Historical Industrial Work Scenes

Black and white images capturing vintage industrial laborers in various settings such as workshops, with an emphasis on historical maritime and heavy machinery tasks.

Vintage Photograph. Man sits on drivers seat of dragline machine.

Workshop workers in lubricating pit under a locomotive.

Anefo photo collection. Navy Navy Anefo London series. Dutch fishermen Britain. engaged sweeping mines fishing. 1940

The German figure skater Dagmar Lurz, seen here on 19.01.1976 in her parents' house surrounded by her family and relatives in Dortmund, was successful at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships and is the daughter of a steelworker at Hoesch AG Westfalenhuette. Dagmar Lurz's father was a steelworker at Hoesch, Germany, Europe

Poll photo collection. Ireland. Crew member of a dredger in the port of Rosslare busy with socks. January 1, 1932. Ireland

Vintage Photograph. Man uses steering mechanism of dragline machine.

Växjö District, Reportage

Modane Wind Tunnel. 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

Vintage Photograph. Man sits on drivers seat of dragline machine.

Lubricator.

Kentucky coal miner, Jenkins, Kentucky. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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

Glasgow Shipyard- Shipbuilding in Wartime, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, 1944 Informal portrait of a shipyard worker.

Anefo photo collection. Paalheien for new building at the Municipal Archive. Mr. Scholten Heit the first pole. 8 June 1961. Amsterdam

Workshop workers in the lubrication pit under a locomotive.

Lighthouses - Navigation lights. March 17, 1949.

Portrait of male welder

Anefo photo collection. Caransa Hotel, Mayor of Hall beats first pile Europe Boulevard. January 5, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Man leans against the tire of machine looking out he smiles while holding a set of blueprints.

Miner at Dougherty's Mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, August 1940

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: The Marina Demolition. August 23, 1963

Glasgow Shipyard- Shipbuilding in Wartime, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, 1944 Informal portrait of a welder in the shipyard.

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

Vintage Photograph. Man drives dragline looking out to the right of frame.

Mr J.Wyile, Chief Engineer of the Wanganella, in the engine room during sea trials. July 6, 1947.

Miner holding a jackhammer

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

Vintage Photograph. Man looks out as he operates bulldozer.

The vital necessity for oil to keep the United Nations war machine rolling smoothly along the "road to Tokyo" has sparked one of the all-time epics of transportation in Canada's Northwest. To tap the huge underground lake of petroleum resources in the Mackenzie basin at Fort Norman and feed the gas and oil to trucks using the Alaska highway, to planes flying a parallel route and to ships off the Alaska shores more than 550 miles of pipe is being laid from Norman liens to the Whitehorse region in the Yukon. Big job was the transportation of huge shipments of pipes more than 1,000 miles from the railhead at Waterways to Fort Norman, Milton A. "Red" Funk, of Los Angeles, Welder (left) and his helper, Willard Knight of Minneapolis, at work on a section of Canol pipeline. January 01, 1944. (Photo by The National Film Board).

Anefo photo collection. The first pile is beaten on the new Herengracht associated with the restoration of three buildings. Ir Weller (director of monument care) stores the first pile. February 5, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

3000 steelworkers at the Peine-Salzgitter steelworks took to the streets in 1982 to protest out of concern for their jobs, Germany, Europe

Civilian Firefighters USING Stirrup Pump, England, UK, 1941 A civilian firefighter extinguishes a fire with a stirrup pump somewhere in Britain. The fire appears to be on a pile of straw, so was clearly lit as part of a demonstration, or specifically for this photograph to be taken.

Steel production at the Hoesch AG steelworks in the Westfalenhuette on 4.12.1974 at the blast furnace and Siemens Martin furnace (SM) in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Half-Length Portrait of Miner working in Mine on Farm near Ellen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1940

Anefo photo collection. Mayor of Hall beats first pile in the Bijlmermeer the first battle. March 15, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Essen, 17.11.85, JE - After work, workers at the Zollverein coking plant leave their work gap at the end of the shift. 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

Miners of the Don Basin.In the USSR the shortest working day in the world is in operation. The length of the working day in industry is seven hours. The worker in the mining, chemical and other branches of industry work six hours per days, in all. The hugh sum expended by the state insurance(social), education, health protection, etc., ensure the right of every worker to rest and measure, free medical aid, free education-- of any kind up to and including university education-- for the worker and his children, and a secure old age. April 24, 1939.

Man in the workshop.

