Historical Industrial Sites

Vintage images of historical factories, incinerators, and gas plants, capturing early industrial architecture and operations.

Vintage Photograph. City Incinerator at Atlanta Georgia.

The mill in Högfors, Västmanland.

Anefo photo collection. Chemical factory in Wormerveer must close due to odor. March 23, 1964. Noord-Holland, Wormerveer, Zaanstad

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Employee of the Citrussapfabriek Assis on the road from Tel Aviv to Haifa at the fransport band that leads the fruit to the production department. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel, Tel Aviv

Oxelösund ironworks.

Closed collieries, colliery ruins, and coal dumps dominated the image of the Ruhr area in 1965 and 1966, Germany, Europe

The oily refinery at Pladjoe, a rich oil centre near Palembang, South Sumatra, prior to the Japanese occupation. June 19, 1945. (Photo by Netherlands Indies Information Service).

New Cement Works In Northern Rhodesia. - The Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Sir Gilbert Rennie, has recently opened the Colonial Development Corporation's new cement works at Chilangs.The project is jointly owned by the Northern Rhodesian Government (25 per cent) and the C.D.C. (75 per cent), It was designed to meet the country's requirements, but in two years the demand foe cement has trebled. Already the factory is producing more than nine hundred tons of cement a week which does not represents the maximum output. The first two truck loads from Chilangs, a few miles from Lusaka, were dispatched at the end of August. October 13, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

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

Site of Dry Dock No. 4 from Roof Building at Northeast Corner. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Pile driver in operation at the site of Metropolitan housing project, East 18th Street and Avenue A, New York City

USA, New Jersey, Jersey City, Power plant of Palmolive

Adding new storage space to wheat elevator at Dayton, Washington. They were getting ready for a bumper crop 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Dayton, Washington (State) , Columbia County

Timbers, pipes and girders, once the guts of this huge cracking plant at Balikpapan, lie in jackstraw confusion. This refinery produced gasoline for the Japanese air force and navy. "Jungle Air Force" bombers accomplished the job of demolition in the

Vintage Photograph. Power plant at General Motors Corporation Assembly Plant in Wilmington Delaware.

Factory

Cathodium at Rönnskärsverken, Skelleftehamn.

Anefo photo collection. Automation concrete factory one-man company. 18 February 1957

A pollution coming from a factory

Bethlehem houses and steel mill. Pennsylvania. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vintage Photograph. Pulp Mill at Dolbear Quebec Canada.

Lime kilns, Oxnard, California, factory ca. between 1910 and 1920.

Lake with timber, industrial plant. Sjö med timmer, industrianläggning.

Soviet Industry The Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Mill in Siberia the first blast furnace started work in 1932; since then many millions of tons of pig from, steel and rolled metal have been tuned out, supplying the industrial development of Siberia Central Asia, and the Far East. August 22, 1953. (Photo by Camera Press).

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Tools, construction improvement roads, blast furnaces. undated

Vintage photograph. Mount airy granite quarry one of the largest and best equipped open face granite quarry in the world. The right memorial at Kitty Hawk North Carolina and the Arlington Memorial Bridge were both made from this granite

Untitled (Steel Mill with Excavation and Railroad Tracks) Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). , 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm). Photography 1936-1937

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)

Aerial view of Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant at Dearborn, Michigan

Surte glassworks.

Yddinge brickworks at Holmeja station.

Reservoir St #365 , Machinery. Needham Building Collection

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Tools, construction improvement roads, blast furnaces. undated

General Motors Plant, Petone, 1940s, by Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Vintage Photograph. Industrial landscape: exploring the vast steel mill complex under a clear blue sky.

Print Works , Floods, Rivers, Factories

1930s MEADE JOHNSON FACTORY AND WORKERS HOMES EVANSVILLE INDIANA USA

Träkolshyttan in Åkers piece mill.

Shell oil tanks near Haifa. Other smaller tanks in Shell Co. yard. 1934, Israel, Haifa

Félix Thiollier, Factory at Saint-Étienne, c. 1900-1914, Gelatin silver print.

Shawsheen Village , Floods, Rivers, Factories

Vintage Photograph. A Colonial Sand and Stone Co. plant.

Motala Workshop at the Göta Canal

Vintage Photograph. View of the Jones Laughlin Steel Co. Frame 1

08/21/1907. Lion. Warehouses of the Leonesa paper mill that have just been destroyed by a fire.

Anefo photo collection. Spanish workers back to Spain, some men at the State Mine Maurits. April 10, 1963. Spain

Freight wagons on a viaduct near industrial area.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. The Lago refinery at Sint Nicolaas on Aruba with safety sign. October 1, 1955. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, San Nicolas, Sint Nicolaas

Closed collieries, colliery ruins, and coal dumps dominated the image of the Ruhr area in 1965 and 1966, Germany, Europe

Power plant General. The power line Lina Älv-Kiruna. Installation of tensionolators and the end station is Kiruna.

