Historical Industrial Insights

Black and white visuals illustrating industry inspections, machinery, and processes from the mid-20th century, highlighting advancements and practices in manufacturing.

Women for Industry Come on, women - man the factories... Catalogue reference: INF 3/404 POSTERS: Women for Industry: 'Come on, women - man the factories.....' (Woman worker exhorting at factory bench) art, labour, secondworldwar, manufacturing, veday, sexandgender, artarchitectureanddesign

Women for Industry Come on, women - man the factories... Catalogue reference: INF 3/404 POSTERS: Women for Industry: 'Come on, women - man the factories.....' (Woman worker exhorting at factory bench) art, labour, secondworldwar, manufacturing, veday, sexandgender, artarchitectureanddesign

Cartoon - The Construction Crew. John Collins (1917-2007)

Early Assembly Line.

Shipbuilding in the Kaiser Shipyards in the USA during the Second World War An American cartoon on the subject of mass production of ships in the USA: 'Naw...' says one of the workmen lower left to the notabilities who have just assisted at a launching, 'This ain't the keel for the next ship...It's the last plate for the one you launched.'

Digitally restored vector war propaganda poster. This vintage World War Two poster features civilians working on a bomber engine in a factory. It declares - The Sky's The Limit! Keep Buying War Bonds.

Cartoon - Another Plumber Forgets His Tools. John Collins (1917-2007)

Coal mining, Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania. An electric locomotive hauling loaded cars to foot of mine , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Reproduction safety plate warning risk rotating machine parts. undated

Keep Your Quality High, WWII - Home Front Factories

V. Govarkov. Your lamp, comrade engineer! Soviet Propaganda Poster Russian Labour Work 1933

Page from The Growth of industrial art, compiled by Benjamin Butterworth, 1892 | Library of Congress

In Alsace, a peasant woman is caught in a threshing machine, 1929. Creator: Unknown.

Advertisements: American Art Bronze Foundry, The Chisholm-Moore Mfg. Co.. Advertisements. 1922-05. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Monuments, Lifting and carrying, Bronze sculpture

Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

Industrious Bookworm, Magic & Mesmer

Baugher Motor Company, Waynesboro, Virginia , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The 'Titan' and 'Rapid' wash-down water closets. Plate 1072-G and Plate 1073-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Fulton Iron Works, Hinckley, Spiers and Hayes, San Francisco. I.W. Taber (American, 1830 - 1912)

Crops will be cultivated underground under ideal conditions, using chemicals to enable accelerated growth and so greatly enhance production Date: circa 1935

Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

Turbines at Grand Coulee Dam. ca. 1948, Washington, USA, 312 - INTERIOR OF THE POWER HOUSE, GRAND COULEE DAM, WASHINGTON. The power plant at grand Coulee Dam is the largest in the world, ultimately eighteen turbines of 150,000 h.p. rated capacity, nine in each of two powerhouses, these driving an equal number of 108,000 kw. generators, and three 14,000-h.. turbines driving 10,000-kw. generators for a total rated capacity of 2,742,000 horsepower in turbines and 1,974,000 kilowatts in generators.

When heat was master in the home the coal-heating kitchen range and household fires demanded much labour. There was dirt and smoke, waste and inconvenience. Now Heat is sevant. Now Gas, invisible, yet under your control, clean and making no work, can be brought to every room in your house. Date: 1928

Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

Baxter Machine Company swing saw , Saws

Faulty Machines Make Waste, WWII - Home Front Factories

Deane Shop and forge, Williamsburg, Va. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Granite iron ware. Granite iron ware

Anefo photo collection. Construction factory or shed by The General Tire. October 26, 1953

G.E.C. household electric appliances 'Whats next' Yesterday the dolly. . . next the copper; today the eletric washer. . . and tomorrow Science progress and with peace will come a range will come a range of G.E.C. quality products incorporating the results of never-ending G.E.C. research. 1942

Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

Poster showing disabled man working a film projector, The Lure of the Movies, text reads: 'Disabled men have shown great fondness for Motion Picture Operating and have succeeded well at the trade. Several graduates of the Training Class at the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York City, are now at work in the city's theaters', 1919.

