Historical Manufacturing Workshops

Various black and white images depicting vintage manufacturing workshops filled with machinery and assembly lines from the early 20th century.

Tool department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio, circa 1902
Tool department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio, circa 1902
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U.S. Naval Yard Torpedo Shop circa 1917.
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Machine shops of the Mitsubishi plant, Kobe, Japan. Ca. 1925.
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1920s - Photograph of the Interior of Center Market .
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Huddersfield Cloth Mill- the work of C and J Hirst and Sons Ltd., Sunnybank, Longwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1943 In the mending room at C and J Hirst and Sons Ltd., defective threads are removed and replaced. The workers sit along a bench which runs along a window-lined wall, allowing them to see clearly what they are doing. The cloth is draped over easels to make it easier to work.
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Soft Hat Trimming Room - Hat Factory, circa 1900
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Women working in Welding Department, Lincoln Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan during World War I.
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Women working in a large workshop, 1920s, Germany, Europe
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Workshop work in Blekinge Kustbanors, BKB, workshop that was later taken over by the State Railways. BKB P 1973 and BKB I.
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Ammunition supplies, Ansaldo company, Genoa, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 42, October 21, 1917.
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Anefo photo collection. Most redactives Limburgse Dagblad stack protest against takeover by De Telegraaf, Zetterij. August 4, 1972
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View of a department in a factory producing mountain and ski boots.
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Industry 1920-1930.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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'The U.S.A. Government Printing Office also operates 126 Casting Machines', 1916. Artist: Unknown.
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Munitions Production on the Home Front, 1914-1918
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The rope ware track (pictured name).The rope warehouse (depicted name)
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Arms Production in Britain in the First World War
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Printing, typesetting of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, 1880, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century document, Europe
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Russian ***** workers. September 1, 1941. (Photo by Soviet War News).
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Photograph of the machine shop in the General Electric Company works, with lathes and turning equipment. 1910
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The coining presses are capable of striking coins of any denomination at the rate of one hundred and twenty per minute Date: circa 1910
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A large Axminster carpet loom on display and in action in the Power and Production Pavilion, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Date: May 1951
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Åminne Use in Småland. Mechanical workshop.
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Italy. Lazio. workers at work on the Goebel gravure machine. 1950
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Women at the Royal Doulton Potteries at Burslem, pictured decorating and glazing the Coronation beakers to commemorate the Coronation of King George V in 1911 and given to 100,000 children at the Crystal Palace fete on 30 June that year. 1911
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Anefo photo collection. Masonry and plasterer matches in Energalhal in Rotterdam Masonry department. June 22, 1966. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Push cart market -- New York
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This 1903 photo shows the interior of a cotton mill.
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Automatic gathering machine , Printing industry, Employees, Mail-order businesses, Machinery, Sales catalogs, Sears, Roebuck and Company
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Interior of the Dental Institute (Oudegracht Tolsteegzijde 156) in Utrecht: large treatment hall.n.b. The address Oudegracht Tolsteegzijde 156 was changed in 1917 to Oudegracht 320.
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Engraving depicting the erecting shop of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. Dated 19th century
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High angle view of a group of women working in a factory, 1940s
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Diamond Laundry, German Southwest, Colony, Namibia, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original artwork from the early 20th century, exact original date unknown, Africa
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Vintage Photograph. Bethlehem Steel Co- the machine shop of the Sparrows Point shipyard.
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At work in a British Shell Factory, England, C 1940 Light shells pile up around workers at a Royal Ordnance Factory, somewhere in England. The scale of operation is clear from the rows of workers just visible in the background.
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Trucks ready for loading, CICE (Industrial Foreign Trade Company) warehouses in Turin, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LII, No 50, December 13, 1925.
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Telegraph workshop
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Exhibit , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Linotype machine, printing room, N.Y. World
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Footwear factory in Fougeres, France, photograph by Hamonic from L'Illustration, No 3334, January 19, 1907.
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Interior of the Rijksmunt (Leidseweg 90) in Utrecht: Weegzaal.
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Workers filling shells in the Gaineville ammunition factory at Graville during World War One, Belgium, Europe
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Engraving depicting the manufacture floor of the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques. Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques Alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering is an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace which produced railway locomotives. Dated 19th century
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03/29/1917. Visit of the Argentine ambassador to our Workshops. Dr. Marco M. Avellaneda (X) Visiting our Linotype workshop yesterday afternoon.
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Mounting hall in a machine factory "," Company Heidenreich & Harbeck, Hamburg, Glockspelleichten J 240, J 240 g to 200 and 150 watts ". Image ur Boken" Zeiss mirrored system Zeiss-Wiscott in the architecture: a collection of lighting systems ". Boken GAVS UT AV Berlin-Zehlendorf: Zeiss Ikon AG, Goerzwerk, 1937.
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Anefo photo collection. Flower exhibition Bovenkarspel. 19 February 1957. Bovenkarspel
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Construction of the T-34 tanks at the Kirov factory in Chelyabinsk, Anonymous
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Lübeck (Germany), July 1915. Food supply in Germany. Lübeck slaughterhouse, where thousands of cattle are slaughtered daily for consumption.
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Workers working in a bicycle factory
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Interior of the building of the Flower and Plant Auction (Catharijnekade) in Utrecht: a batch of flowers to be auctioned.
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Olive Oil containers being cleaned for new use. Date: 1896
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World War I 1914-1918: Forming shells in a German state munitions factory. Armaments, Labour, Female
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12/31/1919. Orange Warehouse. Some Women Work Next to the Sorting Machines.
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Photograph taken of a telegraphic operating room at the General Post Office in London. The number of telegraphic messages transmitted from the various London offices in the years 1895-96 was 27,025,193, and the total for the United Kingdom, 78,839,610. As many as six messages-three in each direction- are now transmitted along a single wire at the same time. Dated 1896, London
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12 pumps FK 31 Föe Boliden.
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2015.14.2.. Photograph Album: WWII Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, Birmingham 1940-46. Manufacturers: Vickers Armstrong. From album containing approximately 50 black and white photographs. Including Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, and other factories across the country, during the Second World War
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09/13/1917. On the Western Front. Preparations for the shipment of a train of provisions in an English warehouse.
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Czechoslovakia's Skoda Works, one of the country's most important engineering facilities. In an attempt to regain its former industrial position in Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia is adopting Western techniques of management. March 22, 1939. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, Pictures Inc.).
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Typesettingprinting office. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Printing presses, Typesetting
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World War I: Women munitions workers at Krupps, Essen, Germany.
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12/31/1939. Adolf Hitler's rally at the Hamburg shipyards.
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In the machine-shop. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, African American students, Machine shops
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Munition workers painting shells at the National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917. This was one of the largest shell factories in the country