auf Hügeln, eine Erfindung der Firma Anton Kunz, Maehr,...

Early processes in the manufacture of wool: sheep shearing, washing, beating, combing. Date: 18th century

Port face; The morning. Port face with elegant couple on horseback in conversation with a man, traders loading and unloading ships at a rocky coast.

Nobel explosives works at Ardeer, Scotland Date: 1884

Bell's improved reaping machine by Crosskill, c1840s. Artist: Joseph Wilson Lowry

The grim scene of a recent disaster, this is the Dinas Colliery in Rhondda Valley, South Wales. The colliers and their families crowd around with umbrellas against the rain. Smoke is seen billowing up to the sky in the background. Date: 25 January 1879

Various stages of iron mining. Etching.

The lumber trade of the west, Chicago, USA, seen here in the 19th century. Down at the boom - a lumber boom also called a log fence or log bag is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and

Harrington Pit Mill Colliery. Early 19th century pit head, showing steam engine house, the energy source for winding gear which superseded the horse whim (left).

. In a forge, the blacksmith strikes the anvil. There are several tools on the ground. On the left a boy is next to a small child. Right side of the side hangs a large bellows. Parts of a harness are in the foreground.

Arts et métiers. Vue intérieure d'un moulin à hulie, 1809 - 1828. 1817., Paris. Publisher, Impr. impériale. Depicts a mill for linseed oil, featuring oxen in an Egyptian setting. 50 x 70 cm

Spain. Barruelo. Mining. Engraving in "The Spanish and American Illustration," 1880.

Oil wells at Hyde and Egbert's Farm, Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Engraving from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge (London. 1876). Hydrocarbon.

Plate IX: Perspective View of all the Machinery of a Bleach Mill, upon the Newest and Most approved Constructions, Consisting of the Wash Mill, Rubbing Boards moved by a Crank, and Beetling Engine for Glazing the Cloth, with a View of the Boiling House, William Hincks, 1752-1797, after William Hincks, 1752-1797, 1791, Stipple engraving

Granajo. / Grange. / Shees. / Floor. / Part., J. Scotti (POSSIBLY), 1829 - 1880 print View in a grain shed, where men are busy beating the grain out of the grain. Through the door a glimpse into a yard with chickens and two horses that drive in a cart full of grain. print maker: Europepublisher: Mainz paper cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet). barn

Plate LV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Machine for lifting a small boat, right, up a cliff from the water. A crame with hooks, pulleys, and rope. One man winding the rope, and two ready to swing the crane, left. Description in Latin on verso of 1949-152-252., Lyon, France, 1582, Print, Print

Landscape with a brick factory. A wide landscape with a brick factory. Two men in conversation in the foreground.

Fuel : wood and peat gathering, coke ovens. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Fuel

Machine for excavation of a foundation pit

Glass factory of A. Fischer in Zwickau

Tubs of herring tonnes; 't Kuypen der Haringh Tons / The Hooping or Herring Barrils; Groote Vissery. Kuipers manufacture herring tonnes on the quay, right is a boat ashore. In the background houses and a church tower. The print is part of a 32-part series of prints with performances about herring catch.

This late 18th-century drawing by an anonymous artist depicts workers in a mine, executed with black ink and brown brush, emphasizing labor, mining equipment, and spatial arrangement.

. A flour or grain mill. In the foreground chickens. Numbered at the bottom right: 3.

Gas house lot , Baseball, Baseball players. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Wijnton, Lefèvre-Marchand (Awarded to), Lefèvre-Marchand, After Dubois, 1805-1815 print Numbered at the top right: 1. Paris paper wine production

Steam Shovel at Work in Culebra Cut. Dated: 1912. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Pennell.

Illustration depicting the collection of debris from the surface of the Seine near the sewer outfalls. This had a high content of valuable fatty matter. It was boiled in vats: The fat rose to the surface and was removed to be treated with lime and used for the production of soap and glycerine. The solid matter was saved and was used to fire the boilers. Dated 19th century

A sewing machine factory. France, 19th century.