Anefo photo collection. First Paal Combination Building Fire Police. Mayor Samkalden stores first pile. December 23, 1969

Three factory workers on lunch break, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Reactor Transport, Södertälje

Claude Sweangen, Steel Car Repairer, at Car Shops of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Topeka, Kansas, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, March 1943

Work at the Port of Hamburg and Howaldtswerke Hamburg, HDW) in 1970, Germany, Europe

Misc. - Games - Poker Machines. February 13, 1953.;Misc. - Games - Poker Machines

Soviet Russian construction worker. 1965

With the last dog the coal mine Waltrop ended its coal feeding in the coalfield on 29.06.1979 in Dortmund-Waltrop, DEU, Germany, Dortmund, Europe

Two Copper Miners, Butte, Montana, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration, July 1939

Workmen. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

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

Anefo photo collection. Report: Leiden fireworks factory. January 22, 1946. Leiden, South Holland

Due to the high inflation rate, these workers also took part in the spontaneous strike - here at Varta in Hagen on 27 August 1973 - and demanded an allowance of 150 DM

Haven In Maryland -- Eager to master the intricacies of American farm machinery, 26-year-old Lew Futala gets acquainted with a tractor on the Maryland farm of Bennett Crain, his sponsor. February 18, 1949. (Photo by ACME).

Construction worker standing near a wheelbarrow (EV005214_H)

Miner at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, August 1940

Emergency defense office construction work; Washington, D. C.; December, 1941. African American construction workers pulling the rope.. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Washington (D.C.)

Essen, 17.11.85, JE - After work, workers at the Zollverein coking plant leave their work gap at the end of the shift. 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

"Niagara" - Also Salvage Scenes - Merchant Shipping. March 01, 1955.

The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

Miner at gold mine, Mogollon, New Mexico. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Mogollon, New Mexico , Catron County

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

Buildings and crane cranespin Welin.Buildings and Crane Crane Machinery Welin

Image of a wagon master of the N.S. While applying a sticky note on a goods wagon.

Vintage Photograph. Man wearing gloves is working on part of tractor underneath wheel well.

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Two supervisors at the Lago oil refinery in San Nicolas on Aruba. 1947. Aruba, San Nicolas

Swedish Lock AB (SLAB)

The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

GDR report on Karl-Marx-Stadt (today: Chemnitz) from 10-15 September 1975 .VEB Germania Karl-Marx-Stadt Anlagenbau, DEU, Germany, Karl, Marx, Europe

Cars Einar Larsson, at Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesbergoxelösund Railway Railway Workshop in Eskilstuna, shows the buffer that fell down on his foot in connection with a workplace accident. Thanks to the protective shoes he wore, he managed without serious injuries.

Vintage Photograph. Man uses his gloved hand to reach up under tractor to try and work on something that isn't seen.

Knut Englund, drum in the pipe, June 1954. Knut Englund, valsare i rörverket, juni 1954.

Miners at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, USA, Carl Mydans for U.S. Resettlement Administration, February 1936

Vintage Photograph. Sudanese father and son working in machine shop.

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg Oxelösund's railways, TGOJ staff at transport bands.

With the last dog the coal mine Waltrop ended its coal feeding in the coalfield on 29.06.1979 in Dortmund-Waltrop, DEU, Germany, Dortmund, Europe

In the Southern Urals Shown here is Ivan Sakhno, one of the best electric welders employed at the Orsk Structural Steel Plant. May 05, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press)

Anefo photo collection. Alderman De Cloe hits first pile bridge Houtkopersbrugwal. August 30, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

1940s PORTRAIT OF ANTHRACITE COAL MINER WEARING HARDENED LEATHER TURTLE SHELL STYLE HELMET WITH LAMP FACE COVERED IN COAL DUST

Miners at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, USA, Carl Mydans, U.S. Resettlement Administration, February 1936

Anefo photo collection. Opening Moerdijk bridge. January 2, 1946

1930S 1940S Carpenter On Construction Site Carrying Tool Box On Shoulder Wearing Overalls Smiling

Construction worker at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. 1940 - 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta Dam, California , Shasta County

The Oxygen steelworks Phoenix of Hoesch AG on 25. 7. 1973 produced steel. Today, the former steelworks is an amusement park on the Phoenixsee lake in Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany, Europe

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Mayor of Hall beats first pile for housing Bijlmermeer. December 13, 1966

"The Sleepless Port" - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The expansion of the spontaneous strikes in September 1969 extended to the Ruhr area. The photo shows the strike action in the Ruhr area, Germany, Europe

Miner working with Consolidated Coal Company, Kentucky. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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

The workers defended themselves against the threat of closure of their Stuebbe-Demag factory by occupying their Mannesmann plant, here on 4 March 1975, in Kalldorf, Germany, Europe

Coal Miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1938

James A. McGuffey, Farmer, Irwinville Farms Project, Irwinville, Georgia, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration, May 1938

Poll photo collection. KLM staff house style and Schiphol. Portrait of a welder in the KLM service. August 1951. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

Workshop workers. In the background is a wheel turning.

St. Pathus Model Farm - under St. Pathus Model Farm. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The expansion of the spontaneous strikes in September 1969 extended to the Ruhr area. The photo shows the strike action in the Ruhr area, Germany, Europe

Track audit. Rails and grinders change (concrete grinders). Line Rotebro, R - ZLPV

Dunkirk - Barges. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Construction firing strike of an hour. Striking construction workers in the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam. May 12, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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