International Trouble Spot - Persia's OilfieldsThe Angle-Iranian oil refinery - the world's largest - at Abadan, Iran. Background is the company housing estate.Latest trouble spot of the Middle East, Parsia's vast oilfields, in which the British Government has a financial (£60millions) and a strategic stake, are shown in these new pictures.Britain, in a Note to Persia, has reacted sharply to the nationalist measure pushed through the ***** (Parliament) by the influential extreme nationalists on the of committee. March 18, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

The Dortmund district of Eving with the Hansa colliery affected by the closure on 13. 3. 1972 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Demolition of the Westergasfabriek on the Haarlemmerweg. April 19, 1961. Amsterdam

Vintage Photograph. Dramatic view of coal silo and conveyor belonging to Lowe Paper Co in Ridgefield New Jersey. Frame 2.

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

Earnscleugh, Alexandra, No 2, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie.

Boatyard of Kahlke Bros., Rock Island, Illinois; Henry P. Bosse (American, 1844 - 1903); Rock Island, Illinois, United States; 1891; Cyanotype; 26.4 x 33.2 cm (10 3,8 x 13 1,16 in.)

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Philips factories. The Philips factories in Eindhoven. undated. Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant

Poll photo collection. Factory for fertilizer at Haifa. Storage of raw materials with a tractor with shellboard. January 1, 1964. Haifa, Israel

Vintage Photograph. Overall shot of Signal Hill Oil Wells in California.

View of the factories in Odessa. .

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

Vintage Photograph. Stack and ovens of tile plant along the Raritan River in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Engelsberg's use (Angelsberg's mill). Hyttan, 1910.

Vintage Photograph. Grain and Feed Silos near Amarillo Texas.

Wachusett Department, Nashua River, upstream from railroad bridge below Lancaster Mills (compare with No. 6935), Clinton, Mass., Apr. 1, 1914 , waterworks, riverbanks

The sugar refinery of the company vom Rath on the outdoor area, Nassaukade in Amsterdam. .

Strå lime mill at Kvinnersta outside Örebro.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Kornwerner sand. Sluizen complex. 1945. Kornwerderzand

The Kloeckner Hasper Huette, shown here during a shift change on 27. 1. 1972 in Hagen, Germany, is about to be shut down, Europe

Surahammar's use. The scrap yard, 1928.

Anefo photo collection. Sugar beet campaign in full swing (halfway). October 10, 1955. Halfweg, Noord-Holland

Textile industry at a riverside, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Grängesberg, Müller's lave.

Carling (Lorraine) Project. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Pier E Looking Northeast, New York State Construction Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Demonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Water pumps. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Demonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Water pumps. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Svartviks Sulfite factory, Njurunda SN, MediaPad, 1934.Enth production: 65,000 tonnes of pulp (1934).

British Troops Called to German Steel PlantThe first dynamite charges are set off in the dismantling of sections of the former Hermann Goering steel plant at watenstedt-salzgitter, Germany, 8 March the explosion crumpled some of the concrete installations of the plant.British troops have occupied the former Hermann Goering steel plant at Watenstedt-Salzgitter, Germany, following dismantling disturbances by the workers, 6 March. The troops were called in after the workers had pulled down Scaffolding used by dismantlers, tipped over ten automobiles owned by the dismantling firm and burned some of the firm's records. The plant, one of the biggest steel works in all Europe, employs about 14, 000 workers. March 10, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Poll photo collection. Factory for fertilizer at Haifa. January 1, 1964. Haifa, Israel

Not only rubble but also poisons were dumped at this Essen landfill site, here on 31. 1. 1972, Germany, Europe

Portland star match factory, workers stack timber as a passenger steam train passes. 1860-1880.

Depots.

Marblehead, power plant , Power plants. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

La Chapelle Paper Plant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Petroleum ports. undated. PERNIS, Rotterdam

At the Creusot Works: The Smokestacks. Auguste Brouet (French, 1872-1941). Etching, roulette and aquatint; sheet: 21.9 x 32.4 cm (8 5/8 x 12 3/4 in.); platemark: 12.1 x 18.6 cm (4 3/4 x 7 5/16 in.).

Oxelösund iron and glassworks.

Aerial photo over pulp mill in Vannutter.

The exterior of the 100,000 ton storage silo for Ammonium Sulphate.The British Chemical Industry:Britain woe the original home of the chemical industry and today, when its products are essential to almost all industrial production, the British chemical industry stands in a leading position. From iron ore smelting to the manufacture of clothing materials, modern industry cannot function without a vast range of chemical products, And Britain's great industrial ability is no small measure rooted in the strength of the British chemical industry. It products. enter almost every phase of daily life; they are as essential to the farmer as to the doctor or surgeon, VIII. September 4, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. Finland. Paper factory Imatra. July 5, 1967. Finland, Imatra

Oxelösund ironworks.

The famous Anaconda copper smelters and mines, Butte, Montana. stereograph. c1907.

The famous Anaconda copper smelters and mines, Butte, Montana, stereo photograph by Standard Scenic Company, 1907

Construction of the Haifa harbour. Dredger in the Haifa harbour. Hard at work deepening harbour area. 1920, Israel, Haifa

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