Landwirtschaft, Ackerbau, Einsatz des Ein-Maschine-Dampfpflug, System A, digital verbesserte Reproduktion einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Historisch, genaues Datum unbekannt

Interior of a barn, Willem Adrianus Grondhout, 1888 - 1934 print On the right possibly an etching press. paper etching shed

Joseph Crosfield & Son's soap factory at Bank Quarry, Warrington. 1: Boiler shed 2: Alkali plant 3: Raw material being brought by boat along the Mersey 4: Melting contents of casks 5: Boiling pans. Wood engraving 1886

View of a Cotton Chute - Shipping Cotton in Antebellum America, circa 1860

General view of an Alum works in the Whitby area. From George Walker 'The Costume of Yorkshire' Leeds 1814, Aquatint. Steeping calcined (burnt) shale in water in pits produce raw alum liquor which would be gravity fed to processing plant where it would be refined and boiled until alum crystals produced. These were important as a mordant (fixer) in textile dyeing industry.

Farm with knife sharpener.

Workers who build a ship. Workmen resting in the foreground. In the background workers who build a ship.

Kapunda Copper Mine. Vintage Illustration from South Australia Illustrated, by George Angas, 1847

Powder production in the Sierra de Tardienta , Fine Art

Engraving representing transporting of a winged bull during the Henry Layard excavations at Nineveh, 1867

Radeau de Bois de Construction (top) and Charroi de Bois de Charpente (bottom).. Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848. Prints. 1834 - 1839. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Brazil, Carts & wagons, Lumber industry, Rafts

Harvest: Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907 American) Private Collection

A man is cutting wood for fuel and binding it into bundles to carry. Engraving.

The brick factory, draughtsman: Anthon Gerhard Alexander van Rappard, 1868 - 1892, paper, h 320 mm × w 587 mm

The Gold Mine of Vigra in Wales, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Gold mining during the California Gold Rush of 1848 - 1855. The picture shows different mining techniques including panning, sluicing, and excavation with water jets. From a 19th century print issue

J. F. Schubert's clothing factory in Norrköping.

Rörstrand's porcelain factory in Stockholm.

New England factory life--'Bell-time' , Factories, Employees

Wool Making, by Pieter de Molijn, 1651 Dutch painting, oil on canvas. Industrial scale wool processing, probably in Italy or Spain. The wool is washed in the foreground, dried and sorted in mid-ground, and baled and prepared for transport in the background (BSLOC_2016_3_195)

The processing of copper, copper mine, copper smelter, around 1800, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the time

Furnace for production of sulphuric acid from nitric acid and sulphur dioxide.

Mainz, Scholz, firm Jos., Europa, Scotti, J., Granajo., Grange., Scheune., Floor., Part., Europe, verso - stamped, View into a granary, where men are busy beating the grain from the corn. Through the door a view of a yard with chickens and two horses driving a cart full of grain into the barn., print, engraving, volksprent, prints, engravings, volksprenten, height 345 mm, width 418 mm, print maker, engraving maker, 1829 - 1880, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), kleuren, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Duits, publisher

Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel depicts a sawmill using pencil, executed in 1892 with some wiping effects on the paper.

The Agriculture, 1874 print Leaf with 9 performances of agricultural scenes, including plowing, sowing, harvesting, resting on the field, a hay wagon, a farmwoman, hay, threshing and potatoes scratching. A verse under each image. Numbered at the top right: No. 37. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing farmers. farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife. agriculture

Bleaching field with pieces of cloth stretched out to bleach in sunlight. A,B,C, in foreground are tubs in which cloth was soaped. Engraving, London, 1764

Thugs in the School of Industry, Jubblepoor, William Simpson, 1823-1899, British, undated, watercolor, gouache and graphite on thick, cream, smooth wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (26 x 36.8 cm), genre subject, industry, laborers, looms, school, spinning wheel, weavers, India, Jabalpur