Illustration showing a 19th century textile factory with children working within dangerous machinery

Salvage Save waste for war weapons... Catalogue reference: INF 3/209 POSTERS: Salvage: 'Save waste for war weapons... '(metal, paper and rags changing into tanks, bullets and uniforms respectively) art, clothing, weapons, secondworldwar, veday, artarchitectureanddesign

Plastering industries, Vol. 50, no. 6. Contracting Plasterers' and Lathers' International Association. text. Periodicals. 1963-01. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plastering

Truck Tire in the Mud.

Propaganda illustration extolling the idea of Chollima, used by Kim Il-sung to energize the workers in North Korea to bring the country out of the rubble of the Korean War to obtain a better life and a more prosperous country in a short amount of time. Kim Il-sung first introduced the term Chollima in December 1956, shortly before the start of the 1957-61 five-year plan.

World War I propaganda poster depicting women working in a factory promoting the United War Work Campaign. Created by Lucian Jonas (1880-1947) Dated 1918

Brantley's Dry Cleaning, Brantley's Cold Storage, see where your furs are stored , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Out of Vacuum Harness Oil in an inland town. People cannot exist without it.. Out of Vacuum Harness Oil in an inland town. People cannot exist without it.

Publicidad. Productos del plomo Hijos de Manuel Arquer, de Barcelona. Año 1904.

Out of Vacuum Harness Oil in an inland town. People cannot exist without it. , Men, Horses, Oils & fats, 19th Century American Trade Cards

The front cover of Le Pays de France, 5 August 1915. Molten steel pouring in Creusot, France. The artist is unknown.

Don't imagine that all you'll need is a moulding press and some moulding powder and you'll by ready for the competition. The plastic moulding business is probably already overcrowded by peace-time standards and it's not the main way in which plastics will develop anyway. You're probably in the plastics business already and don't know it. Don't you already have to bind things together Don't you make something that could be stronger, lighter or more weatherproof Are you in paint, timber, tex

It shows whether they're worth haulin' in or not! , Fish, Fishing, Fishing & hunting gear, Piers & wharves, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

'Feed End of Drying Machine', 1926. Artist: Unknown.

The paint kegs of the world are waiting to be filled. Harrison's 'Town & Country' ready mixed paints - the world hails your advent with pleasure. , Paints & varnishes, Barrels, Telescopes, Men, 19th Century American Trade Cards

It shows whether they're worth haulin' in or not! , Fish, Fishing, Fishing & hunting gear, Piers & wharves, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Groups, By State - District of Columbia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

It will not break. Willimantic Linen Co., 200 yds, 50, the best thread for sewing machines.. It will not break. Willimantic Linen Co., 200 yds, 50, the best thread for sewing machines.

Victory Starts Here

Broadside - Work as Skilled Mechanics to Win the War

Crafts, 1903 - 1919 print Leaf with 4 performances of a carpenter, a wagon maker, a blacksmith and a can. Numbered at the top right: No. 172. Publisher: The BEPRITER: Haarlem paper letterpress printing crafts and industries. craft-production, skilled handiwork. smith, blacksmith. carpenter

Loading the Milk Cans, Storybook Kids

Saw Mill Scene, from Blue Jeans. Artist: Anonymous, American, 19th century. Dimensions: Sheet: 28 1/4 in. × 42 in. (71.8 × 106.7 cm). Date: ca. 1890. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Porcelain-lined seat and foot bath. Plate 75-G. Porcelain-lined roll-rim foot bath. Plate 1070-G. Porcelain-lined foot bath. Plate 81-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Gibson means fine farm machinery. Model I - 4 Row Cultivator , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

So called Clinching Screw will not hold. Ask for Standard Screw. Nails will not hold Fathers & mothers don't wear Clinching Screw nails, & disable your feet. Poor clincher did not hold. , People, Shoes, Ships, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Engineering Wonders, 1927: Lidgerwood Unloader used in constructing railway embankments, USA.

Saw Mill Scene, from Blue Jeans ca. 1890 Anonymous, American, 19th century. Saw Mill Scene, from Blue Jeans 641560

Sign of FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

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