Historical Manufacturing Processes

Black and white images from historical factories illustrating metalworking, stamping, and welding practices in the 20th century.

Side profile of a welder welding a container
Side profile of a welder welding a container
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Anefo photo collection. New farms in Ens (Noordoostpolder), Zeeland farmer's hanging was on. 11 May 1950. Ens, Noordoostpolder
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Amish sawmill
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Carpenter using sander table while working at workshop
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Anefo photo collection. Suriname (street images, industry, politics, people etc. Industry: Wood industry. 1975. Suriname
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1940s woman on a bicycle. Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors is repairing her bicycle. Notice the sand bags placed in front of the apartment building and the entrance to the basement shelter. Sweden August 1940. Photo Kristoffersson 159-32
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Workers dedicated to the excavation after the explosion, construction of the Simplon Tunnel, 1898-1905, Italy-Switzerland, 19th-20th century.
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Pakistan, N-W Frontier Province, Chitral. Great care is taken when sawing logs at the lumber mill in Chitral, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. (Editorial Usage Only)
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Stocking Pacific Coast 'Coho' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon, Fishing nets. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt
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The puller-over , Shoe industry, Shoemaking, Equipment
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Flour Maker. .
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DEU, Germany: The historical slides from the times 84-85 r years, Bavarian Forest. Glassblowing ca. 1984-5
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Boys 'linking' bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old boys employed as child labour in Boston; Massachusetts
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Coal miners working on a seam in a mine, England 1948
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Swedish-Danish-Russian telephone company works in Moscow. In 1900.
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A technical service engineer performs maintenance work on the left front brake drum of a DAF military truck YA-4440.
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Winnowing of ride i.e., rice with hand and machine.. Postcards, Genre photographs. 1910 - 1919. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Japanese, Rice, Fanning mills, Milling machines, Peasants , Japan, Clothing & dress , Japan
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Prince and Princess of Wales watching the Bessemer process at an iron and steel works, Sheffield, England, 1875.
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Man working with barrel , Barrels, Ropes. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Fabricación de un cesto de mimbre en el Maestrat. Provincia de Castellón. Años 70.
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Ireland, Donegal. Woodturner, Carndonagh, Inishowen Peninsula.
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Pipe maker. .
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1930s CONSTRUCTION STREET WORKERS DIGGING DITCH BOSTON MA USA
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Tannery Fez Morocco
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Silhouette of man operating handloom machine in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
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FABRICACION DE QUESOS - INTRODUCCION EN MOLDES. Location: MONASTERIO DEL PAULAR-INTERIOR. RASCAFRIA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Ireland, Donegal. Woodturner, Carndonagh, Inishowen Peninsula.
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Portugal, Oporto Douro Valley winery workers
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Japanese Women washing and drying strips of fabric (for wall hangings). Date: circa 1910s
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Women in white' doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Here, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. August 1942.
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Packing celery at Sanford, Florida. Many of these workers here are migrants 19370101
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A800613 U12G RS-11 ARMING & INSTALL CARL SMITH (Project Engineer) APR 29 80 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/29/1980 ARMING & INSTALL; ARMING & INSTALLATION; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; G-TUNNEL; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MALE; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RS-11; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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OBREROS TRABAJANDO LA OBSIDIANA. Location: TALLER OBSIDIANA. MITLA. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.
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Oyida Peaks, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, photograph by Howard R. Hollem, U.S. Office of War Information, August 1942
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Steel And Metal Factory, Ishapore (near Calcutta). Parts for hurricane lanterns being manufactured in the factory.Products ranging from paper clips to road rollers are being made in India's Ordnance factories. From used cartridge cases they turn out brass tumblers and cycle bells in thousands. Lakhs of hurricane lanterns are fashioned by tools which made deadly weapons. Special steel which went into the making of munitions is now spared to make toy motor car springs. Tools for sewing machines, sections for electric switches, textile machinery components, Jute mill parts, locomotives and marine engine parts, machine tools, furniture and axles for carts are some of the articles manufactured for civilian consumers and Indian industries. February 1, 1947.
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Deane Shop and forge, Williamsburg, Va. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Young blacksmith at work in the city of Prague
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China, Guizhou Province. Leaves heated & rolled for green tea. Xingquiano processing plant-Anlong. (Editorial Usage Only)
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Image of work in the Majellapark (Vleutenseweg) in Utrecht, possibly the construction of a children's playground.
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A detailed view of a man carving a wooden piece in a workshop
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The Morgan motor car factory, mechanics working
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USA, California, James Town, Southern Motherlode. Prospector, Ralph Shock, panning for gold.
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VILLANOVA DEL GHEBBO ITALY SEPTEMBER 1962 Masons at work in building a house in the 60s
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The Weaponsmith. The weapons mid. A blacksmith and servant at work in a smithy. The blacksmith strikes a piece of iron with a hammer on the anvil. The servant is at the stove. Tools and pieces of a armor are in the foreground.
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Keeping Poultry in Britain, 1944 Clearing out the hen house.
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Old excavator driver in uniform tests machine.
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Construction at Municipio di Roccasicura, Italy , City & town halls, Construction. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Morocco, Fes, Chouwara Tanneries. Man Working In The TannerS Pits Using Red Dye.
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USA, Oregon, Oregon City, Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, A blacksmith working on Abernethy Green
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Egyptian model of workers in a grain store. Artist: Unknown
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DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 1970s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Bochum. Krupp strike of IG Metall on 11.8.1072