A Tilt Forge, Godfrey Sykes, 1824-1866, British, 1856-1859, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 18 1/2 x 24 1/8 inches (47 x 61.3 cm), beam (structural element), beating, blacksmiths, chiaroscuro, engineer, factory, forge, furnace, genre subject, industry, ironworks, labor, laborers, light, machinery, manufacturing, men, metal, metalworker, rod, smiths, strength, work, workers

The Villeres Cotteret sawmill in 1889, detail, by Roy.

Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles inside a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

BURNING OF MESSRS. A. AND P. TOD'S FLOUR MILLS, LEITH, 1874

Automatic loading of minerals, underwater track for loading ships in Onton, Bilbao. Spain. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

Camera Work: Newhaven Fisheries by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1909

Het Vlas, 1874 print Leaf with 6 performances about growing and processing flax, including representations of the harvesting of the flax, the vomiting of the flax, spiders, weaving, bleaching and clothing. Under each image a two -way verse. Numbered at the top right: No. 26. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing flax (material ~ textile industry). spinning (manufacture of yarn). harvest. weaving

Slaves work on land. Two men-made men dig a trens (drainage channel) on a Surinamese plantation, in a planter house and a field where even more slaves work.

Image of road workers of the N.S. While replacing a crossbar from the Eindhoven-Weert railway line, near Heeze.

Building site during the construction of the Hotel de Salm in Paris, 1782-1787. Artist unknown.

Old Paris goes - demolition of one of the last mills of the Butte Montmartre (extracted supplement of December 17, 1911) Anonymous. "Old Paris goes - demolition of one of the last mills of the Butte Montmartre (extracted supplement of December 17, 1911)". Typography in color.

The Mint House. Workers in the smelting of gold pastes. Colored engraving from 1872. Spain.

The Surface works at a Chinese mine. Date: 19th Century

United States. 19th Century. Near Closter, Bergen County (New Jersey). Collignon Bros Manufactories. Patent Folding Chairs. Detail. Sawmill. Engraving, 1876. Colored.

A View of Murton Colliery near Seaham, County Durham, John Wilson Carmichael, 1799-1868, British, 1843, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 24 x 36 1/8 inches (61 x 91.8 cm), buildings, coal mine, costume, factory, flags, genre subject, industrialization, industry, landscape, leisure, men, mining, pollution, rope, smoke, smokestack, stream, workers, Durham, England, Europe, Murton, Seaham, United Kingdom

Image of loading a refrigerator from Interfrigo with milk, using a forklift truck, in Dordrecht.

The Mill Yard - Grinding sugar cane in a windmill - William Clark, 1823

Woś, rest during the plowing; Dmochowski, W Adys AW (1838 or 1841-1913); 1860 (1860-00-00-1860-00-00);

Agricultural implements, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Lithograph print of Pork packing in a packing house in Cincinnati : 'killing', 'cutting', 'rendering' and 'salting'.

A tea plantation in China with workers grinding and balling the tea. Gouache painting with oxidization.

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, aluminous industry, alum work, breakdown of the salt in the opencast mine, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, recording date unknown

Factory for cotton knit yarns, wick yarns and strings v. Ottomar Förster i. Chemist

Marsh Harvester - Century of Progress in Grain, Farm Machinery

A tea plantation in China: workers roll up and sift the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.

An engraving depicting a smock mill with fantail, used for grinding corn. Dated 19th century

Electric plough being dragged across a field. Liebig Trade Card early 20th century. Agriculture Cultivation Ploughing Mechanised Power Electricity

The factories of Lees' woollen manufacturers, Galashiels. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 1 of 12. Enslaved African Americans of all ages, harvest the cotton. After ginning, some was sent to North American textiles mills, but more would be exported, mostly to Great Britain (BSLOC_2019_7_126)

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